{"id":2157,"date":"2011-01-13T15:18:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2011-01-14T11:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T16:34:50","slug":"lights-cameras-reston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=2157","title":{"rendered":"Lights, Camera, Reston!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past autumn the Reston Association<\/a> filmed a short informational piece about our Planned Community Archives<\/a>, in which there is a great deal of materials related to the town of Reston, Virginia. Around minute 3:30 is when it begins.\u00a0 You can see our reading room and “the cage” where we house most of our archival materials. The piece is aimed at Reston citizens, historians, and enthusiasts interested in viewing the collection and\/or donating materials. Here’s a scene of a potential donor (Preservation Librarian Lene Palmer) showing an archivist (me!) the materials she wants to donate to the library.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the link to the video:<\/p>\n

Reston Association: December News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past autumn the Reston Association filmed a short informational piece about our Planned Community Archives, in which there is a great deal of materials related to the town of Reston, Virginia. Around minute 3:30 is when it begins.\u00a0 You can see our reading room and “the cage” where we house most of our archival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[205,67,206],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-scrc-interest","tag-planned-community-archives","tag-reston","tag-reston-association"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ep5i-yN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5017,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=5017","url_meta":{"origin":2157,"position":0},"title":"Reston@50 A new digital exhibition on the history of Reston!","author":"Bob Vay","date":"May 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Reston, Virginia celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in April 2014, and SC&A has created a new digital exhibition on Reston's history. 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