{"id":5811,"date":"2016-10-04T09:14:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T14:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2016-10-04T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T14:14:45","slug":"ask-an-archivist-day-october-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=5811","title":{"rendered":"Ask An Archivist Day &#8211; October 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5813\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?attachment_id=5813\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vault217.gmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AskAnArchivist_HiRes_2016.jpg?fit=800%2C528&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,528\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"#AskAnArchivist_HiRes_2016\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vault217.gmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AskAnArchivist_HiRes_2016.jpg?fit=240%2C158&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vault217.gmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AskAnArchivist_HiRes_2016.jpg?fit=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5813\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vault217.gmu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AskAnArchivist_HiRes_2016.jpg?resize=800%2C528\" alt=\"#AskAnArchivist_HiRes_2016\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On October 5th, GMU Special Collections Research Center will be on Twitter with archivists around the country to answer\u00a0any and all archives related questions. Sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.archivists.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Society of American Archivists<\/a>, this day long event will give you the opportunity to ask the archivists at the Special Collections Research Center about our work, our\u00a0collections, or anything archives-related!<\/p>\n<p>As professional experts who do the exciting work of protecting and sharing important historic materials, our archivists have many stories to share about the work we do every day in preserving fascinating documents, photographs, audio and visual materials, and artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>No question is too silly . . .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s the craziest thing you\u2019ve come across in your collections?<\/li>\n<li>If your archives had a soundtrack, what songs would be on it?<\/li>\n<li>What do archivists talk about around the water cooler?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>. . . and no question is too practical!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What should I do to be sure that my emails won\u2019t get lost?<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve got loads of digital images on my phone. How should I store them so I can access them later on?<\/li>\n<li>How do you decide which items to keep and which to weed out from a collection?<\/li>\n<li>As a teacher, how can I get my students more interested in using archives for projects?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>So, how does it work?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>#AskAnArchivist Day is open to everyone&#8211;all you need is a Twitter account. To participate, just tweet a question to @gmuscrc between 10 am and 4:00 pm on Wednesday, October 5 and include the hashtag #AskAnArchivist in your tweet.\u00a0Your question will be seen instantly by archivists here at the Special Collections Research Center\u00a0and around the\u00a0country who will be\u00a0standing by to respond directly to you. So if we\u2019re not sure\u00a0how to answer, we bet we can find someone who can!\u00a0We also\u00a0may not know\u00a0every answer right away, but we\u2019ll do some digging and get back to you ASAP. Even if you don\u2019t\u00a0have a question right away, we hope you\u2019ll search Twitter for #AskAnArchivist and follow along as questions and answers are\u00a0shared to get a better idea not just of what we do here at the Special Collections Research Center\u00a0but what archivists are doing around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 5th, GMU Special Collections Research Center will be on Twitter with archivists around the country to answer\u00a0any and all archives related questions. Sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, this day long event will give you the opportunity to ask the archivists at the Special Collections Research Center about our work, our\u00a0collections, or [&hellip;]<\/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":[93,3],"tags":[386,384,385],"class_list":["post-5811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-news","tag-american-archives-month","tag-askanarchivist","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ep5i-1vJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7876,"url":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=7876","url_meta":{"origin":5811,"position":0},"title":"The Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting","author":"Amanda Menjivar","date":"August 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The week of August 13th, members of Special Collections Research Center attended the Society of American Archivists' (SAA) Annual Meeting which was held in Washington, D.C. at the Wardman Park Marriott. 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