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An Archivist's Tale
by Dr. Karen J. Trivette
Archivists in conversation with archivists, discussing their work and passions and how they care for the historical record and present the storied past. Hosted originally by husband and wife team Karen Trivette and Geof Huth. Now administered by Trivette.
Episodes
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Episode 123: It Had to Be Remote (Karen Trivette and Geof Huth)
Karen Trivette and Geof Huth, hosts of the podcast, return to discuss their archival lives during the pandemic and their plans for the podcast's future and even the one archival trip they have planned for this year.
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Episode 122: The Myth of Self-Reliance (Natalie Baur)
Natalie Baur, Archivist-at-Large, tells us her story of encountering the profession, which transported her to Miami, then Ecuador, and then to Mexico, where her story has become one of an archivist for hire continuing to work in a global pandemic.
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Episode 121: Max Meyer: Recollections of a Foreign-Born Citizen (Lourdes Font)
Karen Jamison Trivette and guest host Alex Joseph interview fashion scholar Lourdes Font, professor of history of art at the Fashion Institute of Technology. They discuss the life and work of Max Meyer, a principal at Abraham Beller and Company, a New York City-based women's cloak and suit...
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Episode 120: 2X2: Accounts Payable at a Masonry Company: Why Are They Letting Me Touch This Stuff? (Molly Tighe and Matt Strauss )
Molly Tighe and Matt Strauss tells us their stories of moving from a masonry company and Japan into archives, how they met, and how they keep their archives thriving and relevant in the middle of a worldwide pandemic.
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The Archival Enterprise (to David B. Gracy II)
After a long absence, An Archivist's Tale presents a poem to David B. Gracy II, one of our guests. Geof Huth of AAT wrote and read this poem.
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Episode 119: Let's Get One of Those Archivist People (Anne-Flore Laloë)
Anne-Flore Laloë, Archivist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, tells us how a masters of English and a PhD in geography led her to archives, what it is like to work with helpful molecular biologists, how she, as a lone archivist, manages an organization with facilities in multiple...
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Episode 118: Healing Deep Wounds: Enlightening People about the Past and the Present (Saad Eskander)
Saad Eskander, former National Archivist of Iraq, speaking to us from Iraqi Kurdistan, tells an inspiring story about his work running his nation's archives and his struggle to repatriate national records taken by the US government and even journalists, and he explains how archives can show us a...
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Episode 117: The Box Has Meaning (Karen Trivette and Geof Huth)
Karen and Geof, hosts of the podcast, return alone together to discuss how their work has changed and how it has remained the same during the coronavirus pandemic. They discuss what they learned about their operations and how they might change when they return to work.
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Episode 116: Archives is Trending (Rosemary Pleva Flynn)
Rosemary Pleva Flynn, the Chair of the Society of American Archivists' Dictionary Working Group, talks about the origins of this just-released Dictionary of Archives Terminology, an online-only dictionary for archivists, explains how entries are created, and details the rich features of the...
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Episode 115: Advocacy on a Bone-Deep Level (Tamar Zeffren)
Tamar Zeffren, Archival Collections Manager at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, tells us how archives kept her from becoming a lawyer, explains how she worked odd archives jobs when beginning her career during the Great Recession, and explains how her archives team continues…
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Episode 114: History is the Story of People (Greg Hunter)
Greg Hunter, Professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University, tells the stories of his career, stories of almost always starting from scratch and creating archival improvements for the United Negro College Fund, ITT, the Academy of Certified Archivists,...
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Episode 113: My Work is My Hobby (Pat Franks)
Pat Franks, Professor, and Program Coordinator of the Masters of Archives and Records Administration program at San Jose State University, tells us how a grant opportunity from the New York State Archives led her to records and information management and eventually into a rich career of teaching...
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Episode 112: We Have the Power to Change Ourselves for the Good (Cliff Hight)
Cliff Hight, Head of Special Collections and the University Archivist at Kansas State University, sits down to discuss his life as an archivist, how his archives was prepared for working at home for covid-19 because of another disaster they had experienced, and shows how his career and ours have...
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Episode 111: I Could Live Forever (Judy Blankenship)
Judy Blankenship, a de facto archivist working to document the visual culture of Cañari people of Andean Ecuador, tells us her story of becoming an accidental archivist after finishing her career and traveling the world.
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Episode 110: Paper is a Virus (Karen Trivette and Geof Huth)
Karen Trivette and Geof Huth, hosts of An Archivist's Tale, discuss how they are conducting their archival and library work while confined at home and living their lives in Manhattan, in the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic.
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Episode 109: I, Too, Am an Archivist: Why Can't I Go out There and Save the World? (Diedre Dinnigan)
Diedre Dinnigan, an Archivist and Heritage Specialist and the Principal of ForKeeps, tells us how stumbling upon an archives changed her life, how she became an archivist because of that, and why she prefers to be an independent archivist in charge of her own destiny and focused on helping people...
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Episode 108: A Map to Someone's Life (Ostap Kin)
Ostap Kin, Archivist, Librarian, and Research Center Coordinator at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, tells us the story of chance that redirected part of his life from literature to archives, his immigration to the United States, and how archives capture valuable and coherent...
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Episode 107: All Related to Word and Image (Marvin Sackner)
Marvin Sackner, one of the founders of the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, explains how he and his wife became collectors of visual poetry and other works that merge image with text, how they built their renowned collection, and where he donated their assemblage of...
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Episode 106: Filing Was in My Blood (Rachel Binnington)
Rachel Binnington, an American archivist in England, reveals her peripatetic life story that begins when she was a child, tells us of her archival yearnings which began many years be most of ours did, and surprises us with her wide array of archives jobs covering corporate records, US…
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Episode 105: One Man with a Dog, One Man with a Kettle (Paul Dryburgh)
Paul Dryburgh, Principal Records Specialist (Medieval Records) at the National Archives of the UK, explains how a Medievalist transforms into an archivist and discovers a life full of history, people, technology, and the materiality of records. Humour (in this case), intellectuality, humanity…
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Episode 104: A Living Body of Information (Kerstin Arnold)
Kerstin Arnold, a cultural heritage professional at Archives Portal Europe tells us of her beginnings at the German Federal Archives and provides the amazing story of how a small band of people aggregate metadata on 55,000 fonds and collections held by European archives to allow people all over…
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Episode 103: I’d Rather be in Charge of My Own Uncertainty (Margaret Crockett)
Margaret Crockett a consultant archivist and records manager with Margaret Crockett, Ltd., and Archive-Skills Consultancy, tells us about her beginnings in government archives, her adventures in archives on the open sea, and how she loves the freedom of being an independent archivist.
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Episode 102: A Mole Costume (Tamara Thornhill)
Tamara Thornhill, Corporate Archives Manager at Transport for London, tells us not only her own tale but also the often surprising history of her organization, which oversees almost all of the transportation system in Greater London, include most famously the London Underground.
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Episode 101: A Primal Need to Save Everything (Jennifer Anna)
Jennifer Anna, Photo and Digital Asset Manager for the World Wildlife Fund, tells us how cinephilia led her to photography, archives, and a career managing the digital.
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Episode 100: We Don't Travel. All We Do is Talk (Karen Trivette and Geof Huth)
Karen Trivette and Geof Huth sit down at the end of the year to celebrate the 100th episode of this podcast and discuss their individual archives days, their plans for 2020, the value of archives, and the home they have found for their podcast archives.
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Episode 99: There's Always Jobs in Archives (Joseph Komljenovich)
Joseph Komljenovich, Senior Associate Archivist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, regales us with stories: of how he began his college career studying finance but slipped somehow into archives, about epiphanies, about never having been a normal kid, and even about returning to finance, to...
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Episode 98: I'm Constantly Being Smacked in the Face on Purpose (Cal Lee)
Cal Lee, Professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, invites us to his office to discuss how philosophy and the need to address digital records propelled him into archives and how he has connected himself deeply into the archival profession...
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Episode 97: Once the Sallie Bingham Center Got Its Hooks in Me (Kelly Wooten)
Kelly Wooten, Librarian at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University, invites us into her home to enjoy her cats and to discuss her career in libraries and archives, one focused on women's work, girl's literature, and zines.
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Episode 96: That Mechanism That Can Improve People's Lives (Chrystal Carpenter)
Chrystal Carpenter, Coordinator of University Archives and Special Collections, tells us about her beginnings in Egyptology, her experiences dealing with the aftermath of a massacre, her rich and broad career, and an attempt to reframe what the Archives Leadership Institute could be.
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Episode 95: 2X2: The Mobile Archive is Essentially a Bike (Sophie Glidden-Lyon and Daniel Pecoraro)
Sophie Glidden-Lyon and Daniel Pecoraro, volunteers at the Interference Archive in Brooklyn, tell us the history of the Archive, how this community archives makes records on social movements available to the public, and all about their cataloging parties.
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Episode 94: My Place in Archives (Aaron Purcell)
Aaron Purcell, Director of Special Collections and University Archives at Virginia Tech, recounts his journey from the history of the French Revolution to archives, his professional focus on donor relations, and his place in archives.
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Episode 93: 2X2: Happy Accidents (Kate Theimer and Jim Gerencser)
Kate Theimer, writer and editor, and her husband, Jim Gerencser, College Archivist at Dickinson College, tell us of their lives together as two archivists and the amazing accomplishments they have achieved.
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Episode 92: The Guy Who Writes "Records Express" (Arian Ravanbakhsh)
Arian Ravanbakhsh, Supervisory Records Management Policy Analyst at the Office of the Chief Records Officer at the US National Archives, tells us how his life has always revolved around the District of Columbia and explains his important work developing records management policies for the federal...
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Episode 91: To Allow Archivists to Bring Their Brilliance to the Forefront (Alex Duryee)
Alex Duryee, Metadata Archivist at the New York Public Library, tells us how he became an archivist as a teenager but discovered it was a profession only later in life, and also explains the archival magic of integrated systems of metadata.
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Episode 90: It Was Also Actually Fun to be in Basements (Stephen Novak)
Stephen Novak, Head of Archives and Special Collections at the Augusta C. Long Health Sciences Library at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, tells us how the records of a murder first intrigued him about archives and then tells the stories of a long a rich career that touched just…
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Episode 89: The Memory of Society (Hrefna Robertsdottir)
Hrefna Róbertsdóttir, National Archivist of Iceland, provides a wide view of the archival program of Iceland, its national and regional archives, and how these have responsibility for the records of the whole of society, all while Iceland works closely with other archives on international issues.
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Episode 88: If You Have Their Diaries, You Can See Their Dreams (Njörður Sigurðsson)
Njörður Sigurðsson, Director of Acquisition and Access at the National Archives of Iceland, tells his story of becoming an archivist after studying the history of foster children, explains the archives world of Iceland, and discusses his work internationally addressing the thorny issue of…
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Episode 87: Compelled by the Image and What that Might Convey (Ashley Levine)
Ashley Levine, Archivist and Digital Resource Manager at Artifex Press, tells us about his move from pure archives to a more modern kind of hybrid archivist role, how all archivists must learn new skills all the time and why their versatility helps them with that, and he explains why archivists...
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Episode 86: The Connections between Then and Now (Nicole Milano)
Nicole Milano, Head of the Medical Center Archives at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine, discusses how her study of history and her travels led her to archives, discusses how being a lone arranger helped her practice the breadth of archives, and she also speaks about her experiences...
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Episode 85: This Tape Recorder is Still On (Heather Lember)
Heather Lember, a processing archivist at New York Public Library, tells us of her life trip from being a musician to an archivist and finally to the archivist working on the extensive papers of Lou Reed, most of which consisted of audio recordings in many formats. She explains the challenges and...
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Episode 84: When I Go to That Great Old Booking Table in the Sky (Patty Sicular)
Patty Sicular, co-owner of Iconic Focus Models, tells us the story of her career in the fashion and modeling industry, which led to her becoming an archivist by necessity. She discusses working with iconic models, such as Carmen Dell’Orefice (still modeling at age 88), and her plans for donating...
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Episode 83: My Job is to Empower People (Meredith Evans)
Meredith Evans, Director of the Carter Presidential Library and Museum and President of the Society of American Archivists, tells us why she was always meant to be an archivist, how she practices archives from a community perspective, why the keeping of archival evidence is so important, and how...
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Episode 82: 2X2: The Power of These Primary Sources to Bring Meaning (Ben and Sara Brumfield)
In a passionate episode, Sara and Ben Brumfield, the founders of FromThePage, describe how they, as software developers, are obsessed by making cultural material accessible, how they work with archivists across the world on such projects, and how their passion encompasses both protecting cultures...
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Episode 81: Archivists Inspire Me (David B. Gracy II)
David B. Gracy II, an archivist who needs no introduction, discusses how history changed the entire course of his life until archives did the same, recounts some of his long and distinguished history in the field, and talks (as he often does) about what we as archivists need to be and to do.
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Episode 80: You're Telling a Story (Kate Saeed)
Kate Saeed, Manuscripts Processor at the Geisel Library of the University of California San Diego, discusses her start in history, her discovery of archives, and how she came into the profession without a degree in the field and how she trained herself into the job. Along the way, she discusses…
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Episode 79: 2X2 My Eavesdropping Angel (Rex Pickett and Kate Saeed)
Rex Pickett, the author of the novel Sideways, and Kate Saeed, the archivist at UC San Diego who processed his papers, discuss Rex's introduction to the world of archives, their collaboration on the teleplay for a limited series called The Archivist, the novel based on that teleplay that Rex is...
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Episode 78: We Don't Want to Know How High You Jumped Yesterday (Jake Salik)
Jake Salik of Talas tells us how he ended up with a business selling archival supplies, how difficult it is becoming to find and sell traditionally crafted paper, and why Talas makes boxes to order and sells multiple types of parchment and even gold-beater's skin. Gold-beater's skin?
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Episode 77: Saving the Sound of the Record (Anthony Cocciolo)
Anthony Cocciolo, the Dean of the School of Information at Pratt Institute, talks to us about his transition from computer science to archives and how he ended up teaching and also writing the book on how to care for archival audio-visual records.
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Episode 76: I'm a Bureaucrat at Heart, Downloading Things at Night Like a Pirate on a Raid (Geir Walderhaug)
Geir Walderhaug, Advisor and Records Manager at the University at Oslo, discusses his work as a government archivist and records manager, hermeneutics, and how government records are managed in Norway. He also talks about the international nature of archives and his role in the expansive world of...
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Archivists in conversation with archivists, discussing their work and passions and how they care for the historical record and present the storied past. Hosted originally by husband and wife team Karen Trivette and Geof Huth. Now administered by Trivette.
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