Looking backwards and forwards. And a duck.

We’ve had a little flurry of posts and comments lately, so just wanted to make sure everyone is up to date:

You might want to go back and check out Christine Di Bella’s guest post, if you didn’t already do so, and check out the comments as well.

Also, taking off on a theme tweeted from the Smithsonian 2.0 conference, I asked whether people thought contributions of “passionate amateurs” could really serve as a significant part of archival cataloging in the future. I’d still like to hear more thoughts from knowledgeable colleagues on that one.

Looking forward, this week we’ll be wrapping the series of guest bloggers who shared their thoughts on the greatest opportunities and challenges facing archivists today.

And I’m a little late, but soon I’ll be announcing the details about this year’s Best Archives on the Web Awards competition soon. The categories will be a little different this year–including one for the Best Institutional Blog. I expect a lot of entries for that one! So start thinking about what sites you’d like to see recognized, including maybe your own.

And, now for something completely different, a man and his duck (courtesy of Cute Overload.com):

Maybe it’s true that if more people had ducks, the world would be a better place. Does your archives need a duck? (Hey, it worked for one library with a cat–they’ve got a movie deal now, I think.)

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  By Kathleen Roe, January 27, 2009 @ 6:40 am

  Ducks are good, especially if it’s my favorite the AFLAC duck (do they have an archives?) but never diss the traditional ghost–check out the story from Depauw’s archives at: http://www.bannergraphic.com/story/1496437.html

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  By Kate T., January 27, 2009 @ 7:29 am

  That story is very cool! I’ll have to run a post asking for haunted archives stories sometime. There have to be more.

  Although that does sort of perpetuate the stereotypes of archives as “dead” places, doesn’t it? Or, undead, in this case, right?

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