Famous Archives | Archivists/Librarians in Pop Culture | The Preservation Room | Theory & Praxis | Rare Books |
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Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The United States National Archives and Records Administrations was established in 1934 by this president
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What is the Declaration of Independence
Archivist Abigail Chase is "so getting fired for this" when she applies lemon juice to the back of this National Treasure in the 2004 film of the same name
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What is paper
The rags and fabric used to make THIS common writing material was said to be a carrier for plague in 17th century England.
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Who are Mark A. Greene and Dennis Meissner
The article outlining the processing theory now known as 'MPLP' was written by these authors and published in 2005
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What is human skin
Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in this - paging Dr. Lecter!
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Who are Conquistadors
Most of the Yucatan Mayan codices, the primary written records of the civilization, were destroyed by Diego de Landa and these Spanish colonizers
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What is the boiler room
Author of Pop Archives Samantha Cross argues that animated film Zootopia falls prey to a classic archives stereotype, "archives as distant/removed/forgotten" by depicting the Zootopia Police Department records storage near this - probably not the hot commodities most archivists have in mind!
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What is calf skin
Vellum, like parchment, is made from untanned leather - but vellum is made from THIS specific animal hide. The clue is in the name - derived from the French veau
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What is Describing Archvies: A Content Standard (DACS)
This cataloging standard replaced the SAA's previous standard, Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts, in 2005.
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What is The Canterbury Tales
A first edition of this famous work by Geoffrey Chaucer, printed by William Caxton in 1477, sold in 1776 for £6 … and in 1998 for $7.57 million
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What is the Domesday Book
The U.K's National Archives calls this 11th century survey their most famous public record
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Who is Matilda
Mrs. Phelps is the public librarian who takes this title character, and voracious reader, under her wing - introducing her to Great Expectations after she reads the entire children's book section in only a few weeks
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What is nitrate film
Many preservation experts recommend putting this volatile archival material in the freezer - it's been known to self-ignite
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What is appraisal
T.R. Schellenberg argued that a record's overall value can be determined based on three distinct criteria: uniqueness, form, and importance. This act of determining value, central to Schellenberg's interpretation of archival work, is also called this:
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Who is John James Audubon
The Birds of America is a famous rare book, of which there are many unique versions - this naturalist author painted 435 North American birds, and mailed the resulting works to his subscribers one by one from 1827 to 1838
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What is the Vatican Apostolic Archive
In 1809, Napoleon ordered the entirety of THIS archive be transferred to Paris. By 1813, more than 3,000 crates had been shipped. Talk about a God complex!
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Who is Jebediah Springfield / Hans Springfield
Lisa Simpson interacts with the concepts of public memory, historical narrative creation, and memorial spaces/figures when she attempts to reveal the truth about THIS famous founder after spending time in her town's Historical Society/archive in the episode "Lisa the Iconoclast"
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What are vinyl records
This audio carrier, invented as early as 1894, is still considered the best method for preserving sound - I guess they really do spin us right round
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Who is Sir Hilary Jenkinson
This archivist, archival theorist, and author of Manual of Archive Administration, worked on the arrangement of the English medieval Exchequer, worked with the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Subcommission during World War II, and is widely credited for the "impartial custodial model" of archival praxis
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What is the King James Bible
In 1631, King Charles I fined publishers Robert Baker and Martin Lucas £300 and revoked their printing license for a small typographical error in THIS major work. The typo? "Thou shalt commit adultery"
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What is the Bodleian Library
Although arguably classed as a library, this famous institution requires all readers to sign an oath before entering -
"I hearby undertake not to remove from the Library, or to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document, or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the Library or kindle therein any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library." |
What is scanning the book for digitization
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Willow accidentally releases the demon Moloch by doing what?
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What is newspaper
Stop the presses! This material is made by mechanical pulping - which creates the shortest fiber length and does not remove lignin, which makes a weaker product that becomes very acidic
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What is co-creator
In his 2009 article, "The Archive(s) Is a Foreign Country: Historians, Archivists, and the Changing Archival Landscape," Terry Cook argues that the act of appraisal or "determining what the future will know about its past: who will have a continuing voice and who will be silenced" means that archivists serve this role, rather than the "neutered caretaker"
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What is supply and demand
Not all old books can be called RARE books - according to most antiquarian book dealers, two key components are THIS and THIS, along with condition, special features, and association - hint: Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) is, indeed, a rare book - a first edition is valued as high as $250,000.
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