Diary Survives Shuttle Crash
Pages from astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of space shuttle Columbia are going on displayHow cool is that?  Wouldn't it have been amazing to be the curator?  I cannot imagine all the processes of restoration those pages went through.  Amazing.  (Whoever was deciphering the diary must've had some other ( Read more... )

If you're walking around campus sweating in the current 99 degrees and you see someone wearing long pants and a sweatshirt, assume that they're perfectly fine, but have been working in the archives.

Because that someone would be me.

My fingers are freezing.  But yeah, I'm in the archives working on ContentDM records.  Whoohoo.

Haha!!!  Look at what I just found!

All Archivists Stick Together(To the tune of "Life's Railway to Heaven ( Read more... )

This quote is on the wall in Room 4 (the University Archives room)...and I just discovered it today:

The preservers of history are as heroic as its makers.
                                                           --Pat Neff, president Baylor University (1932-1947)