Having said how difficult it was going to be to keep up this blog, already I'm thinking of new posts...
I follow an archival blog aggregator called Archives Blogs (http://archivesblogs.com/). It's an odd assortment of blogs by archivists in the U.S and Europe. The best part about it is that it contains many blogs from the UK, which I wouldn't normally run into. (Unfortunately, I can't read the ones in German or French...) Many of them are clearly for local consumption: fun things from our archives for people at our institution. But one of my favorites is called A Repository for Bottled Monsters. A recent post captured the joys of being an archivist - and of using Web 2.0 to connect with a patron. Read it and see: http://bottledmonsters.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-we-do-this.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ArchivesBlogs_eng+%28ArchivesBlogs+%C2%BB+English%29&utm_content=Bloglines.
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Thanks for posting that link to the "Bottled Monsters" post--I hadn't seen that one. I need to check in on Archives Blogs more often.
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Sorry the blog for archivists who went to China didn' work out, that would have been an interesting read, I'm sure.
Kate
Thanks for the tip on the "Monsters"! Take a look at the most recent post on the Researchers Notebook (MHS) for a lovely quote from a very old Chinese poet about scholars: http://discussions.mnhs.org/researchers/. Norton (a.k.a. Kathie)
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