What's Past is Prologue

I'm an MLS student on the archives track at the University of Maryland. I found myself posting a lot of articles, photos, links, etc. regarding archives, libraries, books, and other things on my Facebook, and felt it would be better to put these posts in a place specifically for the purpose of creating a fond of sorts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonds), chronically things I find interesting about archives, libraries and books.

Oh and in the interest of citing sources, the title of the blog is from The Tempest by William Shakespeare.

December 1, 2011 1:14 pm

awesomearchives:

christielouwho:

Sometimes my work hours are spent deciphering old illegible signatures.

Handwritten anything is one of the most challenging parts of archival, but deciphering it all makes you kind of feel like a superspy.

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