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 19, 2011 11:47 am

megalord asked: Here’s something I’ve always wanted to know… how did you get interested in archival film stuff? I think it’s so cool!

mrbnatural6:

It kind of gradually evolved. Back when I was a music ed major, I realized that the music degree was slowly killing my soul, and I was incredibly depressed for a variety of reasons, and found myself spending most of my time watching movies. When I decided to change majors, I joked that I wanted to find a job where I could get paid to watch movies all day. So I took one of those career tests, and it said I should either be a librarian, or a special ed teacher (which is odd because I don’t want to teach). I ended up switching my major to English with the intent of going to library school and focusing either on archives or youth services. I started applying for library jobs, and got a position with the NMSU archives, and then I started taking a lot of film classes. When I got to grad school, I found myself gravitating more and more toward audiovisual archives, but at that time, I was planning on speeding through the program as quickly as possible, and then moving back to New Mexico to be with my then-boyfriend. After a VERY messy break-up, I decided to focus exclusively on my career, and sent e-mails to every film preservation company in the DC-metro area, and ended up with an internship and just fell absolutely in LOVE with preserving old films. :)

From my other blog. This is actually the question I get asked the most when I tell people I want to be a film preservationist, so I thought I’d repost it here. :)

(Source: bestmatedonnanoble)

  1. thefriendlyarchivist reblogged this from bestmatedonnanoble and added:
    other blog. This...preservationist, so I thought I’d repost it here.
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