All sorts of interesting

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I found out my alternative spring break project today! I’ll be going to the National Library of Medicine in DC [well, Bethesda, Maryland, but we'll be staying DC] & working on a rehousing plan to assess, organize, house, and label for archival purposes over 10 years worth of exhibition materials. It sounds really interesting & like great experience! More about my project here. I’m especially excited that I’ll be going to DC since I’ve spent very little time there. My only visit was for Peace Corps staging a couple years ago & my time was mostly spent in a hotel conference room or trying to asborb as much America as I could, but not visiting the important places. Now’s my chance!

My wonderful friend Victoria dedicated a blog post to me & it was about books, of course! Go check it out – there’s an interesting quote & some cool accessories, including an awesome faux-book computer cover.

Gloat: my trivia team got second place Monday night. That means we got a $10 gift certificate to come back & do it again next week!

winnings from our team You Can't Rush Genius

NewTactics.org is hosting an online discussion about the best ways to document human rights violations. Among the panelist are a number of archivists & I’m interested in learning more about what role these professionals [& myself] can play in the broader human rights movement.

I found [yet another] conference I want to go to. This one is hosted by Yale University & is titled “A2K4: Conference on Access to Knowledge and Human Rights.”

What the Fonds? is a hilarious blog featuring “funny, interesting and cool stuff from the holdings of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.” [Also, for you non-archivists, learn more about 'fonds.']

This is an incredible & slightly disturbing story about a stolen iphone & how one determined man tracked it, learned all sorts of personal information about the person who stole it [& the friends & family of the theif] & how he eventually convinced him to send it back. Oh the wonders & horrors of the internet.

Here’s a list of the 10 best songs about libraries and librarians. If only archivists had songs written about them!

Tonight I’m going to watch my friend perform in the play Denial. Written by Peter Sagal [of Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me...], it features my friend playing a Jewish lawyer assigned by the ACLU to defend the free-speech rights of a Holocaust denier. It sounds interesting & powerful, even more so because today is 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. From a NY Times article today about marking the anniversary:

”My murdered brothers and sisters and brothers who survived the inferno, I came here today from Jerusalem to say to you we will never forget,” Netanyahu said. ”We will not allow Holocaust deniers and desecrators of grave stones to erase or distort the memory.”

I can’t wait to see the play.

And now I’m going to get ready – our whole group of friends is meeting up for dinner & then going to watch the play together. Have I mentioned I have the best friends in the world?