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Kevin Schlottmann, RBML’s Head Archivist, shares these updates about finding aids that our archivist and collections management specialists have stewarded over the past month and made available for RBML researchers – a season of bounty even in a global pandemics!
Newly digitized oral history collections
Gail Mary Killian and Stephen Desroches sound recordings, 1970-2003
“The majority of the collection’s interviews were taken by Gail Mary Killian and document her life in the 1970s-1980s as a woman living with Down syndrome in Eastern Massachusetts. Killian recorded her birthday starting in 1970, and many recordings capture the conversations that took place at these celebrations, which were attended by family members and neighbors.”
*Inclusivity requires that we think beyond traditional disciplinary methods and boundaries. How we can, as a contemporary archive and special collections unit, include people living with disabilities in our collections and research practice? The Killian-Desroches recordings expand how we think about the curiosity inherent in oral history as a discipline. What can we learn from people previously excluded from our collections who are adept interlocutors? – Kimberly Springer, Curator, Oral History
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The Steve Laube Agency
Twice each year, somewhere around the beginning and middle of the calendar, I like to take a look back at books published long ago.
This is not simply a nostalgic exercise. If you never consider what came before, authors and publishers can delude themselves into believing they are first ever to explore some new literary territory.
But when you look at the past, you discover creativity has always been the cornerstone of book publishing and not every great book was published in the last six months.
It’s always about the writing. If you capture the heart and mind of a reader, you win.
So, as we look back fifty years to early 1967, maybe you can draw some conclusions about society and publishing.
We were deep into the 60’s and everything good and bad about them. Viet Nam was tearing apart America. There had yet to be the first Super Bowl and later this month, in 1967, three U.S. astronauts were killed in a fire in their Apollo spacecraft.
Society was going every possible direction at once, but books were still being written for readers to read.
The January 8, 1967 New York Times Best-seller list looked like this:
Fiction
- THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA, by Robert Crichton. (1969 movie starring Anthony Quinn. Author no relation to Michael Cricht