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How much digital ‘stuff’ do we have?

How much "stuff" is held in the archives at Elmer L. Andersen Library? By "stuff"…

Mark EngebretsonMay 4, 2016

Sketch of a character from Oskar Seliaru’s original puppet production, See oli unenägu. The sketch shows the front of the puppet, which has a distorted face and wears a red vest with a green hat and green gaucho pants. The back of the puppet is included in the upper right hand corner of the drawing. The puppet has bushy white eyebrows and a scruffy beard. The drawing was created in the Augsburg (Germany) Displaced Persons Camp, circa 1946.

Archives and Special Collections Immigration History Research Center Archives News Primary Sourcery

Archival research: A process piece

Although archival professionals anticipate that researchers may face any number of challenges (language, format, condition,…

Mark EngebretsonJanuary 28, 2016

Jessica Tandy, presumably in character as Queen Gertrude, gives director Tyrone Guthrie a piece of her mind in rehearsals for Hamlet, 1963.

Archives and Special Collections Performing Arts Archives Primary Sourcery

NEH grant funds Guthrie Theater archives project

The Performing Arts Archives has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities…

Mark EngebretsonJanuary 21, 2016

Archives and Special Collections Givens Collection News Primary Sourcery

Archives as tools for discussion

Umbra: Search African American History brings together over 400,000 digitally available items that document African…

Mark EngebretsonJanuary 9, 2016

Archives and Special Collections Primary Sourcery

October 10 is Electronic Records Day!

To celebrate Electronic Records Day the University of Minnesota Libraries is announcing the publication of…

Mark EngebretsonOctober 6, 2015

Archives and Special Collections From the Archivist News Primary Sourcery University Archives

Nachtrieb’s Nuances

Leave it to an archivist to notice an unexplained detail in the current Andersen Library…

Rebecca ToovSeptember 18, 2015

Archives and Special Collections Primary Sourcery