The New England Archivists Inclusion and Diversity Committee @NEArchivistsIDC is pleased to announce the completion of the Contingent Employment Study. Read the findings and recommendations in the report here: https://t.co/jX9ZGMX8cF
Information on the 2021 Certified Archivist Exam is now live. The exam will be online June 24 -26. The application system will be open from 12:00 PM ET, March 1, 2021, to 11:59 PM ET, April 30, 2021.
For more information see https://t.co/etDNMeBBsu
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Very pleased to be able to share the news that Best Practices for Archival Term Positions is now available online: https://t.co/MktJHJsTGH. I worked with an awesome group a people to put this together, could not have been done w/out the excellent leadership of @alisonarchivist
It has been a long time since I finished a book in one day by staying up most of the night to read it. Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angline Boulley. If it is not on your list, it should be.
If we cannot reach a point where we realize wearing masks in school is good for the safety of all children and teachers I suggest it is then time to stop banning peanut butter in schools. We do not pick and choose obligation to each other’s safety.
The moment you tell me shooting and killing a child was necessary or justified, the conversation is over. I don’t have a lot of hard and fast rules but that sure as fuck is one of them.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced that moving forward, daily press briefings will now include an American Sign Language interpreter. https://t.co/68NQg3jEiL
"Getting Real: Using Civics as a Forum for Debating Our Constitution" from the 2020 AASLH Annual Meeting will be free for AASLH members for a limited time to provide inspiration and ideas on how to use civics to discuss the Constitution. https://t.co/hWfYpU9Gww
Thank you! I would be nowhere without the women whose footsteps I dance in. While reciting my poem, I wore a ring with a caged bird—a gift from @Oprah for the occasion , to symbolize Maya Angelou, a previous inaugural poet. Here’s to the women who have climbed my hills before.
Here are there I’m seeing surprise expressed at the white women players in storming the capitol.
I want to talk about that because I’m not surprised.
I’m not surprised because as a fiber artist I’ve seen these women for DECADES.
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While today’s terrible display of terror and meanness shakes us, let’s remember: @ossoff, Jewish son of an immigrant & @ReverendWarnock, first Black Senator from Georgia, will join a Catholic POTUS & the first woman, Black + Indian VP in our nation’s capital. God bless America.