An Archivist's Tale

Episode 124: The Exciting Career Trajectory of Danielle' McGhee

Episode 123: It Had to Be Remote (Karen Trivette and Geof Huth)

Karen Trivette and Geof Huth, hosts of the podcast, return to discuss their archival lives during the pandemic and their plans for the podcast's future and even the one archival trip they have…

Episode 122: The Myth of Self-Reliance (Natalie Baur)

Natalie Baur, Archivist-at-Large, tells us her story of encountering the profession, which transported her to Miami, then Ecuador, and then to Mexico, where her story has become one of an archivist…

Episode 121: Max Meyer: Recollections of a Foreign-Born Citizen (Lourdes Font)

Karen Jamison Trivette and guest host Alex Joseph interview fashion scholar Lourdes Font, professor of history of art at the Fashion Institute of Technology. They discuss the life and work of Max…

Episode 120: 2X2: Accounts Payable at a Masonry Company: Why Are They Letting Me Touch This Stuff? (Molly Tighe and Matt Strauss )

Molly Tighe and Matt Strauss tells us their stories of moving from a masonry company and Japan into archives, how they met, and how they keep their archives thriving and relevant in the middle of a…

The Archival Enterprise (to David B. Gracy II)

After a long absence, An Archivist's Tale presents a poem to David B. Gracy II, one of our guests. Geof Huth of AAT wrote and read this poem.

Episode 119: Let's Get One of Those Archivist People (Anne-Flore Laloë)

Anne-Flore Laloë, Archivist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, tells us how a masters of English and a PhD in geography led her to archives, what it is like to work with helpful molecular…

Episode 118: Healing Deep Wounds: Enlightening People about the Past and the Present (Saad Eskander)

Saad Eskander, former National Archivist of Iraq, speaking to us from Iraqi Kurdistan, tells an inspiring story about his work running his nation's archives and his struggle to repatriate national…

Episode 117: The Box Has Meaning (Karen Trivette and Geof Huth)

Karen and Geof, hosts of the podcast, return alone together to discuss how their work has changed and how it has remained the same during the coronavirus pandemic. They discuss what they learned…

Episode 116: Archives is Trending (Rosemary Pleva Flynn)

Rosemary Pleva Flynn, the Chair of the Society of American Archivists' Dictionary Working Group, talks about the origins of this just-released Dictionary of Archives Terminology, an online-only…

Episode 115: Advocacy on a Bone-Deep Level (Tamar Zeffren)

Tamar Zeffren, Archival Collections Manager at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, tells us how archives kept her from becoming a lawyer, explains how she worked odd archives jobs when…

Episode 114: History is the Story of People (Greg Hunter)

Greg Hunter, Professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University, tells the stories of his career, stories of almost always starting from scratch and creating…

Episode 113: My Work is My Hobby (Pat Franks)

Pat Franks, Professor, and Program Coordinator of the Masters of Archives and Records Administration program at San Jose State University, tells us how a grant opportunity from the New York State…

Episode 112: We Have the Power to Change Ourselves for the Good (Cliff Hight)

Cliff Hight, Head of Special Collections and the University Archivist at Kansas State University, sits down to discuss his life as an archivist, how his archives was prepared for working at home for…

Episode 111: I Could Live Forever (Judy Blankenship)

Judy Blankenship, a de facto archivist working to document the visual culture of Cañari people of Andean Ecuador, tells us her story of becoming an accidental archivist after finishing her career and…

Episode 110: Paper is a Virus (Karen Trivette and Geof Huth)

Karen Trivette and Geof Huth, hosts of An Archivist's Tale, discuss how they are conducting their archival and library work while confined at home and living their lives in Manhattan, in the…

Episode 109: I, Too, Am an Archivist: Why Can't I Go out There and Save the World? (Diedre Dinnigan)

Diedre Dinnigan, an Archivist and Heritage Specialist and the Principal of ForKeeps, tells us how stumbling upon an archives changed her life, how she became an archivist because of that, and why she…

Episode 108: A Map to Someone's Life (Ostap Kin)

Ostap Kin, Archivist, Librarian, and Research Center Coordinator at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, tells us the story of chance that redirected part of his life from literature to…

Episode 107: All Related to Word and Image (Marvin Sackner)

Marvin Sackner, one of the founders of the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, explains how he and his wife became collectors of visual poetry and other works that merge…

Episode 106: Filing Was in My Blood (Rachel Binnington)

Rachel Binnington, an American archivist in England, reveals her peripatetic life story that begins when she was a child, tells us of her archival yearnings which began many years be most of ours…