#academic archives

[lets-talk-archives]

Academic Archives

After the first season of this popular horror fiction podcast things go a little off the rails, but the premise of the first season is fairly simple: Jonathan Sims, head archivist for the archives at the Magnus Institute, is making audio recordings of a collection of supernatural testimonies collected by researchers of the strange and unusual. He claims the archives are rather ill maintained by researchers too caught up in academia and attempts to digitize the written testimonies by recording himself reading them all.

Academic archives can be administrative, special collections, and/or results of research like at the fictional Magnus Institute. Once you turn 18, in the U.S. your university cannot release any records about you to anyone, not even your relatives, without your consent under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). When you think about it, your university typically has a lot of information about you. Your financial status for your financial aid and scholarship applications, your citizenship status including your state residency, your parents' educational backgrounds, every grade you've ever earned, and if you've ever used campus counseling resources they could even have sensitive mental health issues on file. These are just a few examples. Some jobs or internships may require a transcript, but no parent, employer, or landlord can contact your school and demand to see your grades or anything else about you thanks to these privacy acts. Jonathan Sims' audio transcripts being aired online as a podcast might be breaking some privacy acts, but oh well. The Magnus Institute has bigger issues going on. The Magnus Archives (the podcast itself, not the fictional institute) has an archive too containing transcripts of all the episodes here.

Many academic libraries also hold special collections, which are often technically archives even if they're under a library heading. Sometimes, archives struggling with funding or location  can benefit from partnerships with academic institutions. One such example is the ONE Archives, the largest and oldest LGBTQ+ archive in the U.S., which was absorbed into the University of Southern California library in 2010 following struggles with funding. Becoming part of USC (a private university) provided a stable budget as well as access to appropriate facilities to preserve analog materials as well as digitize items from the collection. However, universities in America are massive bureaucratic institutions often steeped in whiteness and imperialism. It is not guaranteed that being swept into an institution like this (especially when public universities are subject to state governmental funding allocation) is universally beneficial to all archives.

[waterfall-ambience]

"Sol and Spica: An Anxious Student's Guide to Finding Life in the Universe"

Aka "I was told I could do whatever I wanted for this class assignment as long as it related to astrobiology, and I got a little silly with it." I am so tired. Please enjoy.

[greenswampzz]

Alexander Mcqueen spring 2020 ready-to-wear ~ one of my favs from this collection

[ceaselessims]

i'm cracking up the person who did the merch collab with RQ/magnus protocol did it bc their boyfriend looked like fanon jon designs and people kept commenting that on their instagram posts so they sent an email to RQ and was like ??? collab maybe ???

[seosracha]

ׂׂૢ་༘࿐ೢִֶACADEMIC COMEBACK: ⸻⸻

⸻HOW TO PASS SCHOOL IN TWO WEEKS

synopsis: you and wonbin were academic rivals: competing to get the worst grades possible. but with graduation around the corner you have to combine your 4 braincells in order to pass.

genre: academic rivals, enemies to lovers, highschool au, fluff, very unserious, smau

pairing+featuring: wonbin x fem!reader, ft. taesan of boynextdoor, giselle of aespa, sion of nctwish, danielle of newjeans, juyeon of tbz & rii7e.

⸻tags: foul language, sex jokes, wonbin and reader are really fucking dumb, kms/kys jokes, a tiny bit suggestive sometimes, more tba!

status: on hiatus!

taglist: open! send an ask to be added

ONE. academic failure

TWO. 2.5 braincells

THREE. nonexistent beef

FOUR. girl who knows what shes doing

FIVE. ccsp (Cutie Cool Sexy Princess)

SIX. submissive twinkatron

SEVEN. boyfriend lineup

EIGHT. assembling shelfs and frying fries

NINE. senior trip

TEN. yes or no

ELEVEN. four eyed bitch

TWELVE. washing machine (0.4k)

THIRTEEN. #AirportFashion

FOURTEEN. Y/N UNFOLLOW SPREE

FIFTEEN. go m for m

SIXTEEN. war is over

...more tba!

[ancientsstudies]

Sir John Soane's Museum by elliedyduch.

[minnesota-fats]

“Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing.”

I love this little bastard man and I finally got back into my groove of drawing I think!!!

[lrosewrites]

LIBRARY USERS OF TUMBLR who are age 35 or younger, are you able to help out a grad student by taking a survey? Your prize will be my eternal gratitude 😔

EDIT: You all are incredible! I have SO MUCH DATA to work with!! ❤️📚❤️ Survey is now closed

[yzhiche]

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[cabinette]

Little doodles regarding Tim's "Work Voice"

[theinsomniacindian]

In theory, I'm dark academia. In practice, I'm chaotic academia

[wardensantoineandevka]

on a scale of Warden Antoine to Johanna Hezenkoss, how many problems is that mad scientist in The Veilguard causing?

[judassmyvirtue]

Hey folks, just dropping some resources here for those of you who, like me, are always on the hunt for free reading material, whether it's for research or just to satisfy your curiosity. Check these out:

Library of Congress: Absolute goldmine for academic researches and historical documents. You can spend hours diving into their collections.

Z-library: A treasure trove of books, articles, and papers on pretty much any topic you can think of. Quick downloads, no fuss.

Project Gutenberg: Free e-books galore, especially if you're into classics. Saved me from many a boring commute.

Internet Archive: A digital library offering free universal access to books, movies, and music, plus archived web pages. Endless hours of browsing joy.

Google Books: Sometimes you just need a quick peek inside a book without committing to buying it. Google Books has got your back.

Google Scholar: It scours through scholarly sources, journals, theses, and more. Just be ready to sift through some dense material.

JSTOR: Another heavyweight in the academic world. JSTOR is packed with scholarly articles, books, and primary sources across various disciplines. Some stuff may be behind a paywall, but there's still plenty to explore for free.

Newspaper Archive: Want to browse through historical newspapers? This site has a massive collection spanning centuries and covering a wide range of topics. Perfect for digging up primary sources.

Newspapers.com: Need more historical newspapers? Look no further.

Perseus Digital Library: Focuses on ancient Greco-Roman materials, perfect for those deep dives into classical history.

Digital Public Library of America: Another treasure trove of digitized materials, including photos, manuscripts, and more.

Europeana: European cultural heritage online. Images, texts, the whole shebang.

DOAJ: Open access journals. DOAJ indexes and provides access to high-quality, peer-reviewed open access research journals.

Open Library: Another digital library offering over 1.7 million free eBooks.

Librivox: Audiobooks for when your eyes need a break.

National Archives (UK): Offers access to a wealth of historical documents, including government records, maps, photographs, and more.

Sci-Hub: For the rebels. Access to scholarly articles.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): Looking for free scholarly books? DOAB has got you covered with a vast collection.

Digital Commons Network: Free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR): Find open access repositories worldwide.

Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France): French flair for your research.

DigitalNZ: Your gateway to New Zealand's digital heritage.

[areejkhaldi]

The days, weeks, and months that passed were all filled with fear, and there were many times of evacuations and movements that exhausted us and my children. Many of our loved ones and friends died, we lost all hope, and all our happy memories were destroyed.

[mariathechosen1]

Digging too deep:

Philosophical obsession to the point of self destruction

[Image description: A collage consisting of 10 different photographs and quotes, all related to digging and holes. From top to bottom:

A wikipedia headline that says “Law of Holes”.

A close up of a shovel, digging into loose dirt.

An excerpt from a wikipedia article about the law of holes: The law of holes or the first law of holes, is an adage which states: "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." It is used as a metaphor, warning that when in an untenable position, it is best to stop making the situation worse.”

A lyrics excerpt from ‘The Song With Five Names’ by Will Wood: You can break a shovel when you break new ground / You dig dirt up when you dig deep down / You should know better than that by now / It's not profound to know that you could never know!

A blurry photograph of a dark rectangular hole in the ground, seemingly a grave. The hole is so dark the bottom of it isn’t visible. Besides the hole there is a pile of dirt.

A lyrics excerpt from ‘Hand Me My Shovel, I’m Going In!’ by Will Wood and The Tapeworms: Gotta get to the bottom of this/ Gotta get to the bottom of this / Gotta get to the bottom of this / Gotta gotta get, gotta gotta get, gotta get / Gotta get to the bottom of this / Gotta gotta get, gotta gotta get, gotta get / Gotta get to the bottom of this / Gotta gotta get, gotta gotta get, gotta get / Gotta get to the bottom of this / If it kills me

An excerpt from a wikipedia article about the law of holes: The second law of holes is commonly known as: "when you stop digging, you are still in a hole."

A photograph of a deep round hole. There’s a ladder going down into it and the bottom of the hole isn’t visible.

An excerpt from the transcript of episode 88 of The Magnus Archives: It was very strange. It was just the one word, solid capital letters in a small, neat typeface at the very centre of the page. It said ‘DIG’. I took that to be the title, and turned to the next page. ‘DIG’. Exactly the same. The third page. ‘DIG’. The fourth page. ‘DIG’. Dig, dig, dig, dig.

A lyrics excerpt from ‘Hand Me My Shovel, I’m Going In!’ by Will Wood and The Tapeworms: Looking down I could say heaven sent me / Hand me my shovel, I’m going in!

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[‘Law of Holes’ - Wikipedia, ‘The Song with Five Names, a​.​k​.​a. Soapbox Tao, a​.​k​.​a. Checkmate Atheists! a​.​k​.​a. Neospace Government, a​.​k​.​a. You Can Never Know’ - Will Wood and the Tapeworms, ‘Hand Me My Shovel, I’m Going In!’ - Will Wood and the Tapeworms, MAG 88 ‘Dig’ - The Magnus Archives]

[cachicabra]

I ordered this 1941 paper from France just for this article because I couldn't find it otherwise online. I'm using it for my Organt translation (pinned post) and uploaded for you!

Spinasse, Charles, ed. “Saint-Just Inconnu.” Le Rouge et Le Bleu. December 6, 1941, Number 6 edition.