Museum - Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives, Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C

The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives has posted an RFQ for two contracts for a small-ish mass digitization project (mixed papers). For the RFQ documents, please see: https://folklife.si.edu/jobs

From our colleague Nichole Procopenko and her personal archival response to the fires in California.

I'm working on checking images and their metadata from this year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival. I've been struck by the performances of Circus Juventas who did a re-envisioned Alice in Wonderland. In order to identify as many names as I could so that I could tag more people, I watched some videos of them, including this one. It's an interesting view of their participation in the Festival from their perspective. Stephanie Smith, Archives Director

Dear Friends, I’m writing to spread the word about the 2018 Rinzler Archives Summer Internship at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The selected applicant will receive a $300 weekly stipend during the full-time, ten-week internship. The deadline to apply is February 28, 2018. The pertinent information can be found here: https://folklife.si.edu//apply-now-for-rinzler-archives-su Please feel free to share this widely and let me know what additional q...uestions or comments you have. Best regards, Greg C. Adams Assistant Archivist, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution 600 Maryland Ave. S.W., Suite 2001 Washington, DC 20024

Digitization of the LP covers in the Alma Mater Recording Co. audio recordings is almost complete! This collection contains audio recordings made by Alma Mater Recording Company, featuring camp, folk, pop and broadway songs recorded between 1959-1986 at various summer camps and schools in New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Ohio, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and North Carolina. It provides a nostalgic, #TBT - appropriate glimpse into the summer camp culture of the time, and happens to include some pretty CAMP-y record covers. These covers will soon be available in their entirety as a digital collection through the collection's SOVA finding aid, located here: http://sova.si.edu/record/CFCH.ALMA . Is your camp on the list?