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Episode 124: The Exciting Career Trajectory of Danielle' McGhee Mar 29, 2026

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Episode 123: It Had to Be Remote (Karen Trivette and Geof Huth) Feb 21, 2021

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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 planned for this year.

Episode 122: The Myth of Self-Reliance (Natalie Baur) Oct 10, 2020

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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 for hire continuing to work in a global pandemic.

Episode 121: Max Meyer: Recollections of a Foreign-Born Citizen (Lourdes Font) Oct 03, 2020

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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 Meyer, a principal at Abraham Beller and Company, a New York City-based women's cloak and suit manufacturer, and examine how archival materials helped tell his story.

Episode 120: 2X2: Accounts Payable at a Masonry Company: Why Are They Letting Me Touch This Stuff? (Molly Tighe and Matt Strauss ) Sep 19, 2020

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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 worldwide pandemic.

The Archival Enterprise (to David B. Gracy II) Aug 22, 2020

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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) Jun 10, 2020

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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 biologists, how she, as a lone archivist, manages an organization with facilities in multiple countries, and how records of science can enchant the mind.

Episode 118: Healing Deep Wounds: Enlightening People about the Past and the Present (Saad Eskander) May 31, 2020

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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 records taken by the US government and even journalists, and he explains how archives can show us a way to the truth and toward a better and more just world.

Episode 117: The Box Has Meaning (Karen Trivette and Geof Huth) May 27, 2020

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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 about their operations and how they might change when they return to work.

Episode 116: Archives is Trending (Rosemary Pleva Flynn) May 10, 2020

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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 dictionary for archivists, explains how entries are created, and details the rich features of the dictionary. Find DAT at dictionary.archivists.org.

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