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Episode 1: An Archives Couple of Archivists (Karen Trivette and Geof Huth)

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We’ve just published the first episode of our podcast: Karen and Geof, who will later be the hosts, talking archives. Listen below: voices of archivists

Announcing An Archivist’s Tale

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Geof Huth, "Stoen 18: In s taken" (2018) My wife Karen Trivette and I (Geof Huth) are beginning a podcast in which we will interview archivists. We hope to talk to archivists across the country, and maybe further afield, and archivists of all types, doing all kinds of work. We want to present the broad spectrum of archivists and the records they hold. We even created a prospectus that laid out our goal for the podcast ("Capture the diversity of voices in the archives profession") and our plans (about two podcasts a month, with a set of two questions we will ask everyone). We also purchased and received all of the equipment we need and have identified a hosting service. We even finished a first practice run just before I began editing this for this new blog.  Last week, we held our first planning meeting, as opposed to the various informal conversations we have held. Being archivists, we actually developed a set of metadata we would collect for each podca