Archives in the Great PNW

For Module 6’s ethical dilemma assignment, I chose to examine the first option, where, as an archivist, I have received a collection of papers from a prominent individual, who already has a substantial amount of their documents housed in another archive. The challenge I face in this situation involves adhering to the Society of American Archivists' (SAA) Code of Ethics and deciding whether to accept the donation of these papers into my archive. In making this decision, I will consider how it serves the best interests of users and how separating an individual's papers might negatively impact the historical record. There is no clear right or wrong answer to this dilemma. In the SAA’s Code of Ethics, there is no explicit solution to this specific situation. However, the Code does provide guiding ethical principles of how this situation should be approached. These stated responsibilities include that archivists are to preserve the integrity and context of archival materials , act w...

Link to History timeline.  It was quite fun to research and build this assignment using this software. I learned about the history of some of my beloved childhood video game consoles. As a child, one of my favorite things to read was Video Games Magazine and learn about the release dates of upcoming video games, their reviews, and hardware specifications of the home consoles. Despite my best efforts to learn everything about my favorite video games and their parent companies, I had to rely upon the magazine's monthly issues to satisfy my thirst for this knowledge.  I know now that I was only able to learn a fraction of the history of these consoles from reading those magazines. One of the reasons I chose to use this theme for my timeline was that I read that another student had already made a Nintendo home console timeline. The proverbial fires of the console wars of my youth were stoked, and I had to prepare a response. Throughout my youth, I had friends who had some strong ...