{"id":2779,"date":"2021-10-15T18:56:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T18:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmcldev.wpengine.com\/mcgovern\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2025-05-16T14:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:25:35","slug":"happy-archives-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2021\/10\/15\/happy-archives-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Archives Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"document\" aria-label=\"Paragraph block\" data-block=\"d9ae8101-068c-4e41-9b33-9dfcc726e06e\" data-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-title=\"Paragraph\" data-empty=\"false\"><strong>by Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"block-d9ae8101-068c-4e41-9b33-9dfcc726e06e\" class=\"block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text\" role=\"document\" aria-label=\"Paragraph block\" data-block=\"d9ae8101-068c-4e41-9b33-9dfcc726e06e\" data-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-title=\"Paragraph\" data-empty=\"false\">Did you know that October is American Archives Month? On top of that, it&#8217;s also National Medical Librarians Month!<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-d993edbd-b952-4a9e-87e8-c65db7c2c6e8\" class=\"block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-paragraph rich-text\" role=\"document\" aria-label=\"Paragraph block\" data-block=\"d993edbd-b952-4a9e-87e8-c65db7c2c6e8\" data-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-title=\"Paragraph\" data-empty=\"false\">On October 13, the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/\">McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center<\/a> joined the larger archives community on Twitter in celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AskAnArchivist\">#AskAnArchivist<\/a> Day. We also took to the streets&#8211;ok, maybe it was the main TMC Library&#8211;to spread the good word and invite folks to #AskAnArchivist their questions in person.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"block-e5c0c579-15b0-4071-8690-55154b431d64\" class=\"block-editor-block-list__block wp-block size-large wp-block-image\" role=\"document\" aria-label=\"Block: Image\" data-block=\"e5c0c579-15b0-4071-8690-55154b431d64\" data-type=\"core\/image\" data-title=\"Image\">\n<div class=\"components-resizable-box__container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mcgovernhrc.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/mattonthetwitterattmclibrary.png?w=898\" alt=\"TMC Library Archivists invite #AskAnArhivist questions online and in real life.\" width=\"898\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"components-drop-zone\" data-is-drop-zone=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">To connect archives to today&#8217;s experiences, we thought current medical students (and librarians!) might be interested in getting a glimpse into how their predecessors lived and studied. That&#8217;s why, for our in-person event at the TMC Library, we brought along yearbooks from the <\/span><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/archives.library.tmc.edu\/ic-008\">University of Texas Medical School Records<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> and the <\/span><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/archives.library.tmc.edu\/ic-006\">Baylor College of Medicine Records<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">. We also featured a 1918 Yearbook for the Baptist Sanitarium and Hospital Training School for Nurses from the <\/span><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/archives.library.tmc.edu\/ms-181\">Leta Denham, RN Papers<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"block-4c104d02-3379-4d74-8019-a140bb2218eb\" class=\"block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block is-multi-selected wp-block-paragraph rich-text\" role=\"document\" aria-label=\"Paragraph block\" data-block=\"4c104d02-3379-4d74-8019-a140bb2218eb\" data-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-title=\"Paragraph\" data-empty=\"false\">The McGovern Historical Center preserves materials in a variety of formats and covering a wide range of medical history beyond these twentieth century paper records. To that end, we brought along a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mhc-av-tmc-history\">highlight reel of digitized audiovisual materials<\/a>, as well as our six-foot <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu\/anatomicaltexts\/1\/\">Andreas Vesalius<\/a> reproduction.<\/p>\n<p role=\"document\" aria-label=\"Paragraph block\" data-block=\"4c104d02-3379-4d74-8019-a140bb2218eb\" data-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-title=\"Paragraph\" data-empty=\"false\">Of course, we&#8217;re happy to take your questions anytime, and we have lots of options for connecting with us. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/contact-us\/\">contact us<\/a> to ask a question or <a href=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/research-assistance\/\">schedule a research appointment<\/a>. Maybe you&#8217;re interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/contribute\">contributing to the archives<\/a> by donating historical materials or through financial support. And we certainly wouldn&#8217;t mind if you wanted to follow @McGovernHRC on our blog <a href=\"https:\/\/mcgovernhrc.wordpress.com\/\">The Black Bag<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McGovernHRC\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mcgovernHRC\/\">Facebook<\/a>, and our newly-launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mcgovernhrc\">Instagram<\/a> account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Matt Richardson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Did you know that October is American Archives Month? On top of that, it&#8217;s also National Medical Librarians Month! On October 13, the McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center joined the larger archives community on Twitter in celebration of #AskAnArchivist Day. 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