tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post965935373153371103..comments2024-03-09T03:20:20.004-05:00Comments on Tenured Radical: On The Road: Radical Research Tips For Historians And Other PeopleTenured Radicalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-87122725705243328932012-06-22T10:43:15.002-05:002012-06-22T10:43:15.002-05:00I commend anyone who actually read this article th...I commend anyone who actually read this article this happysports handicapping serviceshttp://www.priceperheadcostarica.com/betting-software-services/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-44104700837894926342012-04-27T21:09:54.292-05:002012-04-27T21:09:54.292-05:00I think you giving great advice for playwrights st...I think you giving great advice for playwrights staring out.Very nicely described your thoughts here.I like to read more about this.price per headhttp://www.priceperheadcostarica.com/betting-software-services/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-23071390178140227082012-04-06T04:18:40.841-05:002012-04-06T04:18:40.841-05:00Thanks for sharing helpful information, I really l...Thanks for sharing helpful information, I really like your all post. I will bookmark your blog for future updates.Children Logohttp://www.logodesignuniverse.com/22/children-logo.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-63621724519992553952012-03-09T06:09:02.606-05:002012-03-09T06:09:02.606-05:00Thanks. We believe in sharing obviously.
Strategic...Thanks. We believe in sharing obviously.<br /><a href="http://www.ebrandster.com" title="Strategic Digital Marketing Agency" rel="nofollow">Strategic Digital Marketing Agency</a>Fabian Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00594010049394007844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-86378511031102882082011-03-09T00:55:11.764-05:002011-03-09T00:55:11.764-05:00At Zenith there are various funds you apply to tha...At Zenith there are various funds you apply to that are set aside for faculty research and conference going: so technically, it is on top of your salary but it isn't income.Tenured Radicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-45415523317029925882011-03-08T15:34:00.486-05:002011-03-08T15:34:00.486-05:00I'm genuinely curious - for those of you who g...I'm genuinely curious - for those of you who get actual "research funds" from your institution, what are they? Are they a guaranteed annual salary top-up dependent on doing archival research? Are they usually negotiated as part of a hire? Are they funds that are earmarked at the department level for individuals, or at a higher level for departments? <br /><br />I'm at a large state wannabe-R1 university, but barely have conference support any more let alone research support. That, combined with a seriously compressed salary, is making me consider the job market. (I work in the early modern period, and may end up in the position of not being able to do the research I need to do for my second book project!) I would really like to know what other salary paradigms are out there, in case I should ever be entertaining an offer. If any of you care to share what kinds of research funding deals are possible, it would be very useful information (and perhaps for other job-seeking readers too). Thanks!LouMacnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-1420166064352225162011-03-08T12:35:41.532-05:002011-03-08T12:35:41.532-05:00I was going to write a comment here on your resear...I was going to write a comment here on your research-tips question, but it got long enough that I decided to write it up as as a <a href="http://cliotropic.org/blog/2011/03/digital-research-methods-roundup/" rel="nofollow">separate blog post</a>. Check there for links to several useful articles about digital-camera work, backup, making your sources searchable, and building databases for historians.Shane Landrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09431323570161284017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-56748013196230240412011-03-08T09:23:45.827-05:002011-03-08T09:23:45.827-05:00When doing research overseas, remember to check th...When doing research overseas, remember to check the academic calendar and the library schedules of the countries you are going to visit. For example, the National Library in Hungary is closed for four weeks in August. Other archives and libraries in the country are closed at different points in the summer. (Librarians and Archivists need vacations too!)Matt_Lnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-52754095175389512222011-03-08T07:00:37.132-05:002011-03-08T07:00:37.132-05:00Could you please check your spam folder? A commen...Could you please check your spam folder? A comment I just submitted did not make it through, nor did one I submitted on Saturday. I'll post the former at my own blog, in case it doesn't make it through here.<br /><br />Thanks!MKhttp://nixonara.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-2498108888700714832011-03-08T06:54:29.393-05:002011-03-08T06:54:29.393-05:00Useful tips, good that you posted them. A couple ...Useful tips, good that you posted them. A couple of clarifying points on what you can expect to find in presindetial records.<br /><br />The Supreme Court upheld a concept of “private political association” in cases involving the post-Watergate presidential records laws. As a result, purely political material doesn’t even make it into NARA custody at the libraries. It’s supposed to be screened out in the White House. <br /><br />Some aides who do a lot of political work have two separate computers or BlackBerries. Karl Rove, who headed the WH political office during GWB’s term, said he used his RNC account to do purely political work out of the White House and a government email account to do his policy related work. (The issue is similar to that which came up during the Clinton administration with Al Gore’s fundraising calls.) We’ll never know what went out under Rove’s GWB43 RNC email account, however. PRA administered libraries can contain some purely political material, as individuals can choose to donate their “personal files” to such libraries under deed of gift. (This is how the pre-Nixon libraries obtained all their materials.)<br /><br />In PRA records that cover governmental matters, the courts have affirmed a presumption that confidentiality erodes over time and that some deliberative information can be released within a few years of a President leaving office. (National security classified information may stay restricted for much longer.) The PRA specifically states that archivists are required to apply the P-5 deliberative information restriction only for 12 years, which is a relatively short time period. However, the former president may himself claim “communications privilege” over matters in which he himself was involved and request that NARA not release information that its archivists had marked as disclosable. Right now, the Archivist can overrule him, the theory being that a non-governmental person (a former president or vice president) cannot direct the work of a current governmental official. (See Public Citizen v. Burke.)<br /><br />NARA faces a huge processing bottleneck because of FOIA. We at NARA’s Nixon Presidential Materials Project could do systematic processing – that is, decide which files might have the highest potential researcher interest and work on them first. That most of the Nixon Project's archivists had graduate degrees in history helped in making such determinations. However, archivists at the Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush II libraries have to work through through material in researcher-requested FOIA queues. NARA does differentiate between what it calls complex and simple queues. Working through FOIA requests (or mandatory review requests) for national security classified takes up a lot of time, as NARA official David Mengel describes in <a href="http://www.archivists.org/publications/proceedings/accesstoarchives/07_David_MENGEL.pdf" rel="nofollow"> an article </a> from 2007.<br /><br />Unclassified material, which would include many files relating to domestic policy issues, is a little easier to process because it doesn’t require equity holder coordination, as classified does. (Mengel’s article describes equity holder coordination.) Archivists still would have to consider privacy and other statutory restrictions (Social Security Numbers, medical information, grand jury information, certain law enforcement and business information, etc.) As Mengel notes, “Compounding the complexities of review is the issue of workload. Almost immediately after the records become subject to the FOIA, the PRA libraries are inundated with requests. This has led to extensive backlogs that will take years to overcome.”<br /><br />Shorter version: (1) the post=Watergate presidential records law doesn’t require government to preserve the purely political, at all; (2) in governmental records, confidentiality erodes over time; (3) FOIA processing has nearly overwhelmed the post-Carter libraries due to lack of resources. (With budgets cuts looming, ths won’t get any better.)MKhttp://nixonara.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-34157530166721310302011-03-07T20:11:00.812-05:002011-03-07T20:11:00.812-05:00Great post, TR. The British Library manuscript roo...Great post, TR. The British Library manuscript room regularly fills up in summer, and so, sometimes, does The rare book room (which these days is just a quieter general reading room). it's best to arrive early with the fanatics like me, who wait in the rain or smog until the doors open.<br /><br />Thanks to all for digital camera advice. My BlackBerry has done surprisingly well but it's time to upgrade.anthony graftonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05588520143876853373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-15722433787623519542011-03-07T10:40:36.528-05:002011-03-07T10:40:36.528-05:00Thanks for all this info. I'd love to hear mor...Thanks for all this info. I'd love to hear more (when you have a moment) about how you back up images and inventory them. I now have 1000s of images for my dissertation and while I've cataloged them, they still overwhelm me.<br /><br />NARA I and II (DC and College Park) have somewhat but not totally similar policies and procedures. For example, just because they've inventoried your computer and camera at one doesn't mean the same pass can be used at the other. Also exit procedures vary slightly. But one great thing about NARA is that you can designate a "research team" which in practice means that you can send a friend (a very very nice friend) in the area to put in pull slips ahead of time. This is especially great if you are, say, arriving on Friday night and want to take advantage of their Saturday hours since they don't do any Sat pulls. This is also good because the archivists won't pull anything ahead of time and few of the finding aids are available electronically.Shellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-89786619881752833382011-03-07T00:24:46.015-05:002011-03-07T00:24:46.015-05:00Call ahead....I learned this the hard way just sta...Call ahead....I learned this the hard way just starting out. Went all the way to Dublin (from Paris, but still) to see my research subject's landscape drawings, and the ENTIRE PRINT DEPARTMENT WAS CLOSED FOR A MONTH. Ouch.Lisa Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03887789118271809920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-70363608798631571342011-03-07T00:05:04.499-05:002011-03-07T00:05:04.499-05:00Great post! Wish I read it three years ago, but n...Great post! Wish I read it three years ago, but now I can commiserate. <br /><br />I completely echo the calling ahead. When the Bancroft Library was getting renovated, seating was at a premium (lines in the morning) and the material could take a couple of days to get there. I actually did not eat lunch one day because I didn't want to lose my seat and there were people waiting.<br /><br />I keep a separate database with all the intricacies of a particular archive. Every single one is so different (e.g. loose leaf paper only for notes, their paper for notes, etc.).RLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-56675896314981176442011-03-06T23:10:52.912-05:002011-03-06T23:10:52.912-05:00My advice on digital cameras is to get a good digi...My advice on digital cameras is to get a good digital SLR (DSLR), or its near neighbor, a micro 4:3 camera. Why? Because of the battery life. A DLSR doesn't draw much battery power except when it is actually taking a picture, while other digital cameras use a lot of battery power showing you what is on the sensor.<br /><br />When I had a Nikon Coolpix 5700 (non-DSLR), I had to take two fully-charged batteries to ensure that I could take pictures all day without running out of power. With my Nikon D70 DSLR, I could go a week without recharging. The camera was huge (relatively speaking) and awkward, but if I was already carrying a laptop, a sandwich, a water bottle, and a novel or two, it wasn't that much more. And the archival images it gave me were priceless.<br /><br />BTW, don't be misled by megapixels, neat features, etc. What you want to know, as a historian in the archives with a digital camera, is this: (1) are the images OK, and (2) how long will this battery last.Brian W. Ogilviehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05045133494402037781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-10443186382362083992011-03-06T22:46:02.392-05:002011-03-06T22:46:02.392-05:00While in SoCal check out the Food Truck extravagan...While in SoCal check out the Food Truck extravaganza at the California Heritage Museum (Tuesday nights)<br />http://web.mac.com/calmuseum/Site/Home.html<br />And the Blue Plate Oysterette in Santa Monica. I don't know if they'll improve research productivity but you'll like 'em.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-68446633531327127622011-03-06T18:00:03.339-05:002011-03-06T18:00:03.339-05:00In the UK, local record offices often fill up, and...In the UK, local record offices often fill up, and have reservation policies. (Where I did my diss research, they instituted a reservation policy, and you had to show up by a certain time to get a desk.) It's incredibly important to call ahead with smaller collections. And I'd second thefrogprincess on a good digital camera: particularly for older manuscript sources, it will help deal with stained paper or parchment, faded ink, etc. The higher the resolution the better.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-66547329731650696012011-03-06T17:22:45.838-05:002011-03-06T17:22:45.838-05:00An excellent post--thank you! I must admit I have...An excellent post--thank you! I must admit I have shown up at archives only to find there wasn't a seat for me, even though I called ahead. Once a friggin' bus full of researchers showed up at the Bancroft Library special collections in Berkeley just minutes before I arrived. After about an hour, I did find a seat, but tick tock tick tock, you know? <br /><br />Also: the Library of Congress rare book reading room is pretty damn small relative to the number of researchers who seemed to want to use it; seats often seemed to be at a premium there.<br /><br />My tip for saving research $$$: I stick as much as possible to research available at archives that are a cheap plane ticket away, and if I can stay with family or friends, all the better. For example, I visit family in Southern California regularly, so I've developed a research agenda that I can advance during a day or two in different archives on each trip.Leslie M-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02434392840359276805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-31365790869923286442011-03-06T17:22:32.512-05:002011-03-06T17:22:32.512-05:00And extremely informative for those of us who this...And extremely informative for those of us who this morning started to draft our first requests for research funding. Thanks very much!EMRhttp://worthlessdrivel.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-16106293698117974862011-03-06T17:22:22.377-05:002011-03-06T17:22:22.377-05:00Actually I'd say that the best research invest...Actually I'd say that the best research investment is a high-quality digital camera. A cheap digital is fine, until you realize once you're back home that the handwriting at the top and bottom of a really large folio isn't quite as clear as you thought it was. Certainly, you should check that day, but in reality, especially if you're on a long research trip, you might not end up spending every single night carefully verifying that you can read every single word of several hundred images. My cheap digital camera broke in the middle of a six-month research trip (after years of good service) and I sprung for a pricier model and never regretted it. The difference in clarity was immense.thefrogprincesshttp://thefrogprincess.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-64805063192102671612011-03-06T16:40:50.090-05:002011-03-06T16:40:50.090-05:00Great poste, TR! This is extremely informative for...Great poste, TR! This is extremely informative for those of us who are not historians to get a sense for what your research activities are like operationally.Comrade PhysioProfhttp://physioprof.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com