Eastern Michigan University Archives

Where in the world will you find the Aerie next?!?

Any guesses on where we are for the next three days?

This is .aldanondo. For the last two semesters, senior and soon-to-be Preservation Studies graduate student Olivia has been documenting the experiences of Lincoln Consolidated Schools alums. We’ve gotten such a vivid picture of Ypsilanti proper via our Roosevelt Oral History Project, but we need those vital, rural voices of LCS too! Olivia has traveled to homes, senior centers and one room schoolhouses to conduct these interviews with alums, teachers, custodians, and community members, and last week, she got the chance to showcase the project to EMU heavyweights at the Emerald Celebration! We love it when students take initiative to not only DO the work, but to TALK ABOUT THE WORK too!!
Self-advocacy is high on our priority list here in the Archives and COHR, and Olivia is crushing it.

You’re all officially invited! 🎉
The GHPR 633 Museum Experience Development class is proud to present the exhibit they’ve worked hard to curate: “Here’s to Roosevelt High – The Story of the Rough Riders.” Created in collaboration with the Eastern Michigan University Archives.

Opening Day: April 21 at 4 PM
Halle Library
955 West Circle Drive, Ypsilanti, MI 48197

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out.
We look forward to seeing you there!

It has been an awesome week hosting two alt-spring break students from Wayne State’s School of Information Sciences. Sydney has been busy processing some of our smaller collections and digitizing. Amanda has been sitting in on oral history interviews and learning back end processing.

This is our mission in action! Quality hands on learning opportunities, ethical stewardship and access. Thanks to for sharing two of your best and brightest.

It was a touch and go negotiation amongst archives staff, but we finally ordered our new EMU Aerie jerseys, as modeled by grad student and director . We’ve always figuratively worn our values on our sleeves at COHR and University Archives, but now we literally do. Our motto, People Not Projects, reflects our commitment to emphasize trust over output stats.

When you see one of these jerseys in public this Spring, consider it your invitation to make history with us!

This winter, Matt Jones' oral history class is going where no documentation team has gone before: UAW Local 1975—The formation of the EMU Clerical Union. STUDENTS—SIGN UP!

No one knows your secrets like clericals.

The backbone of our program! Major props to .hac and for presenting to a rapt audience at the OHA annual meeting. It wasn’t that long ago that was presenting at his first conference as a grad student either and he killed it asking some really hard and really important questions.

I am so very proud of the work that we do and being able to see these humans go out and so their thing is a gift.

Bravissimo!

Hey HIST490W students—we are ready for you!

📝📝See you tomorrow 📝📝

💚Happy homecoming 💚

If you are out today come on over and say hello to the archives crew. Here and ready to listen to your stories.

Don’t forget … we all have a story to tell.