The Nomadic Archive Project is up!!!

We have started a parallel blog to the RMP blog called the Nomadic Archive Project. The purpose of the project is for participants to visit any archival/library/information center and to report on it from an ethnographic perspective. Fields are provided to fill in information such as "Date of Construction", "Architectural Style" and "Historical Summary". The last field is provided for commentary on issues such as the relationship between an older structure and an addition, and the relationship between the age of the structure and the social make up of its patronage.

The Project Description reads as follows-

Where is the space of the archive? Is it in a physical space like a local library or rather an intangible collection of digital data on a server somewhere? This project seeks to recapture and reconceptualize the archive-in-place through an architectural/ethnographic analysis. Participants are encouraged to visit and document everything from local historical societies to official presidential libraries to large university archives and report on the particular cultural space that the institution occupies through brief ethnographic encounters. A series of questions have been provided to serve as a guide but participants are encouraged to expand on their observations as much as possible.
The only two rules are that posts must include at least one exterior photograph taken by the author and participants must actually go to the location that is being profiled (otherwise it wouldn't exactly count as an ethnography right?)