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A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience researching a missing painting in Trois-Rivières, Québec for her book "Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834" and finding serendipitous information for a future book in the archival materials.

In this article the author provides suggestions to fellow graduate students and archival researchers on ways to control hunger and find affordable meals while traveling for research purposes. She recommends packing a lunch in order to save money and maximize archival research time, suggests staying at hotels that provide a small kitchen for preparing food for dinner, and urges individuals to not be afraid to eat in restaurants alone.

The article considers the archives. Archives are a cite of pilgrimage to historians, but they could be improved. The author offers suggestions. Among the suggestions for improved archives: institute long hours, give grants, large or small, install incandescent lighting, make sure to have good security, allow credit cards for the photocopying fees, have Wi-Fi access available to all, provide comfortable chairs, create inviting ambience, and offer creative programming. The author praises archives that feature each of these amenities.

The article discusses reactions by design scholars to a decision by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City to move parts of its archival collection from Fifth Avenue to other branches of its parent, the Smithsonian Institution. Design scholars count on access to historical material kept in one place. These scholars argue that the museum offers the advantage of relating objects in the museum to documents, photographs and other archival materials. Some design professionals noted that a reallocation of museum space may mean a rethinking of the institution's mission.

The article offers information on the October 2014 conference "Failure in the Archives" at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at University College London in London, England. Topics include a keynote address by historian Natalie Zemon Davis, a talk by historian Arnold Hunt on the categorization of archives as an impediment to research, and the role of archivists in aiding researchers.

The article focuses on the Cuba Archive project which aims to document the loss of life attributable to revolutionary zealotry in Cuba from May 1952 to 2005.

Focuses on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) digital archives, known as DSpace. Scholarly works, including unpublished work in all disciplines; Comments of Ann Wolpert, director of MIT Libraries; Estimation of how many times the free software has been downloaded; Criticism of institutional repositories by some scholars; How some scientists have started their own archives; Examples of offerings from DSpace.