The Kitchen Sisters

Josh Shepperd, Director of the Radio Preservation Task Force at the Library of Congress called The Keeper Hotline to tell us about this incredible undertaking. "Radio history is pretty endangered and it turns out to be...

Earlier this week, the San Francisco Public Works’s Bureau of Urban Forestry honored poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti with their annual signature tree. Lawrence, who turns 100 on March 24, is being feted all over town. We...

A call from The Keepers Hotline. "Hi guys, my name is Steve Gainer. I am a cinematographer and curator of the American Society of Cinematographers Camera Museum in Los Angeles. Our collection is probably the most...

Listener RJ Ramey called The Keepers Hotline to tell us about Monroe Work (1866-1945), who was hired by Book Washington as Director of Research and Records at Tuskegee Institute and worked to document every known...

#KeeperoftheDay - Le Musée de f.p.c. "We just started collecting slowly, not intentionally and we wake up 30 years later and we have this beautiful collection…” Listen to Beverly McKenna, who co-founded McKenna Museums...

#KeeperoftheDay for Valentine's Day - The Kay Johnson Public Library in Valentine, Texas. Listen to this story produced by Andrea Gutierrez for the Transom Traveling Workshop in Marfa, Texas about Valentine librarian...

#KeeperoftheDay - Mrs. Conti’s Florist Shop Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero talks about his childhood library in North Beverly, Massachusetts, located in the neighborhood florist shop. Do you have an idea...

#KeeperoftheDay - Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives at Oregon State University Tiah Edmunson-Morton called The Keeper Hotline to tell us about the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives, the first of its kind in the nation...

"My favorite person, my hero, is a clerk in the State Department named Stephen Pleasonton. Who, the night before the British burned the town and the Capitol in the War of 1812, realized that the charters were at risk...

"FDR I’m convinced was a closet archivist himself. He called the Archives his baby. He designed a box to house his papers which is the prototype of the boxes we use now at the National Archives. From the very beginning...

DJ Spooky aka Paul D. Miller aka That Subliminal Kid is a composer, a multimedia artist, a writer, a keeper, an “exchanger” who takes on big environmental and social issues in his work. We are huge fans of his music and...

We talked with Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus about the group’s upcoming performance of DJ Spooky’s Quantopia: The Evolution of the Internet, a multimedia hip hop concert...

We interviewed writer Eliza McGraw for The Keepers podcast episode, the Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky. She told us about other keepers in her life, including her Uncle Bill who "compulsively does dairy...

Zora Neale Hurston January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960 Keeper of Culture, Zora Neale Hurston, was an anthropologist and the author four novels, including Their Eyes were Watching God (1937) and more than 50 published...

“Every story matters. The challenge is getting that story to the historical record. Simply putting it into the archive is maybe not enough.” -Doug Boyd, Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the...