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Adventure Awaits!

At Talley Your Adventure, we don’t just plan luxury and culturally rich travel experiences—we live and breathe them. Our blog, travelingtalleys.blog, is where we share the real stories behind our adventures: kayaking alongside glaciers in Alaska, exploring temples in Japan, chasing waterfalls in Iceland, and wandering through storybook towns in Germany. If it’s unforgettable, chances are we’ve done it—or we’re planning it next.

Nicolette brings deep experience in travel and heritage. With a Master’s in Public History, she’s worked as a Supervisory Park Ranger, Revenue Manager, and Program Analyst across multiple national parks for over a decade. Her career has taken her from managing interpretive boat tours in Alaska’s wild backcountry to overseeing large-scale visitor service projects with million-dollar budgets. And yes—she’s also a licensed 100-Ton Inland Master Boat Captain who’s led cultural and ecological tours from riverboats to remote beaches.

Clinton’s travel roots run just as deep. He’s worked in logistics and operations for the National Park Service and was a key member of the hospitality team aboard National Geographic Lindblad Expeditions. From managing guest services on remote international voyages to coordinating facility software systems stateside, he knows what it takes to deliver seamless, high-end travel experiences—even in the most unpredictable places.

Together, we created Talley Your Adventure to bring our experience, passion, and attention to detail to your travel planning. Whether it’s a fully curated group trip or a personalized vacation built just for you, we combine expert-level service with insider know-how—so you can focus on the magic of the journey.

Want us to help you on your next adventure? Head over to www.talleyyouradventure.com!

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Sakura Blooms – Inuyama, Japan

FOIA, Born-Digital Collections, and Cross-Training with Archivists

0765_born_digital_sepia_w1Hello Bloggers! The first month of school is over and everything is going great! Starting on the process of creating a best practices/workflow for BitCurator, and almost finished with my process paper so that I am able to set a thesis defense date!

Additionally, at the Clinton Library, I was able to hang out with the archivists again this semester in the first of a few cross-training meetings! Basically, for half a day once a month, I go up to the archives and learn the process of being an archivists. Any person in the museum world can do this, just the same as someone from archives being able to come down to the museum and learn a few things.

The best part is that I asked to work with the born-digital archivists. It is very exciting and interested. I worked with Adam, who is mainly responsible for the born-digital files that are sent as a request through the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. There are a few different ways to search for information, which are all of course online. However, before that information can be viewed by the public, the archivists need to edit, or redact, certain private information. Even though we as the American public have a right under FOIA to view information about Bill and Hillary Clinton, it still doesn’t mean that we have a right to view their personal emails where they discuss where to go to dinner. This is where the archivists come in – with redaction’s. They black out information that is either personal to the person or detrimental to the nations security and allow the records to become public. Because there is such a back log of FOIA requests, sometimes it can take a year for a request to even look at records.

The first step in the overall process is the request. Lets say that I send in a FOIA request to research information on Bill Clinton’s political trip to Israel. The archivists are given the request, and they do a general search in order to find if there is actually any relevant information. So, if the request for Clinton’s trip to Israel revealed 18,000 hits, that information is recorded. Since the archivist is already going through a different collection, the request is shelved behind the other requests. Time goes by, and finally the request to search for Clinton’s political trip to Israel is now ready to be processed. The archivist who did that initial search with 18,000 hits now takes the files, PRINTS THEM OFF, and edits them by hand on pieces of paper. Crazy! It’s amazing to me that a born-digital collection at its core is edited by hand on paper – not digitally. These files are then allowed to be viewed for the general public, and I am alerted that the processing is completed because I was the initial requester.

It’s been really cool to be able to shadow and cross-train with the archivists! I love learning this stuff – and hope to continue to update you on the great stuff I am learning along the way!

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