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Expanding Outreach In Lean Times, Jennifer Kinniff
Expanding Outreach In Lean Times, Jennifer Kinniff
The Primary Source
With the economic downturn forcing archival repositories and special collections departments to pare down budgets and staff, institutions sometimes view outreach, publicity, and marketing as luxuries. At the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) of George Washington University's Gelman Library, we consider these activities part of our core tasks. Our mission statement declares we will "collect, preserve, and make accessible primary resources and rare or unique materials." Fulfilling this third objective requires more than just processing collections and opening the reading room, however. In our view, it requires a sustained and vigorous program of outreach through the Web, events, exhibits, and …
Archival Vaudeville: Rethinking Outreach With Collaborative Programming, Jennie Benford, Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh
Archival Vaudeville: Rethinking Outreach With Collaborative Programming, Jennie Benford, Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh
The Primary Source
When a group of archivists in Pittsburgh started meeting for happy hours, talk inevitably turned to the great things we were working on and how we wished more people knew about the archives found in our city. Comparing notes quickly turned to making plans for a public program that would allow local archivists to introduce themselves and their repositories to an audience beyond the circled wagons of our profession. In planning for this event, several decisions were made at a theoretical level that had real impact on the structure and success of the program. The loose formula created by the …
Editor's Note: Outreach And Advocacy During Economic Recession, Mona K. Vance
Editor's Note: Outreach And Advocacy During Economic Recession, Mona K. Vance
The Primary Source
Editor's introduction for The Primary Source, Vol. 28, No. 2.
Entire Issue Volume 28, Number 1
Entire Issue Volume 28, Number 1
The Primary Source
Complete issue of Vol. 28, No. 1 of The Primary Source.
Renovating The Atlanta History Center Archives: Moving People, Places And History, Emily Weaver
Renovating The Atlanta History Center Archives: Moving People, Places And History, Emily Weaver
The Primary Source
The Atlanta Historical Society was founded in 1926 when a group of fourteen civic-minded Atlantans were called together by prominent attorney, Walter McElreath, with a desire to preserve the regional history by collecting manuscripts and photographs. With this storehouse of primary source information, the group was able to provide a rich cache of materials to scholars and general researchers. As the collections continued to grow, so did the scope and vision from those original founding members. The Atlanta History Center officially formed in 1991, encompassing over thirty-three acres of land with a newly constructed state-of- the-art museum, two interpreted historic …
A Comedy Of Errors: Repository Renovation In Reality, Leigh Mcwhite
A Comedy Of Errors: Repository Renovation In Reality, Leigh Mcwhite
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The University of Mississippi in July 2004 transferred responsibility for approximately 7,000 linear feet of political and legal collections from the Law School to the Department of Archives & Special Collections. At that time, the department faced a severe shortage of available storage space for new collections. University officials recognized and quickly resolved this dilemma by designating a soon-to-be vacant Physical Plant building for off-site library storage including an entire floor (6,900 square feet) for the newly created Modern Political Archives unit (MPA). In the mean time, two full-time staff and several student workers began processing one of the large …
Green Archives: Applications Of Green Construction To Archival Facilities, Sarah Kim
Green Archives: Applications Of Green Construction To Archival Facilities, Sarah Kim
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The primary mission of archives as cultural and administrative institutions is to preserve and make available society's collective memories captured in archival materials for future generations. The development and long-term operation of archives in a sustainable manner are critical to accomplish this mission. Applying green or sustainable construction to archival facilities is one way to increase the sustainability of archives. Green construction methods provide various environmental, social and economic benefits to improve the serviceability of a building during its lifetime after the construction is completed at the site. The Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA) defines sustainable construction as …
Landing On The Right Track: Developing An Hvac System For A New Repository, Forrest W. Galey
Landing On The Right Track: Developing An Hvac System For A New Repository, Forrest W. Galey
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Years ago I sat in a crowded theater and watched the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Indy and his companions escaped from a crashing airplane by inflating a rubber raft and using it to sail out of the plane, slide down a snowy mountainside, and float down a river. The audience reveled in every stunt, save one, throughout the movie. As the main characters make an escape by charging along a roller-coaster of railroad tracks in a mining cart, the cart takes flight over a crevasse, lands on the next set of tracks perfectly, and rolls forth …
Editor's Note, Peggy Price
Editor's Note, Peggy Price
The Primary Source
Editor's introduction to The Primary Source, Vol. 28, No. 1.
Entire Issue Volume 27, Number 2
Entire Issue Volume 27, Number 2
The Primary Source
Complete issue of Vol. 27, No. 2 of The Primary Source.
Process And Product: Jump-Starting Archival Cataloging, Chatham Ewing
Process And Product: Jump-Starting Archival Cataloging, Chatham Ewing
The Primary Source
Two years ago, the University of Mississippi Department of Archives and Special Collections hired an archivist charged with moving the department's finding-aids onto the Internet. At that time, the information about our collections on the Internet was less comprehensive than the print information in the reading room. Available on the departmental web-site there were a few finding-aids that indexed important collections, subject-based lists of our holdings (designed to allow our patrons to discover brief summaries of many of our most important collections), and general departmental information. Additionally, there were several online exhibits.
Cataloging Community Cookbooks, Hans Rasmussen
Cataloging Community Cookbooks, Hans Rasmussen
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Whether issued by a public grammar school, a clapboard country church, or a starched-tablecloth ladies' volunteer society, a community cookbook belongs to a class wholly different from any other type of book in your library. Its clunky typeface, weak binding, tacky section dividers, and utterly nonsensical title pages plainly give away its proletarian origins. Of course, for the purposes of scholarship, there is nothing at all wrong with such humble beginnings. While once exiled by elitist librarians to the lowly and shameful book sale shelf hidden away in the corner, community cookbooks are now well recognized as rich sources for …
Special Collections Cataloging: Rare Books, Kathleen L. Wells
Special Collections Cataloging: Rare Books, Kathleen L. Wells
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What is a rare book? Age may be the first factor to spring to mind, but uniqueness of binding, edition (first or limited), inscriptions or annotations by authors or well-known owners, and size of print runs may cause more contemporary materials to be considered rare. While a standard AACR2 catalog record provides a general description of a book, it may obscure differences between different printings or "manifestations" of that particular work. (Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books), X.1.2) Researchers are generally more interested in the contents of a book than in the container. However, in the case of rare materials, …
Editor's Note, Peggy Price
Editor's Note, Peggy Price
The Primary Source
Editor's introduction to The Primary Source, Vol. 27, No. 2.
Entire Issue Volume 26, Number 2
Entire Issue Volume 26, Number 2
The Primary Source
Complete issue of Vol. 26, No. 2 of The Primary Source.
The Mdah Historical Map Collection On The Move: Preservation And Access, Carolyn Woodley
The Mdah Historical Map Collection On The Move: Preservation And Access, Carolyn Woodley
The Primary Source
The maps known as the MDAH Historical Map Collection came together in the 1970s as a "special collection" of largely published, monographic maps of the Southeast region and the state of Mississippi dating from the late sixteenth century through the late nineteenth century. Considered to be the most significant maps held by the department, many of these maps could be found in standard map bibliographies for America and the large group of Mississippi city and county maps by a variety of publishers and a collection of early twentieth century U.S.D.A. county soil maps for Mississippi. It is important to note …
Maps As Evidence In Maritime Boundary Disputes: Louisiana V. Mississippi, James H. Wolfe
Maps As Evidence In Maritime Boundary Disputes: Louisiana V. Mississippi, James H. Wolfe
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Below the thirty-first parallel the Pearl River is the boundary between Louisiana and Mississippi. Its estuary empties into the Mississippi Sound - an arm of the sea separating the coast of Mississippi on the north from the Louisiana shore on the south. At the turn of the century oystering was a thriving industry, and the absence of a lateral seaward boundary led to ongoing friction between the oystermen of Louisiana and Mississippi. In addition to the problem of licensing fishing boats, Mississippi law permitted dredging oyster beds, whereas Louisiana authorities imposed fines on those caught using dredges. By 1902, an …
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Of Mississippi: A List, Lynne Mueller
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Of Mississippi: A List, Lynne Mueller
The Primary Source
The following is a list of Sanborn maps for Mississippi located in the collections of the Library of Congress and Mississippi State University (boldface). Most are original maps unless marked "c" (corrected); corrected maps include both original and revised dates. Corrected maps may be photocopies or originals with paste-on corrections. Included towns may be on selected dates only.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: History, Use, Availability, Lynne Mueller
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: History, Use, Availability, Lynne Mueller
The Primary Source
Sanborn fire insurance maps are an excellent resource for anyone researching specific American communities, buildings, or industries from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. High production standards insure uniform information over time. To extract the most information, the user needs to understand the original purpose of the maps and how to interpret the visual elements. In addition, the researcher needs access to the right maps.
Letter From The Editor, Peggy M. Price
Letter From The Editor, Peggy M. Price
The Primary Source
Update from the Editor of The Primary Source.
Entire Issue Volume 26, Number 1
Entire Issue Volume 26, Number 1
The Primary Source
Complete issue of Vol. 26, No. 1 of The Primary Source.
Preservin' The South
The Primary Source
Updates on research and developments in the field of preservation.
Primary Sources Via Ebay: Building An Archival Postcard Collection, Reagan L. Grimsley
Primary Sources Via Ebay: Building An Archival Postcard Collection, Reagan L. Grimsley
The Primary Source
In 1898, Congress authorized the use of Private Mailing Cards, better known today as the postcard. At the turn of the twentieth century, a postcard craze swept the nation, and sending, receiving, and collecting postcards became a favorite pastime of Americans. Early manufacturers such as E. C. Kropp, Arthur Livingstone, and the American Souvenir Company produced a wide variety of cards featuring a broad range of people, places, and events. Although designed to serve as a means of communication between parties, many of these cards were based on original photographs, and serve to document the culture and history of locales …
Curating The Papers Of Best-Selling Authors: A Preliminary Case Study Of The John Grisham Papers, Mattie Sink
Curating The Papers Of Best-Selling Authors: A Preliminary Case Study Of The John Grisham Papers, Mattie Sink
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In 1989, Mississippi State University (MSU) acquired the papers of alumnus, lawyer and Mississippi State legislator John Grisham, who was at the time selling his first novel A Time to Kill out of the trunk of his car. Though the first accession of papers was small, consisting of the early papers of Grisham's legislative career, the acquisition was an exciting one. Mississippi State University has long exhibited pride in its alumni, and the MSU Library's collection of papers reflected that pride and connection. Although University President Don Zacharias and Library Directory George Lewis certainly had high hopes for Grisham's writing …
Murder With Southern Hospitality: An Exhibition Of Mississippi Mysteries, Jennifer Ford
Murder With Southern Hospitality: An Exhibition Of Mississippi Mysteries, Jennifer Ford
The Primary Source
In the process of gathering the papers of many of Mississippi's distinguished authors, Dr. Thomas Verich, then Head of Special Collections, noted a missing piece in the literary collections of the department in the early 1990s. Working with then Curator of Mississippi Collections, Debbie Lee Landi, Dr. Verich observed the burgeoning output of murder mystery fiction written by Mississippians. Dr. Verich and Ms. Landi approached University of Mississippi alumnus and award winning mystery author Julie Smith. She generously donated her papers and thus began the core of a new collecting interest of the department. The papers of Nevada Barr followed …
The Ten Most Basic Things I Can Tell You About Processing Literary Papers, Hans Rasmussen
The Ten Most Basic Things I Can Tell You About Processing Literary Papers, Hans Rasmussen
The Primary Source
These little gems of knowledge that I gained over a couple of years spent exclusively processing literary archives got me through some pretty rough roads. While the basic archival principles I learned in school still applied, I nonetheless perceived some unique qualities in authors' papers that required the adoption of special methods. So, in the spirit of state archival camaraderie, I'd like to share the ten most useful things I learned about processing literary papers for the benefit of those who haven't had to deal with them yet.
Entire Issue Volume 25, Number 2
Entire Issue Volume 25, Number 2
The Primary Source
Complete issue of Vol. 25, No. 2 of The Primary Source.
Preservin' The South
The Primary Source
Updates on new research and developments in the field of preservation.