An announcement from our Collections Manager
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| Matt Francis |
Welcome to a very special edition of the
"New/Updated Finding Aids" emails. While we are continuing to crank out
new finding aids, I want to take a moment to highlight six recent
finding aids that all involve "something new" for our Special
Collections Library.
Finding Aid for a Hybrid Collection (analog and born-digital):
As
everyone is already aware we are beginning to receive more and more
born-digital records along with traditional analog materials. With this
in mind we have recently published a finding aid that arranges and
describes analog materials along
with web-captured and fixed media born-digital records. All of the
materials are intellectually integrated together, so for example there
is a publication series that contains digital and analog materials, as
opposed to creating separate analog and born-digital series which would
both contain publications. I am hoping that this finding aid will serve
as a useful example for future hybrid collection work.
PSUA 8428 Pennsylvania College of Technology records - Located
in Williamsport, Pennsylvania College of Technology (Penn College) is a
special mission affiliate of The Pennsylvania State University,
providing applied technology education. Penn College became an affiliate
of the university in 1989, after establishing a national reputation for
education supporting workforce development, first as a technical
institute and later as a community college.
Directly linking from inventory description to digital surrogates:
Somewhat
related to the above finding aid, we have republished the Thomas Benson
papers finding aid so that it not only contains description for 30
linear feet of new materials, but also provides direct links to
digitized materials from the inventory. These links should increase use
of materials (via remote users), help preserve the original items, and
save on staff retrieval time. I am hoping that as we increase our
project digitization work that we will begin producing more finding aids
such as this.
PSUA 6352 Thomas Benson papers - This
collection contains materials from former Pennsylvania State University
professor Thomas Benson, and document his academic work on political
rhetoric, film criticism, rhetorical theory, freedom of speech,
nonverbal communication, and the rhetoric of contemporary conflict. Of
interest, the collection includes a large set of protest posters from
the late 1960s and 1970s.
PSU Fayette - Coal & Coke Heritage Center Finding Aids now available:
Thanks
to Julie's hard work down at Fayette, we now have three EAD finding
aids published for three collections at the Coal & Coke Heritage
Center. The finding aids are discoverable through our finding aid
portal (both the google search bar and the a-z> list), and contain
data informing users that the collections are housed at Fayette. To my
knowledge this is the first time that we have integrated EAD finding
aids from one of our other geographic locations into our web
infrastructure, and we all owe Julie a big thank you for her processing
work on these collections!
CCHC 1 USX Corporation records - The
USX Corporation records were given to the Coal and Coke Heritage Center
upon the closure of a local USX office. Most of the materials include
the name of the Corporation's partner: H.C. Frick Company. And, some
items may include the Corporation's previous and current name: U.S.
Steel. The collection spans the company's activities from 1840-1983.
CCHC 4 John A. Enman papers - The
collection consists of three series, Collectibles; Research materials;
and Writing and Publications. As the collection consists of both
materials generated by Dr. Enman and resources used to research his
work, it contains items dated from 1884 through 2013.
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