August 2011 Archives

As a continuation of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of major activities in accessioning of University Archives:

• A 1765 document signed by Richard Stockton when he served as a trustee of the college
• A wide range of reunion material from alumni
• Audio recordings of WPRB's broadcast of the Vietnam War teach-in
• Auxiliary to the Isabella McCosh Infirmary Records
• Log of Princeton Scientific Expedition of 1866 by Walter Lowrie Hervey '1886
• Office of Government Affairs Records, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Files
• Photographs of dance at Princeton collected by Professor Ze'eve Cohen
• Princeton in Africa Records
• The Dr. and Mrs. Arnold S. Breitbart Collection on Moe Berg

As a continuation of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of major activities in accessioning of Public Policy Papers:

• American Civil Liberties Union Accruals
• James A. Baker Papers Accrual
• Council on Foreign Relations Accrual
• Project on Ethnic Relations Records (including over 8 GB of electronic records)
• Norman Ryder Papers
• Kristen Timothy Papers
• Margaret Tutwiler Journals
• Elmer Werner Papers

As a continuation of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of our major activities in the processing of the University Archives:

• University Archives processing had a strong year due to the hiring of Christie Peterson as University Archives Project Archivist. Since her start in mid-September 2010,Peterson has surveyed all University Archives collections, and formulated a processing plan to ensure that all finding aids for University Archives collections larger than 2 linear feet will include inventories by the end of 2012. 
• Major collections and groups of collections addressed in 2010 include additions to the theater collections, eating club records, and oversize material. A total of 69 collections and 811 linear feet were addressed in some form in FY2011.
  

Princeton students in The Honorable Julius Caesar, the 1892-1893 Triangle Club production. From AC122 Triangle Club Records box 93.

From Triangle and Intime to the Princeton Mime Company, Quipfire!, and many more, all collections in the Princeton University Archives related to campus theater groups and venues are now described online and available for research in the Mudd Manuscript Library.

A guide outlining 28 different collections about theater at Princeton is also now available online. While intended to be thorough, the libguide is not exhaustive, and additions are welcome.

As a continuation of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of major activities in processing of the Public Policy Papers:

As a continuation of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of major activities in technical services:

• Fiscal Year 2010 was a transitional year in Mudd Library Technical Services, with Christie Peterson and Maureen Callahan hired in September and February respectively to fill open positions and with Lynn Durgin taking and returning from family leave. 
• April marked the first time that all Mudd Library Technical Services positions were filled with full-time staff members since 2008. A search for an SCAII to assist with the ACLU processing project also began in late spring 2011. 
• Despite staffing issues, well over 1,000 linear feet was processed and described with online records and finding aids in FY2011, with another 1,123 linear feet addressed by the ACLU processing project that will be available by the end of FY2012.
  

Stay tuned for further discussion of our 2011 work involving processing, accessioning, digital projects, records management, collection development, exhibitions, and more.

As a continuation of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of our major activities in public services:

As part of our ongoing effort to improve access to our collections and promote awareness of the Mudd Manuscript Library, we are pleased share a series of blog posts drawn from our annual report for fiscal year 2011 (which ran from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011). We share our accomplishments with the hope that this will encourage a better understanding of Mudd's work, as well as foster an environment of transparency in the archival field. We begin this series with a summary of our activities in 2011.

•  Hired one project archivist for the University Archives project and another for the Public Policy Papers
• University Records Manager hired in January and among many things, with other staff, began planning for an electronic records management program
• Hired an SCAV for public services to replace the departing SCAV
• ACLU project commences and addresses more than 1,100 linear feet of records as part of NHPRC-funded processing project
• Fundraising for The Daily Princetonian digitization completed and the project winds down with 18 of 19 batches scanned and almost all years from 1876-2002 now online
• University Archives audiovisual materials made available via the web on a new blog, The Reel Mudd
• More than 1,000 linear feet processed and described with online records and finding aids
• A record 202 accessions of over 400 linear feet received, including the long awaited Margaret Tutwiler journals
• Continued high level of use of collections, both in-house and remote, with great degree of patron satisfaction, with PDF requests surpassing paper copies.