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Annual Report 2011: Goals for Fiscal Year 2012
To finalize our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of our goals for fiscal year 2012: Complete NHPRC-funded ACLU processing grant Collection development: continue to build the Policy collections through donations and efforts such as the Baker Oral History Project Implement Aeon for registration and other public service functions Continue high…
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Annual Report 2011: Exhibitions, Public Relations, and Outreach
As a continuation of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of our work in exhibitions, public relations, and outreach: The John F. Kennedy exhibition assembled by Nicole Milano in August 2010 was very well-received, so much that we extended its run through the end of August 2011. In addition, in…
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Annual Report 2011: Collection and Financial Development
As a continuation of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of our work in Collection and Financial Development: See the entries on accessioning Public Policy Papers and University Archives for collections of note acquired in this fiscal year. In addition, during the past year gift agreements were signed with Edward…
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Modernization of Dissertation Submission Procedures
One of the University Archives’ important roles is to preserve and provide access to Princeton University Ph.D. dissertations and Master’s theses. Recently the Mudd Manuscript Library has taken steps to both modernize and streamline the process that Ph.D. candidates carry out to submit their dissertations, while at the same time improving access to these works.…
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Annual Report 2011: Records Management
As a continuation of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of our work in Records Management: In January 2011, we hired Anne Marie Phillips as the first University Records Manager, kicking off the development of a formalized records management program for the university. Anne Marie spent the first three months…
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Annual Report 2011: Digital Projects, Content, and Delivery
As a continuation of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of our work in digital projects, content, and delivery: Mudd staff continued work to increase our digital content in FY11. We continued a pilot project to digitize collections using our photocopier’s capacity to scan directly into PDF files. Utilizing OIT’s…
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ACLU Archivists Across Time
Paula Jabloner (left) and Adriane Hanson meet for the first time at the 2011 Society of American Archivists meeting in Chicago. Jabloner managed Mudd Library’s first ACLU records processing project in the mid-1990s that addressed 1,200 linear feet of records and identified additional historical records. Hanson is now addressing 2,400 l.f. of ACLU records, including…
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Annual Report 2011: Other Major Activities in Technical Services
As a continuation of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of other major activities in Technical Services: We accepted 354 dissertations and over 1,185 senior theses in FY11 under the supervision of Lynn Durgin. Durgin has also invested significant time preparing for the shift to electronic submission of dissertations beginning…
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