The Mudd Library has reached an impor­tant mile stone in the ACLU Records Pro­cess­ing Project: com­plet­ing the col­lec­tion inven­to­ries. We now have a list of what is in each of the 2,500 boxes in the col­lec­tion. These boxes remain closed to research until July 1, 2012 pend­ing a review for restricted mate­ri­als. How­ever, researchers wish­ing to access the col­lec­tion before that date may request up to ten boxes be reviewed for imme­di­ate release. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please con­tact the Mudd Library at For more information on the project, you can read our previous blog entries

We also wel­comed a new staff mem­ber to the project this sum­mer, David Gille­spie. Dave has a back­ground in Amer­i­can and mil­i­tary his­tory, with var­ied archival expe­ri­ence includ­ing research assis­tant at the Strate­gic Stud­ies Insti­tute, intern at the Get­tys­burg National Mil­i­tary Park Archives, and intern on the House Divided project cre­at­ing a dig­i­tal col­lec­tion on Dick­in­son Col­lege dur­ing the Civil War Era. On the ACLU project, he is respon­si­ble for review­ing the legal case files within the col­lec­tion for any restricted mate­ri­als, which account for about 65% of the records. Through this review, we expect to be able to open the major­ity of these mate­ri­als on July 1.