Mudd Tech­ni­cal Ser­vices Meet­ing Min­utes – June 2012

Mau­reen Callahan

Mau­reen has fin­ished man­ag­ing the Prince­ton Weekly Bul­letin dig­i­ti­za­tion project – this resource is now avail­able online. In addi­tion to her usual ref­er­ence and acces­sion­ing work, she also cre­ated a num­ber of ori­en­ta­tion screen­casts for the new find­ing aids site, and is fin­ish­ing writ­ing notes for the Bill Bradley Papers. She, Dan Linke, and (mostly) John Walako installed the new exhibit in the Mill­berg gallery, “The Elec­tion for Woodrow Wilson’s Amer­ica,” which will be on dis­play through the end of the year.

Lynn Dur­gin

Lynn over­saw data col­lec­tion and pro­cess­ing of 2012 senior the­ses (com­pleted 15 of 33 depart­ments); imple­mented a new sys­tem for apply­ing dis­ser­ta­tion embar­goes in Data­Space and Pro­Quest; and cre­ated ten new Uni­ver­sity Archives acces­sion records.

Adri­ane Hanson

Adri­ane began work in earnest this month on her sum­mer projects, prepar­ing the next batch of Daily Prince­ton­ian news­pa­pers (2003–2012) and the West­ern Euro­pean The­ater Polit­i­cal Pam­phlets for dig­i­ti­za­tion.  She also worked with three patrons in to use the newly open ACLU Records and is prepar­ing to speak on the project at the annual meet­ing of the Soci­ety of Amer­i­can Archivists in August.

Christie Peter­son

Christie final­ized all remain­ing work and reports from the P col­lec­tion shelf read/reconciliation project. She cre­ated three new col­lec­tions and added mate­ri­als to seven addi­tional col­lec­tions in an ongo­ing project to assim­i­late all unprocessed Uni­ver­sity Archives mate­ri­als. In con­tin­u­ing her work with born-digital mate­ri­als, Christie and Dan San­ta­maria attended an SAA work­shop on dig­i­tal foren­sics for archivists, and Christie began work on an acces­sion­ing work­flow that incor­po­rates these mate­ri­als. She also trained a new sum­mer stu­dent on cat­a­loging pho­tographs in the His­tor­i­cal Pho­tographs Col­lec­tion data­base, and he restarted work on that project. Finally, Christie has announced that she will be leav­ing to start a new job Sep­tem­ber 1.

Dan also updated the group on the progress of var­i­ous ini­tia­tives, in par­tic­u­lar new devel­op­ments with the redesigned EAD site, Primo, Aeon, and related issues.   We also dis­cussed Bethany Nowviskie’s keynote talk at the March 2012 code4lib con­fer­ence on the con­cept of “Lazy Consensus.”

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