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American Civil Liberties Union Records Processing Project Update
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…
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Ship’s Bottle in the Archives
You never know what you are going to find in an archival collection. Pictured here is the bottle used to christen the U.S.S. Vulcan, a Navy repair ship, at its launch on December 14, 1940. The netting held the pieces of the bottle together when it was smashed during the ceremony. The ship was sponsored…
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The ACLU Records: Tips for processing 2400 feet in two years
The following entry relates to our ongoing American Civil Liberties Union processing project previously described here and here. Processing, regardless of the size of the collection, has many common features: In almost all cases, you survey the boxes to see what is there, decide what to keep and how it will be organized, arrange the…
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ACLU Records Processing Project Progress
The Mudd Manuscript Library has finished the first phase of an NHPRC-funded project to process the most recent records of the American Civil Liberties Union. After an extensive survey, we have a record of the contents of each of the 2,461 boxes. This is an increase of nearly 500 linear feet of materials from what…
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