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New Accession: Atomic-bombed Roof Tiles from Hiroshima University

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The Uni­ver­sity Archives was recently given the honor and respon­si­bil­ity of pro­vid­ing a home for seven roof tiles that sus­tained dam­age in the atomic bomb­ing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.  The roof tiles were col­lected in a river bed near ground zero of the atomic bomb explosion.

3 of the 7 tiles.

3 of the 7 tiles.

Along with the roof tiles, the dona­tion includes pho­tographs of the loca­tion where the tiles were recov­ered; book­lets and pam­phlets on the bomb­ings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and doc­u­ments related to the artifacts.

Hiroshima Uni­ver­sity was dec­i­mated in the atomic bomb attack— most of its stu­dents and fac­ulty mem­bers per­ished and its build­ings were demol­ished.  In the post-war period, Hiroshima University’s pres­i­dent Tat­suo Morito reached out to uni­ver­si­ties world-wide to help to renew the insti­tu­tion by send­ing books for its library and saplings to bring its grounds back to life.

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Prince­ton was among the schools that responded in 1951 by pro­vid­ing both a book for the library’s col­lec­tion and a mon­e­tary dona­tion for the pur­chase of a native tree for the cam­pus; and now, in cel­e­bra­tion of its 80th anniver­sary, Hiroshima Uni­ver­sity is rec­i­p­ro­cat­ing by donat­ing these artifacts.

The roof tiles are dis­trib­uted by Hiroshima University’s Asso­ci­a­tion for Send­ing Atomic-bombed Roof Tiles in order to per­pet­u­ate aware­ness of the dev­as­tat­ing effects of the atomic bomb­ings in Japan, and to oppose the use and pro­lif­er­a­tion of nuclear weapons.  In a let­ter that accom­pa­nies the dona­tion, Toshi­masa Asa­hara, Pres­i­dent of Hiroshima Uni­ver­sity, explains:

The threat of nuclear weapons still exists in many areas of the world.  It is our earnest desire, how­ever, that the pain and sad­ness expe­ri­enced in Hiroshima not be re-created any­where else in the world.

This wish is not only the wish of those of us liv­ing today but rep­re­sents the silent voices of the 240,000 Hiroshima cit­i­zens who per­ished from the atomic bomb.  We believe it is also the will of oth­ers such as your­selves who will work together with us to build a peace­ful future for the world.

See the Atomic-bombed Roof Tiles from Hiroshima Uni­ver­sity Find­ing Aid

 

 

 

 

 

Senior Theses to Go Digital in 2013

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Access to the most fre­quently used col­lec­tion at the Mudd Man­u­script Library—the Senior The­sis Col­lec­tion—will be greatly enhanced in 2013 as we tran­si­tion from col­lect­ing paper copies to elec­tronic copies (PDFs) of the­ses.  Dean of the Col­lege Valerie Smith has approved a plan for senior the­ses to be avail­able online (but lim­ited to the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity com­mu­nity) through Princeton’s dig­i­tal repos­i­tory, Data­Space.

To this end, next sum­mer Data­Space will become the main search inter­face for all the­ses.  Senior the­ses sub­mit­ted in 2013 and in the future will be avail­able only elec­tron­i­cally (but lim­ited to the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity domain), while senior the­ses sub­mit­ted in 2012 and before will be avail­able in paper for­mat at the Mudd Man­u­script Library, as they are today.  In the sec­ond phase of the project, PDFs of legacy senior the­ses will be added to Data­Space as they are scanned for patrons, which will incre­men­tally grow the num­ber of the­ses avail­able digitally.

“The senior the­sis has a long his­tory at Prince­ton,” said Uni­ver­sity Archivist Dan Linke. “This is just the next chap­ter for this impor­tant aspect of a Prince­ton education.”

The sub­mis­sion process for aca­d­e­mic depart­ments will evolve as we move to PDFs—all of the data entry and upload­ing will be done through a sim­ple online form. Staff in the aca­d­e­mic depart­ments will do the ini­tial data entry and upload­ing, and Library staff will make a final check and then release the the­ses to Data­Space. Train­ing on the new process will be offered in the win­ter of 2013 and will include online videos as well as in-person demon­stra­tions at the Mudd Man­u­script Library.

Ques­tions about the new process can be directed to the Uni­ver­sity Archivist, Dan Linke (609.258.5879; ).

University Records Manager joins the Princeton University Archives staff

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On Jan­u­ary 3, 2011 we wel­comed Anne Marie Phillips to the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Archives staff. Anne Marie is Princeton’s first Uni­ver­sity Records Man­ager, her appoint­ment under­scor­ing Princeton’s com­mit­ment to main­tain­ing its records at a level of qual­ity that will best sup­port the work of the Uni­ver­sity and ensure the com­pre­hen­sive doc­u­men­ta­tion of Princeton’s his­tory. Though part of the Archives, Anne Marie’s port­fo­lio is to serve the entire Uni­ver­sity community’s records needs.

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Anne Marie is respon­si­ble for expand­ing and improv­ing Princeton’s cur­rent records man­age­ment pro­gram, which was cre­ated in con­junc­tion with the Office of Gen­eral Coun­sel and other Uni­ver­sity admin­is­tra­tive units, and con­sists of records trans­fer infor­ma­tion and pro­ce­dures, as well as a Gen­eral Records Sched­ule. Records trans­ferred to the Mudd Man­u­script Library are acces­sioned, processed, and made avail­able as a com­po­nent of the Uni­ver­sity Archives func­tion of Mudd. Anne Marie will be updat­ing and expand­ing the Gen­eral Records Sched­ule, cre­at­ing spe­cial­ized sched­ules for records that are unique to var­i­ous admin­is­tra­tive units, and devel­op­ing and pro­vid­ing a con­stel­la­tion of poli­cies, pro­ce­dures, and ser­vices that will make it eas­ier for Uni­ver­sity staff to deter­mine what to do with the records they cre­ate and use as they per­form their jobs.

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New Accessions: April-June 2010

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The Mudd Man­u­script Library received 12 pub­lic pol­icy acces­sions and 30 Uni­ver­sity Archives acces­sions between April and June 2010.

The pub­lic pol­icy col­lec­tions received sig­nif­i­cant addi­tions to the Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union Records and the Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions Records. In addi­tion, a won­der­ful sur­prise was the receipt of Woodrow Wilson’s and Edith Bolling Galt’s mar­riage license, 1915. The item was donated by Mr. Barry C. Keenan of Granville, OH, who also con­fessed to hav­ing caused the green ink stain on the doc­u­ment as a ten-year-old.

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On the Uni­ver­sity Archives side, the Library received the papers of two impor­tant Prince­ton fig­ures– Dr. Carl. A. Fields and Dean Mathey.
Edu­ca­tor and advo­cate of minor­ity edu­ca­tion, Dr. Carl A. Fields was assis­tant dean of stu­dent aid at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity and later served in var­i­ous other lead­er­ship posi­tions out­side the Uni­ver­sity. The Carl A. Fields Papers con­sist of cor­re­spon­dence, reports, research mate­r­ial on race rela­tions and minor­ity edu­ca­tion, hand­writ­ten notes, project pro­pos­als, and other papers that doc­u­ment his life and active career. An online find­ing aid for this col­lec­tion is avail­able at: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5138jd936.
Dean Mathey, Class of 1912, was a mem­ber of the Board of Trustees and an ardent sup­porter of the Uni­ver­sity. The col­lec­tion doc­u­ments Mathey’s famil­ial rela­tion­ships, his ser­vice to Prince­ton, his ten­nis career and other activ­i­ties from his under­grad­u­ate days to the end of his life. A find­ing aid is for this col­lec­tion is in process.
The fol­low­ing is a com­plete list of mate­ri­als that were acces­sioned between April and June of 2010. As always, if you would like addi­tional infor­ma­tion about these mate­ri­als, please con­tact us through our gen­eral email account at .

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