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The Path to Scholarly
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Arrangement and Description |
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The staff of the
Archives & Special Collections Department of the Woodruff
Library of the AUC has been supplemented with a team of
two archivists, a cataloger, graduate assistant and project
manager/chief archivist hired exclusively to process the
Morehouse King Collection. At present, the team is re-housing
items in appropriate and uniform alkaline boxes and folders,
surveying the physical condition of collection materials
that may need conservation treatment, sorting items into
appropriate organizational structure (by subject and/or
format) and preparing the finding aid and catalog records.
The collection is being processed and a digital finding
aid produced that will allow researchers to electronically
search for items in the collection. The “Archivists’
Toolkit” software, an open-source data management
system that provides integrated support for arrangement,
description and location of archival materials, is being
employed to facilitate this process.
Staff salaries, supplies, conservation fees and training
associated with the preliminary work for this project is
funded by a grant to the Woodruff Library from the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation.
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