Hidden Collections in the Philadelphia Area: A Consortial Processing and Cataloging Initiative
This consortial project, encompassing 1652 collections totaling 24,580 linear feet held in 24 PACSCL member repositories, builds connections across collections and subjects for scholars and students from a range of disciplines. Materials address t...
Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL)
Bringing to Light Dewey Rareties
To provide better access to our rare publications, we propose converting 1613 linear feet of our rare book library from Dewey classification (with access only through a unique and actual card catalogue) to Library of Congress electronic format. W...
Web access to the archival collections: department records, personal papers and image collections at the American Museum of Natural History Library
The American Museum of Natural History, founded in 1869, is one of the pre-eminent natural history institutions in the world, a leader in scientific research and a pioneer in museum exhibition and education in the fields of anthropology, archaeolo...
Improving Cataloging and Access for Visual Collections
The American Textile History Museum (ATHM) holds the most significant textile history collection in North America, including library collections of books, periodicals, manuscripts, and 47,000 images. This proposal focuses on a portion of those ima...
Agents of Post World War II Reconstruction and Diplomacy: The Papers of Charles Kades, Karl Loewenstein, and Willard Thorp at Amherst College
The Amherst College Library holds papers of three men who played key roles in the reconstruction of Europe and Japan after World War II. Charles Kades helped draft the postwar Japanese constitution and was central to the articulation of a new role...
Quayle Rare Bible Collection
Bishop William Alfred Quayle (1860-1925) accumulated about 250 historically significant Bibles and related books to illustrate "book arts" across the ages. Today the Quayle Rare Bible Collection has been expanded and contains over 500 items house...
Institute for Development Anthropology Collection
The Institute for Development Anthropology (IDA) was founded in 1976 by Binghamton University Professor Michael Horowitz with colleagues Professor David Brokensha of Oxford University and Thayer Scudder of the California Institute of Technology. ...
The American Vernacular: Vinyl at the Periphery of Culture
The American Vernacular: Vinyl at the Periphery of Culture project will result in the cataloging of 20,000 LP recordings of traditional American music, many of which exist in recorded form on obscure record labels that are not readily available in...
Society of Bibliophiles at Brandeis University Rare Books and Manuscripts Cataloging Project
The Society of Bibliophiles at Brandeis University rare books and manuscripts collection (hereafter the Brandeis Bibliophiles collection) is made up of books and manuscripts dating from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries (in addition to one...
Brooklyn: Creation to Consolidation
The collections included for "Brooklyn: Creation to Consolidation" cover the period from just before the Revolutionary War to the consolidation of New York City in 1898. They include historic maps and atlases illustrating Brooklyn's development fr...
The Gordon Hall and Grace Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printed Propaganda
Gordon Hall launched the Hall-Hoag Collection when he returned from WWII and encountered U.S. domestic hate groups, both right and left wing. Appalled by their ideology and beliefs, Hall determined that such groups were a danger to democracy. He i...
Far West and Far East: Uncovering Urban and International Archives at CSUN
Two distinct collections of Special Collections & Archives will be covered in this project: the Urban Archives Center (UAC) collection with a Far West focus and the Old China Hands Collection with a Far East focus. The UAC, first established in 19...
Providing Access to California's Hidden Collections: A Collaborative Proposal
The California Historical Records Committee, under the aegis of Califa Library Group and on behalf of libraries and archives throughout the state of California, would like to enable California's libraries and archives, large and small alike, to co...
Basil John Vlavianos papers
The Basil J. Vlavianos Papers contain correspondence, literary manuscripts, lectures, business records, photographs, clippings, audio-visual materials, and artifacts documenting the career of one of the most important figures in 20th-century Greek...
Southern California Indian Cultures: An Overview - Lectures & images focused on endangered Southern California American Indian cultures & languages
The Siva recorded lectures cover American Indian culture, language, history and traditional art. Ernest Siva gave the first lectures in a course taught in the College of Arts and Letters (CAL) at CSUSB in the fall of 2006. Scholars and culture bea...
Catholic Charities Access Initiative
The Catholic Charities Access Initiative aims to process and catalog three collections housed at the Catholic University of America (CUA) Archives and to conduct outreach toward assisting local charitable organization archivists in processing and ...
Amateur Travel Film Collaborative Cataloging Project
The film collections contain amateur travelogues made by filmmakers depicting their travels to far-flung regions of the world from the beginning of the 20th century onward. In some cases these travels were to places exotic to American eyes, such ...
Enhancing Access to Archival Collections at the Center for Jewish History
The collections at the Center for Jewish History are held by its five research partners - American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - an...
Massachusetts Horticultural Society Historic Collection
The collection, containing 4,500 book and journal titles dating from the 15th through the 20th centuries, was acquired by the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden (CBG) in 2002 from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. This rare tre...
Cataloging of Chinese and Korean Language Hidden Collections
The materials to be cataloged include the McCormick Collection, a group of rare monographs, calligraphy, and rubbings in Chinese and classical Korean; selected materials from the Asian Studies Collection, including an 80-volume Chinese Bible, mate...
Cataloging Historic Scientific Reprint Collections: Davenport, Demerec, and Watson Reprint Collections
The scientific reprints in these collections bring together a number of historic scientific and social disciplines which developed into modern day genetics and molecular biology and affected many aspects of society in the past and present. The col...
The Ade Bethune Collection at the College of St. Catherine
Ade Bethune was a world-renowned liturgical artist, writer and social activist, and was influential in American liturgical art in the 20th century. Her career spanned 70 years from art school at the National Academy of Design and Cooper Union in N...
Amiri Baraka Papers
The Amiri Baraka Papers reflect his life as a poet, writer, and activist. Indeed they chronicle the social movements and issues that gave shape to his world view. The collection is rich with correspondence from the 1960s to the present, including ...
The Paleontological Research Institution Archive
The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) Archive consists of over 200 cubic feet of documents assembled by the founders of PRI from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, as well as the personal papers of more than a dozen of their co...
Elma's Historical Documents
The collection under the care of the Elma Historical includes maps, journals, surveys, letters, ledgers, and other historic documents dating back to 1800 relating to the building of our Town. These records encompass all of Elma and surrounding tow...
The May Massee Collection Finding Aid.
The May Massee Collection was compiled during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a memorial tribute to May Massee, a prominent children's book editor who founded two of the first three children's book divisions in American publishing houses. The c...
Coming Out of the Closet: Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives at the Fashion Institue of Technology
The FIT Special Collections and Archives acquires, preserves, and provides access to a wide range of primary research materials in their original formats, including archival institutional records, scrapbooks, oral histories, fashion sketches, illu...
Firestone Library Antioch Coin Project
The collection to be catalogued comprises about 3,500 coins minted by Byzantine and Arabic authorities excavated by the Princeton-led excavations in Antioch-on-the-Orontes (then Syria, now Turkey) between 1934 and 1939. The coins document the chan...
First Alaskans Hidden Collection: A Political and Community Development History of Alaska’s Native People from 1965 to the Present
The political history of Alaska Native people and their leaders in the late 20th century is an epic story of modern America. The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) was formed in 1966 to address the Alaska Native aboriginal land rights and achieve ...
Oral History Collections
George Mason University has four distinct collections of oral histories related to the University and the Northern Virginia area: The Northern Virginia Oral History Project is a collection that contains interviews with individuals from the area ...
The Alexis Carrel Collection: materials of the French physician and philosopher Alexis Carrel, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1912
By far the most extensive and important body of materials relating to Alexis Carrel, the Georgetown collection encompasses the entire career of this Nobel Prize-winning researcher, collaborator with Charles Lindbergh, and controversial public heal...
Highlander Research and Education Center Collection
Since its founding in 1932, the Highlander Research and Education Center has been at the epicenter of social justice movements in Appalachia and the South. Highlander has played a vital role in the growth and development of movements for workers’ ...