Northwest Digital Archives News
Northwest Digital Archives is looking for some people to test and give feedback on their new Cross Search and Context Utility now known as Archive Engine West - see the prototype here:
http://www5.iath.virginia.edu/nwda/prototype/
**Between January 20 and 31, TESC representatives will meet with a NWDA Steering Team member or the NWDA Program Manager for a Q&A session about the project. This will be an opportunity to interact and ask questions, with the expectation that the written or recorded overviews materials sent by NWDA will have been reviewed prior to the meeting. If others at TESC would like to join these conversations, they are welcome.
See our collaborative finding aids sent to NWDA at this URL:
http://nwda-db.orbiscascade.org/nwda-search/advanced.aspx
Pull down the list of member institutions and click on The Evergreen State College for a list of our present finding aids available through NWDA. These aids will also be found on our Library catalog in the near future.
NWDA committees are studying how to make the experience on their website more accessible to users and are looking into the new tools for creating finding aids such as EAC-CPF (Encoded Archival Content-Corporate, Personal, Family), and the revisions to EAD (Encoded Archival Description), DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard).
The newest finding aid creation tool is known as Archives Space - a tool derived by combining two existing Open Source software programs: the Archivist's Toolkit and Archon. An NWDA committee is keeping close watch on Archives Space to determine if it will be useful to Archivists in the NWDA service area.
Unknown Staff Members, students or persons present at campus events - can you identify?
News Flash
The Archives just received a copy of Pauline Hillaire's book about her father's (Joseph Hillaire) totem pole and other carving career. the book is also available from the Library stacks from whence it can be checked out. The Archives copy is not available for checkout but can be used in the Archives Reading Room.
A recently acquired Panasonic brand 1/2" Reel to Reel video tape recorder is awaiting a new power cord so that it can be tested to see if it can be used to affect the transfer of some of our older video holdings. The machine is provided courtesy of Evergreen Archivist Randolph Stilson who has several other pieces of
Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the other chess set that belongs in the Underground is asked to contact Randy Stilson in the Archives. If you need a description of what the set looks like come down and see the one that is still here.
Llyn De Danaan Papers
The papers of faculty emeritus Llyn De Danaan were accessioned by the Archives last spring and the papers of Barbara and Robert Lane were extracted, processed, and a finding aid prepared by contract student Sarah Nopp. The finding aid is available on the Archives website - Accession Register page under Accession SPC 2013-02. Barbara Lane died on New Years eve so the presentation of her papers is a memorial for her.
Dr. De Danaan's Papers are awaiting either a volunteer or another individual contract or group contract students interested in learning about archival processes. Anyone interested in anthropology, specifically anthropology in the Pacific Northwest should contact the Archives.
Interns & Work Study
Archives and Special Collections is fortunate to have two work study students again this year, Christian Alviso, continuing his work from last year is currently scanning various documents so they can be linked to the Archives website pages.
See the article above for information on our other student worker.
Individual Contract student Caryn Dudley, now a TESC Alumnist has returned for another quarter and is doing further studies in the field of materials conservation, getting in more practical experience prior to going on to graduate level studies.
College Catalogs Now Available
The Archives has housed a collection of TESC catalogs since inception (1971-72) . We are now up to date with PDF versions of all the old annual catalogs and the more recent ones as well. The digital versions of all catalogs are available at this URL:
http://archives.evergreen.edu/catalogs/catalogsHome.htm
Only some of the Summer and Part Time Studies (Evening and Weekend Studies) catalogs have been digitized but this will be remedied in the near future.
TESC History enumerated on OlyBlog
TESC Archivist Randy Stilson refers anyone interested in learning why THE is in the name of The Evergreen State College go read the C.T. Conover entry in the Olyblog: http://olyblog.net/evergreen-state-college
NOTES FROM THE LIBRARY UNDERGROUND
An openhouse event showing off the results of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program projects took place in the Underground on Wednesday October 23rd, 2013. Featured were the students and projects that included Indigenous Placemaking, Measuring Oxygen Distributions, Diogeochemical Cycling in Pacific Northwest Ecosystems, Research on Phytoplankton Ecology in South Puget Sound, Plant Community & Ecosystem Ecology Research in Western Washington Ecosystems, amongst others (thirteen in all).
This winter quarter's lineup of events in the Underground has not been determined but the Archivist is offering tea and cookies again as usual.
Comments
Please send any comments regarding Archives and Special collections to the Associate Dean of Library Services Andrea Heisel (heisela@evergreen.edu) or the head of Archives and Special Collections: Randolph Stilson (archives@evergreen.edu).
If you have suggestions for acquisitions of primary documentation please consider the College's curriculum - how these materials might be used to further the education of students attending Evergreen or further document the history and culture of The Evergreen State College.