Evergreen State College Archives and Special Collections

Geoduck Archives News of the Moment: June 2014

 

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Recent activity in the Archives at TESC

Digitization of analog materials has been occupying a lot of the work time in Archives recently. We have nearly completed digitizing student research papers and as soon as FERPA permissions have been obtained from the authors they will be made available as research resources.

We continue to digitize our old analog video tapes, trying to get them transferred before the playback equipment fails. Some reel to reel video is already at risk as we no longer have the playback equipment to record them from and the tapes themselves are in questionable health.

Work on the Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute (NIARI) Records proceeds with former UCSU Intern Sarah Norton returning as a volunteer to complete the processing. The finding aid at e Northwest Digital Archives site: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/search/advanced.aspx will be upgraded as this project proceeds.

 

Our Newest Work Study Assistant

Shasta Meehan works with the audio and video materials in the Archives. She is currently digitizing audio cassettes ranging from Ainara Wilder (faculty emeritus) produced theatrical performances, oral histories from Tom
Foote and Sam Schrager's Mass Media and Popular Culture academic program (1988-89), to Board of Trustees meetings and many other items of value to understanding the culture and organization of The Evergreen State College community.

Shasta's next assignment will have her learning about digitizing and converting to other formats video tape recordings that vary from 1/2" reel to reel EIAJ compatible analog tapes, to miniDV cassettes. These also cover a multitude of TESC events, curricular and administrative planning, speeches, convocations, etc.

 


Northwest Digital Archives News

Northwest Digital Archives is now testing their re-designed research web site and are trying to assign a new and more appropriate name for it.

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.


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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.

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.

 

News Flash

The position of Archivist has just recently been cut back to 75% FTE due to the College's low enrollment numbers. Unfortunately this will mean some cutback in service hours and the ending of the tea and cookies table in the Library "Underground".

 

updated 06/10/2014