Related Resources

*See also: Funded Projects (2011, 2010, 2009, 2008)

Current project staff with additions or corrections for this page should send them to Program Officer Christa Williford (cwilliford [at] clir [dot] org).

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Websites, Blogs, Wikis | Recipients on Twitter | Meetings & Presentations | Processing Plans & Worksheets | Manuals & Training Materials | Software User Guides | Metrics & Assessment | Outreach & Use | Examples of Finding Aids | Funding Advice & Information

Project Websites, Blogs, & Wikis

Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University (2009 Recipients along with the Recorded Sound Archives, Yale University. Institutional blog.) See also: coverage in ReMix, news from the Stanford Libraries, and The Human Experience: inside the humanities at Stanford University.

Archives from Atlanta, Cradle of the Civil Rights Movement (Emory University and Auburn Avenue Research Library, 2008 Recipients. Facebook page.)

The Back Table (New York University, 2008 Recipients. Blog shared with other NYU special collections and archives.)

The Boston Local TV News Project (WGBH Educational Foundation, on behalf of WGBH Boston, the Boston Public Library, Northeast Historic Film, and Cambridge Community Television; 2010 Recipients. Project blog.)

The Brooklyn Historical Society, Hidden Collections (2009 recipients. Institutional blog.)

California Ephemera Project (California Historical Society; San Francisco Public Library; Society of California Pioneer; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society; 2008 Recipients. Blog.)

Changing the Landscape (North Carolina State University Libraries, 2009 Recipients. Blog.)

Children's Literature Research Collection (Free Library of Philadelphia, 2009 Recipients. Facebook page.)

The Field Book Project (Smithsonian Institution, 2009 Recipients.  See also: Field Book Project Blog, Field Book Project Image Set on Flickr Commons.)

French Pamphlet Collections at the Newberry Library (2009 Recipients. Blog.)

Foundations of Public Health Policy (Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, 2008 Recipient. See also: Center Blog.)

Hidden Collections in the Philadelphia Area (Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 2008 Recipients. See also: Project Documentation, and Project Blog.)

Intellectual Access to Moving Images of Work (Northeast Historic Film, 2009 Recipient. Blog.)

The Iris: Views from the Getty (Getty Research Institute, 2008 and 2010 Recipient. Institutional Blog.)

Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan (University of Michigan, 2008 Recipient.)

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize (Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston, 2008 Recipient. Blog.)

Labor Rights Are Civil Rights/Los Derechos de Trabajo son Derechos Civiles (Arizona State University Libraries, 2010 Recipient. Blog. See also: Institutional Facebook Page; Chicano/a Collection Facebook Page.)

Mapping Special Collections for Research and Teaching at Goucher College (Goucher College, 2008 Recipient. See also: Project Blog.)

The Moravian Community in the New World: The First Hundred Years (Lehigh University and the Moravian Archives, 2009 Recipients, Project Blog.)

Rabbi William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection and Papers (College of Charleston, 2009 Recipient. Blog.)

San Diego History Center (2010 Recipient. See also: Facebook page.)

San Francisco Examiner Photographic Archive (The Bancroft Library, 2009 Recipient. Blog. See also: Facebook page.)

Stanford Music Library (2009 Recipient, with Yale University. Facebook page.)

Stanford University Special Collections and University Archives (2010 Recipient. Institutional blog.)

Uncovering California's Environmental Collections (California Digital Library, 2009 Recipient. Wiki.)

USC Libraries Special Collections (2009 Recipient. Blog)

Working for Freedom (a collaboration of Amistad Research Center, Auburn Avenue Research Library, Emory University, and the Woodruff Library at the Atlanta University Center, 2008 Recipients. Blog.)

Recipients on Twitter

*See also: List of all program-related Twitter feeds

Auburn Avenue Research Library Archives (2008 Recipients. Institutional account.)

Bancroft Library (2009 Recipients. Institutional account.)

Brooklyn Historical Society (2009 Recipients. Institutional account.)

California Historical Society (2008 Recipients. Institutional account.)

Children's Literature Research Collection (Free Library of Philadelphia, 2009 Recipients. Project-specific account.)

Getty Institute. (2008, 2010 Recipients. Institutional account.)

Hidden Collections in the Philadelphia Area (Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 2008 Recipients. Project-specific account.)

Library of Congress (2008 Recipients. Institutional account.)

New York University (2008 Recipients. Institutional account.)

North Carolina State University, "Changing the Landscape" (2009 Recipients. Project account.)

San Diego History Center (2010 Recipients. Institutional account.)

USC Libraries (2009 Recipients. Institutional account.)

Yale Music Library, home of the Yale Recorded Sound Archives. (2009 Recipients. Institutional account.)

Meetings, Papers & Presentations

*See also: Hidden Collections Program Symposium, March 2010

Michael Dello Iacono and Emily Novak Gustainis. "Foundations of Public Health Policy Processing Metrics and Team Processing." (PowerPoint). Presentation for Manuscripts and Archives Standing Committee (MASC) and the Manuscript and Archives Development Working Group (MADE) program titled "MPLP at Harvard: More Product, Less Process at Harvard University Library." December, 2009.

Michael Dello Iacono, Suzanne Denison, and Cheryl Ostrowski. "Innovating for Access: Revealing Hidden Collections." (PowerPoint). Poster presented at New England Archivists Spring Meeting, March 2010.

Holly Mengel, "PACSCL/CLIR Hidden Collections Processing Project." (Slideshare). Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Pre-Conference, Philadelphia, PA. June 2010.

Cheryl Oestreicher (Chair), Courtney Chartier, Christopher Harter, and Sarah Quigley. "Working for Freedom: Documenting the Civil Rights Movement." (mp3; transcript also available in pdf). Panel discussion for ARCHIVES*RECORDS / DC 2010, joint meeting of COSA, NAGARA, and SAA. August 2010.
Session description: "African-American collections are vital to documenting American history, but many currently are hidden and/or unavailable to researchers. Panelists highlight the efforts of four institutions, collaborating under one CLIR grant, to unearth significant collections created by people and organizations of the Civil Rights movement. They discuss the opportunities and challengesof their joint and individual efforts to make these collections available utilizing Web 2.0 technology, Archon/Archivists' Toolkit, and processing techniques." For more information about these projects, see the 2008 funded project descriptions.

Getty Research Institute. Getty-CLIR Colloquium. (Agenda). September 2010.

Amy Lucko and Christa Williford. "CLIR Hidden Collections Recipients, Report on Survey on Student Engagement." (pptx, also ppt). Report given at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference in Bethlehem, PA, on October 22, 2011. For more, see the presentation slides, slides with notes, or the general handout (all pdfs).

Emily Novak Gustainis. "Return on Investment: Metadata, Metrics, and Management." (pdf). Presentation for Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, August 2011.

Wisner, Melanie. "Uncovering California's Environmental Collections: A Collaborative Approach (CLIR UCEC). Processing Metrics Report." (pdf). October 2011.

Processing Plans, Worksheets & Templates

California Digital Library

Newberry Library

Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (for more information, see Project Documentation):

Manuals & Training Materials

Black Metropolis Research Consortium Processing Manual (January 2012)

Brooklyn Historical Society:

Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (for more information, see Project Documentation):

Software User Guides

Brooklyn Historical Society:

California Digital Library:

California Digital Library:

Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (for more information, see Project Documentation):

Metrics & Assessment

A Processing Metrics tool ("MD") developed at the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, by Collection Services Archivist Emily R. Novak Gustainis for their 2008 project is available on the Center's Processing Metrics Collaborative wiki. Individuals interested in using the database should contact Emily (Emily_Gustainis [at] hms [dot] harvard [dot] edu) to be added to the membership list and the wiki user group. MD has been adopted by 2009 Hidden Collections grant recipients North Carolina State University Libraries and The Free Library of Philadelphia. Emily has also conducted a survey of how how repositories measure processing activities and outputs, the preliminary results of which have been posted to the Center's blog. See also: "Return on Investment: Metadata, Metrics, and Assessment." (pdf). Presentation by Emily Gustainis, Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, August 2011.

A Survey on Access to Historical Manuscript Collections is underway at the Center for the History of Medicine.

The Center has also launched a metrics email discussion list that is open to the public ("MetricsList") to better facilitate communication among individuals using, or thinking of implementing, processing metrics. To subscribe, please send mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.MED.HARVARD.EDU with the command: SUBSCRIBE METRICSLIST in the body of the message (please leave subject line blank).

"Uncovering California's Environmental Collections," a collaborative project led by the California Digital Library, employed another approach to keeping processing metrics across participating institutions. Melanie Wisner briefly describes this method and its findings in her report of October 2011.

Examples of Outreach & Use

Collection Highlights on Flickr. Tamiment Library, NYU.

The Francis A. Countway Library Fellowship in the History of Medicine (Countway Library, Harvard Medical School)

"LINEAGE: Matchmaking in the Archive: a Collaboration between the Living and the Dead." Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Historical Society, 2009.

New York City Labor History Map. Tamiment Library, NYU.

User commentary accepted for the Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan Project (2008 recipient).

Holocaust Memorial Quilt Project, College of Charleston and Gregg Middle School (College of Charleston, 2009 recipient).

Examples of Finding Aids

Amistad Research Center Finding Aids. Archon-based repository implemented for the Center's portion of their 2008 collaborative grant.

Litchfield Historical Society Finding Aids. Archon, implemented as part of their 2008 project.

San Diego History Center Online Finding Aids. Online Archive of California. 133 finding aids to be added to OAC as part of this 2010 project.

San Francisco Biography Collection. San Francisco Public Library, participant in the California Ephemera Project.

Moving Images of Work Life, 1916-1960. Northeast Historic Film.

Ray Kappe Papers, 1954-2007. The Getty Research Institute.

The Yehudi Menuhin Collection and the Lawrence Tibbett Collection. Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University, part of Song, Speech, and Dance: Special Collections from the Recorded Sound Archives at Yale and Stanford Universities.

Funding Advice & Information

Related Grant Programs

Advice for Grant Seekers in the Cultural Heritage Communities, questions and answers compiled for the ARCHIVES*RECORDS / DC 2010 conference, August 14, 2010