{"id":1082,"date":"2014-03-27T15:18:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2014-03-27T15:18:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:18:46","slug":"new-accessions-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/2014\/03\/27\/new-accessions-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"New Accessions at the Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Interns Gabrielle Barr and Lisa Lorenzo hard at work to preserve ALA history! Photo courtesy of American Libraries<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The ALA Archives has been busy working on large accessions of records sent to us by American Libraries<\/em><\/a> magazine and the ALA Library<\/a>.\u00a0 These new accessions will total up to 40 bankers boxes once all of them have been shipped over, and the archives staff is excited to receive them.<\/p>\n

The archives staff is currently working on boxes sent to us from the ALA Library.\u00a0 These records are a rich collection of photograph vertical files that not only document the history of the ALA, but of the librarian profession itself.\u00a0 There are of course photos and negatives of various ALA conferences, events, and staff, but there are also photographs of bookmobiles, libraries, exhibits, various library technologies, and even book trucks!<\/p>\n

Am<\/em>e<\/em>rica<\/em>n <\/em>Libraries<\/em> has also sent us photographs, sending us their issue photos from 1980-2005 and biographical photos of librarians, ALA members, and celebrities.\u00a0 And American Libraries <\/em>has not forgotten the archives love for textual documents, sending us their subject files and the papers of Gordon Flagg, a former editor.\u00a0 The Biographical Photographs<\/a> have already been processed and are now available to researchers.<\/p>\n

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Cleveland Public Library, 1926. One of the many photographs sent to the archives from the ALA Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These records did not arrive at the archives on their own, there was substantial help from two interns, Lisa\u00a0Lorenzo and Gabrielle Barr, from the University of Michigan School of Information.\u00a0 They did an alternative spring break with the ALA to complete this project.\u00a0 Gabrielle and Lisa reviewed the records, replaced damaged folders, created inventories, filled out transmittal forms, and boxed up the files for shipment.\u00a0 Originally assigned to tackle the records from American Libraries<\/em>, they were able to get through their task with time to spare and were able to end their week with preparing the ALA Library’s photographs to send to the archives.<\/p>\n

Now with many of the boxes already at the archives Lydia Tang, the ALA Archives Graduate Assistant, has been hard at work processing the new accessions to make them accessible to researchers.\u00a0 Keep an eye out for these new record series in the archives!<\/p>\n

The ALA Archives would like to thank American Libraries<\/em> for letting us snag one of their photos for this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ALA Archives has been busy working on large accessions of records sent to us by American Libraries magazine and the ALA Library.\u00a0 These new accessions will total up to 40 bankers boxes once all of them have been shipped over, and the archives staff is excited to receive them. The archives staff is currently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21,22,33,177],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-in-the-archives","tag-ala-archives","tag-ala-library","tag-american-libraries","tag-photographs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}