Dear all,
At Churchill Archives Centre, we have been opening up access to our finding
aids and are currently engaged in a project to publish at least a collection
description for each of the 570 or so collections we hold on the Janus web
server (http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/), which hosts finding aids to archives
and manuscripts held throughout Cambridge.
In many cases we have managed to flesh out the top level collection
descriptions by adding series descriptions and we have also thoroughly
retroconverted typescript or word-processed catalogues to many of our more
popular collections (including the papers of Rosalind Franklin, Clementine
Spencer-Churchill and Lise Meitner). The availability of these finding aids
online is a considerable benefit to researchers using the Archives Centre or
planning a research project. The finding aids themselves have been enhanced
and now meet professional standards for archival description.
There are finding aids to 50% of our collections available online. To mark
this milestone and to play a role in the Archives Awareness campaign, this
month we have an exhibition in our reading room of selected material which
has been brought to light during this project. You can find out more about
the exhibition, which has been registered with the Archives Awareness
campaign, and see images of the archives on show on our website at
http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/Gallery/Archives_Awareness/home.shtml
Please feel free to contact me for any further information.
Yours,
Natalie Adams
Archivist/ Information Services Manager
Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill College
Cambridge
CB3 0DS
Telephone (01223) 336222
Fax (01223) 336135
Website http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/
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