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Author: Dan Linke

  • Meet Mudd’s Helene van Rossum

    Name: Helene van Rossum Title and Duties: Special Collections Assistant. Processing collections, organizing exhibitions, and “all other duties as assigned!” Recent projects: I processed recent additions to the John Van Antwerp MacMurray Papers , which included about 1500 photographs taken by MacMurray while Secretary to the U.S. Legation in Peking (1913-1917) as well as 16…

  • Electronic records presentation in PPT

    For those of you who missed my presentation “What I Learned This Summer: A Week at SAA’s First Electronic Records Summer Camp” that I delivered Friday, December 14, 2007, you can download my PowerPoint presentation here. This was for all interested Library staff and was given in conjunction with two other speakers who discussed what…

  • Princeton economics processing project completed

    More than 1,100 feet of records providing insights into 20th-century economics history available   Princeton University’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library has completed a two-year project to process all of its economics-related public policy collections to modern standards. These collections provide a rich resource about American economic thought and policies in the 20th century and…

  • Exhibition features diplomat’s photos from rural China

    Drawing from more than 1,600 photographs taken in rural China between 1913 and 1917, the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University is hosting an exhibition based on the collection of the American diplomat John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1881-1960). Nine Dragon Mountain near T’an Che Ssu, September 1914 (MacMurray Photograph Additions, Volume VI, #22)…

  • Record Retention Guidelines and Schedules Now Available

    The University Archives has posted a working draft of Record Retention Guidelines and Schedules on its website at http://www.princeton.edu/records/ (You will need to enter your NetID to access the site.) These schedules can help you and your staff more easily access record retention and document destruction guidelines for the common sets of records in your…

  • Announcing the Mudd Manuscript Library Blog

    I am pleased to announce the creation of this blog to keep you up-to-date on the news and activities of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. Watch this space or subscribe to our feed for news on new collections, exhibitions, finding aids and other information concerning activities related to the Princeton University Archives and the…