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IMLS Archival Fellow: Brenda Tindal
Brenda Tindal is one of nine archival fellows chosen from a very competitive applicant pool to participate in Increasing African American Diversity in Archives: The HistoryMakers’ Fellowship, Mentoring, Training and Placement Institute, described by Harvard University Professor and pre-eminent African American scholar Henry Louis Gates as“a wonderfully innovative program.” The program addresses the “appalling low…
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Meet Mudd’s Jimmy Lu
Name: Jimmy Lu ’13 Major: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Title/Duties: Special Collections Student Assistant. I copy and scan documents to fulfill patron orders. I deliver files to offices that are too valuable to be sent via campus mail. On occasion, I also watch over the library’s reading room, lest patrons misbehave. Recent projects: Digitization of…
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“She Flourishes:” Chapters in the History of Princeton Women
The Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University invites visitors to view the new exhibit, "She Flourishes: Chapters in the History of Princeton Women," which documents the struggles and accomplishments of women scholars, students, staff and other women associated with the institution. The exhibit is open now through the end of August, 2012. The…
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“She Flourishes:” Chapters in the History of Princeton Women.
Mudd Manuscript Library’s new exhibition features women at Princeton, from the days of Evelyn College (1887-1897), mainly attended by daughters of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary professors, to the appointment of Shirley Tilghman as the first woman president of Princeton University in 2001. For the first time our exhibit is accompanied by historical film…
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Johnny Sylvester ’37 and Babe Ruth
Baseball in October is often marked by premier teams, clutch plays, and memorable moments. One such moment came during Game Four of the 1926 World Series. In that game on Wednesday, October 6th, the St. Louis Cardinals hosted the New York Yankees and their great player Babe Ruth. Ruth would shine for the Yankees, hitting…
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American Civil Liberties Union Records Processing Project Update
The Mudd Library has reached an important mile stone in the ACLU Records Processing Project: completing the collection inventories. We now have a list of what is in each of the 2,500 boxes in the collection. These boxes remain closed to research until July 1, 2012 pending a review for restricted materials. However, researchers wishing…
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Meet Mudd’s Brandon Joseph
Name: Brandon Joseph ‘12 Major: History, with Certificates in African American Studies and American Studies Title/Duties: Project Archivist Assistant. It is my responsibility to help the archivists at Mudd arrange and process collections. My duties include collecting details related to the contents of collections, rehousing and arranging collections, and creating folder lists for finding aids…
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Meet Mudd’s Q Miceli
Name: Q Miceli ’12 Major: Religion, with certificates in Creative Writing (Poetry) and Judaic Studies Title/Duties: Technical Services Student Worker. My duties include sorting current University-generated publications as they arrive at Mudd in a process called “accessioning;” entering doctoral dissertations into a database (I used to pack dissertations on CDs to ship to ProQuest, before…
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Annual Report 2011: Goals for Fiscal Year 2012
To finalize our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of our goals for fiscal year 2012: Complete NHPRC-funded ACLU processing grant Collection development: continue to build the Policy collections through donations and efforts such as the Baker Oral History Project Implement Aeon for registration and other public service functions Continue high…
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Annual Report 2011: Exhibitions, Public Relations, and Outreach
As a continuation of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a description of our work in exhibitions, public relations, and outreach: The John F. Kennedy exhibition assembled by Nicole Milano in August 2010 was very well-received, so much that we extended its run through the end of August 2011. In addition, in…
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