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Selections from Women’s World Banking Records Now Available Online
By Amanda Ferrara Mudd Manuscript Library is pleased to announce the completion of the Women’s World Banking records digitization project. Women’s World Banking (WWB), founded in 1979, is a not-for-profit international financial institution, committed to facilitating the participation of low-income women entrepreneurs in the modern economy at the local level. The WWB’s records document the…
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New Public Policy Accessions: May – June 2011
There’s a scene in a documentary about the French philosopher Jacques Derrida where Derrida visits UC Irvine (where he had donated his personal papers). The philosopher, going through the rows of newly-processed collections, comments that the gray archival boxes on the shelves look like little gravestones. For someone whose best-known axiom was that "there is…
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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…
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