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The article presents the archives collected by architectural historian Esther McCoy in the U.S. The papers contain a wide range of documents including research files, drafts, finished texts and working notes, photographs and slides. It also features the pictures of illuminated structures and designs developed by architect-engineer-contractor Felix Candela and architect Juan O'Gorman which is the snail-form tower of the entrance of house in Mexico. She donated her accumulated archives at the Archives of American Art.

Unlike scholars in many other disciplines, economists show little organized concern for preserving disciplinary archives. Consider the contrast between the community of mathematicians and the community of economists: the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America have embarked on a joint project to preserve official archives and to advise individuals and groups about the preservation of personal and organization-related papers: these two large organizations have recognized that mathematicians' "personal papers and the records of mathematical institutions and organizations are a source for an understanding of history." Generally, donors are asked to sign an agreement that gives property of the papers to the repository; rarely do repositories accept collections on loan or deposit. Before signing such an agreement, one should become familiar with the repository's policies on availability and publication of the papers. Most repositories are willing to attempt to address any concerns one may have, such as a desire to restrict part of the collection to protect the privacy of others.

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP), one of the United States' largest independent research libraries, contains extensive manuscript collections documenting the history of eastern European immigrants and their descendants. Collections on the history of Slovak, Polish, Jewish, Lithuanian, and Russian ethnic groups are especially strong. These holdings were acquired from the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, which merged with HSP in 2002, as well as from post-merger collecting that has continued the Balch Institute's work in documenting, interpreting, and celebrating the United States' diverse ethnic and immigrant heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides an overview on the papers of Mary E. Gawthorpe and focuses on how she influenced the lives of women. Gawthorpe was a British suffragist who was an organizer of the Women's Social and Political Union from 1906 to 1912. She was involved in a number of American social and political movements, including women's suffrage and labor education. Her papers cover the period of her involvement with the militant British suffragettes as well as some of her activities in the United States.

This article focuses on the future of sociology archive as a discipline. The major U.S. university libraries now go to extraordinary lengths and expense to collect the papers of writers, even many who as yet have not been categorically identified as important. There is a serious lesson in this-one might even say, a vital one-for sociology as it confronts an uncertain future. As everyone of a certain age will recall, the saga of Roots, in book and television formats, single-handedly gave American blacks a collective sense of historical importance that up to that point was absent from mass culture. The new Holocaust Museum in Washington is the most eloquent and emotionally wracking contemporary expression of historical memory for public consumption on a grand scale. Other examples can be found at every juncture of the "culture wars" that have been raging in the United States since the 1960s. Every politically self-aware group is supposed to venerate its real or imagined past, both at individual and collective levels, not only because such joint expressions enhance self-conceptions but also owing to the strategic advantage.

The establishment of archival institutions whose primary objective is to collect and preserve the records of labor unions, labor organizations and the personal papers of labor leaders and workers is a relatively recent development in the U.S. and Canada. The National Archives and Record Administration established in 1934 has extensive public records relating to government and labor, as do a number of state archival programs. However, for the most part, up to 1950, collections relating to the labor movement were not given priority by the major archival institutions which concentrated their collecting priorities on the "white male elite" in the U.S. The 1960s witnessed a change in this emphasis, resulting in the establishment of new archival programs devoted to specialized subject areas such as immigration, social welfare, women, minorities, native American Indians, and urban America. Several international unions have established archival programs to preserve their own records, rather than placing them in an archival institution. In addition to new labor archives programs, existing archives have expanded their labor holdings since 1982.

The article offers the biographical information of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Flynn was an organizer of Industrial Workers of the World and a Communist party activist. She launched major strikes in the U.S., however, she was indicted and convicted. She became the first female national chair of the Communist Party, headed the Women's commission, and eventually died in Soviet Union. The collection is divided into eight series and includes 33 reels.

The papers of the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust are one result of the passion of Harvard University Professor Emeritus Eduard F. Sekler. In the 1960s he witnessed the encroachments of progress and the associated threat to buildings in the royal and religious centers of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, and co-founded the Trust in 1990 with others interested in documenting the sites and restoring the buildings. The Trust has restored numerous temples, guest- houses, townhouses and shrines in Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur, and in the process has generated vital documentation including measured drawings, photographs, contextual materials, planning reports and feasibility studies. Threats to this material from the natural environment and political turmoil, as well as longstanding ties to Harvard of several of its members, led the Trust to approach the Frances Loeb Library at the University's Graduate School of Design, where as a result the archive will be housed. The infrastructure developed by Harvard University Library will be used to create a virtual archive available worldwide on the web, as well as a parallel paper archive to be maintained by the Trust in Nepal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Academic Technology's Coursestream system, an online system that helps students build and manage online education and online learning in the U.S. With the use of this system, students can view or listen to live or archived lectures online. In this article, the authors examine the design problems and solutions of this Coursestream system, explore the approaches taken, barriers encountered and the lessons learned. Details on how the Coursestream system works is also provided in this paper.

The main objective of this study is to give greater visibility to the female immigrant journalists who pioneered Portuguese newspapers within the United States. It also contributes to the restoration of their collective memories, lending special attention to some socially significant moments of symbolic value, so as to understand their remarkable roles within the Portuguese-American press. Their stories reveal the efforts of these women who strove to make a career in the world of journalism, and their determination and dignity, despite their socio-cultural origins from immigrant communities with rural roots, mostly in the Azores Islands. The male-dominated society of both the Portuguese diaspora and the USA meant that the inherent discrimination of cultural and social stereotyping relegated female roles to positions of inferiority and submission. Expected to forego higher education, they were often pushed into low-skilled jobs, even while caring for children and working as housewives. Through a qualitative methodology, based on the scarce few available archival resources, the lives of women who worked as editors of the Portuguese press in the United States are set in an historical perspective. Finally, the most representative aspects are presented of two of the most singular and paradigmatic pioneers of Portuguese journalism in the United States, Laurinda C. Andrade and Mary Nunes Silveira, respectively, the editors of A Tribuna Portuguesa (New Jersey) and the Jornal Português (California), through a discussion of their biographies and their professional careers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comments on the MAD2 description standard on the arrangement of estate archives. Terminology defined in MAD2; Information on generic standard of MAD2; Symbolic status of estate archives in British archive practice; Categories in establishing the arrangement of archives; How to set up the group level of the archives; Layout of finding aids for the arrangement of estate records.

In 1977 a project was initiated at the Connecticut's Bridgeport Public Library (BPL) Historical Collections to collect labor and business records of local Bridgeport industries. Throughout the next year, local labor unions and companies were contacted, and labor and business records were requested. The resulting collection comprises manuscript materials on an area of Bridgeport history that had been lacking in the Historical Collections. Many labor historians have since used the collection, and have admired the foresight that BPL used in securing these records. BPL Historical Collections is probably the only institution in the U.S. to house both labor history collection and a circus collection. The project channeled a surge of 20th century material into the Historical Collections, and while the pace of accessioning these materials has slowed, the cataloguing of the collections will continue into the next decade. There are several runs of Bridgeport newspapers available, 1795 to date, many of which are on microfilm after 1861.

This article discusses research opportunities for furthering scholarly understanding of film and television propaganda, particularly in terms of available reference materials often overlooked or underutilized by prior researchers. Stressed are commercial as well as political propaganda resources of importance in various American archival collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses enrollment in colleges and universities in the U.S. and specialization in the sciences as of 2012. The author examines the physics profession in the U.S. since the end of World War II and suggests that quantitative methods can assist in identifying patterns of isolated case studies, and suggests questions and themes that can lead archival research. The article discusses U.S. colleges and universities following World War II with a particular focus upon the transition from amateur natural philosophy to the rise of professional scientists, which the author identifies as the credentialing of the U.S.

The article offers an array of resource materials that may be of value for people interested in the emergency management field or in Homeland security issues. Included are the "Online Dictionary of Disaster Terms," a report "Major Terrorism Events and Their U.S. Outcomes (1988-2005)," and a CD ROM "Surviving Extreme Events."

Overview of major institutions housing Russian émigré collections, primarily in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has had a long and varied industrial history out of which rose, among other things, the first labor party, U.S. President Zachary Taylor's scientific management, and labor activist William H. Sylvis' brand of modern trade unionism. Indeed, at least one labor historian has suggested that Philadelphia was the headquarters of the trade union movement in the 19th century. During the past year, the Urban Archives of Temple University at Pennsylvania, has been involved in a project to survey and acquire business and labor records relating to the city. As a result, the Archives have added several significant collections to its previous holdings. Perhaps the largest labor collection in the Urban Archives is that of the Upholsterers' International Union (UIU), covering the period from 1937 to 1976. The papers comprise approximately 175 linear feet and, while unprocessed, some sections are available for easy access. In particular, the extensive minutes of the Executive Board are a valuable source, containing the actions and correspondence of the board on every UIU resolution, dating from Sal Hoffman's election as president in 1937.

The Fred Lewis Pattee Library of the Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, is a major resource for the study of labor history, the world of work, and industrial relations. In addition to the excellent general library collection of monographs, serials, and Pennsylvania and federal documents, primary sources are concentrated in two special collections: (1) the Pennsylvania Historical Collections and Labor Archives, which also houses the labor oral history collection, and (2) the University Library's Microforms Division. The major record group in the Historical Collections and Labor Archives relates to unionization in the steel industry. Records of the United Steelworkers of America contain a vast array of documents from the union's international headquarters. A large labor oral history collection complements the union records and personal papers in the archives. Not surprisingly, the majority of the interviews are with individuals who have been associated with the history and development of trade unionism in the steel and metals industries.

The Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, was the second labor archive established as a result of the activities of the Association of Southern Labor Historians. This group of historians concerned about the lack of attention paid to the southern working class on the part of labor historians, developed during the 1966 meeting of the Southern Historical Association with the purpose of stimulating study of the southern trade union movement by collecting union records and presenting papers on labor history at meetings concurrent with those of the Southern Historical Association. Dr. George Green of the University of Texas (UT) at Arlington, Texas, returned home from this meeting and began a series of conversations with UT faculty and administrators, as well as Texas labor leaders. These discussions led to the creation in 1967 of the Texas Labor Archives at UT. The Southern Labor Archives is a very young repository. The Archives seeks, however, to become a major regional and national research resource by concentrating its efforts on documenting the development of the labor movement in the South.

Discusses the collection of the Country Music Foundation's Library and Media Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. Record collection; Films and videotapes; Print materials; Primary source materials; Scrapbooks and personal papers of key industry figures; Studio logbooks.

The section presents a revised research which assessed the state of digital imaging at the fine arts library in the U.S. in April 2005. Information on the available art history image collection owned by the Visual Resources Association are discussed. The transition in the state of imaging at the library is analyzed.

The article reports on the release of the James Madison Papers which is available on the Library of Congress' American Memory Web site in the U.S. This papers have consisted of 12,000 items captured in some 72,000 digital images, which had documented the life of the man who had come to be known as the "Father of the Constitution" through correspondence, personal notes, drafts of letters and legislation, an autobiography, legal and financial documents and miscellaneous manuscripts. It has been organized into six series dating from 1723 to 1836, beginning with a selection of his father's letters.

The Ohio Historical Society, during the period 1975 to 1979, conducted the Ohio Labor History Project. The project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ohio American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations and also enjoyed the sponsorship of the Ohio Network of American History Research Centers and the Labor Education and Research Service of the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. The purpose of the project was to locate, inventory, acquire, and preserve labor union records and the personal papers of Ohio trade unionists, as well as to conduct oral history interviews. Since 1979, the effort to preserve Ohio's labor heritage has continued as a major component of the Society's Manuscripts Department. In 1980 the Society published a bibliographic guide to the sources identified and collected by the project. This publication, "Guide to Primary Sources in Ohio Labor History," describes 207 collections housed at each of the eight network centers, eighty-seven additional collections in Ohio union offices, eighty oral history interviews, and ninety-five titles of labor-related publications.

The authors discuss the issue on the relevance of the history of science for its present productivity in the U.S. They state that it narrows the problem of obtaining publications in the digital age. However, they think that there are extra sides to the problem that need additional responses. But archives of online material greatly help historical research and allow such material to be integrated into scientific practice, despite access restrictions to some of them.

Stewardship has always figured predominantly in the mission of libraries. This paper discusses major findings and implications of a study of licensing in U.S. academic libraries. The data suggests that not all libraries are accepting their heritage role — that is, they are not planning for long-term preservation and access for their growing licensed digital collections and resources. Instead they rely increasingly on third parties to perform this fundamental function. This shift may have far-reaching implications for long-term preservation and access to the world's knowledge and cultural and historical record. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses feminist archiving and the legitimization of feminist knowledge. The article looks at the centrality of the archive and practices of archiving in the everyday lives, activism, and scholarship of a generation of feminists born during and after the rise of the second feminist movement in the U.S. that began in the early 1960s. The author examines how archives can be transformed, recreated, and created to accommodate feminist questions and women's collections. The author explains how the younger generation of feminist scholars approach the archive. The article also discusses the relevance of feminism in contemporary times.

Archival repositories are increasingly considering mass digitization as a means of meeting user expectations that materials be available online, remotely. Copyright is frequently noted as a significant obstacle to these efforts, but little empirical data exist on the copyright permissions process in archives. This article reports the findings of a study of the copyright permissions process for the Jon Cohen AIDS Research Collection at the University of Michigan. Specifically, the study sought to reveal how much effort is required to seek copyright permissions, what the results of those efforts would be, and whether or not there were traits of documents or copyright holders that were associated with accept or denial status. The study found that significant time is required to contact and negotiate with rights holders and that the biggest obstacle to getting permission is non-response. Of those requests that get a response, the vast majority are to grant permission. While few of the requests were met with denial, the data suggest that commercial copyright holders are much more likely to deny permission than other types of copyright holders. The data also show that adherence to the common policy of only displaying online those documents with explicit permission will likely result in substantially incomplete online collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Problem: Form-based codes (FBCs) affect the design of cities with rules about building form and location. They are of renewed interest to modern planners, but their history and that of coding reform generally are largely unexplored. Purpose: This research traces the historical lineage of FBCs. Methods: This work is based on archival research on historic codes regulating urban development. I also used secondary sources on coding history, both from the United States and abroad. Results and conclusions: I describe examples from a long history of rules governing building form and placement, considering those intended to produce particular effects on urban form as direct antecedents of modern FBCs. Takeaway for practice: Today's codes are more complex and difficult to implement than their predecessors. Modern FBCs require community participation and visioning to create consensus, whereas in previous historical periods such agreement was taken for granted and many aspects of urban form were dictated by technological and other constraints. Research support: This article is one product of a larger research project on the history of urban codes. The research was funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Further information can be found at http://codesproject.asu.edu/ [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article features some of the notes and comments section that often appeared at the back of various magazines in the U.S. It provides an overview of the "North American Review," which was on the most influential magazines in the U.S. in 1890, and mentions how the editorial department essay of the magazine begins. Moreover, it offers information on the publication of the "Belford's Magazine" during the early 1890s, as well as the types of article published in the journal such as fiction, poetry, book and theater review, and science reports.

The article discusses the research that attempts to explain why gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) teenagers are an underserved population by libraries in the U.S. The research focuses on the under-representation of the GLBTQ in the abundant library collections in the country. The study used questionnaires as a method for the collection of information about the status of GLBTQ library materials, programming and challenges to the published resources. The survey was conducted in two samplings at various libraries. The literature review and the survey suggest that library materials and services for GLBTQ young adults are substandard.

The article assesses the significance of Arthur Schomburg's work in collecting books, manuscripts and art works to the recovery of black culture. His collection documented the experiences of African-descended people. The author argues that Schomburg was interested in the advancement of African-descended peoples. He believes Schomburg created an archive of Afrodiasporic history to challenge the epistemological foundations of racial science and the master narratives of Western history.

The article examines the importance of archival resources in linking, searching and learning about the general history of historically Black colleges and universities in the United States. Despite setbacks and challenges, Black colleges and universities have continued to thrive through government support and philanthropic efforts. The renewed appreciation of historically Black colleges and universities as both a traditional and transformative educational experience for African Americans is taking place.

This article presents a revised research which dealt with the use of digital imaging in the campuses of the University of California in April 2005. The digital imaging collection at Irvine, one of the campuses of the University, is emphasized. The difference between art librarianship and curatorial work in visual resources is examined.

Serials Review visits the Frist Library and Archive at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition to a huge number of sound recordings and many other library and archival materials, the Frist Library and Archive maintains an invaluable periodical collection. Among its holdings are rare regional magazines from the forties and fifties, foreign publications on country and bluegrass, important trade journals, scholarly publications, and fan club newsletters. The collection covers not just country, but a wide range of popular genres. Serials Review learns about the library's users, structure, and procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the accumulation of primary resources for the study of performance in American libraries and museums. History of professional archival management in America that began with the establishment of the National Archives in 1934 and the creation of the Society of American Archivists in 1936; Methodologies used to document the holdings of performing-arts collections; Ways in which librarians and archivists are dealing with issues of creating data structures for the Internet.

The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA), Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and the Head Office of State Archives in Warsaw are working on a research project for the purpose of creating an up-to-date electronic guide to significant Polish archival collections in the U.S.A. and Canada. This electronic guide should help scholars and interested persons in locating special collections, libraries and archives through the Internet. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The use of historical sources in geomorphological analysis has had a long tradition in geography and is now undergoing a resurgence. A substantial body of data is available, and the search for it should extend from the National Archives to state and company records and county and city offices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Encourages a deeper study of the American indian by using national archives in the custody of the Archivist of the United States. Adjustments to the scholar's research methodology to optimize the use of the records; Consideration of the absence of any organizational scheme in the record keeping; Identification of the basic types of archival series; Understanding the different origins of archival resources.