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Adopt a Collection in Archives and
Special Collections
Thomas Wilsted, Head, Archives & Special Collections and Director, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
The holdings of Archives and Special Collections are enriched regularly by the acquisition of materials for both existing and new collections. These materials, frequently unique, must be processed before they can become useful for scholarly research. Staff members, student assistants, interns and volunteers work continually to keep up with the flow into Archives and Special Collections but, despite their best efforts, they never "catch up" with the work loads. Exciting and valuable collections can wait for years before they are made available to researchers. To hasten the day when unprocessed collections become available for public use, Archives and Special Collections is seeking bibliographic parents who wish to "adopt a collection." Individuals who participate in this program will provide some or all of the funding required to carry out the processing steps described below. In return for their support, donors will be acknowledged in all online catalog and finding aid records as well as in all publicity pertaining to the collection. Participants may select a collection and subject area that is of interest to them. Archives and Special Collections collects broadly, and there are many subject areas from which to choose. Major areas of collecting interest include the Alternative Press Collection, the Connecticut Business Collection, the Children's Literature Collection, the 20th Century American Literary Collections, and the University Archives. Preparing a collection for public use requires many labor-intensive steps: all items are identified and arranged; any item requiring preservation treatment is noted; materials are transferred to acid-free folders and boxes; a catalog entry for the online catalog is created, and a finding aid is written and placed on the library's Web page. Listed below are just a few of the opportunities available for support. The cost to process a given collection is a function to several factors, including size, complexity, and supplies. The costs listed here estimate the requirement for both staff time and supplies. If you would like to consider bibliographic parenthood, please call Thomas Wilsted at 860-486-4501.
Alternative Press
Connecticut Citizen's Action Group
Administrative records, publications, reports, and other
materials pertaining to the activities of the organization. Size
173 linear feet; Cost $27,680-34,600 labor, $3,806 supplies
Connecticut Business
Allyn Fuller Collection Paper records,
photographs and publications pertaining to the Central New
England Railroad Size 4.5 linear feet; Cost $720-900 labor, $100
supplies
Children's Literature
Each collection in the Northeast Children's Literature Collection
typically contains sketches, drafts, manuscripts, illustrations,
proofs, galleys and published books of an individual author or
illustrator. Supplies are slightly more expensive because most
collections contain significant quantities of oversize items.
Cyndy Szekeres
Size 9 linear feet; Cost $1,440-1,800 labor, $360 supplies Joseph
A. Smith
Size 10 linear feet; Cost $1,600-2,000 labor, $400 supplies
University Archives
Athletics Films Football and basketball films from about 1930
through 1980 Size 150 reels Cost $4,800-6,000 labor; $1,350
supplies
20th Century American Literature
Bookstore Press Records Small press publisher of poetry,
children's books and cookbooks, located in Lenox, Massachusetts,
1971-1976. Authors and illustrators include Ruth Krauss, Paul
Metcalf, David Kheridian, Sam Cornish and Maurice Sendak.
Primarily correspondence, some manuscripts of books and poems,
and audiotapes of readings and interviews. Size 2.5 linear feet
Cost $400-500 labor, $55 supplies
Tom Clark Papers American poet, fiction writer and biographer,
b. 1941. Includes manuscripts of poetry, fiction, biographies and
baseball writing, notebooks, artwork, correspondence, research
notes, interviews and drafts of Clark's Charles Olson: The
Allegory of a Poet's Life (NY: Norton, 1991). Size 62 linear feet
Cost $9,920-12,400 labor, $1,364 supplies
Cid Corman Papers Poet, editor and translator, b. 1924. Incoming and outgoing correspondence, some poetry manuscripts. Correspondents include Donald Allen, Nicholas Dean, Vincent Ferrini, Stephen Jonas, LeRoi Jones, Jeremy Prynne and letters to David Giannini, Louis Rowan and Bernice Weiss. Size 1 linear foot Cost $160-200 labor; $22 supplies
Joel Oppenheimer Papers American poet and journalist, b. 1930. Student of Charles Olson; columnist for the Village Voice; poetry editor; first director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery; director of the New York Teachers' and Writers' Collaborative; Poet-in-Residence, City College of New York, Rochester Institute of Technology, New England College. Literary manuscripts and correspondence with publishers and associates; professional and teaching files, literary ephemera, and recordings. Size 105 linear feet Cost $16,800-21,000 labor, $2,310 supplies
Oyez Press Records Publisher of literary books and broadsides
based in Berkeley, California. Authors included Robert Duncan,
David Meltzer, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov,
William Everson, Mary Norbert, and others. Includes manuscripts
and correspondence from authors published; business records;
proofs and other production media; unsolicited manuscripts;
promotional ephemera, reviews, etc.
Size 34 linear feet
Cost $5,440-6,800 labor, $748 supplies
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