Currently I’m working with Kerry Mitchell, one of our student assistant archivists, on reprocessing the Arena Stage records. The collection consists of approximately 675 boxes of scripts, correspondence, photographs, and audiovisual materials, so even with two people working on it, it has been a time consuming and complex project. While going through the “Arena Stage […]
Inspired by the recent article “When Archival Description Meets Digital Object Metadata: A Typological Study of Digital Archival Representation” (GMU access only) by Jane Zhang and Dayne Mauney in the latest issue of the American Archivist (Spring/Summer 2013) I decided to take a look at and share how we at SC&A link finding aids and […]
SC&A has been made aware of a recording of a program of September 21, 2011 featuring C-Span founder Brian Lamb and George Mason University faculty member Richard Norton Smith. Norton Smith was a featured author on Lamb’s television program, Booknotes, on February 21, 1993. The Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection is part of George Mason […]
George Mason University Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) and Digital Projects and Systems departments have created a new resource by which users can learn about the history of the university through narrative essays and digital objects, such as audio and video files, photographs, and textual documents. George Mason University: A History was built on the Omeka […]
What issues were on the minds of Northern Virginians during the beginning of the 1980s? A collection of public service broadcasts recorded by George Mason University’s GMU Radio offers some clues. “Frankly Speaking” was a series of weekly radio shows which featured discussions about current topics of interest. A recently-processed collection, the “Frankly Speaking” Radio […]
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