{"id":6041,"date":"2016-12-05T13:48:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T18:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2016-12-08T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:25:31","slug":"robert-clark-papers-and-the-process-of-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=6041","title":{"rendered":"Robert Clark papers and the Process of Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert (Bob) Clark was born in May 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a B.S. and M.A. while studying journalism and politics. He went on to become a Washington and White House correspondent for ABC News throughout the 1950’s and 1970’s, but continued to work for ABC until the 1990’s. Most notably, he covered and witnessed the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. Later in his life, around the 1990’s, he was a guest commentator on C-SPAN. Bob Clark passed away in December 2015.<\/p>\n

I have been fortunate enough to process this collection in its entirety. This is something I have wanted to do for a little while now. I am currently the Research Services Assistant, which means my main tasks are to assist researchers and answer questions they have along with updating our social media sites. This role is a\u00a0graduate student position here at GMU and I have worked here since August of 2015. I have been lucky enough to pick up other tasks\u00a0within my position, and processing is just one of those things that I have wanted to learn more about. Since this was a small donation, it was a great collection to start with. The donors, Douglas and Sandy First, were neighbors of Robert Clark and had organized his papers into five boxes which were then given to us. My first step\u00a0was to re-folder all of the papers. Some were already in folders but many papers were placed in the boxes. I took papers out of old folders and placed them into new, acid-free folders. Other papers had to be organized into smaller sections based on the subject.\u00a0There ended up being so many added folders that I had to add another box.<\/p>\n

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Empty boxes that the Robert Clark papers were in when they were donated.<\/p><\/div>\n

Once all of the papers were in new folders, I arranged them into Hollinger boxes. Most of the documents were already organized by subject. We typically keep all papers and materials in the same order they were donated in, if we can, so that SCRC staff and researchers can better understand the context and intent of the donor or author.<\/p>\n

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Folders from all six boxes were then reorganized into these nineteen Hollinger boxes.<\/p><\/div>\n

All folders have the collection title, “Robert Clark”, on the top left side. The middle of the folder is left for a brief title which explains the content, date, and sometimes the sort of materials that are in each folder. The right side always lists the box number followed by the folder number. In the image below, the\u00a0folder says 8.1, meaning box 8, folder 1. This makes it easy for researchers to view our finding aid and know where to look for information and which boxes to request. It also helps keep\u00a0everything in order. At this point, I had a pretty good idea of the contents of these boxes. I knew that I wanted to organize them into six series: JFK assassination<\/a>, Politics<\/a>, Foreign relations<\/a>, Domestic issues<\/a>, Personal files<\/a>, and ABC files<\/a>. But first, an inventory had to be made.<\/p>\n

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The boxes are then organized into series by subject. Folders are labeled with the collection name, a description of what the folder contains, and a number which lists the box and folder.<\/p><\/div>\n

An inventory\u00a0is the first step to creating a finding aid which will later be uploaded to the website for people\u00a0to search. The only information required for this step is box and folder number, title, and date of materials in each folder.<\/p>\n

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All of the information is placed into Excel to create an inventory of the materials to eventually be used for making the Finding Aid.<\/p><\/div>\n

We currently use Archivists’ Toolkit for our collections. After the boxes are organized and the Excel inventory was created, I filled in the necessary information such as the description and container summary. I\u00a0listed the six series that I thought best organized the collection and I added notes about copyright, restrictions, the donation and other details that go on our finding aids. Once that is completed, I\u00a0hit the “Export EAD” button, which saves the file so it can be opened in Notetab and coded for our website. When all the coding is done, an html file is created and is made available to the public.<\/p>\n

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Archivists’ Toolkit file for Robert Clark<\/p><\/div>\n

The final step was to print out labels, place them on the boxes, and shelve them in our stacks with the other collections. Now the Robert Clark papers<\/a> collection can be searched online, used for research, or used by SCRC staff for social media posts!<\/p>\n

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Putting labels on the new boxes before shelving.<\/p><\/div>\n

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To search the collections\u00a0held at Special Collections Research Center, go to our website<\/a>\u00a0and browse the finding aids by subject or title. You may also e-mail\u00a0us at speccoll@gmu.edu or call 703-993-2220 if you would like to\u00a0schedule an appointment, request materials, or if you have questions. Appointments are not necessary to view collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert (Bob) Clark was born in May 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a B.S. and M.A. while studying journalism and politics. He went on to become a Washington and White House correspondent for ABC News throughout the 1950’s and 1970’s, but continued to work for ABC until the 1990’s. 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