by Nicola Mantzaris, White House Photographs Metadata Cataloger In May of this year, several colleagues began specialized training in name authority cataloging under the tutelage of Jerry Simmons from the National Archives and Records Administration’s Office of Innovation. Early instruction covered the basics of personal name cataloging in NARA’s Description and Authority Service (DAS),…
Category: Archival Outreach
Bunkyo Gakuin University Students Research the Ernest Hemingway Collection
by Stephen Plotkin, Textual Collections Archivist One of the best things about working in research is having somebody whom you first knew as a hard-working student come back as a full-fledged professional scholar. Professor Kaori Sugimoto Fairbanks first came to visit the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in 2000.…
Introducing the Updated Finding Aid (Guide) to the Ernest Hemingway Papers
by Stacey Chandler, Reference Archivist, and Christina Lehman Fitzpatrick, Processing Archivist The Kennedy Library recently released an updated finding aid (guide) to the Ernest Hemingway Personal Papers to improve organization and to enable better access to the collection. We are excited to share the results of this work: nine separate series (that function like…
“Archiving Your Peace Corps History”: A Presentation at the 2013 Peace Corps Connect Conference
by Christina Lehman Fitzpatrick, Processing Archivist I was pleased to participate in the Peace Corps Connect conference held in Boston on June 28-29. This event was the second annual gathering of the National Peace Corps Association. Because President Kennedy established the Peace Corps in 1961, the Kennedy Library has several archival collections pertaining to…