LU Lone Arranger: March 2010

LU Lone Arranger

"Lone arranger" is archivist-speak for someone who works as a solo professional, rather than as a member of a large team of archivists (a generalist rather than a specialist). In this weblog I will share announcements, responses to reference questions that have come my way, and some of my previously unpublished writings relating to Lincoln University and its Archives and Special Collections, located in The Langston Hughes Memorial Library of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania.

About Me

Name: Susan Gunn Pevar

Location: United States

I was the Special Collections Librarian in Lincoln University of PA’s Langston Hughes Memorial Library from August 15 2005 - August 12, 2010, having served as Archivist Assistant in the same department prior to that, starting in 2000. My advanced degrees are an M.L.I.S. (Master of Library and Information Sciences) from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. (history) from West Chester University (PA), and I am a Certified Archivist (by ACA, The Academy of Certified Archivists). My undergraduate major (Bryn Mawr College) was anthropology.

Monday, March 22, 2010

LU yearbooks through 1980 now available online

This morning I completed the final uploads to our digital collection on the HBCU Library Alliance's server of our yearbooks through 1980. This was the final group of materials to be uploaded of the projects funded by our most recent grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The others, described in previous posts, include Board of Trustee and Faculty Minute books, Garnett Literary Society materials, and even the earliest library catalogue of Ashmun Institute and Lincoln University.

Lincoln University's entire collection on this website is organized chronologically, so minute books are intermingled with yearbooks, photographs, etc. We now have 113 items, on six pages of the website (each page has a 20-item limit), so to see all items, it is necessary to navigate through all pages by hitting the "next page" button.

Here, again, is a link to the website: http://contentdm.auctr.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Flupa&CISOSTART=1,1