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Re: Stupid question, probably



I encountered something similar when I started at the archives here at the CIA. The circulation clerk had previously been in charge of the archival materials, and she had gone to some NYS DHP training sessions, but they were aimed at historical societies, etc., and not business archives, and so she had very carefully arranged each incoming collection as a collection, including a major group of papers from someone who had been a trustee almost from the beginning of the school for almost 30 years. I looked at them all and saw that most of them were materials that had been generated by the CIA in an official capacity.

At first I had some misgivings about breaking up the original order of the collections, but then I realized that originally they came from the issuing body within the school, and that should determine their actual place within my files, so I did break up the collections and file them according to a system I devised based on the hierarchy of the CIA at the time I started working here two years ago.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Sokolow" <DSokolow@NSHS.EDU>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:42 AM
Subject: Stupid question, probably


> 'lo all;
>
> I know we've dealt with this before, but my search skills in the archives
of
> the list are not functioning.  I've got a box of materials that were
donated
> by a trustee, and rather than leave it as a unique group (we don't really
> collect from individuals, only departments and facilities) I'm inclined to
> break up the materials by subject matter [snip]  The only materials we got were those connected to the
> institution, so my assumption is that we only saw what related to us, and
> the business or personal correspondence of the donor went elsewhere.


Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Special Collections Librarian/Archivist

Culinary Institute of America
1946 Campus Drive
Hyde Park, NY  12538
(845) 451-1757
c_crawfo@culinary.edu

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