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Re: photos in dissertations. A suggestion for identifying



Roy, how about getting some of the university professors to require x hours
of 'university service' to the archives, or as a class project.  If you
could get a group of students sitting around a big table with tall stacks of
acid free book markers and sharp pencils, who could go through the
dissertations quickly,  intellectually gain from the experience, and receive
class credit.

For three weeks this spring, I had 10 students sitting in my office -- not
all day, but coming and going-- they were going through bound volumes of
Hotel Monthly (1893 - 1959) to locate any sort of information about hotels
in Houston,  or about any of today's major companies.

I created the bookmarks by slicing up a bunch of acid free folders that were
being 'recycled' -- after down-sizing one collection from legal size
document boxes to letter-size, of course, the folders had to be changed.

After about 30 minutes of working quietly, I asked what they found
interesting about their volumes and that started off a wonderful discussion.
By sharing, we learned from each other, the work went quickly, and we all
enjoyed the project immensely.  And, the students received credit for the
class assignment.

Cathleen
___________________________________________
Cathleen Baird, M.A., Director & Archivist
Hospitality Industry Archives
229  C.N. Hilton Hotel & College St., UH
Houston, TX 77204-3028
Tel: 713.743.2470 Fax: 713.743.2581 E-mail: CBaird@uh.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Webb [mailto:rwebb@LIBRARY.UTAH.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 11:05 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: photos in dissertations. was: Re: OT:dissertation vs. book


Does OT mean off-topic then?  How about TOT for totally off-topic,
or maybe BOT for back on topic?  OOAT for off on a tangent?,
which is what I'm doing now...

I know, that was last week's funny.  Anyway, the topic of
dissertations made me think of our large collections thereof;
virtually every one ever produced by students at the University of
Utah, since the late 1800s.  Whole ranges full of them.  One thing
I've noticed in a surprising number of them, as I pull them for
requests at the reference desk, is how often they have real photos
glued in.  I've tried to get a project going in our spare time--as if!, as
my eldest would say--to locate those and scan them all.  A lot of
them are in the hard sciences but there are others as well.  One I
remember in particular was done in the early '30s about the history
of the gilsonite industry, and was full of photos taken at the time,
photos that are found nowhere else. The problem is I don't really
have the staff to sit down and thumb through them, which is what
you have to do, and identify those with photos.  I've tried to interest
the Western Americana folks but like me, they don't have the staff
to do this.  A good grant project if I ever had time to research and
write a grant!






Roy Webb, C.A.
Multimedia Archivist
Special Collections
J. Willard Marriott Library
295 South 1500 East
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah   84112
(801) 585-3073  //  fax (801) 585-3976
rwebb@library.utah.edu

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