Delaney Library E-News about Archives
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- Winter 2008 -
 Archival Booster Award
Collections newly
described
New additions to collections
New digital images
online
Archives personnel
news
Archival volunteers |
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Archival Booster Award Winter 2008 recipient
honored!
Since retiring to this area two years ago, Dr. Bruce
Howard has devotedly (and, choosing a word that
archivists use as a great compliment!) doggedly worked
on a variety of archival arrangement and description
projects in the Delaney Library, including
Southwest maps, Southwest
postcards, railroad photos, records of the earliest
patients of
Mercy Hospital, records of
political campaigns and of the
United Pueblos Agency, and currently a large
collection of papers about
Four Corners environmental issues. He has
contributed more than 430 hours of work to the Center.
Whatever the type of document, Bruce always enjoys
reconstructing a story of some special human interest.
We presented Bruce with the Winter 2008 award to thank
him for his faithfulness, cheerfulness, and initiative
in making a great variety of historically significant
materials available for researchers far and wide.
Previous recipients of the
Archival Booster Award
are:
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Marilyn Brown,
President of the League of Women Voters
of La Plata County and volunteer
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Nina
Heald Webber,
donor
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Ruth Cross,
volunteer
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Jan Lips,
volunteer
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Diana Novara,
former archival staff
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Paula Wiseman and Bud Davis,
volunteers
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Esther Greenfield,
volunteer
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Read
more news (about the Center as a whole) at
http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/NewsLetterCurrent.pdf
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New Online Resources
(click here for the online inventories home page)
We are also
pleased to present four more subject-based pathfinders.
These are especially helpful when doing research, because
they can facilitate bridging the researcher's subject-based
inquiry with the Center's provenance-based method of
archivally arranging collections by the name of the person
or entity that created or used them.
Highlights of Some Recent
Archival Acquisitions at the Center
A new collection: the Jeanne Englert
Animas-La Plata opposition papers. Legal
documents, correspondence and newspaper clippings regarding
the efforts to halt the Animas-La Plata Project. The
donor, Timothy Englert, the widower of Jeanne Englert, has
also provided funding to assist with the arrangement and
description of this important collection.
For the
Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado
photograph collection:
early views of Durango,
early 1880s. Two rare and delightful cabinet cards.
New Digital Images
Accessible Online
(click here for the digital images home page)
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The
Southwest Colorado pages of the 1893 book,
Mines and
mining men of Colorado, historical, descriptive
and pictorial; an account of the principal producing
mines of gold and silver, the bonanza kings and
successful prospectors, the picturesque camps and
thriving cities of the Rocky Mountain region, by
John G. Canfield.
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Durango photo sampler:
historical photos of
Durango and vicinity, selected
from the Center's collections.
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Selected
Union
Carbide Western Slope of Colorado uranium (etc.) mining
maps.
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Hopi language
booklet: Hopi vocabulary for the growing student, by
Darlene J. Leslie, 2006. Ms. Leslie was a Fort Lewis College
student and a Native American Intern in the summer of 2006.
One of her projects was to assist with collection
development in Hopi language preservation as well as assist
with Hopi language materials. Digitized by Native
American Professional Archival Intern Renee Morgan
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News
of Archives Staff, Students, and Volunteers
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On February 21, 2008,
President Brad Bartel announced that the next Director of
the Center of Southwest Studies is Dr. Kevin Britz.
He is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania. He has served as the Vice
President for Programs and Senior Curator at the High Desert
Museum in Bend, Oregon and the Deputy Director of the
Stearns County Historical Society in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
He earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University
of Arizona. Dr. Britz is scheduled to begin with Fort Lewis
College on July 1.
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I (Todd Ellison) have
announced my retirement from Fort Lewis College, effective
March 1. Currently a full tenured professor in the
Libraries, I started work at the Center
of Southwest Studies
in 1991 as the first archivist of Fort Lewis College.
I was privileged to establish an archival/special collections program
that now serves a worldwide community. This repository is without equal in a huge geographical region
spanning hundreds of miles in any direction. Always
with the benefit of talented and willing co-workers,
students, volunteers, consultants, and other history-minded
individuals, I was able to initiate the Center's website
(the largest website of Fort Lewis College) in 1997, assist
in coordinating the design of the new building in the late
'90s, conduct the move of the collections into the building
in 2000/01, and develop the databases that formed the core
of the Center's collection management system. I want
to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped
make the archives what it is today. It has been a joy
to watch this program grow and blossom through all of these
17 years. I am available for freelance archival
consulting in the following areas (email me at
crossover@ellison.net
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Pictured
above is Fort Lewis College History Professor Duane Smith, using
a photo collection at the Delaney Southwest Research Library.
Dr. Smith has played a monumental role in attracting many of the
collections that have been donated to the Center of Southwest
Studies.
Listen to voices from
38 years ago:
Center founder
Robert Delaney
talks about the Center of Southwest Studies and its collections
(including the Rio Grande Southern Railroad
records, now available) on February 26, 1970.
This 30-minute interview was part of a KREZ television program entitled Assignment 6, hosted
by Delaney and former state Representative and long-time
resident of the San Juan Basin, Arthur Wyatt. Digitized from the
master reel to reel audiotape.
It is part of the
Fort Lewis College oral history collection at the Center of Southwest
Studies.
A now-familiar winter scene, 84
years ago:
Snow slide
at Green Mt. Mill, 1924. (Western Colorado Power Company photo
collection.)
Thursday evening hours at the Delaney Library
Does your
work during the weekdays keep you from making it to the Center? No problem!
The Delaney Library on Thursday evenings until 7 (and the museum
galleries are also open on Sunday afternoons from 1 to 4). Parking on campus
is free on weekends and after 5 pm on weekdays!
(Click here for current updates on hours at the Center.)
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Archival volunteers at the Delaney Library
The Delaney Library is fortunate to have the contributions
of many volunteers, interns, and student archival
assistants. Archival arrangement and description is a
labor-intensive activity. The hundreds of hours these
dedicated individuals contribute each year makes a huge
difference in the amount of details we are able to display
on the Internet for the benefit of researchers worldwide. Nearly every on-line collection inventory shows the
influence of these workers. Students with work-study
funding are also encouraged to apply for this archival
experience.
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Volunteer at the Delaney Library!
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This is a publication of the
Center of
Southwest Studies,
Fort Lewis College
Todd Ellison, Certified Archivist & Professor
(and editor of this e-newsletter)
1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301-3999
Phone 970/247-7126 FAX 970/247-7422
Center of SW Studies website:
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