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University of Chicago Online Finding Aids

The University of Chicago Library is announcing the launch of its new Archives and Manuscripts Finding Aid site:  http://ead.lib.uchicago.edu.  This site offers a searchable database of EAD-encoded finding aids providing access to archives and manuscript collections in the Special Collections Research Center.  Finding aids for more than 4,000 additional collections will be added to the database as they are converted to digital form. 

 University of Chicago finding aids are being encoded using XMetal and a locally developed program.  They are stored and delivered by Software AG's Tamino XML server.  The site was developed jointly by the Special Collections Research Center and the Digital Library Development Center of the University of Chicago Library.

The range of collections now accessible through the initial set of finding aids includes the papers of philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, social welfare reformers Edith Abbott and Grace Abbott, philosopher Richard P. McKeon, Aspen Institute founder Walter Paepcke, urban sociologist Ernest W. Burgess, educational psychologist Allison Davis, cultural anthropologist Fred Eggan, athletic coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells.

The sciences are represented by collections including the papers of zoologists Alfred E. Emerson and Frank R. Lillie, physiologists Franklin C. McLean and Heinrich Kl�ver, and physicists Enrico Fermi and Samuel K. Allison, as well as records of post-World War II atomic scientistsorganizations, including the Association of Los Alamos Scientists, the Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists, and the Association of Scientists for Atomic Education.

 As the University of Chicago Library enlarges the new database, it is also sharing its finding aids with the RLG Archival Resources database and the Physics History Finding Aids database of the American Institute of Physics.

Comments and suggestions are welcome and can be directed to Daniel Meyer ([log in to unmask]), Associate Director and University Archivist in the Special Collections Research Center; Eileen Ielmini ([log in to unmask]), Head Processing Archivist; or Kathleen Feeney ([log in to unmask]), Projects Archivist.

 

Kathleen Feeney
Projects Archivist
Special Collection Research Center
University of Chicago Library