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