the archon ultimatum at the special collections research center, swem library

The ARCHON Ultimatum at The ARCHON Ultimatum at the SCRC / Swem Librarythe SCRC / Swem Library

Presentation at the MARAC Spring Conference, 2009

Charleston, WVUte Schechter

Record for a Manuscript collection in SIRSI and Virginia Heritage

Examples of two different Archives card catalogs

Archives and Manuscript card catalogs

No lack of finding tools…

Archives accession forms

Archives accession forms by dept. and by type of material

Accession form front and back,Accession form front and back,handwritten and typed cardhandwritten and typed card

Accession form used as basis for data entry into ARCHON

Wendy entering data into ARCHON from accessioning forms and Jack

creating one of many PDFs.

ARCHON record with single PDF

ARCHON record showing multiple PDFs in the description field

Example of ‘bad data’ imported from Access on the left

(staff display only)

““View Box List” takes you to View Box List” takes you to the VHP finding aid.the VHP finding aid.

Our Manuscript finding-aid binders from the pre-ARCHON days…

Examples of Location Module (Staff Examples of Location Module (Staff Display) and Accessioning Module Display) and Accessioning Module

(Public Display)(Public Display)

Patron and Flat Stanley enjoying the benefits of ARCHON!

Our Manuscript finding-aid binders from the pre-ARCHON days…

The ARCHON Ultimatum(to be continued…)