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Accessing Hidden Collections:“Adventures in Research”

Sandy RodriguezNovember 3, 2009

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Unprocessed or uncataloged materials

Survey of 99 North American research universities--

• 15% of printed volumes• 27% of manuscripts• 35% video• 37% audio

Judith M. Panitch, Special Collections in ARL Libraries: Results of the 1998 Survey. Sponsored by the ARL Research Libraries Committee, ARL, Washington, DC, 2002.

Hidden Collections

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Miller Nichols Library

• Maps• Historical Documents• Vertical File (clippings)• Broadsides• Sheet music• Piano rolls• Broadcast transcription

discs

• Cylinders• Open-reel tapes• Music box discs• Cassette tapes• 45 rpm discs• 78 rpm discs• ETC.

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Why “expose” them?

“By recovering things from the past or by looking at the experience differently, we can see how to think and to act differently in the future. The past can challenge us with eloquent, brilliant, troubling material that widens our present experience and wisdom. It provides perspectives to engage, accounts to cross-examine, and opportunities to hone skills of empathy, compassion, and reflection.”

--Ray Rosenzweig (with David Thelen), The Presence of the Past:Popular Uses of History in American Life.

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Where are you when you use the library website?

86% of users are connecting fromoutside of the library.

Survey conducted from Aug. 24-Sept. 11

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J. David Goldin Collection

“The man who saved radio”

Photograph courtesy of Mark Mattison

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National AudioVisual Conservation Center (NAVCC), Culpeper, VA, May 27, 2009

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Efforts to Provide AccessMellon Foundation: Jan. 1, 2008-Dec. 31, 2010

1 Special Project Cataloger3 Library Information Specialists2 Students

GOAL: Eliminate barriers for discovery by providing a description of each disc and its contents online (Worldcat and Merlin)

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From Listening

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Range of Programs• Bud’s Bandwagon (DJ)

• United Nations Today (news)

• Excursions in Science (educational)

• Betty & Bob (soap opera)

• Freedom Forum (panel discussions)

• Help Yourself to Health (medical)

• Guest Star (variety)

• Wake up, America! (debates)

• Proudly We Hail (radio dramas)

• Jerry of the Circus (children’s drama)

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“Adventures in Research”

Adventures in Research, Program 362, “Sir William’s Rocket” (1949) Find in Merlin

Apollo 11 Launch, July 16, 1979. Great Images in NASA. Available at http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/index.html (viewed Oct. 18, 2009)

Photograph courtesy of NASA.

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“Excursions in Science”Excursions in Science, Program no. 544, “Library

machines” (1951)

UNIVAC at Franklin Life Insurance Co., 1961. Franklin Life Insurance Company. Available at http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-u3.html#UNIVAC-I (viewed Oct. 18, 2009)

Photograph courtesy of Franklin Life Insurance Company.

Find in Merlin

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“Beyond Victory”Beyond Victory, No. 177, “The World and Thomas

Edison” (1947)

Thomas Alva Edison, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, ca. 1922. Library of Congress. Available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html (viewed Oct. 19, 2009)

Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Find in Merlin

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“Wake up, America!”

Wake up, America!, Program 342 “What do we mean by un-American activities?” (1946)

HUAC hearing, Oct. 21, 1947. Library of Congress. Available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html (viewed Oct. 18, 2009)

Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Find in Merlin-Part 1Find in Merlin-Part 2

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“A Look at Australia”A Look at Australia, Program no. 4017, “Keeping a

Nation Healthy” (1945)

Australia. CC Image courtesy of Ssolbergj

Find in Merlin

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VD Radio Project, Program no. 6, “Crossroads Ballad” sung narration by Tom Glazer (1948)

Clarksdale, MSCC Image courtesy of JMazzolaa on Flickr

Find in Merlin

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“America in the Summer of 1941”America in the Summer of 1941, Prog. No. 1, “Delaware

and the Eastern Shore of Maryland”

Brooks. Plowing in Maryland, Apr. 1936. Library of Congress. Available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html (viewed Oct. 20, 2009)

Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Find in Merlin

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“The United Nations Today”

The United Nations Today, June 26, 1950

Spencer, R.V. With her brother on her back a war weary Korean girl tiredly trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea, June 9, 1951. Available at http://imcom.korea.army.mil/ (viewed Oct. 20, 2009)

Photograph courtesy of IMCOM Korea.

Find in Merlin

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“Freedom’s People”

Freedom’s People, Program no. 3, “Contributions to sports” (1941)

Jesse Owens, 1936. Available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html (viewed Oct. 19, 2009)

Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Find in Merlin

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“I’m an American!”“I’m an American!” program, Program no. 7 (1944)

Turner, Oren Jack. Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, c1947. Library of Congress. Available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html (viewed Oct. 19, 2009)

Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress.

“Science has provided the possibility of liberation for human beings from hard labor, but science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals…

…the fate of humanity is entirely dependent upon its moral development.”

Find in Merlin

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Go to the “Voices of World War II” online

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Marr Sound Archive LaBudde Dept. of Special Collections

Hours:Monday - Friday

9:00 am - 4:30 pm

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Questions?

Contact Information

Sandy Rodriguezrodriguezsan@umkc.edu816-235-2229

Acknowledgements

Sound clip selectors:Patricia AltamiranoTimothy GieringerMatthew Scrivner

Broadcast engineer:Scott Middleton