the archon ultimatum at the special collections research center, swem library
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In 2007, the Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library at the College of William and Mary implemented Archon to manage its manuscript and university archives collections. This is the slideshow presented as part of the session “Where do we go from here? A Look at implementing Archon” by Ute Schechter at the Spring 2009 meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) in Charleston, WV. The text that accompanies this slideshow is also available here.TRANSCRIPT
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…)