1. No More Hidden Collections;
Establishing online archive research guides
at Barnard College
Anna Bernhard
Practicum Spring 2012
2. Today I am going to share…
• A little background about Barnard Archive & Library
• My intentions and initial project ideas for the
practicum at Barnard
• My contributions to the archive website’s redesign
• My inspirations for my archive research guides
• Live demonstration of my Social Change Research
Guide and a demonstration of how it works with
pre-existing digital archive tools
3. A little Founded in 1889. Barnard College is a small
background… private liberal arts women’s college. It has a
student body of about 2,300.
The archives was founded in 1963 as the
permanent repository of the college’s records
Barnard College Archives is a unit of Barnard
Library and Academic Information Services
and is under the auspices of Academic
Research and Instruction Support.
The Barnard College Archives has one full
time staff person, the college archivist Marcia
Bassett, and one part time person, image
archivist Astrid Cravens. Otherwise, the
archives depends on student workers and
interns.
4. My intentions…
• Gain experience in instruction
• Gain experience in outreach
• Create or assist to create something that would
be of lasting value to myself and the Barnard
Archive
• Have my project be tailored to compliment
Barnard and its unique collections
• Be able to complete it within a semester
5. Some initial ideas…
• Adding archival materials onto librarians’ subject guides
• Creating archive resource guides unique to a particular
class
7. Other archival resource guides that influenced
the format of the Barnard guides
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/archives/collections/guides.html
http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/umarmot/?page_id=544
http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/subject/index.shtml
