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Libraries and Archives
The Yale University Archives seeks to collect documentation concerning libraries and special collections at Yale. Specific topics of interest include:
- Acquisition and collection development strategies and policies
- Collection management and preservation strategies and policies
- Access, use, and outreach
- Strengths of Yale collections
- Provenance and value of library holdings
- New policy, procedure, initiative development in any of the above areas
Archival Records
Examples of records of interest to the Archives, regardless of format:
- Accessioning/acquisition, provenance, and disposition records in Special Collections
- Annual reports from libraries, archives, and their divisions
- Appraisal and insurance records
- Correspondence
- Documentation of approval plans and blanket orders
- Donor files
- Exhibit publications and descriptions
- Friends or volunteer group meeting minutes, reports, and publications
- Minutes and supporting materials from committees
- Patron/borrower records, including call slips, in Special Collections
- Photographs and audio-visual resources
- Publications and websites (see Depositing Official Yale Publications)
- Published catalogs, periodic snapshots of records in a catalog system, and finding aids
- Records management schedules and authorizations to destroy records
- Summarized statistics and reports
Office of record
Yale's libraries, archives, and the Provost's Office maintain the record copy of documentation concerning this activity.
Last modified:
Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 3:20pm