Author: J.E. Molly Seegers

Processing the Pratt School of Information’s “Recovered Files”

For Professor Cocciolo’s Fall 2015 course “Management of Archives and Special Collections” our class processed files relating to the founding of Pratt Institute Free Library School (now School of Information). These files were removed from the School decades ago by a professor who had hoped to write a book. The files had been returned years ago, but were brought to Professor Cocciolo’s attention this past year. Our task was to figure out the best possible way to process these “recovered files.” Since the official records of the School have a finding aid and are housed in the Pratt Institute Archives, we decided to figure out where the documents in the files might belong in the institutional archives. Using the series and subseries in the already established finding aid, we wrote a new finding aid in AtoM explaining the files’ history and our belief that these recovered files should be reintegrated into their rightful home in the institutional archives.

Processing and Exhibiting the Pratt School of Information Records

This presentation will discuss the processing and exhibition of the Pratt School of Information records. In this class-wide project from LIS 625 Management of Archives & Special Collections, students engaged in the work of the archivists, such as using archival standards like DACS and EAD and enacting preservation actions.