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\u2019s attention this past year. Our task was to figure out the best possible way to process these \u201crecovered files.\u201d 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\u2019 history and our belief that these recovered files should be reintegrated into their rightful home in the institutional archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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