Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:39:18 +0000

James Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, presented Philip Lampi, the driving force and researcher behind the A New Nation Votes project, with a commendation “for scholarly perseverance and tireless research into election returns from the earliest decades of the American republic” at a ceremony at the American Antiquarian Society on February [...]

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:45:29 +0000

Did Tuesday’s results in the Republican primary confuse you?  As explained here, by the New York Times, the three elections on Tuesday didn’t really award any delegates.  Yet, that didn’t stop people from voting in them (not a lot of people, as turnout was quite low, but thousands of people nonetheless). This prompted one colleague [...]

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:05:43 +0000

In the course of doing our work at Tufts, we create or receive a lot of records in paper and electronic form. Many of these records are drafts, copies, or other records that we will need to dispose of at some point. (See the general Records Retention Schedule for rules on how long to keep [...]

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:34:52 +0000

You may be asking yourself, “why is DCA posting about the Poetry Society of America?”  If you are asking that question, you don’t know about Gustav Davidson. Davidson was executive secretary of the Poetry Society of America from 1949 to 1965, after which time he was elected executive secretary emeritus, and DCA has his papers. [...]

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:40:38 +0000

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:05:28 +0000

In an era where people claim we have lost all civility in politics, we look back at an era where civility in politics had a whole different meaning.  Specifically, we can look at three specific elections in Virginia in 1817 and 1818. In the first one, the congressional race for the 8th district in 1817 [...]

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:44:53 +0000

Congratulations to our former intern Derek Mosely who the Black Caucus of the American Library Association just named an ALA Emerging Leader! We loved having Derek around and are proud to see the field recognizing him for his leadership skills. We wish you the best, Derek, as you bring the profession into the future! You [...]

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:55:03 +0000

It’s hard to fight the perception that archives are filled with old things: dusty old elephant tails and black and white photographs. Now, old things can actually be great. Every day on my way to my office I walk by Tisch Library’s black and white print, taken in 1930, of Dorothy Myers at a telescope. [...]

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:25:01 +0000

The Digital Collections and Archives is pleased to announce the completion of its TAPER Project (Tufts Accessioning Program for Electronic Records). During the project the DCA designed, developed, and implemented machine-readable submission agreements and records context records. The DCA fully implemented the machine-readable submission agreements to document accessions and integrated the production of records context [...]

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:22:47 +0000

To mark Open Access Week the Tufts University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Team has launched a website celebrating the recipients of our Provost’s Open Access Fund. The fund has two components: the first, for publishing, funds scholars who choose to publish with author-pays open access; the second, for digitization, supports the creation of sustainable open access [...]