{"id":227,"date":"2009-08-24T13:27:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T19:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-08-24T13:27:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T19:27:30","slug":"archives-finding-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2009\/08\/24\/archives-finding-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives finding aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is a <a title=\"SAA Glossary's definition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archivists.org\/glossary\/term_details.asp?DefinitionKey=66\" target=\"_blank\">finding aid<\/a>? Basically, it&#8217;s our version of a catalog. It helps archivists and patrons find out what material we hold and where it lives.<\/p>\n<p>For a number of years we&#8217;ve been trying to get an interactive, 2.0 type of finding aid online. We&#8217;re still trying to make that dream a reality, but in the interim we&#8217;ve got a pdf linked from the <a title=\"IWU University Archives\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.iwu.edu\/library\/services\/university_archives.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">archives&#8217; website<\/a> and available for direct <a title=\"IWU Archives Finding Aid\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.iwu.edu\/library\/services\/Documents\/archives_finding_aid.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">download<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that that we make frequent updates to this document in-house and will only update the posted version twice each semester (mid-term and after finals), so let me know if you can&#8217;t find something you expect us to have!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a finding aid? Basically, it&#8217;s our version of a catalog. It helps archivists and patrons find out what material we hold and where it lives. For a number of years we&#8217;ve been trying to get an interactive, 2.0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2009\/08\/24\/archives-finding-aid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,7,9,10],"tags":[13,18,39],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-campus-administration","category-campus-units","category-faculty","category-students","category-unexplored-collections","tag-archives","tag-books","tag-manuscripts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}