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LEADS The Way: A Collaborative EAD project at Simmons
- 1. LEADS the Way ACollaborative EAD Project at Simmons College
- 2. About the CollegeArchives
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- 5. EAD in GSLISCurriculum
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- 9. Volunteer Timeline June 2012: Recruitment for Pilot Program begins; 10 students approached, 8 accepted June-July 2012: Best Practice Guidelines, XML template, sample encoded finding aid, and workflow documents created for volunteer training July 2012: Introductory training session held; each volunteer given one finding aid to encode; 86% of volunteers completed their encoding within one-week August 2012: Additional students recruited for LEADS Fall semester push; Goal by end of semester was to encode the entirety of the Charity Collections December 2012: By end of Fall semester, 21 student volunteers had completed 89% of the finding aids; remainder completed in Jan. 2013
- 10. Student Volunteers Students recruited based on Summer/Fall combination of their interest and ability. Recruitment Response Required to have taken LIS 440 (Archival Access & Use). More than 60% of recruited students became volunteers on LEADS. 91% of volunteers completed at least 1 finding aid during the semester. 40% completed 2 or more finding aids Spring semester: additional 12 volunteers added (71% response rate)
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- 12. Student Volunteers <author>Machine-readable finding aid created by: Aliza Leventhal, M.S./M.A. Candidate, Archives & History Dual Degree, Simmons College</author> <author>Machine-readable finding aid created by: Meghann Wollitz, M.S. Candidate, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College</author>
- 13. STYLESHEETS! 1. Intro 2. Website Survey 3. Tips 4. Show & Tell
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- 27. <arrangement> <head>CollectionArrangement</head> <p>Collection is arranged into 2 series: <ref target="cc016s1">Annual Reports</ref>, <ref target="cc016s2">Miscellaneous Publications</ref>.</p> </arrangement>
- 28. <arrangement> <head>CollectionArrangement</head> <p>Collection is arranged into 2 series:</p> <list type=”simple”> <item><ref target="cc016s1">Annual Reports </ref></item> <item><ref target="cc016s2">Miscellaneous Publications</ref></item> </list> </arrangement>
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- 35. The Future(s) ofLEADS Phase I: Charities Collection: Complete & To Be Unveiled! Phase II: Manuscript Collections: In Process Phase III: Administrative Records: In Planning Phase Forward: Integrating LEADS into the standard operating procedures of the College Archives and Library Stylesheet and Implementation Guidelines will be published and available on the Simmons College website
- 36. LEADS Contact Information Jason Wood jason.wood@simmons.edu Kathy Wisser katherine.wisser@simmons.edu Justin Snow justin.snow@simmons.edu Brian Shetler brian.shetler@simmons.edu