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The Accidental Archivist
1. B4: The Accidental Archivist
Creating Archives on a Shoestring Budget
AALL Annual Conference
July 13, 2014
Bess Reynolds
Electronic Resources Manager
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
2. Incentive
• 75th Anniversary of the firm in 2006
• Transfer of Archives from the marketing
department to the library
• As older partners retire it becomes more
difficult to identify people in unmarked photos
presented by Bess Reynolds
3. What is in the Collection?
• Photographs from firm events
• Books authored by Debevoise attorneys
• Partner correspondence
• Firm internal newsletters
• Awards
• Plaques
• Programs from significant events
• Realia
• Audio & video tapes, DVDs
• Staff picture books
presented by Bess Reynolds
4. Challenge
Inventory the archives and make them accessible
firm-wide with no added staff
presented by Bess Reynolds
Solution
Add archives records to library catalog using both
• MARC for books and
• Knowledge Builder, a proprietary component
of our ILS, that allows free-form records