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SUMMARY:To “Revive Their Spirit”: Collecting Books and Shaping Archives in Nineteenth-Century New England
DESCRIPTION:When the Congregational Library Association formed in 1853\, its members aimed to collect and preserve the Congregational story in print\, a testimony to the denomination’s rich past and a bulwark against future irrelevancy. In their founding statement\, the association communicated their belief that the library would serve not only as a storehouse of wisdom from the founders but would also “revive their spirit.” \nA belief in this revitalizing power of collecting and preserving books in libraries and archives swept through New England in the first half of the nineteenth century\, and this talk provides a broader survey of the people\, methods\, and philosophies that informed antiquarian practices in the early United States and built collections like the “Founding 56.” \nThis program was part of the CLA’s Founding 56 Lecture Series\, which accompanied our 2023 digital exhibition\, Founding 56: The Congregational Library’s Original Collection. \nSPEAKER BIO \nDr. Lindsay DiCuirci is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County\, where she teaches early American literature and the history of the book. She is the author of the Penn Press book Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books (2019)\, which was awarded prizes from the Bibliographical Society of America\, the Library Company of Philadelphia and the journal Early American Literature. Her work can be found in Archive Journal\, Early American Literature\, Reception\, and a variety of edited collections. She also writes about book history\, pedagogy\, and working with students in archives. Currently\, she is conducting research for a new book on the print cultures of nineteenth-century spiritualism.
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SUMMARY:Protecting and Providing: A Guide to Reference Services for Church Collections
DESCRIPTION:Once your church records have been properly stored and inventoried\, you are ready to take the next step and find a way to share those records with your community while securely preserving the collection. A church records collection is valuable to many audiences: from staff members researching old meeting minutes\, to genealogists interested in building out their family tree. This work of connecting people with records is called reference services\, and it must not be taken lightly. \nIn this online workshop\, the CLA’s archivists\, Zachary Bodnar and Billy McCarthy\, discussed what we mean by reference services and why reference is so important\, provided examples of secure reading room policies\, and explained how to manage visitors from initial inquiry to successful research visit. They also walked attendees through the steps and procedures necessary to start their own church reference desk. \nThis workshop was part of the Congregational Library & Archives’ Church Stewardship Initiative\, a program devoted to empowering churches to steward and preserve their valuable records. \nSPEAKER BIOS \nZachary Bodnar graduated with a Masters of Library and Information Science from Simmons University\, with a concentration in archives management\, in 2018. Prior to his work at the CLA\, Zachary worked at the Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden archive\, the Vassar College Special Collections\, the Harvard Law School Library\, and the Harvard Botany Libraries. Zachary joined the CLA as an Archives Assistant in 2017\, helping to prepare materials for digitization through the New England’s Hidden Histories program. In 2018\, he took on the title of Archivist. His professional interests include metadata collection and management\, digital archiving\, audio/visual preservation\, and archives management. \nBilly McCarthy graduated with a Masters of Library and Information Science from Simmons University with a concentration in Archival Management. Billy started working at CLA through a graduate internship and stayed on a part-time basis until he was hired full-time in 2018. Billy is the Head of Reader Services\, helping the CLA’s visitors with reference requests and facilitating in-person research. Billy also serves as the collection manager for the archives\, working with CLA’s offsite vendor to protect and maintain the organization’s archival records. Some of his professional interests include increasing access\, collection management\, processing of complex materials\, and facilitating research.
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