CENTER FOR PRIMARY RESEARCH AND TRAININGCENTER FOR PRIMARY RESEARCH AND TRAINING

Kelley Wolfe BachliDepartment of Special Collections

Young Research LibraryUCLA Library

UCLA DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONSUCLA DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

CENTER FOR PRIMARY RESEARCH AND TRAININGCENTER FOR PRIMARY RESEARCH AND TRAINING

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS ON THE OAC MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS ON THE OAC

Processing – Students – Community

DEPARTMENTS REPRESENTEDDEPARTMENTS REPRESENTED

• Architecture and Urban Design• Comparative Literature• English• Film, Television, Digital Media• History• Information Studies• Islamic Studies• Latin American Studies• Moving Image Archive Studies• Near Eastern Languages and Cultures• Political Science• Public Policy

MATCHING STUDENTS WITH COLLECTIONSMATCHING STUDENTS WITH COLLECTIONS

CFPRT FELLOWSHIP FACTSCFPRT FELLOWSHIP FACTS

• Graduate students who have been Center Fellows: 71

• Manuscript projects completed: 143• Total linear feet processed: 1024 (2,048

document boxes), plus 72 oversize boxes• Books and bound manuscripts cataloged: over

1000

THE STUDENT EXPERIENCETHE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

• Experience working with primary resources

• Enables research at their home institution

• Gain archival training• Enriches subject

knowledge• Appreciation for special

collections and archives• And they get paid!

1.She bedecked her forehead with terror and fearsome radiance. 2.She arranged cornelian rosettes around her holy throat.3.She brandished the 7-headed weapon vigorously to her right.4.and placed straps of lapis lazuli on her feet.

Cuneiform Tablet CollectionSchool text, literary exercise of "Inanna and Mt. Ebih”

UCLA COMMUNITY & BEYONDUCLA COMMUNITY & BEYOND

The word is out…• Who we are• Materials we have in their discipline• Students, faculty, and librarians are our best

sales persons• Similar programs developed at the Huntington

Library, Columbia University, John Hopkins, University of Chicago, all funded by Mellon Foundation

Ordenanzas del Baratillo de Mexico, 1736, anonymous

Questions? Please contact me!

Kelley Bachlikbachli@library.ucla.edu