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CENTER FOR PRIMARY RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER FOR PRIMARY RESEARCH AND TRAINING Kelley Wolfe Bachli Department of Special Collections Young Research Library UCLA Library
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
