Project Documentation
(please note that this is an archived site)

Most documents are PDFs that can be printed out or viewed onscreen.

Scheduling

• Project Timeline (last revised May 2006)
• Survey Schedule (last revised August 2007)

Survey Method

• Survey Process
• Survey Ratings
• Surveying Checklist

Survey Database

• Guide to the PACSCL Consortial Survey Database (Version 1.1a; minor update in June 2007 to add/revise two institution codes and removed short section about public access to the database as a new public interface is in development)
• Filemaker Pro Purchasing Policy

Presentations

• Presentation from Site Staff Training held on February 12, 2008 (in PowerPoint format)
  Over the course of the project, the project staff have hosted five group training sessions for staff from participating institutions. During the training, we provide more detailed information about the survey method and database, and work in teams to survey example collections. This is the presentation from the most recent session.
• Presentation from May 22, 2007, Planning Meeting (in PowerPoint format)
  During this meeting we discussed the progress made in the first year of the project and made plans for the future.
• Poster from SAA 2007 Annual Meeting (in PowerPoint format)
  Informational poster on the project discussing the methodology and the progress so far.
• Delaware Valley Archivists Group presentation from October 18, 2007 (in PowerPoint format)
  The project was the subject of this meeting of the Delaware Valley Archivists Group. Staff from the survey project team, Haverford College, the University of Delaware, and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania spoke.

Links

Funder

• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Consortium

• PACSCL

Related Projects - Past and Present

• Association of Research Libraries - Exposing Hidden Collections
• Columbia University
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania
• University of Virginia