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Numerous smaller campus publications are also produced each year, including The Telos, a journal of Christian thought; The Haystack, a humor magazine; the Williams College Law Journal, a collection of undergraduate articles; the Literary Review, a literary magazine; and Monkeys With Typewriters, a magazine of non-fiction essays.
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- Associated Analog Material
- Organization and Metadata
- Digitization
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- Maintenance and Removal
The focus of the Williams College’s Digital Collections is unique or rare content from collections owned by Special Collections or the College at large. Unique and rare content may be created through digitization of selected analog materials or through the transfer of born-digital content. Williams College Digital Collections may also include other...
Special Collections is responsible for the selection, creation, delivery, and preservation of the digital collections. We adhere to national and international community-based standards and best practices, including A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (NISO) and the Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative Still Image Worki...
We encourage potential contributors interested in digitizing their own content in preparation to be added to Special Collections, to coordinate with the Digital Resources Archivist/Records Manager in advance to establish the correct digitization methods.
Inactive records of enduring value, held in analog form in offices and departments on campus (regardless of whether those records have already been digitized by the current holder), must be transferred to Special Collections before that content can be added to the digital collections. This is in keeping with the ongoing role of Special Collections,...
Special Collections will collect and produce metadata to describe collections and items in our collections. Different schema may be employed to support different projects/collections. Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) is the Special Collections standard schema. Collections must be organized and described before it can be digitized. Books mu...
Digitization activities will likely fall into one of three categories: 1. Ongoing digitization of entire collections or large portions of collections- Ongoing digitization is carried out by the Digital Resources Archivist/Records Manager and student workers. These projects are generally not subject to specific deadlines. 1. Specially-funded digitiz...
As the designated repository for rare books, records of the College, select professional work of its faculty and alumni, and other collections in support of the curriculum, Special Collections assumes primary responsibility for long term preservation of its digital holdings. Select digital collection material is available through Williams Digital C...
These guidelines are designed in part to ensure the development of digital collections that are of high quality, useful and usable, and cohesive. It is possible, however, that individual objects or entire collections may need to be removed or de-accessioned for reasons of violation of copyright or copyright dispute, inaccurate data or facts, collec...
The Williams College Publication Studio books collection contains perfect-bound books produced at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) from 2014-2015, as well as books produced at other Publication Studio sites between 2010 and 2014.
Our collections include photographs, correspondence, reports, yearbooks, faculty papers, and student publications such as the Record. In addition to College history, we also administer several special collections including rare books, student theses, the Shaker Collection, and the Paul Whiteman Collection.
May 28, 2020 · General College News. The Vidette (1867-1874), according to the editors "a lively college paper," which included general college news, the proceedings of different campus societies, essays, news from other colleges, and editorials.
- Lisa Conathan
- 2018
The annual publication Report of Science at Williams provides a record of the college’s activities in science. It is the most extensive and regular source of self-presentation on the part of the science departments at Williams.
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