Staff Accomplishments

Anne Hakes and Robert Vay attended the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Managment Skills Insititute workshop. The workshop was held on Mason's Fairfax campus from August 15 to 17, 2005.


People

SC&A hired Carrie Bowers, a graduate history student, to work on the Reston Virginia Electronic Images Collection (working title). The images are being carefully selected from several of SC&A’s collections, including the Planned Community Archives collection. The Planned Community Archives collection consists of numerous manuscripts, published books, government documents, flyers and ephemera, video and audio recordings, newspapers, journals, photographs, architectural drawings and plans, maps, and engineering reports. Manuscript materials include correspondence, memoirs, lectures, reports, and minutes. Once the images are selected and scanned, they will be accessible via MARS (Mason Archival Repository Service).


Renovation News

The creation of SC&A's new Mac-MARS Lab.

The Mac-MARS lab will provide the technological requirements for Special Collections & Archives scanning projects. Currently SC&A is undertaking two scanning projects to add to MARS (Mason Archival Repository Service). The C. Harrison Mann Collection scanning project highlights the accomplishments of C. Harrison Mann, one of the founders of GMU, who also served on the Virginia House of Delegates from 1954-1970. The Reston Images Electronic Collection will showcase the development of Reston, Virginia as a premier planned community, founded by Robert E. Simon. The Microteck ScanMaker 9800 XL will enable the scanning to be done at a rapid pace, and the Power MACs have more than enough memory to store the scanned images.

The Mac-MARS lab will be the primary oral history center. The George Mason University Oral History Program (GMU-OHP) records and preserves oral histories of individuals who have been members of the GMU community for a substantial amount of time (usually twenty-five years or longer) or who have made an important impact on the history of the University. In addition to the George Mason University Oral History Program, SC&A has several collections of oral histories available for research, such as the Planned Community Archives Oral History Project and the Reston Reflections Oral History Project.

The Mac-MARS lab will facilitate SC&A’s public service reproduction. Every year, SC&A fills hundreds of research requests for duplication of its images. The Microteck ScanMaker will enable these requests to be filled quickly and at the highest quality possible.