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Cataloging at the Arsenal: Establishing a research library at the Washington National Guard Museum

Project tags:

archives & special collections

data curation

knowledge organization

Project poster

Over the years, the Washington National Guard Museum has accepted donations amounting to several hundred books. These books were un-inventoried and taking up space in various storage areas. The Museum Board envisioned a Research Library to provide access to these books, but did not have the resources, or expertise to put that library together. Our team was able to catalog a large portion of the books, weed out items outside the scope of the library, and set up collection development and cataloging policies and procedures - giving the Museum tools to establish a Research Library and continue to manage the collection.

Project participants:

Daniel Ray

MLIS

Heather Garritty

MLIS

Stephanie Worley

MLIS