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From: "Pamela Dallas" <>
Subject: NJ State Archives browseable catalog
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:16:23 -0700

If you research in New Jersey this might interest you.
PD


Dear Colleagues:

It is with great pleasure and no small amount of trepidation that I
announce to you all the posting, earlier this morning, of the State
Archives' online browsable catalog! Yes, we have successfully created a
monster. website that is. With over 200 brand new webpages, this
expansion of the site represents a milestone in terms of public access
to the 27,000 cubic feet and 25,000 reels of historical and genealogical
treasure held by the Archives. It is a milestone, in fact, comparable
to the major collection management efforts associated with the
relocation of the State Archives to its new facility in 2000.

The browsable catalog is accessible from the State Archives' main page
at DARM's site, www.njarchives.org. You can link directly to the
catalog page at:

<http://www.njarchives.org/links/catalog.html>;

From the catalog main page, select any number of pathways to find
series-level listings relating to numerous topics, holdings for specific
state agencies and counties, and so on. The listings also provide
contact information and links for more recent records still held by the
agency or by local government.

These 200+ pages provide the researching public with powerful new tools
to enhance remote use of the State Archives collections and allow for
considerable research planning in advance of a visit to Trenton.
Moreover, the series-level catalog provides us with a framework onto
which the Archives can, and will, soon link finding aids and guides,
box- and reel-contents data, imaged collections, searchable databases
(including key-word searching of the catalog), and so on.

Lastly, if you will indulge me, I would like to specially acknowledge a
few State Archives, DARM and departmental staff whose support and
contributions to developing the browsable catalog have been key in
making this vision a reality.

First, thanks go to Archives Collection Manager Ellen Callahan, my
partner in arrangement and description for many years up to and through
the move of the Archives. Ellen's dedication to making the Archives'
holdings as accessible to the public as possible has been vital to our
progress, including the development of the catalog.

Next, thanks go to the Archives staff for the numerous ways they have
helped to develop, review content, and contribute to design decisions
relative to the new pages. Specifically, thank you to Veronica Meyer
for making the catalog intro pages a reality, to Sean Curry and Beth
Colosimo for reviewing content and resolving cataloging questions, and
to Joanne Nestor for selection of images for the intro pages.

Finally, thanks go DARM webmaster Dan Noonan, departmental MIS Director
Richard Allen, and DARM Director Karl Niederer. Dan's and Rich's
technical and moral support are deeply appreciated by the Archives, as
are Karl's confidence in the Archives staff and the creative license
given to us.

Enjoy and happy browsing... We look forward to your constructive
criticism and any suggestions you might have for additional topics and
pages.

Sincerely,

Joseph R. Klett
Chief of Archives

P.S. Please excuse cross-postings and feel free to forward to any
relevant history, genealogy or archives listserves.




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