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Case Western Reserve University Archives

About This Site

Those of us who work with records every day know what a rich source of information they are. We also know how difficult and time-consuming extracting that information can be. This website is intended to make it a little bit easier to find and use that information. This information was first published as a section of the Case Western Reserve University Archives original website. It was called About the University. This section is being migrated to the Scalar platform in 2020-2023. The other two sections of the original website, About the Archives and About Records, are being migrated to the Kelvin Smith Library website in 2020-2023.

The reference archivists conduct research using University records and publications held by the Archives. Most of that research is for individual users. To supplement this individualized service, we began researching topics of interest to many users. The results of that research are published here.

In selecting the first topics, we relied on patterns of requests made by our users over the last 20 years. We have many more topics waiting for our time and attention, and we welcome suggestions for others that you would find useful.

We focus on factual information, not interpretation. We try to cover a topic broadly and completely, but we know there are gaps and discrepancies. We do not claim a monopoly on The Truth. Except for a rare few instances, the only sources that we use are University records and publications held by the Archives. Our goal is to make the information in the Archives more readily accessible, not to write definitive histories. We select the most relevant and reliable sources, try to reconcile discrepancies, and cite those sources so you can judge whether to rely on the information they contain.

What Is Not Here

Digital copies of over 25,000,000 pages in the Archives. However, some materials have been digitized, and are available on Digital Case.
Finding Aids to the collection. However, in 2010, a pilot project was conducted to explore the use of the OhioLINK FACTORY tool to encode archival finding aids. The pilot was successful and finding aids are continuously added to the OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository.
Our archived blog, Recollections. The retired Archives blog is an additional rich source of information.

University Archives Staff for the 2020-2024 migration of the original Archives website content to the Scalar Platform

Helen Conger
Julia Teran

Additional Kelvin Smith Library Staff who assisted with the migration, 2020-2022

Charlie Harper
Amanda Koziura
Christine Liebson (University Archives staff member, 2018-2020)

Original University Archives Staff for University Archives original website

Helen Conger
Dennis Harrison
Heather Henderson
Tom Steman
Jill Tatem

Additional University Archives Staff and Students for the original website

Eleanor Blackman
Marissa Hanthorn
Melissa Hubbard
Mariah Popp

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