Our ArchivesSpace catalog is officially launched!

[Sarah Shepherd]

 In celebration of our 50th anniversary year, the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library is pleased to announce the launch of the Van Gorden-Williams Library & Archives’ first publicly available archives catalog. The Van Gorden-Williams Library & Archives is one of the premiere repositories in the United States for the study of American Freemasonry and fraternalism.

Although the Library has had an online catalog since 2001, the Archives only had an internal database which required users to contact the archivist to discover relevant archival material. For the past two years, our team, including Sarah H. Shepherd, Archivist; Linda Woodland, Assistant Archivist; and Jeff Croteau, Director of Library & Archives, has been hard at work merging two internal legacy databases. Utilizing ArchivesSpace, hosted by LibraryHost, the Archives’ new online catalog will increase both the accessibility and discoverability of our collections. The catalog currently contains records for approximately one-third of our collection, with new records being added daily.

Thank you to everyone who answered my many questions over the last two years!

P.S. Does anyone know how to get their ArchivesSpace link added to the Who’s Using ArchivesSpace page?

Sincerely,
Sarah

	Sarah Shepherd (she/her)
	Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
	Archivist
	Phone (781) 457-4129
	Web www.SRMML.org
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