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Congratulations to Lois Gibbs and Phil Lampi on receiving honorary degrees during the Tufts University’s 157th Commencement on May 19, 2013.

Love Canal: The story continues . . . by Lois Gibbs[/caption]

The DCA is pleased to announce that the finding aid for the papers of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice is now available.

The […]

On Monday, May 6, 2013, the DCA held a special luncheon to celebrate our amazing student workers and the incredible amount of work they have completed this school year.

And it was a truly astounding amount […]

The DCA staff was overjoyed to see the announcement that Philip Lampi and Lois Gibbs are among the 2013 recipients of honorary degrees. Both Phil and Lois are amazing people who are hugely deserving of this honor, […]

With the crazy, gloomy weather today, it’s hard to remember that it is spring and the Patriots’ Day — and the Boston Marathon — are right around the corner. So in celebration, here are a few pictures of […]

On February 5, 2013 the Jumble posted a clip of the Beelzebubs from the early 1980s. This seemed like a good opportunity to highlight some of the ‘Bubs materials we hold in the DCA. For example, we have quite a […]

So I was planning to do a post about Dr. Robert L. Nichols, but I think that will have to wait for another day. Today I think stop for a moment and think about how wonderful children are and how they need our love […]

On this day when we remember the attack on Pearl Harbor, I thought I would share some images from the Tufts’ Navy ROTC and V-12 memorabilia collection

NROTC Visitors’ day presentation, 1942

NROTC color […]

“American Archives Month is a collaborative effort by professional organizations and repositories around the nation to highlight the importance of records of enduring value. Archivists are professionals who […]

James Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, presented Philip Lampi, the driving force and researcher behind the A New Nation Votes project, with a commendation “for scholarly perseverance and tireless research into election returns from the earliest decades of the American republic” at a ceremony at the American…[Read more]

You may be asking yourself, “why is DCA posting about the Poetry Society of America?”  If you are asking that question, you don’t know about Gustav Davidson. Davidson was executive secretary of the Poetry Society of America from 1949 to 1965, after which time he was elected executive secretary emeritus, and DCA has his papers. [...]

The much anticipated instructional videos on using the Tufts University Submission Agreement Builder Tool (SABT) to make, submit, and finalize Transfer Agreement Forms (TAF) are finally available! They can be accessed through the DCA Channel on YouTube. Two of the videos are geared toward archivists, and they explain how to set up and finalize…[Read more]

The Society of American Archivists held their annual conference in Chicago, IL from August 22 through August 27. Many of the DCA staff were able to attend this conference and presented on a variety of topics: Anne Sauer: Research Forum presentation (with Mary O. Murphy, Radcliffe Institute): Collaborative Creativity: The Radcliffe Workshop on…[Read more]

The Digital Collections and Archives is wrapping up a three-year National Historical Publications and Records Commission ( NHPRC) electronic records Program Expansion Project grant (RE10005-08) to support the Tufts Accessioning Program for Electronic Records (TAPER). A key component of the TAPER Project was the development of a  systematized…[Read more]

Okay, so it’s actually the World Peace Foundation (WPF) that is returning to Tufts, to the Fletcher School to be precise. But the WPF has a long history with Tufts, and DCA has the records to prove it! For one thing, the WPF–which was originally called the International School of Peace–was founded by Edwin Ginn, Tufts graduate of [...]

Anyone who has visited the Medford campus lately can’t help but have seen the emphasis that is being placed on sustainable farming and the creation of green spaces. From the planters in front of the Tisch Library building right up to its roof garden, plants are sprouting. But did you know that the Tufts Community has [...]

Smithsonian.com recently put out a contest where you can vote for who had the best facial hair of the Civil War . This light-hearted look at male grooming habits of 150 years ago got me thinking of all the crazy hair pictures DCA has in the Tufts Digital Library. However, a search for period appropriate beards and sideburns [...]

DCA is pleased to welcome Aaron Rubinstein to the staff of Digital Collections and Archives. Aaron is our new Archivist for Digital Collections, and will be focusing on metadata management, digital object preparation and related workflows, and digital preservation activities. Aaron comes to Tufts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where…[Read more]

This week we are taking a step back from highlighting our collections to highlight our local professional organization: New England Archivists (NEA) . NEA is hosting their spring conference this weekend at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The program committee for this conference was chaired by none other than our own Eliot Wilczek,…[Read more]