Today, NYU Libraries completed the publication and indexing for more than 5,000 unique finding aids representing NYU’s archival repositories and two partners, The New-York Historical Society and The Center for Brooklyn History.
The project to redesign the NYU Libraries finding aids was led by Digital Library Technology Services in close collaboration with Archival Collections Management and Special Collections. The team addressed three main objectives to: replace an outdated publishing method; address ongoing issues related to usability for patrons; and improve upon the presentation for digital archival objects.
Those of you who work closely with archival content and its description will appreciate the variability across finding aids, and the amount of work that went into parsing this type of data for html web display. If you haven’t yet looked at any finding aids, now is an excellent time to do so!
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Thank you to the project team members who contributed to this success.
Joseph Pawletko, Senior Software Developer
Laura Henze, Senior UX Designer
Don Mennerich, Senior Digital Archivist
Weatherly Stephan, Head, Archival Collections Management
Deb Verhoff, Digital Collections Manager
Rasan Rasch, Software Developer
David Arjanik, Senior Web Developer
Eric Griffis, Manager, Application Architecture and Development
Ekaterina Pechekhonova, Senior Dev Ops Engineer
Derrick Xu, Dev Ops Engineer