January 10, 2011, Filed Under: CatalogingRansom Center Receives Grant To Catalog Spanish Comedias Sueltas The Ransom Center has received $137,015 from the Council on Library and Information Resources Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives for “Revealing Texas Collections of Comedias Sueltas.” The Ransom Center holds more than 14,000 “comedias sueltas,” a generic term for plays published in small pamphlet formats in Spain from the… read more
July 20, 2010, Filed Under: Cataloging, PhotographyFrom the Archivist: Creating access to the Magnum Photos collection As is the case with any incoming collection, the Magnum Photos collection came with its own unique set of challenges. Ransom Center Curator of Photography David Coleman and I have worked to develop and implement a strategy for making the collection accessible to researchers in a timely and organized manner.… read more
December 17, 2009, Filed Under: Cataloging, ConservationCataloging the Morris L. Ernst papers In the spring of 2009, the Harry Ransom Center received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to catalog the Morris L. Ernst papers. The collection will be closed to researchers until the project is completed in the fall of 2011. During that time, a team of one… read more
