New Member Initiative Year 3 Report

We completed the third full year of our New Member Initiative project, funded by the Summerlee Foundation. You can review the Year 3 report on the TARO wiki.

The 2021 project year resulted in 185 EAD/XML finding aids being added to the TARO website for the following repositories:

  • Catholic Archives of Texas (14 finding aids)
  • Dallas Public Library (15 finding aids)
  • Fort Worth Jewish Archives (4 finding aids)
  • Harlingen Public Library (1 finding aid)
  • Harris County Archives (49 finding aids)
  • Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum (55 finding aids)
  • University of Houston-Clear Lake (14 finding aids)
  • C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department, University of Texas at El Paso (33 finding aids)

Many thanks to the skilled and dedicated archivists who volunteer their time to review finding aids for the Quality Assurance (QA) Subcommittee! This project could not succeed without them! Subcommittee members in 2021 were: Ada Negraru, Amy Bowman, Carla Alvarez, Emily Scott, Evelina Stulgaityte, Halley Grogan, Kristin Loyd, Molly Hults, Katie Rojas, Sandra Yates, and Zach Hernandez.

Rebecca Romanchuk
2021 QA Subcommittee Chair

New Member Initiative Year 2 Report

We completed the second full year of our New Member Initiative project, funded by the Summerlee Foundation. You can review the Year 2 report on the TARO wiki.

Also, earlier this month we added 60 XML files from 7 repositories to TARO for the following repositories.

  • Catholic Archives: 12 finding aids
  • Dallas Historical Society: 9 finding aids
  • Fort Worth Jewish Archives (FWJA):7 finding aids
  • Lamar University: 2 finding aids
  • Menil Collection: 4 finding aids
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH): 6 finding aids
  • Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum Research Center (PPHMRC): 20  finding aids

Thank you to all members of the Quality Assurance (QA) Subcommittee for their work!!!

Members include: Ada Negraru, Emily Scott, Evelina Stulgaityte, Halley Grogan, Katie Rojas, Kristin Loyd, Molly Hults, and Sandra Yates.

– Carla Alvarez
2020 QA Subcommittee Chair

New Member Initiative Year 1 Report

Hello TARO!

We have completed our first full year of our New Member Initiative project, funded by the Summerlee Foundation. You can review the Year 1 report on the TARO wiki.

Also, we have our first large batch of about 29 XML files up on TARO for the following repositories.

Harris County Archives

Catholic Archives of Texas

Lamar University Archives and Special Collections

Thank you to Sandra Yates, Chair of the Summerlee Quality Assurance (QA) Subcommittee and all the QA team members for their work!!!