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New Collection in the Archives: Richard V. Wellman Papers

 Thanks to a grant from the ACTEC Foundation, the Biddle Law Library Archives was able to process the papers of Richard V. Wellman, the primary architect of the Uniform Probate Code.  A finding aid for the processed collection can be...

Posted by Jordon Steele on March 11, 2009 4:07 PM

Archives: The Ties that Bind

From working in the archives, I have found certain tasks, while essential to archival practice, can be mundane and rather repetitive.  Two that come to mind are accessioning, where new materials are formally received by the receiving institution and given...

Posted by Doris Wang on December 16, 2008 1:27 PM

Archiving paper, paper, and more paper...or not?

Coming into this project, I had assumed that all the materials I would be working with would be documents in nature.  The first couple of boxes I cracked open and accessioned seemed to agree with this.  However, during the...

Posted by Doris Wang on October 31, 2008 9:00 AM

A Window into Wellman: Processing the Richard V. Wellman Papers

Last spring, the Archives was happy to receive a grant from the ACTEC Foundation to process the papers of Richard V. Wellman.  Dick Wellman was a professor at University of Michigan Law School and, later, University of Georgia School of...

Posted by Jordon Steele on September 18, 2008 9:40 AM