DiscoveringLocalHistories GILDA SANTANA University of Miami Libraries May 15, 2015

Blueprints Hand drawings Construction documents Personal papers Photographs Sketchbooks Prints Audio-visual Scrapbooks Newsletters Ephemera Clippings Student work Born digital files Models SOA Archives 35mm slides

Celebration Pattern Book, March 1995 ANU Correspondence Example : Letter from EPZ to Eric Emerson at The Celebration Company soliciting materials for the archive.

FINDING AID

RECEIVING COLLECTIONS Condition assessment

Re-housing & labeling

UM Libraries Preservation team member stabilizing and mending (pre-digitization) 1. Torn blueprint before mending   2 & 3.  Application of wheatpaste paper and mending 4. Drying weight  4. After mending 

Robert Fitch Smith Papers,

Biscayne Boulevard concept development plan by Roberto Burle-Marx Diazotype print, 42” x 54”

Oleta River State Recreation Area, Miami FL., Concept Design, Roberto Burle Marx, Diazotype, 56” 41”

ESSENTIAL RESOURCES

Bibliography Adams, William Howard Roberto Burle Marx: the unnatural art of the garden. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Greene, Mark A., and Dennis E. Meissner “More product, less process: revamping traditional archival processing”. American Archivist. 68 (2). Kissel, Eleonore, and Erin Vigneau Architectural photoreproductions: a manual for identification and care. New Castle,DE: Oak Knoll Press Porter, Vicki, and Robin Thornes A guide to the description of architectural drawings. New York: G.K. Hall. Price, Lois Olcott Line, shade, and shadow: the fabrication and preservation of architectural drawings. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press. Society of American archivists, and Steven L. Hensen Describing archives: a content standard. Chicago: Society of American Archivists “Miami streetscape.” Landscape Architecture 79, no. 2:16.