1. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Digital Collection
Created by: Dhanashree Thorat
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2. Presenter information

3. AGENDA Current status and collection goals Contents Functionality
Resources for assisting students
Continuing the conversation

4. OVERVIEW OF COLLECTION
Goal: To support scholarship on
Rawlings’s life and works, to preserve
and digitize her papers
Current Status: includes about 4100
letters, and several manuscripts,
drafts, speeches, and poems
Uniqueness of Collections
GOAL:
CURRENT STATUS:
UNIQUENESS:
- Pulitzer Prize winner
- part of The Floridian Initiative. “The Floridians makes available the archives, manuscripts and other personal collections of Florida leaders, including architects, visual and performing artists, writers, politicians, ecologists, etc.  These collections contain the priceless and varied record of stewardships that wielded statewide and national significance. The collections also contain a varied picture of local history in Florida communities, the interaction of the environment and development, and the essential changes resulting from Florida's tremendous growth in the 20th century. The record of how our leaders dealt with these challenges rests within these collections.”
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5. COLLECTION CONTENT Material Scope Time Span Format Location
Material:  correspondence, manuscripts and writings, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, legal papers, and photographs. The writings include early drafts of novels, short fiction, speeches, and poems. Manuscripts, drafts, and notes are included for major works including The Yearling, Cross Creek, The Sojourner, The Secret River, and South Moon Under. 
Scope: The collection is divided into five major groups: Correspondence, Manuscripts and Other Writings, Miscellaneous Papers, Papers Related to Ellen Glasgow, and Photographs.
Primary and secondary sources
Time Span: The collection dates from , with the bulk of the materials spanning from
Format: texts, photographs, architectural records, video/audio files
Location: Letters and other materials by and about Rawlings exist in several other collections at the University of Florida, including theBrandt and Brandt Papers, the Gene Baro Papers, the Cason vs. Baskin Cross Creek Trial collection (aka, Phil May Papers), theEdith Pope Papers, the Archives of The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, and an audio recording of an Interview with Rawlings and her maid Martha Mickens.
Kinnan, on the set of The Yearling

6. COLLECTION CONTENT: WRITING
Papers include:
manuscripts, drafts, short stories, poems
Correspondence
Photos: Left, manuscript of South Moon Under.
Top Right: Short note on her work
Bottom Right: Draft of The Yearling
Fragment
secret river
yearling

7. PHOTOS
Collection includes many photos, and documents on the house (including architectural details, photos of artifacts within the house, etc).
Top: MKR
Bottom Left: With husband
Bottom Right: At a CBS broadcast
Kinnan:
House:
CBS:

8. COLLECTION CONTENT
Collection includes documents on the house (including architectural details, photos of artifacts within the house, etc), video/audio files, and various people associated with the state park and house.
The House is now a State Park
Photos
Top Left, Various photos of her Cross Creek house
Top Right, Martha Mickens
Bottom Right, preserved bed from estate
Bottom Left: Audio interview
Bed, artifact Maid, Martha.
House
State park brochure
Crescent beach:
Interview:
In UF Oral Histories

9. SIGNIFICANCE Significance: Rawlings is a Pulitzer winner
UF has the largest collection on her works and life.
Pulitzer + largest collection

10. FUNCTIONALITY http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/fahelp.htm
Finding aids – archival collections. ½ collections

11. Search: ALL ITEMS

12. Search
Specific Search
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13. PAGE FUNCTIONALITY: Zoom
Jacob’s Ladder:
Rawlings typed on a long roll of paper that was eventually flipped over for typing on the back.

14. PAGE FUNCTIONALITY: Map it
Collection has special features: Map It, Downloads possible for some items

15. THUMBNAIL VIEW For easier access to all the items in a folder

16. Resources For RESEARCH

17. FAQ
Can I use an image from the collection in my scholarly publication? In a student project? In a newsletter?
How do I compare the digital and the print collections?
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18. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Digital Collection