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Taking Back the City: Establishing Intellectual Control Over New York

History

THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

• Its collections: 1.5 million objects

• Its goals: documenting and digitizing

• The archivists: Morgen Stevens-Garmon

and Lindsay Turley

NATURE OF WORK

• Theater and Manuscripts & Ephemera collections

• Cataloging, inventorying, arranging, rehousing, assessing

• Creation of finding aids

ADVENTURES IN PROCESSING

• Respect des fonds: provenance and original order

• MPLP vs. item level cataloging

• Standards & collaboration

Constantly moving towards digitization

Recent changes to the MCNY collections department

What I took away from my internship

MOVING FORWARD