My last day really snuck up on me. One can really get lost in boxes and boxes of unprocessed archival material, it seems. But all good things must come to an end, and for me, that took place today. After a great 7 month internship at Burke, I closed the lid on my last archival […]
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From Finding Aids to Floppy Disks
I spent yesterday and today getting acquainted with my first archival box. To learn and get experience with writing a finding aid, I’m working with materials that already have a finding aid, “The Chinese Church of Christ in Korea papers 1908-1975.” Some of what needed to be done was basic copy editing and formatting the […]
Fitting in the Final Pieces of the Puzzle: an Interlinked Collection
This semester is the beginning of the end for a collection that has been meticulously processed, studied, and preserved over the past three years. By the end of 2014, every scrap of paper from the Missionary Research Library Collection – a vast assortment of papers are related in some way to Christian missionary work around […]
Final Thoughts on My Last Day at Burke
As I sat on the subway during my commute this morning, it occurred to me that this is the last time I will be heading uptown and entering the doors of the Union Theological Seminary and finding my way to the Burke Library. Interning at the Burke Library Archives this summer has been an incredibly […]
Last Day…Final Words…
As I walked through the large heavy double doors of the main entrance to Union Theological Seminary this morning I realized it would be my last time walking down the cool glazed brick paved hallway and wending my way to the Burke Library entrance. The summer of 2013 has flown by and I am sure […]
MRL Stamps
Today we found not only an MRL stamp that we have been looking for, but an embosser as well! These will be added to the already existing MRL stamp and become part of the Luce Project. […]
Happy President’s Day from the Burke!
"Dear Voter, Should Nixon be President? If not, why not? And what are the qualifications of his Democratic opponents?" This advertisement for the journal, "The New Republic," was sent to the Missionary Research Library in 1960. […]
Something Fun – MRL May 1961
The Quintessential Librarian! While most people today do not get to see the room pictured in the above image, staff and student workers are well-acquainted with it. The Missionary Research Library, created in 1914, moved to Union Theological Seminary in 1929 after financial difficulties became too much to bear. MRL rented space from Union in […]
A Selection of MRL Pamphlets
Recently while researching for MRL10: American Home Missionary Society Records, I had to pull some material from the MRL pamphlet collections. The MRL pamphlet collection, which has been individually item-level cataloged and is available in CLIO, contains over 30,000 missionary reports and other publications. Many of these pamphlets are primary source materials and can often […]
Gustavus Elmer Emanuel Lindquist Papers, 1897–1955
G.E.E. Lindquist with American Indian Man. Credit to MRL10: Lindquist Papers, in The Burke Library Archives, Columbia University Libraries, at Union Theological Seminary, N. Y The Burke Library is happy to announce the processing and availability of the GEE Lindquist Papers, 1897-1955, part of MRL10: North America! Please see the finding aid HERE. Gustavus Elmer […]