CENTER FOR PRIMARY RESEARCH AND TRAINING
Kelley Wolfe Bachli
Department of Special Collections
Young Research Library
UCLA Library
UCLA DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CENTER FOR PRIMARY RESEARCH AND TRAINING
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS ON THE OAC
Processing – Students – Community
DEPARTMENTS REPRESENTED
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Architecture and Urban Design
Comparative Literature
English
Film, Television, Digital Media
History
Information Studies
Islamic Studies
Latin American Studies
Moving Image Archive Studies
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Political Science
Public Policy
MATCHING STUDENTS WITH COLLECTIONS
CFPRT FELLOWSHIP FACTS
• Graduate students who have been Center Fellows: 71
• Manuscript projects completed: 143
• Total linear feet processed: 1024 (2,048 document
boxes), plus 72 oversize boxes
• Books and bound manuscripts cataloged: over 1000
THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
• Experience working with
primary resources
• Enables research at their
home institution
• Gain archival training
• Enriches subject knowledge
• Appreciation for special
collections and archives
• And they get paid!
Cuneiform Tablet Collection
School text, literary exercise of "Inanna and Mt. Ebih”
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She bedecked her forehead with terror and
fearsome radiance.
She arranged cornelian rosettes around her holy
throat.
She brandished the 7-headed weapon vigorously
to her right.
and placed straps of lapis lazuli on her feet.
UCLA COMMUNITY & BEYOND
The word is out…
• Who we are
• Materials we have in their discipline
• Students, faculty, and librarians are our best sales
persons
• Similar programs developed at the Huntington
Library, Columbia University, John Hopkins,
University of Chicago, all funded by Mellon
Foundation
Ordenanzas del Baratillo de
Mexico, 1736, anonymous
Questions? Please contact me!
Kelley Bachli
kbachli@library.ucla.edu