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In his article “The Founding of the Notre Dame Archives” (American Catholic Studies Newsletter, Spring 2005), Fr. Thomas Blantz, CSC, described the collecting efforts of our first archivist, James Farnham Edwards, quoting in his conclusion the judgment of Philip Gleason and Charlotte Ames that Edwards was more a collector than a librarian or archivist.\u00a0 Edwards did not create any mechanism that would allow scholars to find out exactly what he had collected.\u00a0 His successors began the project of describing what Edwards had collected.\u00a0 Eventually they created a description on index cards that takes up nearly as much space as the collections themselves — the Notre Dame Archives calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When Jay Dolan retired as director of the Cushwa Center, his administrative assistant, Delores Fain, came to work in the Archives.\u00a0 Among other things, she began to put our calendar cards into the computer.\u00a0 By the time she retired from her job in the Archives, she had finished all the undated documents, the years up to 1842, and the Civil War years.\u00a0 Brother Pascal Tomaszewski, CSC, also helped with this effort — he typed the descriptions of all of the undated documents.<\/p>\n

When Delores retired we had nobody to continue this work.\u00a0 In 2005 we hired AEL Data to finish the job of digitizing the calendar.\u00a0 In August they turned in the last of their work, and we converted the files for presentation on the internet, indexed them, and made them available on our website:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/archives.nd.edu\/search\/calendar.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

A calendar is a finding aid that provides summaries of individual documents.\u00a0 Our calendar goes into greater detail than most.\u00a0 The calendar entries are all in English, and make note if the original document is in another language.\u00a0 Our calendar covers these collections (many of them mentioned in Fr. Blantz’s article): Archdioceses of Cincinnati, New Orleans, and New York; Diocese of Detroit and Hartford; Mount Saint Mary’s College, the Vincentians; James Roosevelt Bayley, Henry F. Brownson, Orestes A. Brownson, Richard H. Clark, James F. Edwards, Austin Ford, Daniel E. Hudson, Joseph H. McMahon, James A. McMaster, William James Onahan, Robert Seton,\u00a0 and John Gilmary Shea.
\nYou can search the calendar by keyword or choose a particular year and month and read chronologically.<\/p>\n

The internet edition of our calendar is a work in progress, an intermediate draft.\u00a0 The text comes to over fifty million characters.\u00a0 It will take years to proofread all the calendar entries.\u00a0 In general, though, the flaws in the text do not make the summaries unintelligible: better to make this intermediate draft available than to deny the resource to scholars for the years it will take to perfect it.<\/p>\n

The calendar for the years up to 1803 provides access to our digital edition of the Records of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas (which later became the Archdiocese of New Orleans).\u00a0 For this one collection, you can go beyond the summaries to see images of the documents themselves via the internet:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/archives.nd.edu\/MANO\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The collections described in our calendar represent something less than two percent of our holdings.\u00a0 To find a computerized index to and inventories of the other ninety-eight percent, see our home page:<\/p>\n

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