Apr 13, 2016
Archivists follow guidelines for processing and describing collections that allow room for flexibility on collection organization. This blog post explains the need for guidelines through the processing of two different collections: the Isabel Smith Stein collection on Elizabeth Cisney Smith (a collection of personal papers ) and the Kiwanis Club of Jenkintown (a collection on a local chapter of a global philanthropic organization) where Dr. Smith's collection was arranged by her children and reflected a story of their mother's life, and the Kiwanis Club's had less organization and the order decided by the archivist.
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Nov 21, 2014
Doctor or Doctress? is a digital history project that uses content found in the Legacy Center's collections to help students understand and interpret history through the lens of early women physicians. This blog post explains the website developer Chris Clement's process in creating the website.
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Sep 23, 2014
Doctor or Doctress? is a digital history project of Legacy Center's collections designed to help students understand and interpret history through the lens of early women physicians. This blog post announces the official launch and future plans for the website.
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May 12, 2014
Doctor or Doctress? is a digital history project of Legacy Center's collections designed to help students understand and interpret history through the lens of early women physicians. This blog post announces the beta testing phase of the website and the Legacy Center's wait for feedback.
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Feb 13, 2014
Philadelphia high school students tested the basic version of the Legacy Center's digital history project. The blog post provides insight on the students' views of the website.
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Jan 30, 2014
The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories was created with the intent to make small archival collections known. Processing the collections, as this blog post explores, can be different depending on the collection and space allowed.
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Jan 07, 2014
The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections (PACSCL) started a new phase of uncovering "hidden collections" in small archives. The Legacy Center joined in this phase with processing materials from Hahnemann Medical College, including papers from former deans, faculty members, and academic departments.
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Nov 20, 2013
This blog post explores three options the Legacy Center considered for a new digital history project including an interactive timeline.
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Jul 18, 2013
The Legacy Center is adopting Islandora as the new software to manage and preserve its repository. The Center wants to have a test ready by late fall and then continue to have all of the digital content on the site.
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Jun 20, 2013
Two Mastery Charter school 10th graders completed their 16-week long internship at the Legacy Center by focusing on the history of community service at Drexel University College of Medicine. They did interviews and made a site map for the placements of service.
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Jun 18, 2013
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first African-American woman to earn her medical degree in the US from New England Female Medical College. As of 2013, there are no identifiable pictures of Crumpler.
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Dec 11, 2012
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was the only woman physician to serve as a surgeon during the Civil War and the first woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. The Legacy Center does not have a collection of her works, but instead holds the Lida Poynter papers, a collection of unpublished research on Dr. Walker. This collection was used for Playing with the Past, a digital toolkit for high school students.
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Sep 17, 2012
The Legacy Center was awarded a $200,000 grant from the Heritage Philadelphia Program (HPP) of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to develop Playing with the Past: A Digital History Toolkit, a web resource intended to make the Legacy Center's rich Women in Medicine collection easily accessible to a new audience of high school students. This blog post details how the subject matter was to be used in the digital toolkit.
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Apr 09, 2012
To help commemorate the Drexel University College of Medicine Institute for Women's Health and Leadership's 20th anniversary, the Institute seeks proposals for a project to honor the history of the Institute through oral histories and a printed calendar.
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Sep 18, 2010
Interpretation, in the context of museum exhibits, refers to the way a museum staff uses artifacts and materials to relay and create a theme or story with an exhibit. This blog post explains why interpretation is so important and how it can be used by archives and museums alike to help people learn about collections. The blog post also announces several new exhibits at the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives.
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Jun 04, 2010
In this blog post, Lisa Grimm, archivist at the Legacy Center, looks back on her time working in the archive, all of the materials that she has worked with, and the hidden stories discovered within the collections, as she moves on from the archives profession.
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Apr 15, 2010
The Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives received a grant from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage intended for the development of an interactive online learning program that incorporates the archive’s collection. The program is designed to reach students in grades 6-12 and is focused on the topic of “serious play”.
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Jan 04, 2010
On December 4, 2009, the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives moved from Drexel University’s Hagerty Library to a new space at the Drexel University College of Medicine Queen Lane Campus. This blog post is a quick update from the archives staff after being in the space for a month, and highlights the unexpected challenges and excitements from being in a new space.
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Nov 20, 2009
On December 4, 2009, the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives moved from Drexel University’s Hagerty Library to a new space at the Drexel University College of Medicine Queen Lane Campus. This blog post is an announcement of the official moving date, and expresses excitement for a new space.
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Sep 15, 2009
On December 4, 2009, the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives moved from Drexel University’s Hagerty Library to a new space at the Drexel University College of Medicine Queen Lane Campus. This blog post is a September 2009 update of the construction on the new Legacy Center building at the Queen Lane Campus.
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Jul 16, 2009
On December 4, 2009, the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives moved from Drexel University’s Hagerty Library to a new space at the Drexel University College of Medicine Queen Lane Campus. This blog post is a quick update from the archives staff on the status of the new building's construction.
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Jun 12, 2009
On December 4, 2009, the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives moved from Drexel University’s Hagerty Library to a new space at the Drexel University College of Medicine Queen Lane Campus. This blog post is written a few months before the move, and goes over some of the logistical challenges of moving the Legacy Center archival collections.
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Mar 25, 2009
On December 4, 2009, the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives moved from Drexel University’s Hagerty Library to a new space at the Drexel University College of Medicine Queen Lane Campus. This blog post is a quick update about the earlier stages of construction for the new archive space, and provides photos of the construction progress.
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Mar 24, 2009
On December 4, 2009, the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives moved from Drexel University’s Hagerty Library to a new space at the Drexel University College of Medicine Queen Lane Campus. This blog post is a quick update about the construction of the new archives space, specifically the construction of the buildings concrete foundation.
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Jan 14, 2009
On December 4, 2009, the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives moved from Drexel University’s Hagerty Library to a new space at the Drexel University College of Medicine Queen Lane Campus. This blog post is a small update on the slow process of working out moving plans, as well as an update on a few digitization projects.
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Jan 06, 2009
On December 4, 2009, the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives moved from Drexel University’s Hagerty Library to a new space at the Drexel University College of Medicine Queen Lane Campus. This blog post gives the first initial update on the move and where the Legacy Center archives are moving to.
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Jan 05, 2009
On December 4, 2009, the Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center Archives moved from Drexel University’s Hagerty Library to a new space at the Drexel University College of Medicine Queen Lane Campus. This blog post is the first initial announcement of the move and looks forward to a new, bigger, and more archivist friendly space.
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