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The act of seeking or identifying the location of source material for the purpose of acquisition, in some form of a print or digital copy, for research purposes.
Upcoming Events
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Event Category:SNACSchool Research and Reference
July 8, 2026 1:00 pm
This summer, SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context)—a cooperative platform that helps researchers and archivists discover relationships between people, families, organizations, and archival holdings across repositories—will host another series of …
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Event Category:Camp eLabs
August 3, 2026 8:00 am
Are you looking for a workshop environment to begin planning your digital edition or archive? Join eLaboratories from August 3–6, 2026 in Charlottesville, VA for our introductory workshop, followed by our conference Revolutions and Reflections.
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Event Category:SNACSchool Create and Edit
August 26, 2026 1:00 pm
This summer, SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context)—a cooperative platform that helps researchers and archivists discover relationships between people, families, organizations, and archival holdings across repositories—will host another series of …
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About the eLabs Website Launch
We would like to take a moment to introduce you to what you can find on our site today and what you can expect to find on it in the coming months.
“Document collection was a challenge at the Martha Washington Papers Project. Because her letters are so valuable as collectibles, we discovered many at online auction houses—including eBay. There were few large archives of her letters, Mount Vernon probably holding the biggest collection. Most were part of smaller collections at a variety of archives, one at a small apothecary museum in Alexandria. Many were in the hands of private owners and descendants, which required some digging to find. Despite being a relatively small number of letters, the process of seeking out and cataloguing the documents was time consuming.”
Kathryn Gehred, The Papers of Martha Washington