{"id":224,"date":"2013-03-22T11:51:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T11:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmcldev.wpengine.com\/mcgovern\/2013\/03\/22\/and-the-sorting-begins\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T17:59:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:59:56","slug":"and-the-sorting-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2013\/03\/22\/and-the-sorting-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Sorting Begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Kate Wilson, Archivist<\/strong><br \/>\nThe McGovern Historical Collections recently\u00a0received\u00a0a collection of early twentieth century medical artifacts. The collector, a family\u00a0physician\u00a0in Austin, Texas, had a personal interest in hearing related devices and quack medicine, so most of the objects in the collection can fall into those categories.<br \/>\nThe first step in processing a collection is organizing the materials into categories; archivists call this arrangement. An archivist must try and balance the\u00a0original\u00a0order (<em>respect des fonds<\/em>) with an imposed order that will allow for\u00a0physical\u00a0and intellectual control over the materials.<br \/>\nWith a traditional manuscript collection, a doctor&#8217;s personal and professional paper for example, archivist have fairly agreed upon series and\u00a0sub-series. With such a unique collection as this one, I will have to come up with a nontraditional organizational schema. Luckily, arrangement is probably one of my favorite tasks of being an archivist!<br \/>\nStay tuned to the Black Bag to follow along with the process!<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-913\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/03\/photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-913\" alt=\"D. H. Ranking Medical Artifacts Collection, MS#160\" src=\"http:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/03\/photo-1.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/03\/photo-1.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/03\/photo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/03\/photo-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/03\/photo-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D. H. Ranking Medical Artifacts Collection, MS#160<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kate Wilson, Archivist The McGovern Historical Collections recently\u00a0received\u00a0a collection of early twentieth century medical artifacts. The collector, a family\u00a0physician\u00a0in Austin, Texas, had a personal interest in hearing related devices and quack medicine, so most of the objects in the collection can fall into those categories. The first step in processing a collection is organizing [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2013\/03\/22\/and-the-sorting-begins\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifacts"],"authors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}