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Historical holdings and new dimensions: The Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY Library Unit of Special Collections and College Archives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2017

Karen Jamison Trivette
Karen Jamison Trivette*
Affiliation:
Associate Professor and Head of Special Collections and College Archives, Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY, Seventh Avenue at 27th Street, New York, NY 10001, USA Email: karen_trivette@fitnyc.edu
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Abstract

The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)-SUNY Gladys Marcus Library's exquisite, rare, primary research materials are housed in its unit of Special Collections and College Archives; as such, it is known to those who study fashion and other creative industries throughout the world.

Like the unit's name, its mission is two-fold: regarding special collections, it acquires, preserves, and provides access to a wide range of primary research materials in their original formats and across many languages and geographical spectra. All acquisitions support one or more curricula offered at FIT. Regarding the college archives, the unit acquires, preserves, and provides access to college records permanently-scheduled for retention, or deemed to have enduring, historical value, created or received in the course of college business; archival records are created or received by administrators, staff, faculty, and students. Fulfilling this mission supports myriad goals in and across FIT units as well as research from those outside the FIT community.

This writer will introduce the collections to readers and briefly discuss the large-scale renovation that the unit is currently under-going.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 42 , Special Issue 3: Fashion Collections , July 2017 , pp. 140 - 147
Copyright
Copyright © ARLIS/UK&Ireland 2017 

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References

1. “Special Collections & College Archives / About,” Fashion Institute of Technology, Gladys Marcus Library, accessed March 30, 2016, http://www.fitnyc.edu/library/sparc/about.php.

2. Ibid.

3. Catalogue record for “Whittingham and Humphrey's sketch collection, 1888–1914,” Fashion Institute of Technology, Gladys Marcus Library, last modified January 09, 2017, http://fit.sunyconnect.suny.edu:4690/F/?func=find-e&find_scan_code=FIND_SYS&request=000101402.

4. Julianna Dow, “Whittingham and Humphrey's sketch collection, 1888–1914” (Finding aid, Fashion Institute of Technology, July 31, 2013).

5. Keren Ben-Horin, “Vestitus Sacerdotum Hebraeorum, 1680” (Finding aid, Fashion Institute of Technology, February 28, 2011).

6. Ibid.

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9. Young, 3.

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