The Next Collection

My work on the first collection I processed is officially done. I learned some valuable experience with it. I have now started processing my second collection. This collection is of Robert Cochran's time as Director of Administration and Assistant to the Vice President. The collection is relatively small, 5 cubic feet, and might be slimmed down to 4 cubic feet when I am done with the processing. This might happen for a couple of reasons. The collection, which was supposed to be from his time Director of Administration, also had some materials in it from Cochran's time in the Budget Office and materials from his time as assistant business manager. There were also about ten binders in the collection that took up a large amount of space. I have removed the materials from the binders and put them in folders. I now need so create different series for the collection and organize the folders in the series and create the finding aid. I don't think this will take much time with the collection being so small.

Today I got the chance to work on another reference question. This one was different in regards as it dealt with IU Nobel Prize winners. There have been 8 individuals who are affiliated with IU that have won the Nobel Prize. With IU's own Elinor Ostrom winning the Nobel prize for Economics and her giving a speech in a few weeks, a member of the Presidents Office was looking for information that President McRobbie could use for his speech introducing her. They wanted to know if there was any information on former Nobel winners speaking at IU. I was able to find information on IU's first winner Herman Muller when shortly after he returned to IU after recieving his medal in 1946. I was also able to find a little information about James Watson speaking about the time he spent at IU. I scanned these and sent them to the person who had requested them and they seemed pleased with what I had found.