The Weekly Observer collection
Online Access
Available digital items: https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/NS051001
Abstract
This collection consists of an entire run of the weekly periodical, The Weekly Observer, 1997-2010, reporting on events, programs, people from the New School community, compiled and produced by the New School's office of Communications and External Affairs. The collection includes several formats of the publication, including printed downloads of email blasts, html files, Word files, PDF files, and WARC files from the university website.
Dates
- 1997-2010
Creator
- New School (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- New School (New York, N.Y.). Communications & External Affairs (Organization)
- New School University (Organization)
Extent
0.25 Cubic Feet (2 folders)
0.596 Gigabytes (449 files in Microsoft Word 97-2003 Document format and 1 in rtf format (0.085 GB), 1 archived website (.511 GB))
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
The Weekly Observer collection consists of each issue of the electronic news organ, produced by the New School's Communications and External Affairs office. The publication contains news from across the university, announcing upcoming lectures and performances, student activities and services, faculty and administration appointments and accomplishments, and highlights collected from all academic divisions of The New School, as well as information about centers, institutes, and other departments. The publication launched on September 2, 1997 as an email blast to the New School community (in this collection, the first issue is present as a physical printout, only). The publication was simultaneously posted online on The New School website, and a physical version was distributed around campus. The format of the newsletter changed over time, and in late 2007, the publication switched to an online blog format, in which the email blast contained brief articles, only, with links to longer online announcements. The Weekly Observer was succeeded by The New School News blog, which first appeared online on September 2, 2010, and is still in publication as of September 2024.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Conditions Governing Use
To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives and Special Collections. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Historical Note
The Weekly Observer was an electronic news organ produced by the New School's Communications and External Affairs office (now, Marketing and Communications). The publication contained news from across the university, announcing upcoming public programs, student activities and services, faculty and administrative appointments and accomplishments, and highlights from each division of The New School, as well as from centers and institutes. The publication launched on September 2, 1997 as an email blast to the New School community (in this collection, the first issue is present as a physical printout, only). The publication was simultaneously posted online on The New School website, and a physical version was distributed around campus. The format of the newsletter changed over time, and in late 2007, the publication switched to an online blog format, in which the email blast contained brief articles, only, with links to longer online announcements. The Weekly Observer was succeeded by The New School News, blog, which first appeared online on September 2, 2010, and is still in publication as of September 2024.
Arrangement
Organized into four series, with the first and second series containing the most substantial run of the publication between 1997-2008. Withn each series the issues are chronologically arranged: 1. Weekly Observer, Xenophon T. Barber files; 2. Weekly Observer, David Rosenberg files; 3. Weekly Observer, hard copies; and 4. Web archive.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection brings together groups of issues of The New School Observer that were accessioned by the New School Archives staff between 2014 and 2016 from a variety of sources, in a variety of formats. The Xenophon T. Barber issues in Series 1, were electronic files compiled by Xenophon (Ted) Barber, the director of the Kellen Archives Center between 1999-2007. Barber saved the files on the shared server used by the New School Libraries and Archives. The files in Series 2 were transferred by flash drive and on disc from the office of David Rosenberg, Manager of Internal Communications, Marketing and Communications. The hard copy files in Series 3 were compiled by librarian Carmen Hendershott and transferred to the archives with other mtaerials from her office; and Series 4, The New School Observer website, is an archived site consisting of issues The Weekly Observer, 2008-2010, hosted by the New School News website.
Processing Information
During processing, the archivists created series based upon groups of newsletters that came into the archives separately, eliminating duplicates and files comprised only of content that was used within the newsletters.
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- Title
- Guide to The Weekly Observer collection
- Status
- In Process
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin