{"id":239711,"date":"2018-05-21T14:08:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/?page_id=239711"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:14:20","slug":"archives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"callout\"><i class=\"fas fa-circle-info\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><div class=\"callout-content\">\n<p>Contact Claire Lobdell to make an appointment. Please review our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/policies\/archives-access-use\/\">access and use policy<\/a> before your appointment. <\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-tabs su-tabs-style-default su-tabs-mobile-stack\" data-active=\"1\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-tabs-nav\"><span class=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-target=\"blank\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">GCC Archives, 1950-present<\/span><span class=\"\" data-url=\"\" data-target=\"blank\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Archibald MacLeish Collection<\/span><\/div><div class=\"su-tabs-panes\"><div class=\"su-tabs-pane su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" data-title=\"GCC Archives, 1950-present\">\n<h2>Scope &amp; Contents<\/h2>\n<p>The Archives of Greenfield Community College document the institutional memory of the college, dating back to the Regional Community College in Greenfield, which was established in 1962 to serve the Franklin County community. This collection contains official records as well as unpublished material documenting the functions, activities, and intellectual materials produced by and about members of the GCC community. Content has been contributed by college administration, staff, faculty, students and alumni. Content types include: meeting minutes, memoranda, administrative records, published reports, official publications, student publications, newspaper clippings, yearbooks, scrapbooks, photographs, posters, event programs, brochures and personal papers.<\/p>\n<h2>Digitized Collection<\/h2>\n<p>Most GCC records have not been digitized. The following items are available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.gcc.mass.edu\/resources\/archives\">Course Catalogs, 1962-present<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/greenfieldcommunitycollege\">Student Newspapers at the Internet Archive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/greenfieldcc\">Video Recordings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalcommonwealth.org\/institutions\/commonwealth:2v23zq21b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.digitalcommonwealth.org\/institutions\/commonwealth:2v23zq21b&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1787230808667000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3l1XJbJtlTkD48BrcVEHqz\">Oral Histories and Photographs in Digital Commonwealth<\/a>, including the Saul Sherter Greenfield Jewish Community Oral History Collection and the Franklin Medical Reserve Corps' Resiliency During COVID-19 Pandemic Oral History Project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Processing<\/h2>\n<p>The initial inventory, arrangement and processing for this collection were completed in the spring of 2018 by Caroline Dubinsky. Additional processing and description have been completed by Claire Lobdell and by student workers Joshua Reis, Mark Waite, Polly LaCoy, and Sophie Brown.<\/p>\n<h2>Donations<\/h2>\n<p>The GCC Archives is happy to accept gifts of materials related to the history of the institution, its students, staff and faculty. The Nahman-Watson Library is unable to accept materials on loan; donated materials become the property of the library. Library staff are unable to provide financial appraisals for tax or other purposes. Please contact Claire Lobdell before bringing materials for donation.<\/p>\n<h2>Arrangement<\/h2>\n<p>This collection includes 15 records groups. You can expand the links below to see the contents of the records groups. Detailed listings for individual records groups will be linked below as they are indexed. Please note that some series sub-series numbers are missing\u2013 i.e., numbered sub-series may jump from .05 to .08. This is because the original organizational archives plan has since been revised as it had a level of granularity that was not needed in practice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-accordion su-u-trim gcc\">\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 01: Institutional Documentation<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>.01 Board of Trustees<br \/>\n.02 College Governance Committees<br \/>\n.09 AFSCME Union at GCC<br \/>\n.10 MCCC Union at GCC<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/files\/2026\/03\/RG-01.11-Accreditation-and-Strategic-Planning.pdf\">.11 Accreditation and strategic planning<\/a><br \/>\n.12 Contracts and Grants<br \/>\n.13 Misc. policies and policy memos<br \/>\n.14 Human resources<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/files\/2026\/03\/RG-01.15-Awards.pdf\">.15 Awards and certificates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 02: Presidents Office Files<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/files\/2026\/03\/RG-02-Presidents-Ofiice-files.pdf\">RG 02: Presidents Office Files<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 03: Greenfield Community College Foundation and Alumni<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/files\/2026\/03\/RG-03-Foundation.pdf\">RG 03: Greenfield Community College Foundation and Alumni<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 04: Academic and Student Affairs<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>.01 Student affairs administration<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/files\/2026\/03\/RG-04.02-Library.pdf\">.02 Library<\/a><br \/>\n.04 Advising Center<br \/>\n.05 Wellness Center (Formerly Counseling Center)<br \/>\n.06 Peer Tutoring Center (Formerly Learning Assistance Center)<br \/>\n.09 Fitness Center<br \/>\n.10 Student Activities and Community Service<br \/>\n.11 Veterans Services<br \/>\n.12 Women\u2019s Resource Center<br \/>\n.13 Child Care Center<br \/>\n.14 Student Health Services<br \/>\n.15 Information Technology and Media Services<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 05: Workforce Education and Community Development<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>.01 Workforce Development and Community Education administration<br \/>\n.02 Pioneer Valley Institute<br \/>\n.03 Tripp Community Caregiver Institute<br \/>\n.04 Courses and workshops<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 06: Enrollment Services<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>This series includes admissions, financial aid, and the registrar.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 07: Academics<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>.01 Humanities<br \/>\n.02 Business, IT, Professional Studies, and Social Sciences<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RG 07.02.01 Gender &amp; Women\u2019s Studies<\/li>\n<li>RG 07.02.02 Peace, Justice, and Environmental Studies<\/li>\n<li>RG 07.02.03 Project TEME (Totally Enclosed Modular Environment)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.03 Engineering, Math, and Science<br \/>\n.04 Department publications and advertisements<br \/>\n.05 Catalogs, course booklets, course guides, course schedules<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/files\/2026\/04\/RG-07.06-Nursing-department.pdf\">.06 Nursing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 08: Faculty and Professional Staff<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 09: Student Life<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>.01 Athletics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RG 09.01.01 Athletics trophies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.02 Commencement, Convocation, and other Ceremonies and Celebrations<br \/>\n.03 Clubs, Organizations, &amp; Activities<br \/>\n.04 Handbooks and policies<br \/>\n.05 Yearbooks<br \/>\n.06 Honors, Awards, &amp; Prizes<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/files\/2026\/03\/RG-09.07-Student-publications.pdf\">.07 Student Publications<\/a><\/p>\n<p>.08 Student Senate<br \/>\n.09 Student work (research and publications)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 11: Publications and Marketing Office<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>(.01 and .02, Course catalogs, have been moved to RG 07.05)<\/p>\n<p>.03 Press releases<br \/>\n.05 Promotional publications<br \/>\n.07 Publications by Arthur W. Shaw<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 12: Campus Events<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>(For Commencement and Convocation, see RG 09.02)<\/p>\n<p>.01 Student, staff, and public events<br \/>\n.03 Traprock Center for Peace and Justice<br \/>\n.04 Workshops and conferences<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 13: History of GCC<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>.01 Anniversary Celebrations<br \/>\n.02 Scrapbooks<br \/>\n.04 News clippings &amp; Greenfield Recorder GCC section<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 14: Oral histories<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/files\/2026\/03\/RG-14-Oral-Histories.pdf\">RG 14: Oral histories<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-default su-spoiler-icon-plus su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span>RG 15: Photographs, Negatives, and Slides<\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>.01 Photographs<br \/>\n.02 Negatives contact sheets, and slides<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-tabs-pane su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" data-title=\"Archibald MacLeish Collection\">\n<p><strong>The MacLeish Collection<\/strong> was founded in 1974 by six educators from Greenfield Community College to advance the knowledge and understanding of poet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/47\">Archibald MacLeish<\/a>\u2014the man, his life, his works and his times. Mr. MacLeish authorized and supported this effort by contributing his own time and energy to a series of interviews about his work and offering books and manuscripts to the collection. In 1984, the heirs to his estate donated 1690 additional items to the collection. The Archibald MacLeish room, housing MacLeish's personal library, is on the third floor of the Core, just outside the library, in room C307.<\/p>\n<p>The collection is composed of two parts:<\/p>\n<h2>Part I<\/h2>\n<p>Archibald MacLeish's personal library of poetry and prose by authors he liked, or who influenced him, or who were influenced by him. It consists of 1,629 cataloged monographs, including 1,503 books, 122 periodical issues and four music scores. More than 130 of these items have handwritten annotations by MacLeish; more than 180 are inscribed by their authors; and nearly 45 contain holograph inserts.<\/p>\n<p>MacLeish's library is significant not only because of the intrinsic value of the individual books, but also because MacLeish put it together himself over his lifetime. The value of these books lies in their relationship to each other and to MacLeish, and in MacLeish's notes and annotations contained in them.<\/p>\n<h2>Part II<\/h2>\n<p>The Friends' Collection, organized in November 1986.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002 the Friends' Collection consisted of 2,432 books, booklets, pamphlets, galleys (page proofs) and periodical issues; 1,178 letters and manuscripts; and nearly 10,000 non-print items including artifacts and memorabilia for a total of over 13,500 items.<\/p>\n<p>The Friends' Collection is valuable for its diversity of form and content and its ability to inform us of how MacLeish and his works are viewed by others. It also helps define for us the times in which he lived and worked, and from which he derived his inspiration.<\/p>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/library\">Amherst College<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>Materials by and about Archibald MacLeish are not collected under his name, but can be found in many of Amherst College\u2019s special collections, such as the Robert Frost manuscripts.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.loc.gov\/\">Library of Congress<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>These collections offer hundreds of items by and about MacLeish, including sound recordings of events, letters, photographs, etc.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.princeton.edu\/\">Princeton University<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>Princeton has a small Archibald MacLeish collection, as well as MacLeish materials in other collection in their archives.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.smith.edu\/special-collections\">Smith College<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>The William Allan Neilson Library\u2019s Special Collections include scattered speeches and letters, located in various class records and printed in the Smith Alumnae Quarterly, along with correspondence with various Smith College presidents, and photographs.\u00a0 The online catalog lists books, scores, videocassettes, programs, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.umass.edu\/\">University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>The University Archives includes a small Archibald MacLeish collection, as well as publications and MacLeish materials in other collection in their archives.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/small.library.virginia.edu\/\">University of Virginia<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections contain books, manuscripts, etc. by and about MacLeish.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/digitallibrary.vassar.edu\/collections\/finding-aids\/c1d22396-8f24-4dd2-90bf-e5a5b808f3dc\">Vassar College<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>Approximately 100 items are housed in Thompson Library and special collections.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/beinecke.library.yale.edu\/article\/archibald-macleish-collections\">Yale University<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>The Beinecke Library at Yale provides a finding aid database for locating materials by and about A.M. The Archibald MacLeish Collection (MSS YCAL 38) and the Archibald MacLeish Collection Addition (YCAL MSS 269) consist of correspondence, writings, personal papers and sound recordings, documenting Archibald and Ada MacLeish\u2019s personal life, family history and careers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":507048,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-239711","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-29 21:10:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"pp_notify_user","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239711"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507231,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239711\/revisions\/507231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}