The guest author, Quincy Ryan, is a graduate student in Library and Information Science at Simmons College who worked with the CU Special Collections this semester as a practicum student. This Fall, I had the opportunity to complete a practicum with the Special Collections at Catholic University of America, under the mentorship of William J. Read More

Before the 1960s, almost no dioceses had more than part-time archivists, only a few Catholic colleges and universities devoted much attention or resources to the collection and preservation of Catholic documents, and most religious orders had hardly even considered the need to create archives. Professional training among archivists in Catholic institutions was virtually unheard of Read More