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During
2003 the Archives continued to look for and found substantial ways to
extend the boundaries of its services beyond the Reading Room and make
its collection, especially its more heavily used parts, available through
the Internet and other means. The logo above links to the Archives' newest
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In November the Archives opened its sixth
online exhibit: Jazz Age Evangelism: Paul Rader & the Chicago Gospel
Tabernacle, 1922-1933 (click
here or on the logo above to leave the annual report and explore the exhibit).
This new exhibit (developed primarily by Paul and Bob) is an online reconfiguration
and expansion of a 1984-exhibit (with the same title) that was housed
in display cases in the Center Library. This updated version utilizes
the advantages of the Internet to make these materials available to Web
browsers in easily-readable reproductions to those anywhere in the world.
Over 160 pages of images (like the one at right linked to an enlargement),
text, audio and video files, photographs, letters, oral history excerpts
and more, make this a valuable resource to evangelists and students of
evangelism, scholars and others.
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It was a microfilming and digitizing year at the Archives, thanks primarily to a generous gift from the Torrey Johnson Family and assisted by a gift from the Carlton & Miriam Ericksen Family. Under Bob’s direction, the Archives microfilmed additional Africa Inland Mission records, the diaries of evangelist R.A. Torrey and his wife Clara, early Youth for Christ records, the papers of evangelist and musician Stratton Shufelt, and selected papers loaned by John R.W. Stott documenting the Lausanne movement in which he had a significant role. Read more about the opportunities that developed throughout the year related to the RA Torrey materials. |
Lori,
one of NMT Corporation's technicians, microfilming the Youth For Christ records. |
Wayne continued to develop avenues on
which genealogists could explore and benefit from the Archives collections.
He gave a lecture to genealogists in June, developed Web resources in
the Internet site to guide their searching, and had a 2002 presentation
published in a genealogical journal (right). Find
out more about these activities and resources. |
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The Archives also took the step of making more of its collection available for short-term fee-based loans, making it possible for researchers unable to visit Wheaton to use the originals in the Reading Room to borrow copies of parts of the collection.