Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Part I of the papers of Robert H. Bork, lawyer, educator, and judge, were deposited in the Library of Congress by Bork in 1988. In 2004 Bork donated the collection to the Library. Several additions to the collection were sent to the Library by Bork between 1999 and 2012. Between 2015 and 2018 his wife, Mary Ellen Bork, donated additional material to the Library.
Processing History
Part I of the Robert H. Bork Papers was arranged and described in 1998 by Harry G. Heiss with the assistance of Deloris Butler and John Monagle. The finding aid was revised in 2012. Part II was processed in 2015 by Connie L. Cartledge with the assistance of Maria Farmer, Sherralyn McCoy, Jewel McPherson, Kimberly Owens, and Tammi Taylor. The digital files in Part II were processed in 2019 by Nate Scheible. Part III was processed in 2019 by Nate Scheible with the assistance of Jake Bozza, Kimberly Owens, and Tammi Taylor.
In December 2019, an unprocessed box of Bork materials was located in offsite storage. This box belonged to an accession that was processed in 2015 as Part II. It was processed in 2020 by Nate Scheible as the 2020 Addition series in Part III.
The digital media with the digital IDs mms65871_097_001 through mms65871_097_012, mms65871_097_029, and mss65871_170_049 were infected with a virus. As a result, the files were exported directly from the disk which caused the original time stamp to be lost. The files now only reflect the date on which they were exported.
Transfers
Items have been transferred to other custodial divisions of the Library. Some photographs have been transferred to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Sound recordings and videotapes have been transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. All transfers are identified in these divisions as part of the Robert H. Bork Papers.
Digital Files
Digital files were received as part of the Robert H. Bork Papers on a variety of storage media, each of which was assigned a unique digital ID number. Use the digital ID number to request access copies of the files. Access to digital content is available onsite only in the Manuscript Reading Room and requires advance notice. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division for more information.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Roman numeral designating the Part followed by a colon and container number or digital ID, Robert H. Bork Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.