Digital Backups, bulk: 1980-2010
Conditions Governing Access
The papers of Elizabeth H. Blackburn are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Scope and Content Note
The Digital Backups series comprises various files and directories copied mainly from Blackburn's computers, although they also include those of her assistant, Maura Clancy, and computers used by fellows and others working in Blackburn's laboratory. The Backup Folders relate to her teaching and research endeavors as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and as a professor and department chair at the University of California, San Francisco. The files include correspondence, PowerPoint presentations for speeches, abstracts and drafts of articles, reviews of articles for journals, grant proposals and related material, teaching files, and administrative files documenting Blackburn's activities as a professor and department chair.
Material types are digital files comprised of correspondence, memoranda, lecture notes, PowerPoint presentations, abstracts of articles, reviews of articles, drafts of articles and other writings, grant files, teaching files, biographical material, curriculum vitae, photographs, charts, and visual materials.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1980-2010
Access and Restrictions
The papers of Elizabeth H. Blackburn are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Arrangement
Listed by digital ID number, with the file structure of the digital content maintained as received.
Part of the Manuscript Division Repository
Manuscript Reading Room
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