Institutional Memory - Dudley Knox Library
Never before available: newly digitized NPS publications
FY2016 brought new breadth to our "Institutional Memory" by making newly-available an array of publications from NPS's remarkable history.
New in Calhoun this year:
- The original NPS Opening Ceremony program (1952) that marked the occasion of NPS's start in Monterey
- Student Publications from NPS's earliest years including U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School's Navyator (1943), The General Line School's Monterey Linews (1952), The NPS Postgrad (1953) and The Barometer (1970)
- The NPS Hobby Computer Club News (1984). Share the techie excitement of NPS's VERY early "early-adopters"
- Significant NPS contributions to the field of Operations Research, with the MORS Oral History Interviews
- Annual Reports, Faculty Publications, and NPS Theses and Dissertations collections are growing, too: each new addition shapes a part of NPS's Institutional Memory
Scientific Instruments Collection
Special Collections & Archives welcomed an undergraduate student from California State University Monterey Bay's Museum Studies course, who fulfilled his service learning requirement by spending over 40 hours in the library describing and cataloging our Scientific Instruments Collection. Some of these vintage instruments are of research value as they were once used at NPS decades ago and are of historical and research value. Our intern investigated the historic importance and then entered description information about them into Past Perfect, a museum software the Library uses to document and track materials that are part of Special Collections and Archives.
One of our projects in 2016 was to identify and catalog significant scientific instruments used in NPS research. Some items traveled to Monterey from Annapolis in 1952. Here is an example of one item of equipment we are researching.
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"...Fascinating and exactly what we needed to show the history of this site. How did you ever manage to find out so much?"
- response from a question about NPS building history
“I just got off the phone … about getting access to one of my students' restricted access theses, and had a great customer service experience.”
-Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Collections in Calhoun
Exhibit: The Classmate Magazine, a campus community publication, 1961-2001
Introducing Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Oral History Interviews
First Female Instructor at NPS
In 1963, Cmdr. Frances Biadasz became NPS' only, and likely first, female instructor. Find out more about Biadasz in the Update NPS issue for November 2015.
Professor Wayne Hughes
A young Wayne Hughes, NPS Senior lecturer and retired Navy Captain, in his plebe year at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Find out more about Prof. Hughes in the Update NPS issue for June 2016.
NPS Supercomputer
NPS installed the 48-bit "supercomputer," Control Data Corporation (CDC) 1604, Model #1, in January 1960. Find out more about the CDC 1604 supercomputer in the Update NPS for January 2016.
1916's "Swain Report" and NPS
Just over 100 years ago, Secretary of the Navy J.H. Daniels charged Harvard Professor G.F. Swain, and a committee from the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education (SPEE) to visit and make recommendations about the work of the Post Graduate School at Annapolis. Find out more about the "Swain Report" in the Update NPS for July 2016.
Top Searches in NPS Archive: Calhoun
What did users most want to find out about in Calhoun, this year? Take a look at some of the most popular searches: