There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all
members of the public in accordance with state law.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel,
privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin
Statutes 19.21-19.39).
The Dept. of Afro-American Studies transferred the collection to the Archives in
September 1988. Additional material was separated from the Winston Van Horne papers in May
2015.
Web crawling is managed through the Internet Archive's Archive-It services. This series
includes links to both the university's collection and the Internet Archive's public
collection. Web records from UWM are collected on a semi-annual basis. Crawls of the UWM
Website may be performed at more frequent intervals in cases of major events, significant
additions or changes to the UWM Website or the websites of schools and colleges, etc.
Social Media feeds are crawled on an as-requested basis.
Julee Bokelman processed the collection between January and April 1993 at the Archives.
Zac Baldauf and Brad Houston processed the materials from the Van Horne papers (accession
2012-038) in Winter/Spring 2015. Phyllis Reske processed some additional materials in July
2016 (Brad Houston supervised). Brad Houston and Claire Dinkelman updated the finding aid
in April and July 2017 to include information on the Web Series. Christel Maass added a
few additional items to the collection in November 2017.
The records in the Web Archives Series were collected by the Internet Archive’s Wayback
Machine and Archive-It Web Harvesting tools.
As of October 5, 2020, all electronic files were accessible on a Intel Core i5-8500 CPU
(3.00 GHz, 8.00 GB RAM) running Windows 10 Education Version 2018. Software used to access
the files includes Adobe Reader XI, Microsoft Office 2007, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
and Windows Media Player.
The collection includes records in the following file formats:
- Microsoft Word Document 97-2003 [.doc]
- Microsoft Word for Windows 2007 onwards [.docx]
- Microsoft WordPerfect [.wpd]
Brad Houston removed the audio reels from box 2 in Spring 2015.
