New York University Archives Collection on Commencement Celebrations Webpages
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Abstract
New York University Archives Collection on Commencement Celebrations Webpages documents the commencement proceedings for New York University and its school ceremonies. The collection was established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection contains video streams of the ceremonies, awards, student profiles, messages from deans, names of graduates, and commencement programs.
Historical Note
In March 2020, New York University shifted to remote activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This led to the postponement of in-person commencement events and a pivot to virtual events in May 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic continued into 2021, and virtual commencement ceremonies also occurred that year. In 2022, the unviersity went back to in-person commencement ceremonies and the university and schools also celebrated the Classes of 2020 and 2021 also in-person.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged by record group.
Scope and Contents
New York University Archives Collection on Virtual Commencement Celebrations Webpages documents the virtual commencement proceedings for New York University and its school ceremonies from 2020-2022. The collection contains video streams of the ceremonies, awards, student profiles, messages from deans, names of graduates, and commencement programs. The collection also includes all university commencement proceedings.
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Conditions Governing Access
Material pertaining to individual student records may be restricted in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Please contact the Archives with specific questions regarding access to such records.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; New York University Archives Collection on Commencement Celebrations Webpages; MC 354; Wayback URL; University Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Websites were selected by Janet Bunde and Nicole Greenhouse and captured through the use of Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. The accession numbers associated with these websites are 2020.039, 2020.042, 2021.004, 2021.005, 2021.007, 2021.052, 2021.067, 2022.001, 2022.002, 2022.003, 2022.053, 2022.060, 2022.062, 2022.083, and 2023.036.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.
Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.
Appraisal
Websites were rescoped to attempt to capture videos embedded in the website. Embedded Youtube and Vimeo video files on the site were captured, but do not render in the archived copy. Future changes to the Wayback Machine may allow the files to be played.
Marching Order websites were captured but cannot be played back.
About this Guide
Processing Information
In May 2020, University Archivist Janet Bunde selected websites related to commencement at New York University. he collection was maintained by Nicole Greenhouse. Maintenance of the collection consisted of rescoping due to missing captured content, redirects and content drift, missing embedded materials (such as videos or attached Google documents and pdfs), and other materials created by selected entities that is related to the pandemic. The finding aid was created in Summer 2022 and description was standardized across the collection.
In Summer 2023, 2023 commencement websites were crawled and added in to the finding aid.