New York University Student Organizations Web Collection
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Abstract
This collection contains websites related to the online presence of student organizations and student activities at New York University, the bulk of which come from 2013-2015.
Historical Note
This collection was created by the University Archives in 2013 to collect a sampling of student organization activities in the mid 2010s. The websites in the collection were derived from club lists found at the Office of Student Affairs, yearbooks, and Google search results.
Arrangement
Arranged into four series:
Series I: Student Blogs
Series II: Student Organization Event Ephemera
Series III: Student Organization News
Series IV: Online Communities
Scope and Contents
This collection contains websites related to student organizations and activities at New York University, the bulk of which come from 2013-2015. Blogs and other websites cover news from around the university and New York City, as well as advice for current and prospective students. Some websites cover events that student organization put together, as well as NYU student organizations in the news. News coverage includes topics such as NYU Greek life, NYU alumni, the Objectivist Club, and LGBTQIA+ community. Events include music and theater performances, club meetings, fundraisers, and conferences. There are many Facebook pages in this collection, modelled off websites and blogs such as Craigslist Missed Connections, Humans of New York, or Overheard in New York but about NYU and its students.
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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.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; New York University Student Organizations Web Collection; RG 39; Wayback URL; University Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Websites were initially selected by Aleksandr Gelfand from September 2013-January 2014 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.
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.
Facebook is inconsistently captured and plays back. Majority of 2022 Facebook crawls were performed with Webrecorder to resolve capture problems from initial captures.
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
Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored. FourSquare was blocked from capture.
About this Guide
Processing Information
Intial description and processing of this collection was performed in Archive-It by Aleksandr Gelfand and Shannon McDonald in circa 2014. The collection is made up of four Archive-It collections: Student Blogs Web Archive, Student Organization Event Ephemera Web Archive, Student Organization News Web Archive, and Online Communities Web Archive. In 2022, the four collections were arranged into four series in ArchivesSpace and description was standardized across the collection.