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Series II: Archived Websites

Extent

16 websites in 16 archived websites.

Scope and Content Note

Capture of the website began in 2009, which contained information on the history of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC), their contract, press converage, press releases, member information, and action campaigns. Capture of http://www.makingabetternyu.org/ began in 2013, containing information about the union and its Polytechnic Institute (later Tandon) affiliate (SET-UAW), campaigns, news, healthcare petition, and event listings. Over time, the website has been updated to include their current contract, bargaining information, solidarity statements and resolutions, caucuses, and documentation on the union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and demands to NYU administration to support graduate student workers.

This series also includes the websites for the New York University Academic Workers for a Democratic Union, the social justice caucus of GSOC. https://collectiveactiongetsthegoods.tumblr.com/ contained their principles, 2014 bargaining report, statements of solidarity with other striking graduate students unions, bargaining updates, information on elections and strikes in 2014-2015, and news from the union. https://nyuawdu.wordpress.com/ was captured starting in 2020, when GSOC began bargaining for a new contract. The website contains their bargaining platform, bargaining committee members, updates, and fliers.

The series also includes their social media presence, as well, including their Linktree, Instagram, and Twitter/X feeds. In 2024, the social media feeds focused on GSOC's Palestine solidarity on campus in the context of Israel's war on Gaza.

Accruals

Site crawls are accrued semiannually.

In 2020, https://makingabetternyu.org/ was accrued monthly.

Appraisal

Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of https://www.makingabetternyu.org/ and https://nyuawdu.wordpress.com/ in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.

Scope was expanded to include Google documents and social media.

Processing Information

Google documents linked out from GSOC Contract Proposals Table of Contents archived website were crawled, but digital objects were not created in ArchivesSpace. Additional tweet thread was added separately to capture videos, but digital object was not created in ArchivesSpace.

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.

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012