By our West Coast proximity, OCLC Research baseball fans in San Mateo are in a good place right now, hopeful the Giants win the World Series. Until then, we would like to announce that our new contributors have brought our count of collection descriptions to almost 1.8 million. That’s a lot of descriptive data, and one way we are improving access and discovery of it is by working on a better browse topics list, currently accessible on the left side of the ArchiveGrid home page. Our hope is that data mining and mapping expertise within OCLC Research will allow us to match our topics more closely with our content, which will be more useful to researchers. Stay tuned for more blog posts about that, and in the meantime, we welcome the following new ArchiveGrid contributors:

University College Dublin
Ouachita Baptist University
Florida Historical Society
Postal History Foundation
McDaniel College
Grand Valley State University
Ukrainian Historical and Educational Center of New Jersey
American Congregational Association
Providence Health and Services