Restrictions: Use of audiocassettes and floppy disks is not allowed. Digital copies will be available.
Rights: The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Access Notes: Original materials available during open hours of repository and any digitized materials that are online are available with Internet access.
Technical Notes: Copies of content on the audiocassettes and 3.5" floppy disks will be made for use.
Acquisition Note: Source: Patricia J. O'Brien. Donation.
Related Materials:
Related materials in the same repository include: News and Communications Services faculty files, O'Brien, Patricia J.
Preferred Citation: [Item title], [item date], Pat O'Brien papers, Box [number], Folder [number or title], Morse Department of Special Collections, Kansas State University Libraries.
Collection Material Type: Faculty Papers
Other Note: A Historical Archives Program grant (GOSA 003611) from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc., funded the processing of these papers.
Scope and Contents: Materials held in this collection pertain to professor emerita of archeology and anthropology Patricia "Pat" J. O’Brien and her nearly 31-year career at Kansas State University. The collection includes proposals for expanded curricula within the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, reviews of this department from the Kansas Board of Regents, and documentation of events relative to the 500th anniversary of Columbus reaching the New World. Other contents include photographs from the 2005 razing of the Kansas Artificial Breeding Service buildings that were on the original site of Bluemont Central College (K-State predecessor and first site of K-State), documentation related to the Bluemont Central College monument, recorded and scripted correspondence between Pat and her friends, her latest curriculum vitae (2004), and limited correspondence with other renowned archeologists and anthropologists. Also included are oral histories with Abby Lindsey Marlatt in September 2005.