Gustainis, Emily2016-01-222015Novak Gustainis, Emily R. 2015. The Opportunities of Engagement: Working with Scholars to Improve Description and Access at the Center for the History of Medicine. In Innovation, Collaboration and Models: Proceedings of the CLIR Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Symposium, March 2015 (CLIR pub 169), 146-162. Washington D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resource.978-1-932326-54-3http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:24830903The Center for the History of Medicine has used its two CLIR-funded grant initiatives to engage researchers at all stages of their professional careers in an effort to understand how archival description can be improved or modified to the benefit of scholars while remaining attentive to workflows that speed processing. This paper considers findings from the Center’s “Foundations of Public Health Policy” (2008) and “Private Practices, Public Health: Privacy-Aware Processing to Maximize Access to Health Collections” (2012) initiatives.en-USResearch Paper or Report2016-01-22