User:Malachy1776

I currently serve at the Province Archivist for the Claretian Missionaries Archives USA-Canada, located in Chicago. I have a PhD in United States History from Loyola University Chicago and an MLS from Simmons College in Boston. My goal is to promote the use of AtoM for other religious community archives. Since 2007, I have taught a week-long workshop entitled Introductory Workshop for Religious Communities. Under the banner of Claretian Archives Workshops, the program is aimed at individuals working in Catholic religious archives. The program is an archive educational boot camp. Currently we are initiating a educational pod program that will focus on specific issues within the context of Catholic religious archives.

The Claretian archives goal is to use AtoM as a content management system for our manuscript collection and printed materials. Long term, we would like to expand the use of AtoM among other Claretian provinces throughout the world.

The Claretians are a Catholic religious congregation founded by Saint Anthony Mary Claret in 1849 in Vich, Spain. The congregation's primary apostolate in the United States was ministry to the Spanish-speaking community throughout the country. Arriving in San Antonio, Texas in 1902, the congregation established houses and staffed churches throughout Texas, then on to California and Arizona. In 1924, the Claretians began the first Spanish-speaking Catholic ministry in the upper Midwest, in Chicago, and in 1948 initiated Hispanic Catholic ministry in New Jersey.