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Free Web App Trello: Your Key To Institutional Memory In Your Subject Librarian Departments, Robert Heaton
Free Web App Trello: Your Key To Institutional Memory In Your Subject Librarian Departments, Robert Heaton
Robert Heaton
A new subject-liaison assignment carries with it a daunting information-management challenge: Who are the faculty members in this department, and how have they worked with the previous subject librarian? Often librarians step into such a role completely blind to this history, but with an easy-to-use online tool, helpful information such as faculty photos, CVs, syllabi, assignment descriptions, research interests, collection needs, teaching schedules, notes on planning meetings and library-instruction sessions, and more can be given to a librarian along with their new subject assignment. Legwork to gather the information from department websites and personnel is required up front, but Trello, …
Preserving And Promoting Institutional Heritage: A Descriptive Study Of The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Members’ Archives, Eli Arnold
Eli Arnold
Academic institutions, even small colleges and universities, acknowledge the importance of archives in order to preserve and promote their institutional heritage. For the past half-century, an increasing number of institutions are establishing and supporting archives. Two over-arching questions soon arise: first, how is an academic institution, especially one with limited funding and staffing, to achieve success with their archives? Second, what can be learned through the shared experience of institutions that currently support academic archives? The author evaluated the websites of the archives of the twelve colleges that are members of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC). In addition, the …