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The Aids Quilt Touch Mobile Web App, Mark Neucollins, Kelly J. Thompson, Nicole Dudley, Lauren Haldeman, Jon Winet, Kayla Haar Jul 2013

The Aids Quilt Touch Mobile Web App, Mark Neucollins, Kelly J. Thompson, Nicole Dudley, Lauren Haldeman, Jon Winet, Kayla Haar

Kelly J. Thompson

Q: "What weighs 54 tons and can be held in the palm of your hand?" A: "The AIDS Memorial Quilt."

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is the largest living monument in the world. Composed of over 48,000 three foot by six foot individual panels, it pays tribute to the lives of more than 98,000 individuals who have died during the AIDS pandemic. Maintained by the NAMES Foundation in Atlanta, each panel is painstakingly hand-crafted by those who knew and loved these individuals. Each panel carries the emotional weight of a life lived, of loving relationships, and of heartfelt loss.

Our interdisciplinary …

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Extra Special: Merging Special Collections With University Archives, Delinda Stephens Buie, Caroline Daniels, Rachel I. Howard, Elizabeth E. Reilly Apr 2013

Extra Special: Merging Special Collections With University Archives, Delinda Stephens Buie, Caroline Daniels, Rachel I. Howard, Elizabeth E. Reilly

Elizabeth Reilly

With budget constraints and hiring freezes becoming the new normal, and users expecting more open access to libraries’ unique primary source materials regardless of their physical location, university libraries must do more with less. Special collections and university archives departments that have been administered separately for decades are now merging in order to share service points, staffing, and climate-controlled storage – as well as digitization services. The benefits of undertaking this organizational change are offset by the challenges of merging different organizational cultures and the logistics of modifying things like signage. When the heads of rare books, photographic archives, university …

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Leads The Way: A Collaborative Ead Project At Simmons, Justin Snow Mar 2013

Leads The Way: A Collaborative Ead Project At Simmons, Justin Snow

Justin Snow

Presented at the Spring 2013 meeting of New England Archivists at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, March 23, 2013 alongside Katherine Wisser, Jason Wood, and Brian Shetler.

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Curating The Ethnographic Moment, Andrew D. Asher, Lori M. Jahnke Dec 2012

Curating The Ethnographic Moment, Andrew D. Asher, Lori M. Jahnke

Andrew Asher

Digital technologies have vastly increased the volume of materials that ethnographic researchers are able to collect. They have also enhanced possibilities for rapidly sharing data not only with other researchers, but also with research subjects and the public at large. However, the relative ease of collecting digital materials can quickly outpace the data management skills of researchers, who usually have little or no training in recordkeeping, preservation, or curation strategies. Making digital data available online can also compound ethical dilemmas faced by ethnographers, who often find themselves torn between contradictory imperatives to share data publically and to protect the privacy …

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You Can Do It: Tips For Creating A Stylesheet For Your Ead Records, Justin Snow Dec 2012

You Can Do It: Tips For Creating A Stylesheet For Your Ead Records, Justin Snow

Justin Snow

When implementing EAD, archivists consider encoding findings aids as the easy part. Creating an XSLT stylesheet, in contrast, leaves many archivists feeling out of their element. However, armed with a basic understanding of HTML, a few preparatory steps, and the proper mindset, most archivists are capable of making a user-friendly web presentation for their finding aids.

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