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More Than Just Potatoes: Highlights From The #11;University Of Idaho, Erin Passehl-Stoddart
More Than Just Potatoes: Highlights From The #11;University Of Idaho, Erin Passehl-Stoddart
Erin Passehl Stoddart
This session gathers archivists from throughout the Gem State--from both academic settings and historical societies--to share the variety and richness of our heritage represented by our archival resources. Panelists have selected favorite collections from their respective institutions that highlight Idaho's distinctive--and often surprising--history. Presentations will include recent innovative projects that are making our collections accessible to audiences beyond our borders for the first time. What does "the Musical Poem Recorder of Cascade, Idaho" have to do with Oregon and California? Ever wondered about America's first "mail order religion" and where it all started? The session ultimately spotlights the connections our …
Match That Photo! Embracing Analog Methods To Enhance Digital Collections, Erin Passehl-Stoddart
Match That Photo! Embracing Analog Methods To Enhance Digital Collections, Erin Passehl-Stoddart
Erin Passehl Stoddart
When creating digital collections, different methods and workflows may be considered depending on the size, amount of metadata, and who will be staffing parts of the digitization process. Feeling overwhelmed with 500+ photographs with minimal metadata, I employed an analog tactic: playing a card matching game with printed photographs. Through matching, metadata was enhanced and locations identified more efficiently than staring at a computer screen. This lightning talk will present alternative ways to employ visual literacy tactics to provide a creative, fun way to involve students and staff in creating and enhancing large digital collections.
Imagination At Work: Reaching New Users With Innovative Instruction And Outreach, Erin Passehl-Stoddart
Imagination At Work: Reaching New Users With Innovative Instruction And Outreach, Erin Passehl-Stoddart
Erin Passehl Stoddart
In a college or university setting, archivists are often charged with developing innovative ways to inspire campus users to think expansively and creatively about primary sources. Individual presentations will address developing a fictional collection that can be mobilized and expanded to fulfill learning objectives across multiple disciplines; adapting an interactive game from NYPL to promote and generate interest in archives during New Student Week; and collaborating with faculty and French majors on a grant-funded project to build and promote collections. Other presentations will extend the conversation to assessment and will consider integrating primary source literacy in first-year library instruction classes …
More Bang For The Buck: Sharing Personnel And Resources Across Institutions, Erin Passehl-Stoddart, Jodi Allison-Bunnell, Jane Carlin, Eva Guggemos, Katrina Windon
More Bang For The Buck: Sharing Personnel And Resources Across Institutions, Erin Passehl-Stoddart, Jodi Allison-Bunnell, Jane Carlin, Eva Guggemos, Katrina Windon
Erin Passehl Stoddart
Pacific Northwest archives experimented with sharing grant-supported personnel in an effort to maximize and leverage resources. Discussing their experience with projects funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), the panelists share the benefits of moving resources and personnel to a consortia and how this affected their ability to focus on teaching, collection development, and advocacy. An audience discussion of the feasibility and sustainability of shared personnel follows brief project overviews.
Assessing The Strategic Credibility Of Special Collections, Erin Passehl, Rick Stoddart
Assessing The Strategic Credibility Of Special Collections, Erin Passehl, Rick Stoddart
Erin Passehl Stoddart
In this time of often precarious funding at many colleges and universities, any case that can be made to illustrate how a department strategically fits into the overall university mission is not only worth merit, but an essential survival technique. This “strategic credibility” within the university is a vital form of currency in determining institution-wide resources prioritization, collaboration In this time of often precarious funding at many colleges and universities, any case that can be made to illustrate how a department strategically fits into the overall university mission is not only worth merit, but an essential survival technique. This “strategic …
How Institutional Repositories Provide A Digital Compliment To The First Year Experience, Erin Passehl, Valerie Bagley
How Institutional Repositories Provide A Digital Compliment To The First Year Experience, Erin Passehl, Valerie Bagley
Erin Passehl Stoddart
In Fall 2011, Western Oregon University Archives partnered with Interdisciplinary Studies to digitally capture capstone projects created in the First Year Experience Program (FYE). These seminars provide incoming first-year and transfer students with the necessary skills to succeed in the college classroom and campus life. WOU Archives and FYE instructors collaborated to preserve a digital sample of students’ capstone work, including papers, creative art, posters, presentations, and videos. This presentation will discuss this our shared promotional goals and the library’s role in supporting student retention. We’ll also discuss the nuts and bolts of digitally documenting student work, including permissions, formats, …
Capitalizing On (Un)Limited Potential: Building Digital Collections With A Student Workforce, Erin Passehl
Capitalizing On (Un)Limited Potential: Building Digital Collections With A Student Workforce, Erin Passehl
Erin Passehl Stoddart
Regardless of size or budget, libraries and archives are being asked to do more with fewer resources. Digitization projects are susceptible to these same demands. One way to make progress in this digital environment with a shoestring budget is by taking advantage of a student workforce. This presentation shares strategies for digitizing collections using undergraduate student labor, including working with students with no prior knowledge or experience with archival materials or digital collections. The presentation will also address managing additional educational requirements for credit-earning interns, appropriate assumptions for timelines and workflows, scheduling dilemmas, student turnovers, and working with an untrained …
Primary Source Literacy Using Youtube And Espn College Gameday Videos, Erin Passehl
Primary Source Literacy Using Youtube And Espn College Gameday Videos, Erin Passehl
Erin Passehl Stoddart
This presentation looks at a trend that I employed with archival instruction: the use and creation of video in one-shot instruction sessions. I used three specific videos to emphasize certain concepts in my primary source literacy efforts, three videos that have very different audiences, purposes, ways they were created, and distribution models. It will also look at why video can be a useful choice to connect students with primary sources through archival instruction.
Boise's Basque Radio Program, Erin Passehl
Boise's Basque Radio Program, Erin Passehl
Erin Passehl Stoddart
Passehl will present her research on Boise's Basque radio program, an hour-long radio spoken in Basque on KBOI for approximately thirty years. The presentation will include audio clips from the radio program and historical information about the show and its hosts.
“Should I Copy That Photograph?”Real-World Duplication Quandaries, Erin Passehl
“Should I Copy That Photograph?”Real-World Duplication Quandaries, Erin Passehl
Erin Passehl Stoddart
Archivists grapple with hard decisions about reproducing images every day. Aside from the copyright gray zone that so many photographs fall under, there are also issues of professional courtesy, digitization, cultural sensitivity, political pressures, and commercial use. In this panel four archivists discuss some of the more difficult reproduction questions, and resultant solutions, they have encountered. These questions will resonate to similar situations that other archivists have encountered and provide some measure of clarity for dealing with difficult reproduction questions. The panel will also be open to questions and situations presented by the audience.