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What's New In Preservation At Musselman Library: Student Workers And The Beauty Of The Book, Carolyn Sautter, Mary Wootton Oct 2015

What's New In Preservation At Musselman Library: Student Workers And The Beauty Of The Book, Carolyn Sautter, Mary Wootton

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Musselman Library's Special Collections and College Archives at Gettysburg College involves student workers and interns in our preservation and conservation efforts. The recent addition to the staff of a half-time conservator position has opened up new avenues for training. This has also resulted in additional access points for our students, faculty and other researchers to interact with our collections. This presentation discusses our preservation activities and our new digital collection The Beauty of the Book. It also illustrates how we have engaged student workers in conservation and enhanced cataloging description projects giving them a deeper appreciation for and understanding …


Increasing Access To Clemson University Patents, Jan Comfort, Andy Wesolek, Lisa Bodenheimer, Brenda Burk Oct 2015

Increasing Access To Clemson University Patents, Jan Comfort, Andy Wesolek, Lisa Bodenheimer, Brenda Burk

Jan Comfort

Clemson now supports open sharing of research through its institutional repository, TigerPrints. Learn to leverage the benefits of this open sharing complemented by your library's catalog, and learn more about the collaborative effort among four distinct library units.


Increasing Access To Clemson University Patents, Jan Comfort, Andy Wesolek, Lisa Bodenheimer, Brenda Burk Oct 2015

Increasing Access To Clemson University Patents, Jan Comfort, Andy Wesolek, Lisa Bodenheimer, Brenda Burk

Lisa Bodenheimer

Clemson now supports open sharing of research through its institutional repository, TigerPrints. Learn to leverage the benefits of this open sharing complemented by your library's catalog, and learn more about the collaborative effort among four distinct library units.


Meaning In The Spaces: Archivists' Impact On The Historical Record, Ruth E. Bryan Oct 2015

Meaning In The Spaces: Archivists' Impact On The Historical Record, Ruth E. Bryan

Library Presentations

Archives and “the archives” are culturally-specific places and materials. In the same way, both individual archivists and users of archives are situated in specific, often different, contexts of culture and identity. Archives are also spaces where researchers encounter sources for creating history. Thus, as both archival professionals and users of archival material, the meanings we construct for ourselves through understanding our past can be thought of as being constantly generated in the ever-changing spaces within and across archival sources, where individual donors, archivists, and researchers, archival professional standards, daily practical needs, and repositories’ organizational missions interact and interrelate. Because each …


Over My Dead Body: When Your Local Music Archive Meets Donor Resistance, Elizabeth E. Reilly Aug 2015

Over My Dead Body: When Your Local Music Archive Meets Donor Resistance, Elizabeth E. Reilly

Elizabeth Reilly

In 2013, Archives and Special Collections at the University of Louisville started the Louisville Underground Music Archive project to document the local rock / indie / punk and hardcore music scene. Early on, the LUMA project experienced great support on Facebook and in the local media. Today the LUMA Facebook page has over 1500 likes and we have received over 40 separate collections totaling thousands of individual items. But, as time has passed since the initial wave of enthusiasm, the donation inquiries have slowed and we’re still without significant private collections that we know exist in the community.


Strategic Planning And Collaborative Effort To Preserve The University’S History, Xiaohua (Cindy) Li Jul 2015

Strategic Planning And Collaborative Effort To Preserve The University’S History, Xiaohua (Cindy) Li

Librarian Publications

Since established in 1963, Sacred Heart University has accumulated tens of thousands of photographs that have recorded the significant moments or important occasions in the university’s history. Over the years, more and more photos have been taken but the effort to preserve the valuable information has not been up to the pace of the photo accumulation. Realizing some photos started to deteriorate due to the physical space in which these images were stored and the university was about to lose the visual data, the Office of University Advancement (OUA) began to seek a long-term solution that would help them manage …


History In The Making: Creating The Shenandoah Living Archive, Lynn Eaton, Kate Morris Jun 2015

History In The Making: Creating The Shenandoah Living Archive, Lynn Eaton, Kate Morris

Kate Morris

The Shenandoah Living Archive (SLA) is a new James Madison University Libraries and Educational Technologies initiative that engages students, the local community, and faculty in capturing, creating, and curating the real-time documentation of life in the Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Living Archive collects the stories of the communities that make up the rich tapestry of life in the Valley today. Materials include born-digital items (oral histories, images, video, geospatial data) and physical materials (flyers, pamphlets, diaries). A technologically rich space, the SL encourages creativity, connectivity, and experimentation in the development of new content and digital storytelling—a remixing that will bring …


Redirecting Library Budgets In Support Of Open Access, Andrée Rathemacher May 2015

Redirecting Library Budgets In Support Of Open Access, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

This is the text of a panel presentation given at the Women's History in the Digital World 2015 conference at Bryn Mawr College on May 22, 2015. The presentation was part of a panel chaired by Julie R. Enszer (University of Maryland) titled "Feminist and Lesbian Periodicals in the Digital Age: Rebroadcasting Our Values." Co-panelists were Ken Wachsberger (Azenphony Press) and Laura X (The Laura X-Laura Rand Orthwein, Jr. World Institute for the Legacy and Learning of Social Justice Movements.)

Also posted at: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/greenfield_conference/2015/Friday/33/

Twitter feed at: https://storify.com/GreenfieldHWE/women-s-history-in-the-digital-world-2015

Later appeared as a blog post here: https://kenwachsberger.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/redirecting-library-budgets-in-support-of-open-access/


More Than Just Potatoes: Highlights From The #11;University Of Idaho, Erin Passehl-Stoddart Apr 2015

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 …