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Digital Collections Internships At The University Of Nebraska At Omaha, Wendy Guerra Aug 2024

Digital Collections Internships At The University Of Nebraska At Omaha, Wendy Guerra

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This session explores the challenges and opportunities associated with hosting remote and hybrid interns. It addresses how archival institutions can provide equitable learning experiences while meeting students where they are, ensuring their engagement, professional-growth, and well-being.


Archives Field Trip! Bringing Public History To The Archives, Claire Du Laney, Lori Schwartz Jul 2024

Archives Field Trip! Bringing Public History To The Archives, Claire Du Laney, Lori Schwartz

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

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Assessing Archival Instruction Through An Active Learning Survey, Claire Du Laney Jun 2024

Assessing Archival Instruction Through An Active Learning Survey, Claire Du Laney

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

In this lighting round, I will address the instruction assessment project I have been working on informally since Spring of 2021 and more formally starting in Spring 2023 with an active-learning survey. The survey is organized so that students can follow along during an archival and history instruction session and answer questions or conduct discreet research instances while I am teaching.


A Classroom Of Our Own: An Exploratory Case Study Of Archivists Teaching Outside The Archives, Claire Du Laney, Lori Schwartz May 2024

A Classroom Of Our Own: An Exploratory Case Study Of Archivists Teaching Outside The Archives, Claire Du Laney, Lori Schwartz

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Conversations about archivists teaching a Public History course started in 2021, and in earnest in 2022-2023.


Kludge Cataloging: Cobbling Together Hebrew Bibliographic Records When You Can't Read Hebrew, Angela Kroeger May 2024

Kludge Cataloging: Cobbling Together Hebrew Bibliographic Records When You Can't Read Hebrew, Angela Kroeger

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This presentation discussed the difficulties and challenges cataloging the Kripke-Veret Collection of the Jewish Federation at the University of Nebraska at Omaha when the collection has a heavy Hebrew collection and the cataloger does not read Hebrew.


Flickr And Football: Creating Approachable Archives For Alumni, Wendy Guerra, Amy C. Schindler May 2024

Flickr And Football: Creating Approachable Archives For Alumni, Wendy Guerra, Amy C. Schindler

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections digitized over 78,000 items related to the UNO football program (1910-2011). In an effort to make the digital material approachable to the user community of alumni, the Digital Initiatives Archivist chose to utilize Flickr as the access platform. UNO football alumni and their families are the main users of the collection. Flickr allows alumni to easily interact with content on a platform with a familiar interface, similar features to a slideshow, and content that can easily be shared by archivists to connect with these users on Facebook. Additionally, …


We Can Do It! But Should We? Reflecting On Projects And Priorities, Claire Du Laney, Wendy Guerra, Amy Schindler, Lori Schwartz May 2024

We Can Do It! But Should We? Reflecting On Projects And Priorities, Claire Du Laney, Wendy Guerra, Amy Schindler, Lori Schwartz

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

What happens when you combine archivists and non-archivists with good intentions, unprocessed collections, institutional push to seek grants, competing pressures and deadlines? At the University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives and Special Collections, this familiar scenario occurred during a period focused on prioritizing Latinx collections including personal papers, Office of Latino and Latin American Studies Records, and oral histories. During our presentation, we will share how archivists attempted to wrangle multiple funding streams to meet processing, outreach, and digitization goals while internal and external forces took a toll. These included stakeholder expectations, the complexities of student employment, campus events, and …


Copyright And Creative Commons, Jennie Tobler-Gaston Feb 2024

Copyright And Creative Commons, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This workshop discussed the basics of copyright such as the purpose of copyright, what is and is not copyrightable, how copyright is obtained, the public domain, and the exceptions to copyright - specifically fair use. It also discusses the basics of Creative Commons and the 6 licenses and two tools.


Digital Commons And Open Access: Utilizing Digitalcommons@Uno And Uno's Open Access Publishing Agreements To Make Your Work Open And Accessible, Jennie Tobler-Gaston Feb 2024

Digital Commons And Open Access: Utilizing Digitalcommons@Uno And Uno's Open Access Publishing Agreements To Make Your Work Open And Accessible, Jennie Tobler-Gaston

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This presentation covered the University of Nebraska at Omaha's institutional repository, DigitalCommons@UNO, the basics and different types of Open Access and this many open access publishing agreements available for UNO authors.