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Digital Library Of Georgia (March 2022), Mandy L. Mastrovita

Georgia Library Quarterly

News from the Digital Library of Georgia for the first quarter of 2022.

Planning And Managing For Digital Projects In Libraries And Archives, Dinah Handel

Digital Initiatives Symposium

All library initiatives benefit from planning and structure, whether you’re organizing an outsourced, grant-funded digitization project or an internal digital collections initiative that includes digitization, descriptive metadata creation, and an online exhibit. In this two-hour workshop, participants will acquire concrete skills and new approaches to ensure that digital projects of any size are completed on deadline and without issues. The workshop will also survey specific tools that assist with project management and digital projects. Project managers of all skill-levels are welcome at this workshop, although the content will be geared towards beginners and those with some familiarity in managing ...

Ethical And Anti-Oppressive Metadata: A Collaboration Between Catalogers And Archivists At George Mason University Libraries, Liz Beckman, Lynn Eaton, Yoko Ferguson, David Heilbrun, Rachel Lavender, Tricia Mackenzie, Dorothee Schubel

Collaborative Librarianship

Systems of library and archival resource description have historically reinforced the societal power structures of white supremacy, patriarchy, and cis-heteronormativity. Following the framework of critical librarianship and acknowledging our positionality as predominately white departments, George Mason University Libraries’ Metadata Services (MS) and Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) have been engaging in a variety of projects of reparative resource description. To discuss points of collaboration between the two departments, the Task Force for Ethical and Anti-Oppressive Metadata (TEAM) was formed, consisting of staff and faculty members from both groups who work with resource description. Although the departments have a history of ...

What Do I Do With That?, Abby Stambach

Staff publications

“What Do I Do with That” describes a museum once housed in an academic library which became part of the institution's archives, and discusses how this legacy collection impacted the work of today's Archives & Distinctive Collections Department.

The academic archive staff identifies preservation needs such as storage and documentation, as well as how they work with the dedicated campus gallery to provide access to its art collections.

Ua52/1 Out Of The Box, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by and about WKU Archives and the records management program.

H90-1068. Fried, Paul G. (1919-2006). Papers, 1851-2015. 45.00 Linear Ft. Partially Restricted, Hope College

Collection Registers and Abstracts

Paul George Fried was born on April 4, 1919, in Leipzig, Germany, and was raised in Wiesbaden, Germany and Vienna, Austria. In April 1938, Fried was arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in Vienna before leaving for England and worked for the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews in 1939. In December 1939, Fried entered the United States aboard the SS Veendam. He began studies at Hope College in 1940. Fried was drafted in 1943, and became a United States citizen on June 1, 1943. He served in Europe during World War II as an ...

W21-1473. Duryee, Eugene C. (1901-1981). Papers, 1926-1931. 0.25 Linear Ft., Western Theological Seminary

Collection Registers and Abstracts

Eugene Clark Duryee was native to North Hackensack, New Jersey, and son of Reverend Abram Duryee and Mrs. Margaret Powless Clarke Duryee. He held degrees from Rutgers College, Hartford Theological Seminary, and Columbia University. He was licensed and ordained by the Classis of South Bergen in 1926. Duryee served as a missionary in Japan from 1926 to 1931 and spent his first year at Meiji Gakuin University in language study. Upon his return to the United States, Duryee served as an assistant pastor at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City, New York, (1932-1933) and as pastor at Blue Mountain ...

Wikiproject: Chinese Culture And Heritage, Sai Deng, Lihong Zhu, Amanda Xu

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Traditionally, library data has been designed for the use and consumption of humans, and it is not integrated with the Semantic Web. If we transform library data into linked open data, it will increase the visibility and usage of library data on the Semantic Web. Within the past few years, the calls for transforming library data into linked open data have become more and more frequent. In order to increase the value and discoverability of library data, libraries have been exploring options for making library data available and useful outside of the data silos of the library world through the ...

Use Of Digital Archives During The Covid-19 Pandemic By Murray State History Students, David Sye

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

During the 2020-2021 academic year, which was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers had limited access to physical repositories for historical research. Both the limitation of in-person archival access and the growth of digitization led to a greater use and reliance on digitized primary source materials. This preliminary study examines the approaches undergraduate and graduate history students took to find and access primary sources online amidst the pandemic. An expanded study has the potential to provide insight on search methods, types of repositories used, types of primary sources used, the use of online vs in-person sources, and factors for digital ...

H90-1088. President’S Office. Records, 1933-[Ongoing]. 21.00 Linear Ft. Partially Restricted, Hope College

Collection Registers and Abstracts

Two business days required for collection retrieval – please contact archivist.

Records and papers of Hope College presidents Irwin J. Lubbers, Ph.D., Calvin A. VanderWerf, Ph.D., Gordon J. Van Wylen, Sc.D., John H. Jacobson, Jr., Ph.D., James E. Bultman, Ph.D., John C. Knapp, Ph.D., Rev. Dennis Voskuil, Ph.D., Matthew A. Scogin, MA, and Presidential Search Committee records for James Bultman, John Knapp, and Matthew Scogin. Topics also include materials on the design of the presidential medallion in 1987.

Creating Knowledge Graphs For Collections And Lod Visualization: Some Cases, Sai Deng

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This presentation will share knowledge graphs and other Linked Open Data (LOD) visualization the author created or helped in creating for a few projects, including people in the Pemberton Correspondence Collection, WikiProject: Chinese Female Poets, and UCF Teachers & Researchers. It will also cover the current state of LOD in Ex Libris’ library services platform Alma. The purpose of this talk is to help our cataloging folks better understand LOD and be better prepared for the upcoming changes related to LOD in our library system.

Review Of Deconstructing Service In Libraries: Intersections Of Identities And Expectations, Emily Komornik

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

In Deconstructing Service in Libraries: Intersections of Identities and Expectations, Veronica Arellano Douglas and Joanna Gadsby bring together nineteen essays from the perspectives of library workers of differing race, ethnicity, gender identity, and job title to discuss service and what it means in their respective roles. Arellano Douglas and Gadsby’s edited volume offers essays that highlight the frustration of librarians who feel underappreciated, undervalued, and, perhaps most importantly, underestimated in their professional spaces. Within Deconstructing Service in Libraries, Arellano Douglas and Gadsby collect insightful, real-world examples of library professionals tackling these issues, offering solidarity alongside valuable professional advice. This ...

Review Of The Social Movement Archive., Sonia Pacheco

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

The Social Movement Archive, written by Jen Hoyer and Nora Almeida, utilizes fifteen interviews--as well as reproductions of visual records--to highlight the necessity of archivists and archives to reconsider what is preserved and by whom. The movements highlighted are wide ranging and include (but are not limited to): women's liberation, disability rights, housing justice, Black liberation, anti-war, Indigenous sovereignty, immigrant rights, and prisoner abolition.

Book Review: Urgent Archives, Terry Baxter

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

In Urgent Archives, Michele Caswell provides a tough love blueprint that allows archivists, in whatever place they are situated, to take individual and collective liberatory action by extricating archival theory and practice from the constraints of the oppressive systems in which it is rooted and for which it has been a tool. While Urgent Archives is aimed at liberatory memory work in community archives settings it also has a lot to say to archivists in other, often institutional settings. Caswell lays out three legs of liberatory memory work -- temporal, affective, and material. She then proceeds to outline the nature of ...

Review Of Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords For Big Data, Marissa Friedman

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

While its encyclopedic organization does hinder the book’s overall accessibility, Uncertain Archives presents some useful theoretical frameworks for archivists working with digitized and born-digital collections. In its entirety, the book provides a complex analysis of present and possible future impacts of big data across many aspects of human life and organization. It raises thought-provoking questions and areas of inquiry for information professionals tasked with collecting, preserving, describing, and providing access to exponentially growing digital collections. For those interested in LIS approaches to big data, Uncertain Archives is part of a growing body of scholarship concerning the growth of digital ...

Review Of Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library And Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory, Rayna Andrews

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

In Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory, editors Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight compile thirteen essays, as well as three introductions by scholars that discuss how Critical Race Theory tenets can and are being used by information professionals to challenge systems that harm marginalized communities. Authors in this volume share personal narratives interspersed with analysis and critique to provide an enlightening and enriching view of how CRT can be used to advance the profession.

Jacquelyn L. Bridgeman Interview; Oral History Project, Jacquelyn L. Bridgeman, Cristina E. Salazar, Shelby Nivitanont

Wyoming Oral History

Jacquelyn L. Bridgeman, Kepler Professor of Law, Director of School of Culture, Gender & Social Justice.

In this oral history, Professor Bridgeman discuses what it was like to grow up in Laramie, WY, her experience as a woman of color in the legal career field, and her accomplishments as a lawyer, law professor, and magistrate. Professor Bridgeman touches on stories from when President Obama was her professor at University of Chicago Law School, insights into current events in the Wyoming Legislature, and her perspective on diversity recruitment.

H88-0322. Philanthropy And Engagement Office. Records, 1862-2011. 15.50 Linear Ft. Partially Restricted, Hope College

Collection Registers and Abstracts

Efforts to enhance the image of Hope College, raise funds and recruit students began as soon as the institution was founded. The first fund raising effort was the Een-Dracht Maakt Macht drive in the 1890s, which aimed to raise funds for the general endowment of Hope College, Western Theological Seminary, and Northwestern Classical Academy. This successful drive to raise $100,000, of which Hope College received $50,000, set the stage for “a new and vital era” in the history of the college after many years of struggle for survival. Several successful campaigns have followed. Today, the Philanthropy and Engagement ...

Slis Connecting, Volume 10, Issue 2 Fall/Winter, Stacy Creel, Ph.D.

SLIS Connecting

SLIS Connecting -- the whole issue with all three Columns, one editorial, one professional article, and seven research articles.

Common Ground: How The First Amendment And Intellectual Freedom Provide Room For Diverse Voices, Heather Smith, Mlis

SLIS Connecting

This study examined the legal history and evolution of the LIS core value of intellectual freedom in the United States of America, explained how the convictions of both conservative and liberal ideations are rooted in this common national foundation, and, thereby, endeavored to reconcile perceived enemies and dispel misconceptions and prejudices within the world of information science.