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An Olympic Ode To Cataloging, Maureen E. Schlangen

Roesch Library Staff Publications

When my colleagues in the University Libraries gathered on the west portico of Roesch Library June 9 for our own version of the Olympics, our competitive nature, mostly dormant in our daily work, emerged in events that put our teams to the test both physically and mentally: journal Jenga, journal toss, cart racing, book balancing, speed sorting and the hardest scavenger hunt I’ve ever participated in.

But like many things I’ve discovered in my two years in the Libraries, the information science that inspired these trivial games is anything but trivial.

As I raced to put a cart full of …

Unexpected Accessions: Outreach Presentations Bring Digital Content And More, Maurice R. Blackson

Library Scholarship

This article describes how outreach presentations by archives staff brought digital collections related to local history to the Central Washington University Archives and Special Collections online repository, ScholarWorks.

Lanthorn, Vol. 51, No. 01, July 11, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Archives, Education, And Access: Learning At Interference Archive, Bonnie Gordon, Lani Hanna, Jen Hoyer, Vero Ordaz

Publications and Research

Archives are a tool for education and the access policy of an archive affects what kind of education takes place in its space. In this paper, we describe how Interference Archive (IA), a community archive in Brooklyn, New York, provides access through an open stacks policy and experiential learning, which allows for unique educational opportunities. These methods of providing access are intended to subvert representational power, allowing visitors, donors, and volunteers to take part in deciding how histories are told, how materials are accessed, and how the collection is re-used as a resource for learning about contemporary and historical social …

"Womyn's Words" Collection Of Pat Ditto : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Phillip Sroka, Pat Ditto, Women's Energy Bank

Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids: All Items

Womyn’s Words was a monthly periodical published by the Women’s Energy Bank, Inc. that began in 1983. Pat Ditto and other editors and contributors to this publication devoted their efforts to the St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay area in support of the local LGBTQ+ community. Although they primarily advocated for the empowerment and civil rights of women, they also spent a significant amount of time supporting political causes that would benefit the gay community as a whole. Significantly, Womyn’s Words, as early as 1996, was promoting intersectional awareness with their “Afro-Centric Series.” A large portion of their publications was used …

Lis Programs And The Need For Dialogue, Denisse Solis

Works of the FIU Libraries

This article addresses the lack of understanding of social issues within LIS and MLIS education and in the profession itself while advocating for discussions on diversity in library and information programs in the U.S., the promotion of groups to address these issues, and encouraging more open dialogue on issues of race, gender, and class.

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 1 Summer 2016, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

The Joint Archives Quarterly, Volume 26.02: Summer 2016, Eldon R. Kramer, Geoffrey D. Reynolds, Nathan Longfield

The Joint Archives Quarterly

No abstract provided.

July 2016, Volume 12, Number 2, Winthrop University Archives And Special Collections

Retrospect: News from the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections at Winthrop University

No abstract provided.

Preservation Perspectives: Continuing Education, Bill Stolz

University Libraries' Staff Publications

The author encourages public librarian in Kentucky to attend one-day conferences focused on archives, preservation, and historical research. Topics discussed include this year's spring conference offered by Kentucky Council on Archives (KCA) with the theme "If These Walls Could Talk: Exploring and Managing Facilities in Archives" and the 32nd Kentucky Archives Institute on June 17 with genealogist J. Mark Lowe's speaking on early Kentucky courts.

Performing Ourselves At The Center, Shawn(Ta) Smith-Cruz

Publications and Research

This interview sits alongside an extended version edited for Amanda Curreri’s solo exhibition, The Calmest of Us Would be lunatics, which took place from January 21–May 8, 2016, at Rochester Art Center, in Rochester, Minnesota. Curreri dug through the archival collection of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian organization in the country, and their journal, The ladder, at the Tretter Collection in LGBT Studies at the University of Minnesota. The exhibition is titled after a line in Emily Dickinson’s 1877 letter to Elizabeth Holland which reads, “Had we the first intimation of the Definition of Life, the calmest of …

Access To Justice?: A Study Of Access Restrictions On The Papers Of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, Susan David Demaine, Benjamin J. Keele

Articles by Maurer Faculty

For scholars of law, history, and government—and the American public—the papers of all Supreme Court Justices are of vital importance. They contribute to biographies, histories, and legal critiques. Our understanding of the Court and its decisions is enriched by access to the thinking of the justices. In turn, this knowledge informs our views on our laws and social order and helps shape the future of our legal, political, and even moral culture. Despite the importance of these papers, many justices who have donated their papers in the past 75 years or so have placed restrictions on access to the collection. …

Using Web Archives To Enrich The Live Web Experience Through Storytelling, Yasmin Alnoamany

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Much of our cultural discourse occurs primarily on the Web. Thus, Web preservation is a fundamental precondition for multiple disciplines. Archiving Web pages into themed collections is a method for ensuring these resources are available for posterity. Services such as Archive-It exists to allow institutions to develop, curate, and preserve collections of Web resources. Understanding the contents and boundaries of these archived collections is a challenge for most people, resulting in the paradox of the larger the collection, the harder it is to understand. Meanwhile, as the sheer volume of data grows on the Web, "storytelling" is becoming a popular …

Making Oral History Interviews Accessible At The Louie B. Nunn Center For Oral History, Kopana Terry, Judy Sackett

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Gary R. Mormino Collection Of Historic Periodicals : A Collection Guide, Phillip Sroka, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives.

Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids: All Items

This collection includes a variety of newspapers and a smaller collection of news magazines that generally document current events in the United States and throughout the world during the 1930s and 1940s. The majority of the newspapers came from Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania, though occasional issues from areas such as Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, and other cities also reside within the collection. These materials came to us via donation by Dr. Gary R. Mormino, Professor Emeritus of History and Florida Studies, and a member of the faculty within the USF System since 1977. Professor Mormino frequently …

"Richard And Les" Pride Collection Of Monographs : A Collection Overview, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Phillip Sroka

Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids: All Items

This collection includes a variety of scholarly non-fiction and general interest fiction and non-fiction related to gay and lesbian studies, with a strong emphasis on materials related to gay male history, culture, and literature. The items were received in a June 2016 donation from Les, a resident of Hillsborough County. A native of Hawaii who came of age in California, Les met Richard, a man who grew up along the coast of southeast Florida. For more than four decades, their friendship, partnership, and marriage took them to careers and opportunities in various areas of the United States, as well as …

International Librarianship, Information Communities, And Open Access Metadata., Adrienne Mathewson

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Selection And Appraisal Of Digital Research Datasets, Chris Eaker

UT Libraries Faculty: Peer-Reviewed Publications

As the currency of science, data are important to preserve. However, since scientific research is producing ever-increasing volumes of data, it is impossible to preserve it all. Even if it were, not every data set ought to be preserved. For this reason, academic libraries need policies with criteria governing which data sets will be preserved and how to appraise them against those criteria. Appraisal and selection policies are commonplace in academic libraries for other materials, but many do not have complementary policies for data sets. If data are to be preserved, then academic libraries must have clear and useful selection …

Free For All: Opening Collections And Supporting Multi-Institutional Efforts With Internet Archive, Patrick R. Wallace

Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference

Patrick Wallace led a collaborative, information-sharing session on integrating Internet Archive (IA) into digital archive workflows and technical infrastructures. Key topics included how IA fits alongside other digital archive and repository platforms, using scripts & software to support batch processing and API interactions, and leveraging IA to help support coordinated digital preservation projects with smaller memory institutions.

Sharing [True] Stories: Supporting And Sustaining Collaborative Digital Oral History Archives And Research, Rachel Walton, Charlotte Nunes

Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference

The grant-funded [True] Stories project aims to provide instructors from a variety of disciplines and on multiple campuses the critical resources and expertise needed to make student-driven oral history work possible, impactful, accessible, and a permanent part of collections. As such, the project PIs are committed to building and vetting a practical model for oral history classroom collaborations between smaller, moderately-funded college archives or libraries. In addition to the expected challenges of technological and interdisciplinary collaboration, the [True] Stories face critical digital preservation decisions and roadblocks: shared and sustainable digital storage solutions; a standard set of acquisition, processing, and curatorial …