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Building Digital Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual For Librarians, 2nd Ed. By Kyle Banerjee And Terry Reese Jr. [Review], Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

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Job Satisfaction Of Library And Information Science Professionals: An Over View, Anand Y. Kenchakkanavar Dr., Santosh M. Chavan Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The library is a growing organism it requires highly skilled and experienced library and information science (LIS) professionals to fulfill requires of the user and for information management. It is also very essential for the professionals to satisfy their own requirements because only satisfied professionals can give new services to the end user. In this research paper, we explore the different literature related to the job satisfaction of Library and Information Science professionals and highlighted essential information. This study examines that to the Library and Information Science professionals’ literature and practice in the following techniques, this study provides new awareness …

Review Of Archival Values: Essays In Honor Of Mark A. Greene, Gregory Wiedeman

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Archival Values: Essays in Honor of Mark A. Greene is an archetypal Festschrift with 23 essays on each of the 11 Society of American Archivists Core Values of Archivists. This is primarily a book about archival professionalism, as Scott Cline’s framing essay offers the values as "integral to the archival endeavor" and the SAA Publications Board selected it as the fourth of SAA’s annual “One Book, One Profession” series. The book features some particularly standout works that will help both graduate students and veteran archivists better understand some of the more cutting-edge ideas that are reshaping how archivists think of …

Review Of Advocacy And Awareness For Archivists, Elizabeth D. James

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Advocacy and Awareness for Archivists is at once a practical guide and a call to action to consistently communicate the work and impact of archives at the local, regional, and national levels. As an expansion of the Archival Fundamentals Series, the book places the work of advocacy as being central to the archives profession. However, it neglects to incorporate contemporary archival concerns related to power dynamics and inequity when planning and conducting an advocacy effort.

“How Can We Do Better?”: Empowering Diverse Voices Through An Academic/Public Library Partnership, Annie E. Tummino, Jo-Ann Wong

Publications and Research

Queens Memory is a local community archiving and oral history project, co-administered by Queens Public Library and Queens College, CUNY. During COVID-19, members from both institutions collaborated to create a series of virtual roundtables hosted on Facebook Live, centered on social justice, current events, and creating positive social change. Specific examples include xenophobia and Asian Americans during COVID-19; the Black Lives Matter movement; student activism and political engagement; and equity/inclusion in archives. In selecting these topics and speakers, we made sure that the diversity and lived experiences of our communities were represented, and that speakers included both scholars and students. …

Embracing Monsters, Laurie J. Bonnici, Brian C. O'Connor

Proceedings from the Document Academy

We propose monsters are documents. Monsters show us, make evident to us, teach us. An exploration of five monsters, both popular and unknown, reveals they fit within a standard model of message making; the binary nature of that model separates meaning from message enabling explanation of evolving interpretations of a monster. We examine the coding and decoding of monster documents through a functional ontology lens. We posit that monsters defy protype and thus serve as attempts at documenting the undocumented. Simultaneously monsters present clues to understanding through imagery that spans the unfamiliar and the familiar allowing the recipient to engage …

From The Vault - December 2020 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In this holiday edition of the Archives and Special Collections’ newsletter, our very own Nadia Nasr sends out a video message to give thanks. We also announce that our Scholar Commons will be opening up a social justice themed scholarship series.

Shared Service In The Archives: The Johns Hopkins University First-Generation Students Oral History Project, Jennifer Kinniff, Annie Tang

Library Books and Book Chapters

"Archivists, like librarians, often provide service to users that is defined by the mission and the institutional context of their employer. University archivists are tasked with documenting the history of their institution, and in doing so, have historically focused much of their attention on the records of institutional offices. This practice leaves out the stories of students and other communities affected by the institution. As immersed as university archivists are in academic libraries and the infrastructure of the academy, activist archivists can still challenge the status quo through intentional collecting of what is neither de facto, nor traditional. As archivists …

Dinosaur Representation In Museums: How The Struggle Between Scientific Accuracy And Pop Culture Affects The Public Perception Of Mesozoic Non-Avian Dinosaurs In Museums, Carla A. Feller

Museum Studies Theses

This thesis examines the struggle of museums to keep up with swiftly advancing scientific discoveries relating to the study and display of Mesozoic (approximately 250 million years to 65 million years ago) non-avian dinosaurs. The paper will explore the history of dinosaur discoveries, their display methodologies in museums, and how pop culture, including movies and video games, have influenced museum displays and public perception over time. The lack of updated dinosaur exhibits in smaller local museums leads to disbelief, or an outright denial, of new information such as feathered dinosaurs. Entertainment, such as movies and video games that have non-avian …

Online Interpretation Guideline For Historic House Museums, Olivia A. Weixlmann

Museum Studies Theses

What does it mean to be a museum in 2020? How do cultural institutions, charged with preserving our history, navigate the challenges of the modern world? Technological advances including the internet, quickly produce an abundance of media outlets baiting attention that impact the sociopolitical climate driving civil unrest, and ideological division. The surplus of competing information from technology driven outlets result in audiences being overwhelmed and left questioning if the information they're receiving is from a reliable source.

Mplp: From Practice To Theory, Kyna Herzinger

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

This paper traces the transformation of More Product, Less Process or MPLP from a processing methodology to a principle that has supported a growing toolbox of practices. It highlights the seeds of that principle, which are rooted in Greene and Meissner’s effort to shift professional focus away from processing minutiae and toward access to and use of archival materials. Although MPLP developed out of demonstrable needs, its underlying attention to the nature of archival work and the archivist’s role within that work speaks to deeper concepts addressed within archival theory. This paper argues that MPLP’s pragmatic methods have evolved beyond …

Labor Gone Digital (Digifacket)! Experiences From Creating A Web Archive For Swedish Trade Unions, Jenny Jansson, Katrin Uba, Jaanus Karo

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

The Internet has become an increasingly important forum for societal activism, as event mobilization, member organization, and some actions have moved online. These new types of activities, often facilitated by diverse social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, form an increasingly important part of contemporary social movements’ and organizations’ communication, work, and expression. This rapid digitalization and the increase of online activities have created a dilemma for social movement archives and researchers: Born-digital material is necessary to understand our contemporary movements, yet the materials generated and available on the Internet are rarely systematically archived. To help find solutions …

Review Of Leading And Managing Archives And Manuscripts Program, Rory Grennan

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Review of Leading and Managing Archives and Manuscripts Programs, edited by Peter Gottlieb and David W. Carmichael, examining the main topics of leadership and management of people in archival programs, its place in the archival literature, and its potential audience.

Cataloging Manuscripts And Archival Collections, Rebecca A. Wiederhold

Faculty Publications

Catalogers are increasingly responsible for creating metadata for a variety of unusual items. In the Beyond Books: Cataloging Special Format Items preconference at ULA 2019, participants learned how to catalog manuscripts/archival collections, artists’ books, zines, and posters. This webinar will reprise the Manuscripts and Archival Collections segment of that session, educating participants on when it’s appropriate to catalog special collections material archivally as a collection versus on an item level. Whether you have finding aids to use as a base for your catalog record or you are working directly with the materials, guidelines for using DACS and RDA for manuscript …

Challenges In Providing Reference Services In Small Archival Institutions, Aaron T. Preston

Journal of Western Archives

This paper describes, the results of a brief survey of archivists working for fifty five small archives nationwide. The purpose the survey was to examine to what extent smaller archival institutions are applying remote reference services, what type of remote services are being utilized and to identify common challenges faced by small archival institutions with different functions and audiences. It also and examine common challenges faced in the implementation of digitization efforts to support these reference services. The survey was posted via the Society of American Archivists Lone Arrangers Forum, and cross-posted it on the Reference, Access, and Outreach Forum. …

Business Models For Post-Crisis Information Ecosystems, Antje Mays

Library Presentations

Since early 2020, the global COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted activity across business, education, research, and communities. Public health safety precautions have forced drastic reductions in economic and educational activity, resulting in widespread economic uncertainty and sizeable budget cuts. With library budgets already declining since the 2001-2002 recession following the dotcom crash and more steeply since the 2007-2009 Great Recession spawned by the financial crash, the pandemic has accelerated trends that were already underway. Libraries’ reduced purchasing power places the information ecosystem at risk of contraction in the race to contain costs.

While economic contexts and publishing forms have changed considerably. …

From The Vault - November 2020 Newsletter, Archives & Special Collections

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In this Thanksgiving issue of the Archives and Special Collections’ newsletter, we update patrons on our remote work with classes, researches, and new materials. We also announce our new blog posts featuring the American Prison Newspapers and our work with SCEMBI.

Annual Report Of The Indiana Universiy Maurer School Of Law Digital Repository, 2019/20, Richard Vaughan

Digital Repository Annual Reports

A brief annual report documenting the use and growth of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Jerome Hall Law Library, Digital Repository. Includes lists of the most downloaded documents and attached Excel spreadsheets of data

Ms 214 Guide To Lu Ann Aday, Phd Papers (1964-2014), Lu Ann Aday

Manuscript Finding Aids

The Lu Ann Aday, PhD papers contains materials related Lu Ann Aday’s professional career in public health. The papers include her publications, courses she designed and taught, administrative material and consulting work. Many of the records are from her work at the University of Texas School of Public Health-Houston. See more at MS 214.

Afterlives Of Indigenous Archives: Essays In Honor Of "The Occom Circle" [Book Review], Drew Lopenzina

English Faculty Publications

(First paragraph) Afterlives of Indigenous Archives takes its title from Anishinaabe author Gerald Vizenor who is, in turn, repurposing a quote from French theorist Jacques Derrida who, in his 1995 work, Archive Fever, referred to the archive as that which gestures toward “an excess of life,” something that “resists annihilation” (183). This excess, or “afterlife,” of the archive remains, for Vizenor at least, an unexpected location of Indigenous survivance—a site from which, despite every violent attempt to colonially contain and collapse Native presence, it is still possible to carry something forward from the ruins of representation. With this in mind, …

Sebuah Kajian Kolaborasi Dan Graf Komunikasi Penulsi Pada Jurnal Ijeis (Indonesian Journal Of Electronic And Instrumentation System), Universitas Gadjah Mada, Y. Rudi Kriswanto, Ella Erliyana, I Ketut Gunadi Adiguna, Indah Rachma Cahyani

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

This study aims among others; to know the level of author collaboration; the most prolific writer; the amount of information on the communication graph; the synthesis point; to know the relationship between productive authors with a synthesis point. Data collection is done by taking the author of the article in the journal IJEIS UGM in the 2015-2017 edition year. To find out the level of collaboration authors required the theory written Subramanyam. Then to map the relationship of collaboration between authors required communication graph. By applying Brillouin formulation, the communication graph can be determined synthesis point the calculation results show …

Audit Informasi Pada Unit Layanan Book Carrier Perpustakaan Bank Pustaka, Kiki Fauziah

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

This article discusses information audit process in the book carrier service unit of Bank Pustaka Library. The purpose of this study was to see flow of information on the book carrier services, to identify effectiveness of work instructions for book carrier services and to identify information needs in the book carrier service unit. This research used a qualitative approach with a case study method. The data collection was conducted by interview, observation, and document analysis. The study results found that there was miscommunication between the coordinator and staff in providing work instructions, work instructions of the book carrier service were …

Analisis Informasi Penerbitan Dan Topik Populer Terbitan Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan Dan Informasi Di Indonesia, Wahid Nashihuddin, Fauzan Hidayatullah, Kadek Aryana Dwi Putra

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

Library and information science periodicals in Indonesia have a variety of publishing policies and topics of discussion, as the information showed on the publication’s website. This study aims to determine: (1) the identity of the library and information science periodicals in Indonesia which can be accessed online; (2) the publishing information on those periodicals website; and (3) the popular topics of those periodicals. The research data used qualitative data, which was sourced from information searching in the SINTA Database of the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education, ISSN LIPI, and the website of library and information science periodicals in …

Pelaksanaan Pemberkasan Arsip Di Pusat Administrasi Universitas Indonesia: Studi Kasus Bidang Perencanaan, Keuangan, Dan Fasilitas, Nur Laila, Anon Mirmani

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

Filing is a records processing activity by grouping documents into files in the work unit. Division Unit 2 at the Administrative Center of the Universitas Indonesia consists of 9 work units that create and capture record in accordance with their main tasks and functions, which are supporting core activities of the Administrative Center of the Universitas Indonesia. The records processing is based on the Universitas Indonesia's records classification scheme instrument. The research question is: how is the implementation of records filing in Division unit 2? Is the implementation in line with the instrument? The research purpose is to provide an …

Penerapan Jadwal Retensi Arsip Mahkamah Agung Republik Indonesia, Andre Dio Nusa, Ike Iswary Lawanda

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

This study discusses about the Application of the Records Retention Schedule for Records Retention at the Supreme Court Institution of the Republic of Indonesia. The purpose of this research discussion is to discuss the description of the application of Records Retention Schedule (RRS) in the process of administering the archives becoming archives which will be preserved in the Supreme Court institutional archive in accordance with the established RRS guidelines. It is a qualitative research using observation and interview in order to gather information about the implementation of RRS with several archival management units in the Supreme Court Archives Depot. RRS …

Peran Media Sosial Pada Perilaku Informasi Mahasiswa Dalam Menyikapi Isu Kesehatan, Herni Wisnumurti Hajar, Margareta Aulia Rachman

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

This article discusses the role of social media towards library and information science (LIS) students’ information behaviour in responding health issues. This is a quantitative study with survey method to collect the data. The survey was distributed to LIS students of Universitas Indonesia in March 2020. The result shows that social media affects students’ information behaviour. The finding also shows that almost all of the students could fulfil their information needs and could distinguish original information and hoaxes on social media, and students did not directly disseminate the information before reading the whole content of the information carefully. Most of …

Commemorating A Legacy Of Dissent: Revisiting Campus Activism 1968-1970, Annie E. Tummino

Publications and Research

On the heels of the student revolt at Columbia in 1968, Queens College students launched their own militant actions and demands for change on campus. Using primary source materials from the Benjamin Rosenthal Library’s Special Collections and Archives, the presentation covers the New Left and Anti-War movements, as well as an uprising led by Black and Puerto Rican students influenced by the ideologies of Black Power and self-determination. The role of archives in preserving activist history and educating current and future generations is also touched on.

Art Is Data Is Art, Nicole Orchosky

Student Projects from the Archives

The Digital Humanities field is rapidly introducing new and innovative ways in which we can analyze and explore large bodies of humanities material in order to make new discoveries and connections. This project serves as an introduction on how to use simple Digital Humanities tools to examine a dataset. In this project, data collected about the body of artwork exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show like medium, subject, or year of creation is analyzed using three different free-to-use tools. The data is then presented in a visual format that brings new questions and connections to light. The limitations and frustrations …

A Prized Memento Of The Civil Way: Joseph Abbott's "Lightning Brigade" Medal, James Brenner

Student Projects from the Archives

This silver medal commemorates Joseph N. Abbott's Civil War service with Wilder's Lightning Brigade, 1861-1865. The engraving on the reverse reads, "Jos. N. Abbott, Co. B, 98th Illinois. Dating to about 1887, these medals were features at post-war veterans' reunions.

Mcguffey's Second Eclectic Reader, Lisa Van Gaasbeek

Student Projects from the Archives

McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader

By: Lisa M. Van Gaasbeek

This article focuses on the life of William H. McGuffey and how he created his series of eclectic readers for children in school.