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Review Of Reappraisal And Deaccessioning In Archives And Special Collections, Audra E. Yun

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Building on the procedures and principles set forth in the Society of American Archivists’ Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessioning, this volume of case studies edited by Laura Uglean Jackson provides ample instruction and examples from a variety of practitioners focused on these often neglected components of the archival collection management enterprise. Reappraisal and Deaccessioning in Archives and Special Collections is the first book dedicated entirely to deaccessioning, and the first compilation of reappraisal and deaccessioning case studies “demonstrating the utility and applicability” of the SAA guidelines. This book is a solid resource for practitioners unsure of how to pilot …

Return To Work Planning: Covid-19 Re-Opening And The Uncertain "New Normal", Jay-Marie Bravent

Library Presentations

Jay-Marie Bravent discusses the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center's plans for fall instruction and public services.

Finding Av Needles In Manuscript Haystacks: Conducting An Audiovisual Assessment/Audit In Manuscript Archives, Benjamin Harry

Journal of Western Archives

Many twentieth-century audiovisual formats are becoming obsolete or are physically degrading, warranting the need to digitally reformat this content. The first step is to expeditiously document where and what types of audiovisual materials are hidden within archival manuscript collections. This article describes the efforts of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections (LTPSC) at Brigham Young University to quickly audit manuscript collections to determine the location and format details of audiovisual materials, a crucial first step to inform decisions about personnel requirements, equipment purchases, and grant seeking to facilitate the systematic digitization of audiovisual content.

Freed Faces, Our Past Americans: Collaborations To Create, Digitize And Describe The “Former Slaves In Freedom” Collection, Gayle Porter

Collaborative Librarianship

The Chicago State University (CSU) Archives collaborated with the International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry (ISDSA), a Chicago-based lineage society, to digitize, describe, and make accessible online a collection of 359 private historic photographs of formerly enslaved African Americans, and 90+ brief family histories, submitted by descendants. This case study describes the benefits, processes, and challenges of this unique, unfinished collaborative project. The study also describes: 1. Creative, flexible approaches to collaborative digital projects by an academic institution and a community organization; 2. Balancing cataloging/metadata standards while respecting a curator’s goals for the collection.

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

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

In this issue of the Archives and Special Collections’ newsletter, we give our support to the Black Lives Matter movement and provide a Racial Justice Resource Guide. We also show our three part blog post series about SCU during WWII.

Co-Curricular Innovation: Teaching About Patents As Primary Sources, Bridget Garnai, Heidi Gauder

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

With the rich history of airplane and automotive invention in Dayton, Ohio, and the value of patents as primary sources in mind, librarians Bridget Garnai and Heidi Gauder designed and led two interactive, co-curricular workshops at University of Dayton’s (UD) Roesch Library in Fall 2019 and Spring 2020. Their goals were to introduce students to patents as primary sources that influence daily life and expand students’ ideas of what kinds of research can be supported by patents as primary sources. To that end, Garnai and Gauder created two workshops centered around patents as primary sources, “Patent Pending: Innovation in Society” …

Kicking & Streaming! Enhancing Digitally-Born Oral History Collections In Digital Commons, Autumn Johnson

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group Meeting (2020) (Archived)

Oral history collections pose unique challenges for archival institutions. Making these important histories available to researchers is often impeded by complex issues of access, privacy rights, and media obsolescence. These challenges are magnified when histories are digitally-born. Not only do they face the same issues as their analog counterparts, but digital materials have their own unique preservation and access issues with which archivists are still struggling to identify best practices. Digital Commons offers archivists a platform for sharing digitally-born oral histories that mitigate many of these complex issues. Not only does the platform allow for the consolidation of files from …

Drive Traffic, Increase Links, Michele Gibney, Nicole Grady

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group Meeting (2020) (Archived)

One of the best ways to drive traffic to an institutional repository site is by adding links to it from other, established sites. This could be your institutional website – adding links from a departmental page to the department’s scholarly work. Or from your social media platforms to a relevant article corresponding with a topical news event. Another option is Wikipedia. Have you considered leveraging Wikipedia’s astronomical base of users for your own ends? With an average of 200 million+ page views a day, Wikipedia is an excellent resource to drive traffic to your IR.

But HOW can you accomplish …

Exploring Vicarious Trauma In The Archives: A Brief Survey Of American Archival Experiences, Victoria A. Fernandez

Student Theses

Whether deliberately collected or not, evidence of trauma is commonly found in archival collections. As a result, the field has seen a recent increase in conference presentations regarding archivists’ experience of working with traumatic materials, yet little has actually been researched or published. Vicarious trauma, as it is known in psychological contexts, is the understanding that individuals engaging with survivors of trauma may experience the emotional labor of their clients in secondary form. Although the concept of vicarious trauma is almost exclusively applied to mental health professionals, archivists are recognizing the need to integrate the prevalence of vicarious trauma within …

Review Of Arranging And Describing Archives And Manuscripts, Cory L. Nimer

Journal of Western Archives

A review of Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts, by Dennis Meissner.

Corporate Archives In Silicon Valley: Building And Surviving Amid Constant Change, Paula Jabloner, Anna Mancini

Journal of Western Archives

An historical understanding of the phenomenon that is Silicon Valley requires the collection and preservation of original records. With the rapid pace of change in the technology industry, how can archivists and their institutions preserve this corporate history? Two archivists address how they were able to found an archives at Cisco Systems and maintain another at Hewlett-Packard. Two common elements emerged: 1) the formation of a licensed limited company (LLC) as the legal structure for the archival repository, and 2) the use of outsourcing to staff both repositories. Outsourcing via a non-profit, in this case the Computer History Museum, or …

Research Publications In Web Of Science Shift From Bitcoin To Blockchain, With Focus On Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, And Business Economics, Megan Price, Greta Snyder

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Online Community For Librarian Researchers: Experience Of Academic Librarians, Lili Luo

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Student Research Journal, Volume 10, Issue 1, Student Reseach Journal

School of Information Student Research Journal

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To Discovery And Beyond: Using Workflow Automation As An Opportunity For Collaboration And Education, Rebecca B. French

Libraries

This poster describes a project to automate portions of JMU Libraries' workflow for distributing Special Collections finding aids to various discovery platforms. Through the development of a custom Python app called Spaceport, we were able to greatly improve the efficiency and sustainability of this process while also providing a more consistent discovery experience for our patrons. The project also had broad impacts in other areas. Our incremental and collaborative approach provided space for professional development related to the project, supported evolving project goals and the process of adapting to the new workflow, and strengthened relationships between departments. In addition to …

Black Faculty Alliance Statement On The Criminal Act Of Anti-Black Racist Terrorism Against Dr. Charles Becknell, Jr. And The Program Of Africana Studies, Black Faculty Alliance Unm

Black History at UNM

Public statement from the University of New Mexico Black Faculty Alliance (BFA) condemning the criminal act of domestic anti-Black terrorism that includes the threat of a lynching directed toward Dr. Charles Becknell, Jr. and his family. Dr. Becknell, Jr. is the Director of the Africana Studies program in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Mexico. Among their suggested actions, the BFA calls for "the creation of a task force to develop a survivor-focused approach for an emergency response to hate-based threats against UNM Black faculty and a truth-telling commission to document systems and behaviors that …

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

From the Vault: Archives & Special Collections Newsletter

The Archives & Special Collections introduces the first addition of our newsletter in order to keep in touch with patrons amidst the Covid-19 pandemic with four new blog posts.

From Power To Partner: Harnessing Institutional Digital Collections For Community Archives Projects, Annie Benefiel

Scholarship and Professional Work

Archival professional dialogue increasingly includes discussion of the power and responsibility of archivists to challenge outdated modes of collection development that focus on documenting the history of the privileged. While these discussions can be uncomfortable for some, the energy they spark is undeniable. In this presentation an archivist and digital collections librarian in a mid-sized university discusses how she has leveraged her power and privilege to develop a more inclusive digital collection development policy, which empowers collaboration and aims to diversify the perspectives present in the library's digital primary sources. The presentation covers the development of a new policy as …

From Power To Partner: Harnessing Institutional Digital Collections For Community Archives Projects, Annie Benefiel

Conference Proceedings

Archival professional dialogue increasingly includes discussion of the power and responsibility of archivists to challenge outdated modes of collection development that focus on documenting the history of the privileged. While these discussions can be uncomfortable for some, the energy they spark is undeniable. In this presentation an archivist and digital collections librarian in a mid-sized university discusses how she has leveraged her power and privilege to develop a more inclusive digital collection development policy, which empowers collaboration and aims to diversify the perspectives present in the library's digital primary sources. The presentation covers the development of a new policy as …

Ic 011 Guide To University Of Texas School Of Allied Health Sciences Records, 1973-1995, University Of Texas Health Science Center At Houston School Of Allied Health Sciences

Institutional Finding Aids

The University of Texas School of Allied Health Sciences contains catalogs, admission applications, newsletters, and brochures. See more at IC 011.

Zonta International: Unveiling 100 Years Of History & Membership, Jessica E. Nantka

Museum Studies Projects

The purpose of this master’s thesis project is to examine the formidable globalized service organization, Zonta International (ZI), which has impacted women around the world for 100 years. I utilized essential practices in the Museum Studies Master of Arts program at SUNY Buffalo State to create this project in association with an exhibit, Zonta International: Unveiling 100 Years of History & Membership, presented at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum from November 5 – November 23, 2019. The use of digitized images, documents, and artifacts within the Howard D. Beach Photography Studio Collection owned by The Buffalo History Museum, have been …

My Family, Their History: Using Exploratory Inquiry & Pragmatic Methods To Learn History, Lowellen Sucgang

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

History education is at a crossroads. The availability of information at our fingertips has the potential to change how the non-historian sees history and the other social sciences. This capstone researched ways the non-historian can utilize the changing face of history education by implementing the pragmatic methods of John Dewey’s education philosophy called instrumentalism. Principal issues discussed include the pros and cons of out-of-classroom history education, utilization of exploratory inquiry for research and the usefulness of primary sources for a historiography. To apply instrumentalism ideals and methods, I created a historiography about my ancestors and how their lives intertwined with …

Lost And Found: Onöndowa’Ga:’Gawenoh As An Anchor To Identity And Sovereignty, Brittney N. Jimerson

Museum Studies Theses

This author presents a study of the Onöndowa’ga:’, an Indigenous group located in Western New York, who are more commonly known as the Seneca. Onöndowa’ga:’Gawenoh[1]to the Onöndowa’ga:’, like all Indigenous people, is a form of intangible history, history that is interconnected with who they are and where they come from. The history of who the Onöndowa’ga:’ were and still are, as well as what their language means to their culture, is the groundwork for understanding how devastating US policies became for them. While many areas of culture were impacted by those policies, the largest target was on Indigenous languages. It …

Exhibiting Prejudice: How Twentieth-Century Museums Promoted The Eugenics Movement, Anna Wachtel

Museum Studies Theses

This research illustrates the impact museums have on social, political, and educational systems through the exploration of the eugenics movement in American museums. Museum professionals promoted racial hierarchies and eugenic ideologies at World’s Fairs through the exploitation of “exotic” peoples and contests designed to judge and categorize racial differences based on an individual’s physical and mental characteristics.

Following World’s Fairs, museums began displaying eugenic themed exhibits. Prominent museum professionals and government officials of the early twentieth century used their position of authority to promote the eugenics movement in National and regional American museums through educational exhibits using approachable science-based exhibit …

An Information Framing Through Newspaper Media: Knowledge Transfer On Children, Febriyanto Febriyanto, Mohammad Aufar Sadikin

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

The Kompas newspaper is known as a daily for adults, but there is a rubric aimed at children called the Kompas Anak rubric. it is important to see how the framing, starting from the knowledge, information, messages, illustrations or drawings, writing, words and sentences that differ between children and adults. This study examines the transfer of knowledge through the "Kompas Anak" rubric. The purpose of this study is to describe the process of knowledge transfer to the child through mass media in the form of rubric named "Kompas Anak" by looking at the framing done on articles that containing knowledge …

Pemanfaatan Website Dan Media Sosial Perpustakaan Dalam Layanan Referensi Perpustakaan Perguruan Tinggi, Weni Meilita

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

The reference service in the college library is an important service for users. The existence of a reference service makes it easier for the community to conduct research and learning. Current technological developments affect various elements including services in the Library. Website and social media as one of the technological development products used by libraries to support reference services. In this study, researchers conducted research on websites and social media in one library in Indonesia and three libraries abroad. This research uses descriptive research method with a qualitative approach with the object of research is the website and social media …

Tinjauan Information Common Pada Desain Dan Fasilitas Di Library And Knowledge Center, Binus University, Erika Erika, Vilianty Rizki Utami

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

This research aims to examine the design and facilities of the Library and Knowledge Center (LKC) BINUS University Library using information common concept. The method of this research is quantitative by spread the questionnaire to library users at BINUS University. The respondent consists of students, lecturers, and employees at BINUS University. There are 122 valid questionnaires that have been processed. The result that has been obtained is about the design and facilities based on the trend of LKC BINUS University users. The result shows that not all LKC in BINUS University has implemented information common criteria in their design and …

Strategi Pengelola Informasi Dan Dokumentasi Kepolisian Daerah Jawa Timur Dalam Penanganan Gangguan Informasi Pada Masyarakat, Agus Putra Sakti Priambodo, Muhammad Rosyihan Hendrawan, Suryadi Suryadi

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

The aim of this research is to understand the role of Information and Documentation Officer at East Java Police Department in handling information disorder in the community. Furthermore, to understand the strategy of Information and Documentation Officer at East Java Police Department in preventing information disorder in the community, moreover the internal and external factors in handling information disorders. This research was located at Ahmad Yani 116 Street, Surabaya City. The type of the research is descriptive with qualitative approach. The data collection was done with interview, documentation, and observation methods. Subsequently, data analysis was done with interactive model (Miles, …

Sebaran Topik Skripsi Mahasiswa Prodi Strata Satu (S1) Ilmu Perpustakaan Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya Universitas Indonesia 2013-2017, Muhammad Ashr Faturrahman, Luki Wijayanti

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

This study aims to figure out the tendency of FIB UI Library and Information Science students in choosing their research locus and topics to complete the final project during the period 2013-2017. This research also aims to get an idea of the pattern of locus research selection and research topics. The data used is the thesis of FIB UI Library and Information Science Department students in the 2013-2017 period. This study uses a descriptive method with a quantitative approach. The results showed that students tended to choose loci other than information centers or information institutions such as libraries, archive centers, …

Library Media Teachers' Perspective On The Student Motivation And Performance Towards The Use Of School Resource Centre, Mayasari Abdul Majid, Shamila Mohamed Shuhidan, Mad Khir Johari Abdullah Sani, Wan Ab Kadir Ab Dollah

Jurnal Ilmu Informasi, Perpustakaan, dan Kearsipan

This paper presents Library Media Teachers’ (LMT) perspective on student motivation and performance towards the use of School Resource Centre (SRC) for academic purposes. Five LMT from five different schools in Klang Valley, Malaysia were involved in this study. The five schools were selected based on the 5-star rated SRC based on Smart School Qualification Standard (SSQS) rating. The LMT were interviewed individually in order to understand their perspective on the student performance and motivation towards the use of the SRC. In this research, the researchers use the proposed framework to get details on how student performs better and get …