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Review: 'Human Operators: A Critical Oral History On Technology In Libraries And Archives', Kayla Harris

Marian Library Faculty Publications

What is technology? Although the definition changes depending on context, editor Melissa Morrone starts off her collection of oral history interviews, Human Operators: A Critical Oral History on Technology in Libraries and Archives, by posing that question. In a unique style, Morrone compiles, edits, and connects interviews from 42 different librarians and archivists into one book that reads like a conversational narrative. Many interesting topics are covered throughout, but the book mainly provides responses from librarians and archivists about how we, as humans, use and ultimately feel about technology in different environments.

If You Describe It, They Will Come: Processing Guidelines For Audiovisual Materials At The Rose Library, Laura Starratt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Audiovisual materials can be overlooked by researchers due to their more complicated access issues, but archivists can facilitate their use by creating more granular finding aids that incorporate audiovisual materials by content rather than format. Using the procedures at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library as a case study, the author argues for a professional culture in which collections are not viewed as “finished” until all components are accessible.

Book Reviews, James L. Baggett, Mary Jo Fairchild, Ian Franklin, Esther-Julia Howell, Pamela Nye, Sarah Quigley, Laura Starratt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Creating a Local History Archive at Your Public Library. Faye Phillips.

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala. Kirsten Weld.

The Silence of the Archives. David Thomas, Simon Fowler, and Valerie Johnson.

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts. Joshua Hammer.

The International Business Archives Handbook: Understanding and Managing the Historical Records of Business. Edited by Alison Turton.

Putting Descriptive Standards to Work. Edited by Kris Kiesling and Christopher J. Prom.

Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists. Anthony Cocciolo.

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 40-41, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

No abstract provided.

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 22-29, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

No abstract provided.

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 60-63, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

This category is reserved for artifacts of the archives. This will serve as a ready-reference category of general information materials expected to be requested frequently.

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 42-47, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

No abstract provided.

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 30-39, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

No abstract provided.

Web Archives At The Nexus Of Good Fakes And Flawed Originals, Michael L. Nelson

Computer Science Faculty Publications

[Summary] The authenticity, integrity, and provenance of resources we encounter on the web are increasingly in question. While many people are inured to the possibility of altered images, the easy accessibility of powerful software tools that synthesize audio and video will unleash a torrent of convincing “deepfakes” into our social discourse. Archives will no longer be monopolized by a countable number of institutions such as governments and publishers, but will become a competitive space filled with social engineers, propagandists, conspiracy theorists, and aspiring Hollywood directors. While the historical record has never been singular nor unmalleable, current technologies empower an unprecedented …

Inclusivity In The Archives: Expanding Undergraduate Pedagogies For Diversity And Inclusion, Amy J. Lueck, Beverlyn Law, Isabella Zhang

English

This chapter uses the experience of two undergraduate students conducting research in their university archives to consider the “hidden curriculum” entailed in archival research at some institutions. When diverse identities and experiences are not represented in our archives, we run the risk of communicating a lack of value for those identities, producing a feeling of marginalization and exclusion for some students and foreclosing an opportunity to build solidarity across difference for others. In light of the limited holdings at many university archives and the increased prevalence of archival research in the undergraduate classroom, the authors draw on research from writing …

Case Study: A Hybrid Approach To Preserving Scrapbooks Using Digitization, Mary Elizabeth Downing Mlis, David Obermayer

Library Faculty Publications

Scrapbooks are notoriously difficult to digitize and present in a way that both preserves the context of the item and supports discoverability in a digital collection environment. Digitization of complex mixed media items is time consuming. Metadata creation is a challenge. By digitizing only the items that would be rendered inaccessible by encapsulation, questions about presentation were bypassed. Items could be presented as individual assets. An umbrella collection of archival supplementary material was created in CONTENTdm and individual items from the scrapbook were connected through metadata rather than as a singular resource. This allowed the items to exist more cohesively …

Frameworks For Collaboration: Articulating Information Literacy, And Rhetoric And Writing Goals In The Archives, Amy J. Lueck, Nadia Nasr

Staff publications, research, and presentations

Rhetoric and composition scholars have recently called our attention to the value of archival research in the undergraduate classroom, leading to rich collaborations with archivists and librarians at many institutions. As we engaged our own pedagogical collaboration as a university archivist and English faculty member, we realized that, though we might use slightly different language to articulate them or cite different sources in support of them, many of our learning goals overlapped. As we explored these goals together, we realized that they evidenced a correspondence in our disciplines that we had not explored—one that is reflected in our fields’ recent …

Love In Song, Center For Southwest Research

Love in the Archives 2019

Materials from two collections were displayed.

The Latin American Sheet Music Collection, MSS 932 BC, 1835-1996, contains many illustrated scores which have the composers’ photographs and signatures. There are songs from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, and Uruguay, as well as Spain, Portugal, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. The largest component is from Mexico. The musical range represented includes popular and classical music with boleros, tangos, marches, waltzes, corridos, rancheras, fox trot and regional canciones. The majority of the texts are popular and classical sheet music that …

Moving From Talk To Action: What Does Successful Institutional Change Related To Equity, Diversity And Inclusion (Edi) Look Like?, Mark A. Puente, Kiyomi D. Deards

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Slides of a talk: Puente, M.A., Deards, K.D. (2019). Moving From Talk to Action: What Does Successful Institutional Change Related to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Look Like? IDEAL’19: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Libraries & Archives.

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Where is the Change? Strategies & Tools ARL’s Future Plans Resources Action & Assessment

The Complete Guide To Personal Digital Archiving, Blake Graham

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

As one of the more recent professional publications on PDA, The Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving provides practitioners in libraries and archives with a collection of thoughtful essays on common practices, case studies and instructional programs, and ethical implications related to the management and preservation of personal data. The book’s editor, Brianna Marshall, is a bright information professional quickly rising in the ranks of the library and archives community. Since earning an MLS from Indiana University Bloomington in 2014, Marshall has held a leadership position in data curation and research services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, and recently …

Afterlives Of Indigenous Archives, Ivy Schweitzer, Gordon Henry Jr

Dartmouth Scholarship

Afterlives of Indigenous Archives offers a compelling critique of Western archives and their use in the development of “digital humanities.” The essays collected here present the work of an international and interdisciplinary group of indigenous scholars; researchers in the field of indigenous studies and early American studies; and librarians, curators, activists, and storytellers. The contributors examine various digital projects and outline their relevance to the lives and interests of tribal people and communities, along with the transformative power that access to online materials affords. The authors aim to empower native people to re-envision the Western archive as a site of …

Alumni Oral Histories: A Collaboration Between The Libraries And Development And Alumni Relations At Grinnell College, Rebecca Ciota

Publications

This article describes a collaboration between Grinnell College’s libraries and its Office of Development and Alumni Relations on an oral history project in which college alumni are interviewed about their experiences at the college. Such close collaborations between development offices and libraries are rare. This collaboration was successful due to the equal participation of all parties.

2018-2019 Annual Report, Society Of American Archivists Student Chapter

Annual Reports

The 2018-2019 Annual Report reports on the activities of the San Jose State University Society of American Archivists Student Chapter for the academic year 2018-2019. This report is submitted to the Student Chapter's parent organization, the Society of American Archivists. Included in the report is a list of SAASC members who are also individual members of SAA. The report includes a summary of events which were held by the SAASC in the 2018-2019 academic year. These include six virtual events, four site tours, and one Twitter event. Site visits include the following institutions: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); …

Gvsu Undergraduate And Graduate Catalog, 2019-2020, Grand Valley State University

Course Catalogs, 1963 - Current

Grand Valley State University 2019-2020 undergraduate and/or graduate course catalog published annually to provide students with information and guidance for enrollment.

Preserving The Archives In The 21st Century Classroom: Designing History Classes Around Primary Source Research., Julie Harper Pace

Georgia Educational Researcher

This article details an experiment in an 11^th and 12^th grade 3-week intensive course, the Science and History of Contagious Disease. The course was an interdisciplinary survey of how diseases are spread along with an examination of social responses. Although both lecture and discussion based, the course revolved primary around a trip in which we led approximately 22 students through archival research in the City of Savannah Municipal Archives on the Yellow Fever epidemics of 1820, 1854, and 1876. The article describes the numerous advantages of archival work, from direct contact with rare and unique primary sources to …

Archives Annual Report, 2017-2018, Meg Miner

Administrative Reports

No abstract provided.

Review Of Moving Image And Sound Collections For Archivists, Lauren Sorensen

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Review of Anthony Cocciolo's Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists.

Review Of Classroom Action: Human Rights, Critical Activism, And Community-Based Education, Rachel M. Grove Rohrbaugh

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Book review of Classroom Action: Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education by Ajay Heble, ed. Classroom Action poses questions that can and should be of interest to archivists and special collections librarians, particularly those interested in social justice education, radical teaching practices, and community partnerships.

“Tell Us About Your Digital Archives Workstation”: A Survey And Case Study, Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez, Kelly Bolding, Faith Charlton, Allison Hughes

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Archival staff in the Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) at Princeton University Library lacked a fully-equipped digital processing workstation to capture, transfer, and secure born-digital and digitized archival content for long-term preservation and access. Staff recently conducted a survey that included information about the digital processing workstations of twenty institutions. The results of this survey informed a successful proposal to acquire a Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device (FRED) to serve as our digital processing workstation. The article will share details about the survey and considerations that went into our decision-making process, as well as introduce …

Disciplines Derived From The Discovery Of Historical Archives, Yongsheng Chen, Huanning Su

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This paper reviews four famous areas of study in China that emerged from the discovery of historical archives to become their own disciplines. Through a literature review, this paper analyzes the importance of historical archives for forming disciplines by introducing the origin, development, research objectives and research contents of these four disciplines. Based on that, this paper finally suggests that people’s attention to archives is the biggest reason for forming disciplines. By discussing the reasons for accelerating the combination of studies and historical archives, this paper gives suggestions for archives management.

Lanthorn, Vol. 53, No. 17, December 10, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 53, July 9, 2018 - June 10, 2019

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

Review Of Nonbinary Gender Identities: History, Culture, Resources, Chris Babits

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

McNabb introduces the definitions, histories, and cultures of nonbinary individuals and provides scholars, archivists, librarians, and teachers with an array of resources to research the history and contemporary experiences of nonbinary people. Although the text privileges gender variance in Western nations and could have included more on gender theory, McNabb offers a strong introduction to the topic of nonbinary gender identities. Researchers will especially appreciate the comprehensive list of resources.

From Print To Digital And Back Again: Three Decades Of Lessons From A Library Newsletter, Rachel S. Evans

Presentations

This session shared the many lessons learned over the years of publishing the UGA Law Library’s longstanding newsletter Amicus Briefs both in print and electronically. It also shared current tools used for online and print publication, as well as assessing readership including Drupal, WordPress, MailChimp, Google Analytics and DataStudio, Piktochart, iTunes, YouTube, Feedburner, and Digital Commons.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 043, Number 08, December 3, 2018, Grand Valley State University

2018-2019, Volume 43

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Lanthorn, Vol. 53, No. 16, December 3, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 53, July 9, 2018 - June 10, 2019

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