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What Works? What Doesn't Work? What Action Can We Take?, Jennifer Hughes, Michelle Lewis
What Works? What Doesn't Work? What Action Can We Take?, Jennifer Hughes, Michelle Lewis
South Carolina Libraries
This session demonstrated an effective and engaging exercise that empowers library staff to take action! Participants learned how to lead library strategic planning processes, change implementation, and assessment activities in a welcoming, non-intimidating manner that fosters an environment of ongoing collaboration, solutions-based results, reflection, and improvement.
Archival Research In The Time Of Coronavirus, Kelly K. Hudson, Heather Gilbert
Archival Research In The Time Of Coronavirus, Kelly K. Hudson, Heather Gilbert
South Carolina Libraries
Two Special Collections directors explore the challenges and strategies of delivering archival services during a global pandemic at their respective academic repositories: Special Collections at the College of Charleston and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
Rising From The Flames: How Researching Burnout Impacted Two Academic Librarians, Robert Griggs-Taylor, Jessica Lee
Rising From The Flames: How Researching Burnout Impacted Two Academic Librarians, Robert Griggs-Taylor, Jessica Lee
Georgia Library Quarterly
In 2021, four tenure-track academic librarians surveyed academic library workers who are parents to gauge how parenting affects symptoms of burnout. The COVID-19 pandemic caused an explosion of burnout related literature resulting in an oversaturation of the word in today’s society; however, the authors remain deeply impacted by their research. In this paper, two of those four librarians reflect on the effect that the survey on burnout had on their approaches to management, work, and personal life. Societal pressures to ‘return to normal’ has not alleviated burnout, instead these pressures caused these librarians to reframe their views around what library …
Archivist To Archivist: Employing An Ethics Of Care Model With Interns And Student Workers, Alexandra M. Bisio, Steve Duckworth, Helena Egbert, Emily Haskins, Gayle O'Hara
Archivist To Archivist: Employing An Ethics Of Care Model With Interns And Student Workers, Alexandra M. Bisio, Steve Duckworth, Helena Egbert, Emily Haskins, Gayle O'Hara
Journal of Western Archives
In their 2016 article, “From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives,” Michelle Caswell and Marika Cifor posit four “affective responsibilities” for archives and archivists: “the relationship[s] between archivist and record creator, between archivist and record subject, between archivist and user, and between archivist and larger communities.” This paper posits an additional responsibility, between archivist and archivist. There is, as Caswell and Cifor put it, a “web of mutual responsibility” within the professional archives community that has become a central focal point in many discussions and, at the same time, continues to be ignored in maintenance of …
Review Of Leading And Managing Archives And Manuscripts Program, Rory Grennan
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.
Review Of Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual, Katie Ferrante
Review Of Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual, Katie Ferrante
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (third edition).
Review Of Project Management In Libraries, Lydia Tang
Review Of Project Management In Libraries, Lydia Tang
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
The term “project management” brings to mind images of executive boardrooms or software teams, but projects on a large and small scale happen every day within a library. While many library science programs equip students with technical expertise, not many programs specifically offer project management training. Drawing upon over twenty years of working in public, special, and academic libraries as well as her formal training as a certified project management professional, Carly Wiggins Searcy provides a lean but approachable guide to project management applied to libraries. Using recognizable library-related scenarios, Searcy demystifies and clarifies the relevance of project management techniques …
Review Of Leading And Managing Archives And Manuscript Programs, Maurice R. Blackson
Review Of Leading And Managing Archives And Manuscript Programs, Maurice R. Blackson
Journal of Western Archives
Review of Leading and Managing Archives and Manuscript Program.
Review Of Things Great And Small, Lydia Tang
Review Of Things Great And Small, Lydia Tang
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies, 2nd edition, by John E. Simmons is a helpful overview and guide for crafting museum collections management policies.
Review Of Feminists Among Us: Resistance And Advocacy In Library Leadership, Jenny Gotwals
Review Of Feminists Among Us: Resistance And Advocacy In Library Leadership, Jenny Gotwals
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
The edited volume, Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership, sets out to describe the practices of feminist library leaders, as well as to interrogate why library leadership in the United States and Canada is not more explicitly feminist. The volume succeeds by articulating and employing an expansive definition of feminism and feminist leadership.
Getting To Tier 1 By Revitalizing A Special Collections Program With Cultural Competence, Mark L. Shelstad
Getting To Tier 1 By Revitalizing A Special Collections Program With Cultural Competence, Mark L. Shelstad
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
Seeking to revitalize a special collections program at a Tier 1 aspirant university, the author introduced a variety of contemporary and innovative management strategies along with new outreach opportunities to demonstrate its value toward fulfilling the university's strategic plan. The revitalization efforts included creating a manuscript and rare book collection development policies that incorporated web harvesting, making connections with the community, and finding new audiences using social media. The dramatic increase in collection use and collaboration demonstrated the value of special collections to the community and the university.
Utilizing Student Workers At The Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita, Donnie Summerlin
Utilizing Student Workers At The Digital Library Of Georgia, Mandy L. Mastrovita, Donnie Summerlin
Georgia Library Quarterly
Libraries and archives have become increasingly reliant on student employees to perform duties essential to the daily work of making cultural heritage materials accessible to patrons. This article details how students are recruited, trained, managed, and mentored from the perspective of supervisors at the Digital Library of Georgia. Topics discussed include hiring procedures, training techniques, work assigned to undergraduate and graduate students, the handling of archival materials, digital imaging, metadata, and social media. The article will also examine methods for creating a rewarding and educational work environment for students that promotes the library profession.
The How And Why Of Mentoring, Alison H. Stankrauff, Tom Sommer, Michelle Ganz
The How And Why Of Mentoring, Alison H. Stankrauff, Tom Sommer, Michelle Ganz
Journal of Western Archives
Mentoring those in the archival field is critical to the development of any professional, or budding professional archivist. The mentoring relationship is one that has the potential to inform, nurture, encourage those on both sides of the relationship. This article explores that relationship and the frameworks that foster such mentoring programs. Discussed are mentoring to undergraduates, graduate archival program students, peer-to-peer mentoring of archivists at different institutions, as well as mentoring in the tenure process. This article is meant to be at once informative about such programs as well as offering guidance for those wanting to create a similar mentoring …
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Journal of International Technology and Information Management
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Journal of International Technology and Information Management
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Review Of How To Manage Processing In Archives And Special Collections, Jillian Cuellar
Review Of How To Manage Processing In Archives And Special Collections, Jillian Cuellar
Journal of Western Archives
Learning to process archival collections as an intern or student processor constitutes many archivists’ first practical understanding of the archival enterprise. Though this experience is an excellent hands-on opportunity for many nascent archivists to sharpen their project management skills, it does not fully prepare them to manage an archival processing program. Few students in archival graduate programs receive in-depth management training, leaving many to learn effective management techniques without formal guidance. With How to Manage Processing in Archives and Special Collections, Pam Hackbart-Dean and Elizabeth Slomba set out to offer archivists a comprehensive, practical toolbox for managing a processing …
Wikis: The Perfect Platform For Library Policies And Procedures, Melanie J. Dunn
Wikis: The Perfect Platform For Library Policies And Procedures, Melanie J. Dunn
The Southeastern Librarian
The term wiki, derived from the Hawaiian adjective “wiki wiki” meaning quick or fast, was coined by Ward Cunningham who created the original WikiWikiWeb for the Portland Pattern Repository (Leuf, 2001, 15). Touted by Cunningham as “the simplest online database that could possibly work” (Cunningham, 2002, June 27) “ wiki” is alternately used to refer to both a wiki website and the software used to create and maintain it and was designed to allow multiple users to collaborate in its development (Klobas 2006, 3). Wikipedia is perhaps one of the best examples, as well as the most recognized, of wikis. …
Collaborative Leadership, Nicole C. Engard
Collaborative Leadership, Nicole C. Engard
Collaborative Librarianship
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We Love Libraries!, Jenny Mccurdy
We Love Libraries!, Jenny Mccurdy
Georgia Library Quarterly
The author discusses how she can contribute to the advocacy of the interests of libraries. She emphasizes the importance of timely communication with authorities involved in funding. She also cites social networking and collaboration as crucial factors in library success. Selling proposals to library authority is also discussed.