Browsing by Author "Archer, Joanne"

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    Collected Presentations of the CIC ILL Directors Meeting at the University of Maryland, October 21-22, 2015
    (2015-10-21) Hackman, Timothy; Munson, Kurt; Weible, Cherie; Cheng, Cen; Archer, Joanne; Brown, Melissa; Massie, Dennis
    Collected presentations from the in-person meeting of the CIC ILL Directors at the University of Maryland, October 21-22, 2015. Presentations cover such topics as interlibrary loan and special collections, course reserves and interlibrary loan services for textbooks, data analysis of interlibrary borrowing and lending among CIC institutions, and Relais Web Services implementation. Presenters' affiliations include: University of Maryland, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, University of Minnesota, Michigan State University, and OCLC.
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    Creating and Maintaining Web Archives
    (2011-10-21) Archer, Joanne; Fallon, Tessa; Grotke, Abbie; Odell, Kate
    This presentation provides an overview of web archiving including available archiving tools, workflow management, collection strategies and development,and methods of access and description.
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    Digitization Initiatives Committee Charter
    (2013-08) Pike, Robin C.; Archer, Joanne; Foss, Heather; Harrington, Eileen; Montori, Carla
    This is the charter of the Digitization Initiatives Committee (DIC) of the University of Maryland Libraries. The committee was established “to collect and document proposed outsourced digitization projects across the UMD Libraries, match these projects with available or proposed fiscal resources, and prioritize the projects...based on available fiscal resources, Libraries strategic initiatives, division priorities, and available staff resources for the specific projects.”
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    Does Content plus Access equal Use? Revealing la Révolution at the UMD Libraries
    (2015-06-05) Archer, Joanne; Corlett-Rivera, Kelsey
    This poster traces two years of the University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries’ efforts to Reveal la Révolution by cataloging and digitizing their 18th-century French Pamphlet collection. Follow their steps as a cross-departmental team waded through some 12,000 pamphlets with the support of French graduate students, fine tuning workflows and communication channels along the way. While an internally-funded pilot got the project off the ground, national and international collaboration allowed them to leverage funding support from the UMD Libraries to exceed original targets for both scanning and cataloging. The result was a significant increase in digitally-available content and improved access through Worldcat and the Internet Archive. When that content and access did not turn into documented use, however, the UMD Pamphlets team pressed on, delving further into digital scholarship. Their outreach efforts culminated in a stand-alone digital history site with a crowdsourcing component that has seen some 5,500 visits since going live in September 2014 (http://colonyincrisis.lib.umd.edu). Challenges, such as a perpetual lack of dedicated staff time, and lessons learned (digital history sites require Twitter hashtags) are featured on the poster, along with a vision for a sustainable way forward.
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    Farming with Dynamite: Using the Web to Teach Archival Research Skills
    (2007-11-02) Archer, Joanne; Hanlon, Ann; Levine, Jennie
    This presentation highlights the result of an in-depth user study conducted on a web based guide to conducting archival research. The study evaluates the effectiveness of the guide as well as the implications of its results.
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    Integrating Aeon and Interlibrary Loan
    (2015-10-16) Archer, Joanne
    Presentation from the MARAC conference in Roanoke, VA on October 7–10, 2015. S16 - A Tectonic Shift: Using Aeon to Improve Operations in Archives and Special Collections
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    It's All in the Archives: Describing and Discovering Archival Material
    (2013-05-15) Archer, Joanne
    The vast quantity and diversity of material in most archives can make describing and cataloging collections a challenge. The profession has developed a number of best practices, standards, and workflows commonly used across archival institutions to manage these unique and rare collections. This presentation discusses the variety of tools and techniques archives use to make information about their collections available to the public with an emphasis of application of these techniques to audio collections.
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    Problems and Issues in Selecting, Harvesting, and Cataloging Web Resources
    (2010-10-07) Archer, Joanne
    This presentation surveys the different methods of preserving web based content and focuses on presenting the results of the University of Maryland's work. Issues such as the establishment of selection policies, the integration of access mechanisms with existing tools and systems, and the creation of sustainable workflows within the library are addressed.
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    Research Using Primary Sources: A User Study
    (2007-08) Archer, Joanne; Hanlon, Ann; Levine, Jennie
    The use of primary source materials poses a unique challenge to researchers, requiring the acquisition of specialized skills. This poster reports on initial results from a user study of a web based guide to conducting primary source research.
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    Strategies for Reusing Archival Assessment Data
    (2018-06-14) Archer, Joanne; Rizzo, Caitlin
    This poster showcases how Univeristy of Maryland Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives analyzed and re-purposed collection assessment data gathered from 2013 to use as the basis for a new, data-driven workflow for establishing processing priorities, addressing a backlog of 'hidden' collections, and overhauling the processing guidelines across several curatorial units. The poster demonstrates how commonly collected assessment data can be leveraged to revamp outdated processes, and highlights the impact (and limitations) of assessment within special collections.
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    University of Maryland Libraries: Digital Preservation Policy
    (2014-01-07) Knies, Jennie Levine; Pike, Robin C.; Archer, Joanne; Novara, Vincent J.; Montori, Carla
    The University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries, in keeping with its mission “To enable the intellectual inquiry and learning required to meet the education, research and community outreach mission of the university,” serves as a trusted caretaker of the UMD Libraries’ collections, including those in digital format. The Digital Preservation Policy supports this mission and is the highest-level digital preservation policy document in the UMD Libraries. The Policy makes explicit the UMD Libraries’ commitment to preserving content selected for retention by collection managers. It defines a comprehensive digital preservation program for both born-analog and born-digital collections. The audience for this policy includes UMD Libraries employees, digital content contributors, donors, and users.
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    Using Postcards for Research
    (2010-10-18) Archer, Joanne
    Researchers in the humanities, arts, and social sciences often request historical images for use as an accompanying illustration in publications, presentations, and online exhibits, but despite the wealth of content contained in a single image, few use them as an independent historical resource. This presentation discusses the scholarly potential held in postcards.
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    Web Archiving and You
    (2017-06-08) Wickner, Amy; Archer, Joanne
    We propose an interactive session on web archiving: why it matters, how we do it, and how we can do it better. Web archiving has now been in practice for decades and is relatively well-established in libraries, archives, and museums, but there are many under-explored areas of research and practice. Web archives have been used for teaching, scholarly research, journalism, e-discovery, and art, but remain "emerging" as a source of data. The UMD Libraries have maintained a Web Resources Collection Program since 2009 but how we accomplish this work is always evolving. In this interactive session, we'll frame the landscape of web archiving today, both at UMD and beyond, and introduce issues and opportunities we might take on in the future. We'll also recruit participants to envision how web archives can play a role in their librarianship and act as a resource for the library users they know best. We hope to glean information about a community of potential stakeholders that can help inform next steps for our work on web archives.