Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship and Research
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Item Symposium on Researching African Americans in Newspapers(University of Maryland Libraries, 2021-10-21) McClanahan, Pamela; McElrath, Douglas; Pike, Robin C.; Davis, Maya; Pinnick, TimothyA virtual symposium offered live on October 21, 2021 through Zoom about researching African Americans in newspapers. Guest speakers included Maya Davis, Director of the Riversdale House Museum in Prince George's County, who discussed her research on the Legacy of Slavery project, and Tim Pinnick, an independent scholar, lecturer, author, and entrepreneur, who discussed genealogical research methods.Item Overcoming Challenges in Scaling Up Digitization Projects During the Pandemic(Association of Moving Image Archivists, 2021-04-15) Pike, Robin C.; McClanahan, PamelaThe University of Maryland Libraries received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 2019 to digitize the Dance Exchange collection, a video collection of performances and rehearsals and their corresponding paper programs. This paper will discuss a brief history of the project and content, best practice technical standards implemented by the Libraries and expanded for this project, scaling up workflows built to handle a project of a few hundred items to a project of over 1,100 items, changing digitization workflows due to pandemic closures and the need to move the project work remotely, and a repository and digital preservation archive migration that occurred during the course of the project. The report will share how we overcame challenges and will implement the changes we made to future av digitization projects.Item Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Advisory Board Meeting Fall 2020(2020-10-28) McClanahan, Pamela A.; McElrath, Douglas; Pike, Robin C.This presentation was prepared for the meeting of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project (HMNP) Advisory Board and related stakeholders held on October 28, 2020. The HMNP is the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) project in the state of Maryland, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The purpose of this meeting was to update the Advisory Board on the project progress and to determine title selection for Phase 5 of the grant (2020-2022).Item Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Advisory Board Meeting 2019(2019-04-18) McElrath, Douglas; Pike, Robin C.; McClanahan, Pamela A.This presentation was prepared for the meeting of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project (HMNP) Advisory Board and related stakeholders held on April 18, 2019. The HMNP is the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) project in the state of Maryland, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This project is in its seventh year and fourth grant phase. The purpose of this meeting was to update the Advisory Board on the project progress and to brainstorm outreach and programming ideas.Item Management of Digital Programs in Special Collections(2017-07-19) Pike, Robin C.Class lecture on digitizing special collections for CUA CLSC 747 Special Collections. Presented in 2015, 2016, and 2017 with minor modifications.Item Using Chronicling America: Genealogy(2016) Pike, Robin C.; McElrath, DouglasThis brochure is to be distributed by institutions, and to be used to assist genealogists in using Chronicling America, the Library of Congress database that hosts newspapers. This brochure was created by the Co-Principal Investigators of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, so it has a focus on Maryland newspapers.Item Maryland Digital Newspapers(2017-06-14) Pike, Robin C.; Wack, Rebecca E.A discussion of the United States Newspaper Program, and how that led to the National Digital Newspaper Program. The progress and activities of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, and a demonstration on how to use Chronicling America. The progress made in hosting newspapers at the University of Maryland, College Park Libraries, and how we hope to turn this into the Maryland Digital Newspaper Repository.Item Delaware and Maryland in the News(2017-05-12) Pike, Robin C.; Olney-Zide, MollyOne-hour workshop presented at the 2017 Maryland Library Association and Delaware Library Association Joint Library Conference. Delaware and Maryland in the News will discuss the National Endowment for the Humanities National Digital Newspaper Program and the two states' newspaper digitization projects. You will learn how to use the Chronicling America database for different levels of research, and some educational and outreach tools to promote this resource.Item Digitization Initiatives Committee Charter(2013-08) Pike, Robin C.; Archer, Joanne; Foss, Heather; Harrington, Eileen; Montori, CarlaThis 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.”Item Historic Maryland Newspapers Project Advisory Board Meeting(2016-11-17) Pike, Robin C.; McElrath, DouglasThis presentation was prepared for the meeting of the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project (HMNP) Advisory Board and and related stakeholders held on November 17, 2016. The HMNP is the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) project in the state of Maryland, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This project is in its fifth year and third grant phase. The purpose of this meeting was to update the Advisory Board on the project progress and to brainstorm outreach and programming ideas.