Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship and Research

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    Reading 19th Century Handwriting
    (2022-06-14) Sly, Jordan
    A brief overview of methods, strategies, and resources for using historical documents for research
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    Reference Instruction
    (2021-06-23) Gammons, Rachel Wilder; Sly, Jordan; Markowitz, Judy; Budhathoki, Milan
    Focus: What has changed during COVID-19, and what will change when we are able to resume in-person services Agenda: (1) GIS Virtual Lab (Milan Budhathoki), (2) Reference (Judy Markowitz), (3) Virtual Reference & Screen-sharing (Jordan Sly), (4) Fearless Teaching Institute (Rachel Gammons), (5)Open discussion
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    Did the Pandemic Alter Faculty Expectations of Library Instruction?
    (2022-05-25) Sly, Jordan
    Through the pandemic I found that teaching faculty requests became far more rudimentary and focused on specifics of access as opposed to larger notions of information literacy. While this focus on the practical elements of access –especially access to material in alternative formats as necessitated by the pandemic– reflected the needs of the moment, in the return to the classroom, I have noticed a lingering sense of wanting to stick to the bare essentials in library instruction. For this brief presentation I will conduct a focus group of colleagues in my institution to see if they have experienced a similar backsliding in the depth of library instruction or if their instruction methods have continued to expand as a result of the pandemic restrictions and changes now that we are in a more in-person environment.
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    Comment on Marjoleine Kars, “Poisoned Lives: Living in Slavery in Dutch Berbice”
    (2022-04-01) Sly, Jordan
    Comments in response to the author's presentation of her forthcoming work
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    Brutal Hands and the Shaping of Historical Memory: How Digital History Can De-Archive Material for Increased Access and Responsible Stewardship
    (2021-07-06) Sly, Jordan
    In Arlette Frage’s classic work The Allure of the Archives, she discusses the notion of the “brutal” hand of the archivist collecting, storing, and classifying the material in their care. Frage is discussing the utilitarian nature of the archive as a storage facility for access to the past, but no organizing structure can be neutral. We can expand this notion of the “brutal” into a more provocative usage if we are considering the archivist’s hand as an additional force in history preserving but also obscuring history through the acquisitions, descriptions, colocation, and retention practices. Hierarchies and institutional biases privilege access to certain stories over others which can create an obscuring effect despite the best efforts and intentions of archivists. Additionally, the confines of the archival box or folder can belie important nuances of history swept aside to privilege alternate narratives. In this paper I will discuss how digital history allows for a “de-archiving” of valuable material in a way that not only adds to more general accessibility, but also allows for new interpretations, comparisons, and from of analysis. To do this I will provide a brief survey of the trends in archival literature beginning with classics of archival theory, associated movements such as the so-called “New Museology,” and trends into the more recent postcolonial and social justice inspired methods in recent archival literature. Additionally, I will discuss associated trends in digital history and the digital humanities which seek the remediation of primary archival materials to favor access and a grander scale of digital analysis. I will briefly discuss my previous project titled The Recusant Print Network Project as an example, some of the lessons learned from this experience, and how these lessons can be applied to a document analysis project like the Slavery, Law, and Power project.
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    TRPNP: Phase 1
    (2017-10-13) Sly, Jordan
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    Bourdieu’s First Year: First-Generation Students, Habitus, and Retention
    (2017) Sly, Jordan
    This presentation will investigate the use of theory, in particular Pierre Bourdieu’s Habitus, in researching library populations and developing a complex, multi-dimensional understanding of an important library community. By utilizing the framework of Habitus, we seek to investigate Pierre Bourdieu’s thesis of Habitus, which is to say, a social theory of determinism that centralizes behavior without essentializing groups. The aim of the project is to study first-generation students and the issue of retention. Habitus, in many respects, speaks to an unwritten language, sense, or code (le sens practique) in which certain members of a group are naturally and unconsciously conversant and which other members must constantly use cognitive energy to work within. The hope is to investigate some aspects of this language by studying both college-normative students (i.e., those for whom college was a foregone conclusion) and first-generation students to understand, perhaps, an aspect of the difference in experience and to use some of the findings to propose some sort of library intervention.