Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum

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The Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum is an annual event in June featuring lightning talks, presentations, and poster sessions by UMD Libraries’ librarians and staff.

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    Consciously Editing SCUA’s Finding Aids
    (2021-06-03) Caringola, Liz; Frisch, Hannah; Stranieri, Marcella
    The phrase “conscious editing” was first used by archivists at UNC-Chapel Hill to describe their work “to re-envision our descriptive practice so that whiteness is no longer the presumed default, language in our description products is inclusive and accessible, and our description does not obscure collection material that documents the lives of enslaved people.” Students in Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) have been working from home over the past year to evaluate and improve archivist-created description in SCUA’s finding aids to be more inclusive. In the first part of the project, students read all of SCUA’s finding aids published on the Archival Collections website and applied a rating scale to indicate how the archival description could be improved and the nature of the needed edits. In April, students began to update the finding aids using guidelines such as the “Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia: Anti-Racist Description Resources,” the Conscious Style Guide, and many more. This presentation will summarize the results of the finding aid audit and propose new conscious editing guidelines that will be written into SCUA’s archival processing manual.
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    The Digital Diamondback: Unfolding University History through Open Standards and Open Data
    (2018-06-14) Aughenbaugh, Kendall; Caringola, Liz; Pike, Robin; Westgard, Joshua
    Student newspapers have a long tradition of capturing unfolding narratives of campus history. As such, they are an invaluable resource for researchers interested in campus history and our staff when answering reference questions. Though microfilmed to ensure long-term preservation, many researchers find microfilm tedious to use, and it can also be prohibitive for researchers unable to travel to campus to use it. In response, staff at the UMD Libraries began planning in 2013 for a multi-year project to make digitized issues of The Diamondback accessible through the Libraries' website. As of the end of March 2018, nearly 7,900 issues of The Diamondback spanning from 1910 to 1998 are available online with full-text searching and browsing by date and title. The panelists from Digital Systems and Stewardship (DSS) and Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) will discuss different aspects of the project, including: Fundraising using UMD's crowdfunding platform, Launch UMD; metadata based on the National Digital Newspaper Program specifications; data modeling that enables our metadata to be repurposed across applications; and the impact of having The Diamondback digitized and online for our users and staff. Presented at the 2018 UMD Libraries Research and Innovative Practice Forum.