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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    The Writer's Voice: The Sound Recordings of Katherine Anne Porter
    (2017-06-08) Cartier, Eric
    The Texan-born American writer Katherine Anne Porter made sound recordings of her readings, conference speeches, classroom lectures, interviews, public ceremonies, and personal telephone conversations. Paul Porter, Jr., the writer’s nephew, captured many of the conversational recordings in the 1970s, when Porter was in her eighties, just a few years before her death. Beth Alvarez, a Porter scholar and the Curator of Literary Manuscripts Emerita at the University of Maryland Libraries, selected the recordings from the Katherine Anne Porter papers for in-house digitization in 2014. The Digital Conversion and Media Reformatting staff transferred the open reel audiotapes and Alvarez listened to the digital audio files in their entirety, making copious notes as she did so. Her notes became part of the metadata records linked to the streaming files in Digital Collections, and they provide robust descriptive summaries of the content of each recording. This is a valuable set of audio recordings for literary scholars, because it provides listeners with unedited selections of the great American short story writer talking about her craft, her personal history, and her family. Porter’s reading of one of her most famous stories (Noon Wine) is a treat for admirers of her work, too. This presentation provides an opportunity to consider the voice of an artist known almost entirely to 21st century readers as a voice fixed in print. Porter's readings, her interactions with the public, press, teachers, and students, and the intimate conversations she and her nephew recorded add rich new dimensions to appreciating Porter's archives and published textual work on the shelf.
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    Archiving Punk at Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA)
    (2017-06-08) Davis, John
    Since 2014, Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA) has stewarded several collections of archival material related to the punk rock subculture in Washington, D.C. My poster presents a description of the work SCPA is doing related to archiving D.C. punk, as well as offer highlights from relevant collections like the D.C. Punk and Indie Fanzine collection, the Sharon Cheslow Punk Flyers collection, the Jason Farrell Posters and Flyers collection, and the John Davis collection on punk.
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    A SCUA Snapshot: collection users and usage based on statistics from Aeon
    (2017-06-08) Hawk, Amanda
    Presented at the 2017 Libraries Research and Innovative Practice Forum, this poster provides an analysis of statistics gathered from Aeon, a special collections management system used by the Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) unit in Hornbake Library. The statistics cover the period from August 1, 2014 through May 31, 2017, presenting almost three years of data trends since automating the collection registration and request process, as well as an explanation of the limitations of the reporting system. I also consider how Special Collections and University Archives might utilize statistical information to make changes within the unit.