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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Item Neglected, Found & Preserved: Architectural Drawings for the School of Architecture(2024-06-06) Draper, Bryan; Elliott, Kirsten; Frank, Cindy; Trim, AlexandraA set of 39 architectural drawings for the School of Architecture Building from 1969 was recovered from a faculty office. The drawings are diazotype prints and were bound along the left edge with strips of wood and bolts. Damage consisted of tears & losses to the paper support, fading of the image due to oxidation and extensive pressure-sensitive tape repairs that had deteriorated. This presentation discusses the history of these drawings, what damage they had sustained, how they were conserved and digitized, and their potential use in Architectural coursework now they are digitally accessible to UMD staff.Item The Writer's Voice: The Sound Recordings of Katherine Anne Porter(2017-06-08) Cartier, EricThe 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.Item Building a Successful (and Flexible) Partnership with UMD's Gymkana Troupe(2016-06-08) Hawk, AmandaPresented at the 2016 Library Research and Innovative Practice Forum, this poster provides an overview of a successful partnership between the University of Maryland Archives and UMD's Gymkana Troupe to publicize Gymkana's 70th anniversary and to digitize the troupe's holdings in the Archives. Gymkana is an exhibition gymnastics troupe founded on campus in 1946 which runs a variety of educational and healthy-living outreach programs. Various stages of the project are highlighted, including an exhibit in McKeldin Library, a LaunchUMD fundraising campaign, and the troupe's participation in metadata creation for digital objects. By maintaining an open and flexible dialogue throughout the project planning and execution, both the library and the troupe members ultimately benefited from this collaboration.