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    Moving from positive to negative : working across disciplines on large photograph digitization projects
    (2019-11-09) Lemmen, Barbara; Shilstut, Natalie; Starr, Laura Kopp; Taylor, Nancy
    Historic images are in demand—especially those available for discovery online. At the same time, digitizing large photograph collections can be daunting, particularly when a project involves balancing access and preservation with tight budgets, limited staff, and fragile or deteriorating objects. Outside collaborators can help leverage available resources and increase the effectiveness and reach of the project but identifying and recruiting partners and keeping diverse stakeholders on the same page can be challenging. Panelists will discuss collaborating across disciplines on two large digitization projects, the Religious News Service photographs, 1945-1982 (about 60,000 prints and negatives) and the Los Angeles Department of Public Works photographic materials (about 700,000 prints, negatives, and slides).
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    My Labor of Love: Lone Arrangement and Appraisal of the LC Commissioned Composers Web Archive
    (2019-04-13) Wertheimer, Melissa E.
    Melissa E. Wertheimer, a Music Reference Specialist in the Library of Congress Music Division, describes her selection, description, and appraisal methodologies for a forthcoming digital collection, the LC Commissioned Composers Web Archive. The presentation includes project challenges as a lone arranger of web archives for the Library of Congress Music Division, project goals, statistics, discussion of a web archiving life cycle model, and methods of appraisal applicable to both web archives and electronic records.
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    Supporting Solidarity: Appraising and Collecting Online Content Surrounding the Women's Marches in Maryland
    (2017) Wachtel, Jennifer LeeAnne; Rizzo, Caitlin; Berry, Erin
    Report and presentation from the MARAC conference in Buffalo, NY on October 28, 2017. S23, "Documenting Social Protest: Lessons Learned from the Women's March." This project took place in the context of an entire course on archival appraisal at the University of Maryland and had powerful implications for archival outreach as activism as well as the tools needed to carry out collection development for born-digital materials. We used Archive-It to crawl social media pages and decided to focus on local solidarity marches in Maryland as the national Women's March was already well-documented. As students, we learned that activism and outreach are integral to the archival profession; we have to be able to explain why we as archivists want to document social protest.