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    The Pandemic, The President, and the Press: Access to the White House Correspondents' Association Emails
    (2021) Wachtel, Jennifer LeeAnne; Westgard, Joshua
    In collaboration with the White House Correspondents’ Association, the University of Maryland School of Journalism, and College of Information Studies, the UMD Libraries established the White House Correspondents' Association Pool Reports Collection in order to preserve and make discoverable pool reports shared among members of the WHCA. Newly available in 2021, this searchable database offers timely insights into the challenges of reporting during the pandemic and the presidential election. These presentations will explore the tasks of collecting, processing, and making emails available. Topics include: establishing a born-digital archive across multiple departments; harvesting, transforming, and redacting messages; extracting metadata; and how archives must tread a fine line between access and privacy.
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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.
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    Enhancing Access to Holocaust Records: Developing a Prototype International Research Portal
    (2017-10-27) Kurtz, Michael; Yeide, Nancy; Wachtel, Jennifer LeeAnne; Jansen, Gregory
    Presentation given at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Fall 2017, on the International Research Portal project, to enable better access to records of art looting and restitution from Europe in WWII. The presentation includes screen shots of the old and new IRP website and explains the new features, as well as the contributions to the project from students at UMD and professional provenance researchers.