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    Session 8: Taking a Leap: Cultivating Dynamic Skillsets in New Roles
    (2023-10-20) Dreyer, Rachael; Scherry, Rejoice E.; Melbourne, Laura; Wick, Harrison
    Join us for an interactive session discussing the everexpanding and ever-changing skillsets needed to navigate gallery, library, archives, and museum (GLAM) career paths. The panelists will explore the skills and experiences that helped them transition into and out of archival positions. How can professionals fill gaps in their knowledge when starting new positions or assuming additional responsibilities? What training and experiences can be brought into GLAMs from other careers? Why is the profession changing and how have professionals adapted? Panelists will speak to the personal satisfaction derived from taking the leap to new paths, and invite attendees to join in a lively exchange of ideas about the uncertainty and challenges involved in the evolution of contemporary career paths.
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    Session 15: Finding New Methods of Making Legacy Collections Relevant to Students and Researchers in a Digital World
    (2023-04-28) Wick, Harrison; Vetter, Laura
    Learn how archivists at two different types of educational institutions are helping students and researchers navigate new and old archival resources. At Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the Special Collections and University Archives is building new opportunities for student-faculty collaboration and comparative research using oral history interviews and digitized archival collections, including rare books and primary source materials related to pandemics. At the Episcopal High School, a private boarding school established in 1839, students are using primary source materials within the school's archival holdings for research projects and adding to the historical record by conducting interviews with alumni.
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    Rediscovering Community Cemeteries: Identifying Gravesites
    (2022-03-25) Wick, Harrison; Colton, Chuck; Weaver, Savannah
    Cemetery gravesite identification is often taken for granted, but what happens when individual graves are not well identified, or their location has become obscure? A project conducted in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, will offer insight into cemetery and grave identification, and feature techniques that have enabled a community to remember their past. Presentations will focus on collaborative efforts between a community and the nearby university archives that highlight discovery of the stories of Civil War veterans and Chinese Americans; how members of the local historical society engaged the community to document and preserve cemeteries in their area; and applied archaeology techniques and analysis of headstones and geophysical methods to examine changes in the development of a cemetery. Participants will be engaged to explore how their communities can benefit from a discussion about these special projects.