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Item Mi Admiracion y Respeto: An Exhibit Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month(2024-11) Greenwood, AmandaAs the Archivist of Historical Collections at UVA's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, the presenter was tasked with curating a pop-up exhibit for Hispanic Heritage Month. Despite the challenge posed by the limited number of materials created by Hispanic individuals, the presenter successfully crafted a meaningful exhibit. This poster details the process, featuring images and descriptions of the materials used, which collectively illustrate the rich diversity of the Hispanic community within the collection.Item Student Workers and Special Collections: A Symbiotic Relationship?(2019-06-11) Romans, Laura; McKittrick, AllisonMany special collections utilize student labor, and in many cases, tight funding and resources dictate that the students provide what the profession often considers high-level skills, including providing reference services and processing collections. Consequently, professional staff invest significant amounts of time and energy to provide students with the training and support necessary to carry out these tasks successfully, even if the student only stays for a semester or two. Based on their experiences as student workers and now as managers, the presenters of this session will explore the essentialness of student labor and consider both the concerns and opportunities that arise as a result.Item Drawing the Circle Wider: Employing Individuals on the Autism Spectrum in the Archives(2019-04-13) Beland, Matthew RobertPresentation by Matthew Beland for "Archivists, Love, and Communities" at MARAC Morgantown, April 2019. This presentation discusses the disability of autism in relation to the archives and addresses several questions: What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)? How do people with ASD work in other workplaces? What can we expect when archives employ people with ASD? Examples of other workplaces that employ people “on the spectrum” and literature discussing the same are provided.Item From PPG Works #8 to the Work of Processing: Harnessing Personal Experience and Lifelong Glassworkers to Enhance Description of PPG Industries Photographs(2019-04-12) Green, SierraAs an archivist with the Heinz History Center's Detre Library and Archives, Sierra Green was afforded the opportunity to process the PPG Industries Records, a collection pertaining to the history of the glass industry in Western Pennsylvania and throughout the United States. For over 38 years, her father has been an industrial glassworker. As a college student during summer breaks, Sierra worked alongside her father as a glassworker. Serendipitously, this archival collection originated from the very same company for which her father has worked for most of his life. What follows in this presentation are her reflections from this experience as well as applicable strategies to partner with industry workers in order to enhance collection description.Item Working Collections: Preserving Memory, Enhancing Heritage(2019) Ward, Sandi; Ward, SandiPresentation by Sandi Ward for "Working Collections: Preserving Memory, Enhancing Heritage" at MARAC Morgantown, April 2019. The CR/10 Project (CR/10) is a video oral history project created by the East Asian Library, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh. CR/10 aims to preserve memories and impressions from people who experienced China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966-1976. The collection also includes interviews with members of China's post-Cultural Revolution generations, who reflect on the circumstances under which they did, or did not, learn about the Cultural Revolution. Interviewees are given approximately 10 minutes to express their memories of or thoughts about the 10 years of China's Cultural Revolution. This presentation discussed the motivations of the project, its workflow and technical details, and its reception by researchers, faculty, and the public.Item 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.Item Paper Will Kill the Court System(2019-04-13) Huth, GeofGeof Huth describes how he changed archives and records management systems and practices at the New York State Unified Court system through a process of conversation and quick and wrenching change.Item If You Plan It, They Will Come: Archives Month Event Incubator(2018-04-14) Kativa, Hillary; Caust-Ellenbogen, Celia; Duinkerken, Kelsey; Miller, Bayard; Perella, ChrissieArchives Month Philly (AMP) is a month-long city-wide festival that focuses on educating the wider community about local archives through public programming and exhibitions. Since 2013, AMP has held over 100 events at more than 60 participating institutions in the Philadelphia area. Presented as part of an incubator session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Spring 2018 meeting, this presentation provides an overview of AMP programming and tips for planning your own Archives Month events.Item Improving Access to Special Collections through Collaborative Digital Scholarship(2018-04) Reynolds, AlisonThe William Henry Seward papers are one of the largest and most frequently accessed collections at the University of Rochester, but legacy finding aids were incomplete, incorrect, and confusing for researchers. In 2012, a history professor initiated the Seward Family Digital Archive, a student-driven digital humanities project that digitizes, transcribes, and annotates the Seward family correspondence. In order to bridge the divide between the physical collection and the digital project, a project archivist was hired to create an enhanced finding aid and serve as a liaison between special collections, faculty and students working on the project, and library IT staff. The result of this collaboration is a finding aid that links collection description to images, transcriptions, and student research on the digital archive website. This new finding aid, completed in 2018, serves as a comprehensive research tool that greatly increases discoverability of collection materials and serves as an example of the opportunities for intersections between finding aids and digital projects. This project examines the relationship between special collections and digital scholarship and raises the larger questions: What are the next steps in establishing the role of archives in digital scholarship? What should these collaborations look like?Item Discovering Joseph Eschenlohr: How Linking Records Illuminated a Life(2018-04-14) Hobson, Tiffany; Heger, KennethDuring the U.S. Civil War, thousands of immigrants served in the military, many receiving pensions upon discharge from service. The Bureau of Pensions kept extensive service records, which are now held at the National Archives and Records Administration, and those records now serve as popular resources for research, particularly genealogical research. However, many soldiers, both immigrants and U.S.-natives, moved overseas, leaving behind a paper trail which can be traced if one knows where to look. This project examines records from four National Archives records groups which document the life of Joseph Eschenlohr, a German-born immigrant to the U.S. who served in the Union army during the Civil War and later returned to his home in Alsace, to examine how linking metadata can help archivists maximize the discoverability of historic records, both to the benefit of the institution and the public.