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    Assessing Archival Accessibility and Information Access for Disabled Users
    (2024-11) Pineo, Elizabeth
    Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gives individuals the freedom of opinion and expression, which includes the right to information access. To assess the practical attainability of this right for Disabled users, I examined the accessibility of 55 archives' online record items using discoverability and usability to guide my analysis. Access challenges arose in both categories, and they proved to be useful ways of thinking about accessibility in archives. Ultimately, they can help guide archivists' thinking within the broad areas of accessibility and information access, and they can help archivists identify and address accessibility barriers as they encounter them.
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    Discovering Joseph Eschenlohr: How Linking Records Illuminated a Life
    (2018-04-14) Hobson, Tiffany; Heger, Kenneth
    During 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.