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Item The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont: Political Performance, and the Use of History in the Cromwellian Protectorate(2025-03-07) Sly, Jordan S.The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont: Political Performance, and the Use of History in the Cromwellian Protectorate In 1655, the Duke of Savoy ordered the violent removal of Protestants from his territory in Northern Italy in the basin of the Italian Alps. The horrific massacre that resulted provided vivid evidence of the arbitrary cruelty of Catholic European powers in the development of mid-seventeenth-century polemic literature. Specifically, it provided the Cromwellian Protectorate a useful tragedy in conceptualizing and actuating long-standing threads of religious history that provided the backbone justification of military action against their enemies. This presentation focuses on the book commissioned by the Protectorate and compiled by Sir Samuel Morland titled The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont and the complex composition of this book in terms of its religious and political uses. This talk will include descriptions of extant copies of the book in addition to its contents and some history of its use, dissemination, and idiosyncratic elements of specific copies. Content warning: This presentation will contain images from Morland’s work which graphically depict atrocious imagery of extreme violence against men, women, and children.Item Item Making Moves: Managing Deselection and Transfer Projects(2024-06-30) Vasudev, KapilA poster detailing the development of a committee - the Deselection and Transfer Steering Committee (DTSC) - to handle deselection and transfer activities between multiple locations on and off campus. The goal of this committee was to improve the efficiency of these projects through defining a clear workflow for managing projects and assigning tasks. The committee includes key individuals from across the library involved in various parts of the collection life cycle and consults with library leadership to allocate resources to projects based on library and campus priorities. As a result of moving from handling deselection and transfer projects on a case by case basis to establishing a permanent committee, the library has handled collections projects more uniformly and built a repository of experience to iterate improvements to the workflow. The poster diagrams an example of a workflow for handling a collections project. It also demonstrates the value of the committee by discussing several major projects and their challenges and outcomes.Item Deselecting and Transferring Physical Collections: A Framework for Creating Policies and Implementing Decisions(2024-12-11) Vasudev, Kapil; Mack, Daniel C.The poster proposes a framework for creating and implementing policies around deselection and transfer. This framework identifies considerations about collections and other factors that a library should address in creating policies, recommends workflow creation to implement policies, provides a checklist for creating a communications plan, and offers a rubric to assess the effectiveness of deselection and transfer policies.Item Belonging in the Urban Information Specialist Program(Journal of New Librarianship, 2024-02-05) Bradley, BenjaminThe Urban Information Specialist Program lasted only one year, from 1970-1971, at the University of Maryland School of Library and Information Service (SLIS). While short lived, the program raised big questions that resonate still today about who could become a librarian and what role a librarian plays. The program sought to diversify librarianship by recruiting students with experience working and serving diverse communities and eliminating barriers such as the requirement of a Bachelor’s degree. The program’s end was met with protest and debate about racism within the university and in the SLIS. This article looks at contemporary student publications to better understand how library science programs can improve to promote diversity within a primarily white profession and in Primarily White Institutions (PWI).Item Succession planning from the middle(ACRL, 2024) Norton, Brynne; Cotton, Jennifer E. M.Item The Official RDA Toolkit is Here: Now What?(2024-08-26) Glennan, KathyAn overview presentation of RDA and the new RDA Toolkit, presented to the Connecticut Library Association Technical Services SectionItem Revisiting Subdivisions for Databases(2024-11-05) Guay, BethThe CONSER Ad Hoc Webinar, April 23, 2021, included a topic on “Problematic subdivisions that need attention and clarity.” These Library of Congress form subdivisions were: Databases, Periodicals, and Research, presented by Beth Guay, John Hostage, and Kevin Randall. Regarding Databases, Beth looked at the Library of Congress Subject Headings Manual, SHM H 1520, and related cataloging documents, that, according to her, caused confusion leading to inconsistent cataloging practice. Can a new look at Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) records for online databases tell us which of these guidance documents are being followed, and which are not? Are discovery services and the prevailing adoption of Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT) informing our practice when cataloging databases? The presenter offers findings and recommendations based on an examination of PCC catalog records for online databases.Item Research and Publishing Ethics in the Age of AI: Copyright, community consensus, and the spaces between(2024-11-13) Wilson, MichelleThis presentation from the 2024 BTAA Responsible Conduct of Research Collaborative conference, "Promises and Pitfalls of AI for Research and Scholarship Integrity" was held on November 13, 2024. The presentation explores the extant legal landscape regarding artificial intelligence and copyright in the United State at the time as well as current policies from the academic publishers and publishing ethics societies. In the context of limited legal and community governance over AI use, the presentation shares framing questions and considerations for the use of generative and assistive AI technologies in research, scholarly publishing, and research integrity.Item Watergate: A Legacy(2024-10-10) Lewis, Irene M.; Hughes-Watkins, Lae'l; Mayfield, Catherine DayritWatergate: A Legacy is a presentation that looks into the political and cultural history of the Watergate scandal from the early 1970s in the United States and how it led the House of Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Richard M. Nixon in 1973. This presentation was given at the University of Maryland Libraires' Living Democracy Symposium held on October 10, 2024, at the College Park campus. The presentation examines how President Nixon and his administration undermined democracy, truth, and the rule of law through their activities to cover up the Watergate break-in and how public officials such as Maryland Representative Lawrence J. Hogan, Sr., other members of the House Judiciary Committee, members of the Senate Watergate Committee, the FBI, and many others worked hard to uphold justice in order to preserve democracy and the welfare of the country. Throughout the presentation, documents from Lawrence Joseph Hogan, Sr. papers held at the University of Maryland Archives are highlighted to illustrate the political and cultural impact this historic event had upon the American people during an era of great social and political change.