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Item Queens United: Building a Descendant Community Network(Visual Resources Association, 2024) Floyd, Joni; Porter, KevinIn recent years, several academic and cultural heritage institutions have joined forces to share best practices for engaging with the descendants of individuals whose enslavement contributed to the prosperity of these institutions. However, there is still a need for more testimony from these descendants, particularly regarding their support systems that existed long before many institutions began their outreach efforts. As both descendants of the same enslaved family and representatives of their institutions, the authors draw upon their unique perspectives to provide insight into the foundation of their emerging descendant network. By highlighting three members of this network—Aisha L. Abdul Rahman, Irving Gaither, and Robin Proudie—readers will gain a better understanding of the spiritual foundations, skills, experiences, and sophistication present in these networks. These insights will enhance the readers' cultural competency.Item Democratizing Academic Librarianship: Ten Years of Community-Building Through a Graduate Fellowship(ACRL 2025, 2025) Shaw, Benjamin; Gammons, Rachel; Pierdinock-Weed, AmberDeveloped in partnership between a University Library and a College of Information, the presenters have created and led a three-semester teacher training fellowship that prepares MLIS students for careers in academic librarianship. In celebration of the Fellowship program*s 10th anniversary, we offer reflections from a decade of research and practice, including findings from an ongoing qualitative study featuring interviews with Fellowship alumni. While this presentation focuses on our institution’s Fellowship program, the implications of our findings are relevant to anyone interested in supporting early-to-mid-career librarians as they navigate the challenges, opportunities, and future of the profession. Objective 1: Participants will be able to identify and apply effective strategies for developing and maintaining professional development programs based on a decade of insights from a student-centered fellowship program. Objective 2: Participants will learn to evaluate which components of a professional development program are most impactful for participants, drawing on qualitative findings from interviews with fellowship alumni. Objective 3: Participants will gain actionable recommendations for supporting early-to-mid career librarians in navigating career transitions, building scholarly portfolios, and fostering community-building, informed by findings from interviews with fellowship alumni.Item Archivists Leading the Reckoning: Confronting Slavery and its Legacies at the University of Maryland(2025) McElrath, Douglas; Floyd, JoniCase study of The 1856 Project, the University of Maryland’s chapter of the Universities Studying Slavery consortium. Provides practical strategies for social justice workers who seek scalable project models for addressing legacies of racialized harm at their institutions.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 Section