Browsing MARAC 2019 Spring - Morgantown, WV 11-13 April by Title
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Archives Month as a Way to do Advocacy
(2019-04)Poster presentation from the MARAC conference in Morgantown, WV on April 11-13, 2019. Part of the nationally celebrated American Archives Month, the U.S. Navy’s Naval History and Heritage Command archival staff to participate ... -
Building Awareness of Archival Value: Working with Record Creators
(2019-04)Presentation from the MARAC conference in Morgantown, WV on April 11-13, 2019. S18. BETTER BEGINNINGS, BETTER ENDS: WHAT WE'VE LEARNED BY ENGAGING RECORDS CREATORS As part of the U.S. Navy, the Naval History and Heritage ... -
Digital Virginias is Live! The DPLA Service Hub for Virginia and West Virginia
(2019-04-12)This poster gives an overview of the creation of the Digital Virginias service hub for the Digital Public Library of America and provides information to institutions interested in participating. -
Drawing the Circle Wider: Employing Individuals on the Autism Spectrum in the Archives
(2019-04-13)Presentation 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 ... -
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)As 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 ... -
Labor Union Organizing in the Archives
(2019-04-13)Unions are organized to advocate for workers' rights in the workplace, whether that be in a factory, an academic library, or a federal archives. Panelists spoke about their perspectives on unions in libraries and archives ... -
Mining the Backlog: Uncovering Collections to Enrich Labor Community Heritage and Memory
(2019-04-13)The Patch/Work Voices Project began in the 1970’s with the collection of oral histories to document the heritage of the coal and coke industry in Fayette County. Artifacts, photographs, and other materials were donated by ... -
Moving the National Trust Library at UMD
(2019-04-12)Presentation from the MARAC conference in Morgantown, WV on April 11-13, 2019. S10 - Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind: Providing Service During Collection Moves. -
My Labor of Love: Lone Arrangement and Appraisal of the LC Commissioned Composers Web Archive
(2019-04-13)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 ... -
Paper Will Kill the Court System
(2019-04-13)Geof 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. -
Professional Women: The Gender Politics of the National Education Association's Century of Non-Unionism
(2019-04-11)Before the feminist revolution, teaching was one of the few professions where women were the majority. The National Education Association (NEA) represented many of these teachers as members. From its founding in 1857 until ... -
Program for the Spring 2019 MARAC Meeting: Working Archives: A Labor of Love
(2019-04)The program for the Spring 2019 MARAC meeting, "Working Archives: A Labor of Love" held April 11-13 in Morgantown, WV. -
Putting the Do In Donor Relations: A Proactive, Improvised Approach to Engaging the Donor Community
(2019-04-19)Ray Barker, Archivist at the Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, will share his efforts as an outsider to the D.C. community, new to his role in donor relations. Mr. Barker shares his creative, and ... -
Storage and Technology Obsolescence: Evaluating Digital Preservation Capacity Using the Digital Preservation Capability Maturity Model (DPCMM)
(2019-04-12)In this panel presentation, Fatemeh Rezaei, Archivist; Kristin Conlin, Reference and Instruction Librarian; and Laura Bell, Archivist at the University of Baltimore discuss how to convey the importance of a digital ... -
Student Workers and Special Collections: A Symbiotic Relationship?
(2019-06-11)Many 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 ... -
Using JSTOR Forum for Digital Collections at Caldwell University
(2019-04-12)This poster will highlight how Caldwell University Archives is using JSTOR Forum for its digital collections. Caldwell University Archives began using JSTOR Forum in 2015 as the result of a grant from the Council of ... -
Working Collections: Preserving Memory, Enhancing Heritage
(2019)Presentation 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, ... -
You Had Me at 3 Years: The Ethics and Practicality of Project Archivists
(2019-04-12)With the Society of American Archivists working to define standards for both intern and volunteer workers, it seems fitting to look now towards another hallmark of archival work: project positions. These positions work to ...