2024 Conference
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Item Open Access Roadblocks to Momentum(2024-06-26) Dean, Peter; Emerson, Michael; Muffley, LaurieThis poster provides an overview of several different types of Work-Family conflicts drawn from the presenters' own experiences. It provides their strategies for coping with these conflicts and for taking care of themselves.Item Open Access Using Primary Sources in STEM Pedagogy to Work Towards Health Equity(2024-06-26) Beck, Emily; Hendrickson, Lois; Sury, Priya; Root, LizThis poster presentation examines efforts to integrate primary sources into a new medical school curriculum with foci on equity and social justice. The project team discussed collaborations with medical school faculty, topics addressed in the curriculum, and next steps for implementation.Item Open Access Old Cards, New Tricks: Using AI to Turn a Card Catalog into a Searchable Database(2024-06-26) Monheim, AlleeThis poster presentation examines the results of a project that used AI in conjunction with OCR to migrate the information from the card catalog of the Pacific Northwest Regional Index into a digital environment. A 10,000 card sample (out of an estimated 1.2 million cards total) was used to assess the reliability and consistency of AI services offered by a third party vendor.Item Open Access It's the Little Things: Lessons Learned from the Long-Term Collaborative Projects at UNLV Libraries(2024-06-26) Jones, Sarah; Fell, StephanieWe all face resistance to change, administrative "red tape" and capacity limitations. At UNLV Libraries, there is one librarian dedicated to cataloging Special Collections and Archives material, including new acquisitions and backlog material. This amount of work is overwhelming, and change can seem slow, even impossible. Setting attainable milestones, frequent check-ins on project progress, and communicating out small victories emphasizes the project's positive impact and maintains momentum. This poster shows examples of long-term collaborative projects at UNLV Libraries and explains how small milestones and regular communication have sustained projects and demonstrated progress and impact to all involved.Item Open Access How to Juggle: Managing Staffing Changes and an Off-Site Storage Move(2024-06-26) Smith, AnnaThis poster presentation examines the lessons learned from a long-running project to move university records to offsite storage, and examines the impacts that personnel changes both inside and outside of special collections can have on projects like this one.Item Open Access How Many Bibles Does a Catholic Institution Need?(2024-06-26) Deppe, JacquelynThis poster presentation shows how call number information can be processed and analyzed in order to quickly visualize the contents of special collections. It includes recommendations for obtaining and cleaning the data from library catalogues, as well as strategies for visualizing the data using programs like Tableau and Adobe Creative Suite.Item Open Access Faculty Librarian as Adjunct Professor: Teaching Archival Studies in the Public History Classroom(2024-06-26) Loeper, LindseyThis recorded poster presentation gives an overview of the work and benefits that went into planning an semester-long course in archival studies that was taught in a college history department. The course's aims were to familiarize students with the process of archival collection management to allow them to better participate in local and public history projects alongside archivists and community organizations.Item Open Access "Training Your Oculus": Using Bookbinding to Teach Special Collections Cataloging(2024-06-26) Mongeau, JP; Stewart, Michael LPoster summarizing the results of a workshop series conducted at the University of Delaware, funded by the RBMS Metadata Steering Committee. The Workshops used demonstrations of bookbinding as an introduction to bibliographical description for rare materials.Item Open Access Weird Archives: Finding the Unexpected in Archival Library Collections(2024-06-27) Rosenbloom, MeganJoin Megan Rosenbloom, author of Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin for an online virtual event. She will discuss the collections that inspired her research and will lead a discussion about the weirdest items found in archives and libraries. We invite you to share photos and/or describe your weird, unexpected finds with fellow attendees.Item Open Access Stories from ARCH: A Summer Program for HBCU Students in Princeton Special Collections(2024-06-26) Nobles, Phoebe; Sarconi, Emma; Sotilleo, Sophia; Vo, Amy C.; Williams, Lauren, C.Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America. First launched in 2018, Princeton University Library's ARCH (Archives Research and Collaborative History) program hosts students enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for a week-long introduction to potential career opportunities in cultural heritage professions. Hosted on Princeton University campus and led by staff at Princeton and participating HBCUs, curriculum includes tours, discussions, hands-on workshops and field trips on topics including introduction to processing, reference and research methods, andItem Open Access Dying to Read: A Collaborative Exploration of Arsenical Books in the W.D. Jordan Library(2024-06-27) Bell, Kim; Canham, RobinThis presentation aims to introduce the collaborative efforts between the W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections Library, the Conservation Unit, and faculty from the Art Conservation Department to identify arsenical books within the library collection. During the 19th century, arsenic-based pigments were commonly used in book cloth and paper, which poses unique challenges today for safe handling and preservation. The presentation will outline the methodology employed, challenges encountered, and lessons learned during this project. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the unique challenges posed by arsenical books and learn how to best handle, store, and preserve these items.Item Open Access Documenting Our Communities: Archiving Florida Farmworkers' Histories(2024-06-27) Dominguez, Beatriz; Nemmers, John; Serpa, Hayley; Skokan, Béatrice; Vargas-Betancourt, MargaritaFollowing the conference topic Momentum in Our Communities, the University of Florida and the University of Miami Libraries will discuss their partnership with two farmworkers' community-based organizations, The Farmworker Association of Florida and the Rural Women's Health Project, to design the project "Archiving Florida Farmworkers' Histories." The project's goals are to build trust with these communities, survey their archival needs, and design archival strategies that ensure their safety. In this panel, we will discuss our methodologies, implementation, and results with the objective of presenting a national replicable model for documenting at-promise (we are using this term instead of marginalized) communities.Item Open Access Changing Tides: Addressing DEI in the Curation of Science, Technology, and Medical Collections(2024-06-28) Kamen, Chad; Kasarabada, Anu; Levy, Josh; Rizzo, Caitlin; Thornton, ElaineIn this panel, four curators will address the challenges posed by institutional collecting mandates for science, technology, and medical collections. Each curator will address the particular legacies of their collections as well as their own attempts to redress those legacies with a particular eye toward how the momentum for repairing the historic gaps around marginalized communities seems to have stalled in STEM collections. Panelists will pay special attention to how they are grappling with the historical conceptualizations of what "counts" as scientific research to address the ways the marginalized people have often been refused a place in discourses of science, technology, and medicine more broadly.Item Open Access Building Inclusive Futures: Sustaining DEIA Momentum with Strategic Planning(2024-06-27) Irwin, Ken; Pine, Candace; Staarmann, ElizabethThe Miami University Libraries formed a workgroup charged with creating a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategic Plan for the Libraries. The plan is intended to help build a more inclusive work environment, to address areas in which library policies create inequities, and to make services more accessible for all patrons. In this presentation, members of the workgroup will discuss their process of creating a practical strategic plan, with achievable goals for initiatives to be implemented that will help create a more inclusive environment at the Libraries. This plan builds on the momentum that both the GLAM profession and our organization have built around DEIA efforts over the past several years, and brings the organizational focus of strategic planning to effect change. As DEIA strategic planning becomes more commonplace in GLAM institutions, sharing best practices from this workgroup's experience will help support others in their efforts to develop their own effective DEIA Strategic Plans.