2018 Conference
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Presentations and materials from “Convergence,” the 59th Annual RBMS Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 19-22, 2018.
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Item Open Access Participant-Driven: Q & A with RBMS Leaders(2018-06-21) Jackson, Athena; Supple, Shannon; Overholt, John; Hawley, E. Haven; Smedberg, Heather; Joffrion, Beth; Call, ElizabethWhat’s happening, how did we get here, and where are we going? Join representatives of RBMS Executive Committee, current, and future Section Chairs for a casual conversation about leadership in RBMS. Each panelist will share her/his RBMS story, leaving plenty of time for your questions about the Section, the profession, and the future of special collections.Item Open Access Plenary III: Environment(2018-06-22) Parras, Bryan; Mulcahy, MatthewThe alarming number of recent, deadly natural disasters, including flooding and monsoons in South Asia, hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires in North America, and landslides and drought in Africa is a constant reminder of the responsibilities that we have as cultural heritage institutions to protect our facilities and collections from an increasingly volatile environment. These environmental disasters prove dangerous to the collections we house and to those of the most vulnerable that may never make it to the archives. Our plenary speakers will explore the impact of violent convergences of weather on our environment and communities, historical evidence of their potential to erase cultural legacies, and our readiness as a field to respond to such disasters. - - - - Moderator: Diane Dias De Fazio, Public Services Librarian, The Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy at The New York Public LibraryItem Open Access Papers Panel: Extraordinary Repositories(2018-06-22) Margot, Howard; Sinor, Sally; Lambousy, Greg; Nugent, TrishUniversity of New Orleans Special Collections Librarian Connie Phelps moderates a panel discussion by local archivists of important as well as unusual collections found in university, municipal, and private repositories in New Orleans. Howard Margot of The Historic New Orleans Collection presents his experiences in the digitization and launch of the Vieux Carré Survey, an online, searchable database containing thousands of architectural plans, photographs, and ownership records documenting 300 years of property evolution in the French Quarter. Sally Sinor with the Civil District Court for Orleans Parish discusses the records of the New Orleans Notarial Archives which developed from Louisiana’s unique civil law system, representing some 40 million pages of signed acts covering every aspect of history, socioeconomic data, and cultural lifeways of the region from colonial times to the present – the only repository in the United States dedicated to notarial records. As director of collections for the Louisiana State Museum in 2009, Greg Lambousy began the Louisiana Colonial Documents Digitization Project to create free online access and finding aids for the 70 thousand judicial and notarial records of the New Orleans French Superior Council (1714-1769) and the Spanish Cabildo (1769-1803), documenting the history and culture of the city’s inhabitants during the colonial era. While many associate jazz with New Orleans, the first documented opera staged in New Orleans was performed in 1796, with numerous productions presented on a yearly basis ever since. Trish Nugent of Loyola University speaks about The New Orleans Opera Association Archives (NOOA), documenting the business and creative operations of the NOOA, one of the oldest continually performing opera companies in the country since 1943.Item Open Access Seminar: Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: Gathering Data and Exploring Professional Implications for a Very Different Future(2018-06-22) Cahalan, Sarah Burke; Goldman, Ben; Ray, Whitney; Tansey, EiraThis seminar will introduce attendees to evolving data on the vulnerabilities faced by special collections due to climate change. It will cover implications for our profession and address the importance of long-term planning for the preservation of cultural heritage. Panel presenters have conducted research to map archival vulnerabilities to threats such as rising sea levels and extreme weather events. Ongoing work includes a project to create a comprehensive dataset of archival repository locations in order to better understand and communicate these vulnerabilities. Framing this research, additional presenters will explore the implications of climate chaos on standard professional practices, such as collection development strategies, environmental controls, emergency plans, and maintenance of professional networks. What lessons can we learn from how libraries and archives have reacted to disasters in the past? What can we learn from science fiction about the survival of information during and after crisis events? - - - - Moderator: Shannon SuppleItem Open Access Papers Panel: From North Carolina to Yucatan: Maya from the Margins(2018-06-21) Ott, Elizabeth; Giemza, Bryan; Vail, Gabrielle; Batun-Alpuche, Adolfo Ivan; Enrique, RainaIn 2016, the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill partnered with InHerit, a cultural heritage research and action organization rooted in the Research Labs of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to launch an international collaborative project titled Maya from the Margins to connect youth from indigenous families in North Carolina and Yucatán, Mexico in exploring their identity and heritage over time, focusing on topics such as language, history, and migration. This was achieved by exposing high school students in NC and first year college students in Yucatán to researchers studying these topics through a series of workshops, and to primary source materials spanning the 15th through 20th centuries housed in special collections in their respective states. The project was funded by a grant from Museums Connect, a program underwritten by the US Department of State and administered by the American Alliance of Museums. Students visited Wilson Library and the State Archives of Yucatán, crisscrossed North Carolina and Yucatán, and collaboratively curated a travelling exhibition, “Revitalizing Maya History and Heritage: My View from the Archives,” which was displayed at sites throughout the exchange. Driven by the interests, vision, and perspective of young people of Mayan descent, the project involved a reframing of the cultural legacy of Mayan Studies collections in Chapel Hill and in the Yucatán. Though these collections often reflect a Western anthropological or ethnographic focus, the Maya from the Margins project sought to resituate collections within the context of exploration of individual and cultural identity. Maya from the Margins offers a case study in democratizing knowledge production where students, not specialist researchers, are invited to interpret, narrate, and teach diverse antiquarian and archival collections. In this panel session, participants in the Maya from the Margins project reflect on the challenges and opportunities of working across institutional, international, cultural, and temporal boundaries.Item Open Access Papers Panel: Diversity Within Collections: Strategies for Fostering Access(2018-06-21) Judkins, Julie; Gieringer, MorganPaper 1: Hybrid is Here: Providing Access to Hybrid Archival Collections, by Julie Judkins, Assistant Head, Special Collections, University of North Texas. Archives and Special Collections are increasingly receiving “hybrid” collections that include both analog and born digital materials. Such materials don’t fit traditional arrangement and description models and therefore inspire a reimagining of what we can and should be collecting and how we can best provide access to our materials. In fall 2015 UNT Special Collections began collecting materials related to a controversial local fracking referendum. Because a large amount of the debate regarding the referendum was happening online, it quickly became apparent that the Denton Fracking Referendum Collection would be first intentionally hybrid collection held by UNT. In addition to collecting ephemera and lawn signs generated by lobbyists, a web archive was created and born digital oral histories conducted by students were collected. We have used the Fracking Collection as a model for future hybrid collecting and as a way to experiment with different layers of description between a finding aid and an access point in a digital library. - - - - Paper 2: A Cooperative Model for Preserving Historical Television News Content, by Morgan Gieringer, Head of Special Collections, University of North Texas. A significant portion of our shared cultural heritage, including historical television news recordings, is at risk due to complicated copyright issues, degradation of the original media, the cost involved in digitizing audio/visual resources, and the difficulty of preserving high resolution digital video files. Cooperation between heritage institutions and content creators facilitated by a Custodial Partnership Model is the key to overcoming these significant challenges. The University of North Texas (UNT) and the Dallas/Fort Worth (Texas) affiliate station of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC 5/KXAS) have partnered to preserve the content of the oldest television news station in Texas. This paper will explain this partnership from the perspective of both the library and the television news station, and it will provide s possible solutions to the issues of copyright, funding and access to audio/visual collections.Item Open Access Papers Panel: Collections and Culture – Case Studies on Archives and Place(2018-06-21) Lutz, Christie; Lemmon, Alfred E.Paper 1: Engaging the Offbeat: A Case Study in Creating a Local Music Archive as a Cultural Space, by Christie Lutz – New Jersey Regional Studies Librarian and Head of Public Services, Rutgers University. Special collections have been developing non-traditional collections rooted in current and recent popular culture. While we continue to build on popular collections of the past, this newer collecting area converges around creative output as reflected in, for example, the work of zinesters and punk and hip-hop artists. In building such collections, curators and librarians develop collections that document the “now” and meet the interests of scholars, students, and the non-traditional audiences who are the creators and consumers of this material. This paper focuses on the last group, the donors and users who might not normally enter the library or see it as a space that can be a location of meaning, memory and community for them, through the lens of the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive founded at Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers University Libraries in 2015. - - - - Paper 2: Trans-Atlantic Exchange: The Ecole Nationale De Chartes and The Historic New Orleans Collection, by Alfred E. Lemmon, Ph.D., Director, Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection. The cooperative internship program of The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Ecole nationale des chartes was established in 2008. Every year since 2008, The Historic New Orleans Collection has hosted 2 three-month interns from the Ecole nationale. One intern is a traditional archival student, while the other is enrolled in a program specializing in emerging archival technology. Since the establishment of the program, students have cataloged the extensive archive of the 19th century New Orleans German benevolent societies and a wide variety of other manuscript collections. Students specializing in emerging technologies have worked on a variety of projects designed for website dissemination. One such is example is A Guide to French Louisiana Manuscripts: An expanded and revised edition of the 1926 Surrey Calendar with Appendices (https://www.hnoc.org/surrey/). The paper will focus on the value of such a program to both the host institution and the student with particular emphasis on the requirements necessary for its success.Item Open Access Papers Panel: Converging Collections: Why Special Collections Needs to Think About Shared Print Collections(2018-06-21) Kieft, Bob; Nielsen, Karla; Haugen, Matthew; Stauffer, Andrew; Garabedian, MikeOver the last 15 years, libraries have increasingly entered into consortial agreements to undertake collaborative collection development and management. Library administrators look to shared print collections housed in offsite high-density storage facilities to allow patrons access to greater amounts of material while also eliminating “duplicates” within the shared collection. Transfer and deselection decisions are made based on circulation data, algorithmically, and otherwise at a scale that does not easily allow for librarian intervention. That scale is not sympathetic to standard special collections workflows but our professional standards concerning collection development, cataloging, preservation, and bibliographical description should be informing the conversation. Bob Kieft will lead off the presentation by giving an overview of the consortial agreements in the shared collections environment and the questions that various institutions and professional organizations are trying to address regarding shared print collections. Karla Nielsen will present on the issues associated with shared collections raised during the process of revising the RBMS Guidelines for Transferring Material from General to Special Collections, which highlighted the need for clearly posted policies and suggested new ways to work across general and special collections. Matthew Haugen will outline the realities of cataloging practice, such as limited use of fields, reconversion projects, and copy cataloging that make it difficult to use catalog records for deselection decisions without loss of items with copy-specific research value. Andrew Stauffer will discuss the CLIR-funded Book Traces project at the University of Virginia, which has developed a set of procedures for the rapid scanning of print books, and has adapted collections management survey tools to identify copies with copy-specific value within the larger shared collections ecosystem. Mike Garabedian will describe a survey tool he developed to define “artifactual completeness” that allows libraries to survey their mutually held copies quickly and inexpensively for such copies.Item Open Access Seminar: The Afterlife of Collections: Library Life in Post-custodial Times(2018-06-20) Guerrero, Jose Cruz; Dias De Fazio, Diane; Kearns, JonathanFor generations, writers, book collectors, scholars, and philanthropists have assembled personal libraries, each with a unique focus and a variety of materials, and sought “suitable institutions” to house those treasures in perpetuity. Donated with certain immortality in mind, what becomes of those carefully gathered collections does not always include perpetual care. With personal anecdotes and institutional examples, this session aims to examine the afterlife of records, and the longevity of acquisitions, and the responsibilities of special collections in a Post-custodial Era. Led by representatives of archives and special collections at large academic libraries, the antiquarian book trade, and a research division within the nation’s largest public library system, this session will demonstrate how institutions are addressing the challenges of collections custody, management, and discoverability, with examples of nineteenth- and twentieth-century acquisitions and de-accessioning, faculty bequests, and the bookseller’s role from auction floor to accession agreements. Moderator: Jay Sylvestre, University of MiamiItem Open Access Papers Panel: Converging Collections: Collaboration and Absence in Special Collections(2018-06-21) Marcus, Cecily; Munoz, Trevor; Olidge, Kara; Carlson, SarahWith systematic and strategic digitization efforts, digital humanities initiatives, and digital aggregations reshaping how libraries and archives make special collections and archival materials discoverable, the impact of convergent collections is greater than ever. Efforts such as Umbra Search African American History, the University of Maryland’s African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative, and the Amistad Research Center’s work on community collecting and outreach are each working, alongside others, to grow and diversify the network of cultural heritage professionals, scholars, collections, and communities that support Black digital scholarship. And yet, in the act of bringing together disparate materials, disciplinary approaches, communities of collection creators and users, and technologies, the inevitable gaps and absent narratives in our collections are laid bare. This panel presents critical questions raised by the work of Umbra Search, AADHum, and the Amistad Research Center including: how archival/special collections practices around ownership and post-custodial model affect community collections; how digitization and community outreach and programming attempt to address absences in our collections; how large scale initiatives such as AADHum approach integrating Black cultural heritage materials across the digital curriculum; how collaborative efforts are key to sustaining effective practices around collecting, discovery, and access of under-represented materials, histories, and, voices.Item Open Access Papers Panel: Collection Development Opportunity or Collections Management Burden? Evaluating the Operational Impact of Collections Stewardship(2018-06-21) Steele, Jordan; Hintz, Carrie; Francis, Matt; Bragg, MollyAs archives and special collections grow increasingly central to libraries’ operational, development, and strategic goals, an increased demand for acquiring rare and unique materials has gained a visibility and urgency not previously witnessed. Special collections, historically marginal to an institution’s identity, are now front and center. On a parallel track, the librarians and archivists who manage these materials have made great strides in developing thoughtful, standardized, user-centered practices for preserving, processing, and providing access to the collections they care for in a responsible, ethical way. However, it seems at times that an institution’s commitment to effectively steward rare and unique materials lags behind the pace at which collections are desired and acquired, resulting in inaccessible backlogs and poorly described and preserved holdings. And as a recent OCLC report states, backlogs can also frustrate diversity and inclusion goals, “invit[ing] questions about how our collection management decisions can serve to further bury or to illuminate the histories of marginalized people.” Four stakeholders in special collections management will discuss their experiences addressing the tension between collection development and collections stewardship. Perspectives will include that of a full-time collections manager, a professional who divides his time between collections management and curatorial responsibilities, a special collections department administrator with collections management experience, and a digitization services manager. Each panelist will present personal case studies to inform practical solutions they have developed to ensure that their parent institutions understand the true cost of stewardship. The hope is that these perspectives will build solidarity among collections managers, raise awareness about the resource implications (monetary and human) of stewardship, consider ethical concerns surrounding backlogs and poorly-described resources, and foster a constructive dialogue between those primarily tasked with acquiring materials and those responsible for their ongoing management.Item Open Access Papers Panel: Disruptive Convergences: Breaking the Canon(2018-06-21) Nielsen, Karla; Supple, Sharon; Skokan, Beatrice; Erickson, Jesse; Palmieri, BrookeThe Western “canon” is a meeting place, a place of convergence. The “great books” of European and North American history impart to students a common knowledge that allows, in theory, for a shared sense of heritage. The usefulness of a “canon” is not unlike Benedict Anderson’s argument in Imagined Communities concerning the rise of “print nationalism:” shared texts create shared identities. Special collections have been influenced by, and continue to influence and value, the construction of a Western canon. Likewise, scholars of bibliography prioritize “high spots” of history as objects analytical description. Yet this approach limits acquisitions policies, who is represented, and who feels welcome within special collections. This approach creates silences in the historical record. The purpose of this “Lightning” panel is to discuss how best to resist these tendencies — to use the meeting place of the canon as a rallying point of resistance. Each participant will detail the practicalities of disruption. Karla Nielsen will discuss her work in rethinking the “Great Books” curriculum, refracting European thought through Arabic culture. Shannon Supple will describe collaboration with students to “decenter” collecting hierarchies within acquisitions policies. Beatrice Skokan will detail her collaboration with Leandro Soto, to co-curate the exhibit “Caribbean Fragments,” disrupting the canon not only in content but in form, as it is the first an artist has served as curator. Jesse Erickson will describe how his work with non-book textual artefacts alters the distorted view of heritage “the book” creates. Brooke Palmieri will describe teaching “The Queer Book” at London Rare Book School, which sought not only to uncover LGBTQ history in the archives, but to apply theories from queer activism to the conceptualization of book history. Finally, a group discussion and Q&A will highly the opportunities created by non-canonical thinking: that amidst disruption, new audiences find warm welcome.Item Open Access Papers Panel: Does Distinctive Mean Diverse?: Exploring the Convergence of Special and Area Studies Collections(2018-06-20) Carter, Lisa R.; Hawley, E. Haven; Whittaker, Beth M.Many in our profession are aware of the trend to bring special and area studies collections together in large, research libraries, sometimes under the umbrella of “distinctive collections,” because of their administrative affinities. Library scholars and practitioners have written about the growing importance of rare and unique collections to the identity of academic libraries as the increased availability of electronic resources creates a sense of homogenization across their general collections. Area studies collections by their very nature bring an international perspective and a diversity of cultures into library collections. How have special collections and archives taken advantage of these partnerships to approach diversity in new ways? Moderator: Jae Jennifer Rossman, Director, Dept. of Area Studies & Humanities Research Support, Yale UniversityItem Open Access Papers Panel: Snap Shots: Documenting Student Life Using Snapchat(2018-06-20) Lee, Tiffany Atwater; Burns, Ann'Drea; de la Cruz, Justin; Tanner, SarahIn a world where technology is ever-changing, social media platforms appear and evolve rapidly, often in ways we can’t predict. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and many others have come and gone, but one in particular was created for the purpose to “empower people to express themselves” and “live in the moment.” Snapchat is a social media platform where users share snaps (still images or 10-second video clips) with their followers for 24 hours before they disappear, supposedly forever. Many Atlanta University Center students use this platform to chronicle campus culture and everyday life on an HBCU campus. Since student life is underrepresented in an archival setting, capturing this ephemeral content could add unique student perspectives to the historical record, enhancing special collections focused on student life and campus culture. This panel will discuss the creation, implementation and results of an experimental case study on the practical approaches for documenting contemporary materials in Snapchat, an emerging social media format. The study focused on finding creative ways to engage user-driven content for the purpose of preserving under-documented student life in the archival record; exploring the ethical limitations and concerns when documenting user-created content; and critically analyzing the technological and historical significance of Snapchat. The inspiration for this panel is the “HBCU Snap Story,” which chronicles the daily lives of students across the 106 Historical Black College and Universities (HBCUs). Everything from first year move-in day, homecoming and graduation is shown. As archivists and librarians from the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library – which serves the largest consortium of HBCUs – we questioned how to capture these first-hand experiences that provide rarely seen glimpses into the everyday lives of college students.Item Open Access Papers Panel: Guidebooks to Sin: The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans(2018-06-20) Arceneaux, Pamela D.Many scholars have written about Storyville, but no thorough contemporary study of the blue books has been available until now. These directories of the neighborhood’s prostitutes featured advertisements for liquor, brothels, and other goods and services available in the District. Illustrated with hundreds of facsimile pages from the blue books in The Historic New Orleans Collection’s holdings, Pamela D. Arceneaux, Senior Librarian/Rare Books Curator, presents this new annotated bibliography, a reference for historians, collectors, and rare book professionals. “Guidebooks to Sin” illuminates the intersection of race, commerce, and sex in this essential chapter of New Orleans history.Item Open Access Papers Panel: Transforming Knowledge, Transforming Libraries: Community-Centered Archives in the Classroom(2018-06-20) Yun, Audra Eagle; Tribbett, Krystal; Dang, Thuy Vo; Zavala, JimmyThis panel addresses the intersection between ethnic studies theory and community archives practice through primary source instruction. A three-year, IMLS-funded research project, “Transforming Knowledge, Transforming Libraries,” asks “what are the outcomes of undergraduate students applying what they learn in ethnic studies combined with their lived experience in contributing to community archives?” The grant research team seeks to answer this question by introducing community archives concepts to undergraduate students enrolled in ethnic studies courses. In a workshop we explore community archives theory and bring primary source materials into the classroom to demonstrate how students can facilitate “representational belonging” in archives. Panel participants will address workshop design, pedagogical collaboration with ethnic studies faculty (e.g. customization of workshops to incorporate materials that supplement the class syllabi), early findings from the students’ responses to workshop activities, and lessons learned from implementing our workshop in African American, Asian American, and Chicano/Latino studies courses. Panel participants will touch on how, in taking a community-centered approach to archival work, we seek to enrich regional history collections and potentially empower a new generation to transform the archival record.Item Open Access Papers Panel: The Mizzou Material Culture Group: Convergences among Libraries, Archives and Museums at the University of Missouri(2018-06-20) Buchanan, Sarah; Perry, Timothy; Stack, JoanIn 2013, a group of material culture professionals – librarians, archivists, and curators from seven different research collections at the University of Missouri – came together for a common purpose: to educate the campus community about the value and potential of teaching with objects. The collections represented include: University Libraries Department of Special Collections and Rare Books, State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Historic Costume and Textile Collection, Museum of Art and Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology, Department of Art’s George Caleb Bingham Gallery, and Mizzou Botanic Garden. Working with a broad definition of material culture across a wide range of disciplines and collecting interests, the group’s first collaboration was a lightning round panel on object-based learning at the University’s annual teaching conference. After the panel was over, we established a working group on material culture in the curriculum and have since made presentations on object-based learning and teaching about diverse perspectives in the curriculum to educators in the university and the local public school system. Working together has allowed us to democratize our collections’ reach, as several group members have collaborated to provide programming and hands-on activities for local children and families at public events. Several collaborative exhibitions, in various gallery spaces, have also grown out of this working group. To further extend our reach, in fall 2017, Dr. Sarah Buchanan offered an eight-week, for-credit course based on the group’s membership, with students exploring a different collection each week. The panel will include a talk by Dr. Buchanan on the course and exhibit, as well as overviews of successful teaching and outreach collaborations from the viewpoint of several other members. The presentations will share what we’ve learned over four years of working together and outline directions for future collaborations that can be applied on our campus or elsewhere.Item Open Access Seminar: Leadership & Management in Special Collections: You’re the Boss, Now What?(2018-06-20) Jackson, Petrina; Hussman, Stephen J.; Estorino, Maria R.Panelists will discuss their experiences as department heads covering topics such as personnel management, management styles that work, and considerations for recruitment and retention of staff. The goal of the discussion through this seminar is to provide a learning opportunity for those looking to move into an administrative role within special collections and archives, and should be of interest to anyone in the profession wanting to hone leadership and management skills. Moderator: Verónica Reyes-Escudero, University of ArizonaItem Open Access Papers Panel: The Value of Diverse Collections: Changing Collections, Institutions and Researchers(2018-06-20) Weisse, Laurinda; Marini, Francesca; Hankins, Rebecca; Smith, Jessica Perkins; Talley, JasmainePaper 1: Coming to the Plains: Latino/A Stories in Central Nebraska - Laurinda Weisse, University Archivist, University of Nebraska-Kearney - Like many archives, the University of Nebraska Kearney Archives has historically failed to fully document the diversity of both the campus and the surrounding communities. Recently, central Nebraska has seen a growth in immigration from Spanish-speaking countries, yet there are no archival collections that directly document this community, and very few that contain any materials related even peripherally to the local Latino/a population. Paper 2: Modeling Change through LGBTQ+ Collecting - Dr. Francesca Marini, Associate Dean for Special Collections and Director, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University Libraries, and Professor Rebecca Hankins, Curator, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University Libraries - What role do rare book libraries, special collections and archives have in supporting LGBTQ+ communities? How did LGBTQ+ collections acquire a starring role at Texas A&M, changing the culture and perceptions of the campus? How can other RBM institutions replicate our example? The extensive LGBTQ+ collections housed at the Cushing Library have exponentially grown in the past few years, and the materials are among the most requested at the Library. Professors routinely incorporate these collections into their class assignments. The collections include the Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture (one of the largest in the country), the Arden Eversmeyer Book Collection, the collection of Judge Phyllis R. Frye, the Texas A&M Gay Student Services Supreme Court Decision collection, and many others. A research fellowship, co-sponsored with the College of Liberal Arts, and fundraising efforts were successfully launched this year. Paper 3: How Archivists can Support the Study of African American History: From Two Different Perspectives - Jessica Perkins Smith, Assistant Professor/Manuscript Archivist, Mississippi State University, and Jasmaine Talley, Archivist, Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA - This joint paper will discuss ways in which collection development is formulated and modified to support research, as well as strategies for using the materials these archives already have to promote African American studies and encourage the use of archival materials in classrooms. Mississippi State archivist Jessica Perkins Smith will talk specifically about the university’s existing African American collections: both the collections that the department has highlighted for years and also “hidden” collections that are rich with possibilities for African American history, but have not been promoted or utilized by researchers. Amistad archivist Jasmaine Talley will talk specifically about Amistad’s newly processed African American Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) collections, which also represent a traditionally under-represented and under-explored aspect of black history. Both archivists will discuss their institutions’ education and outreach efforts related to African American history.Item Open Access Seminar: Primary Source Literacy as a Tool for Student Engagement and Faculty Partnerships(2018-06-20) Katz, Robin M.; Needham, Jennifer; Swan, MorganAs a special collections community, we are moving from show and tell towards active learning as our focus in the classroom. We have worked to create learning outcomes for classes, assessed student learning, and revised our work based on these results. Now that we have had time to integrate this into our professional work, what comes next? Presenters will talk about how they have been deepening and strengthening instruction by tracing the paths of student engagement and discuss how they have utilized the new guidelines for primary source literacy, soon to be endorsed by RBMS and SAA. Topics may include discussion about working closely with faculty to foster student discovery of collections, studying students’ discovery and research process, restructuring departments and positions in order to facilitate increased engagement with faculty and students, and considering how we can transform the primary source literacy guidelines into classroom learning goals. Moderator: Jeanann Haas