2013 Conference
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Presentation and materials from “O Rare! Performance in Special Collections,” the 54th Annual RBMS Preconference, Minneapolis, MN, June 23-26, 2013.
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Item Open Access 2013 Preconference Miscellaneous Files(2013)Miscellaneous files relating to the 2013 RBMS Preconference, including registration forms and dining guides.Item Open Access Photos from 2013 Preconference(2013-06)Includes: Image from Plenary II, Hawley; Image from Seminar D, Green; Image from Seminar F, Grob; Image from Cataloging Medieval Manuscripts WorkshopItem Open Access Cataloging Medieval Manuscripts, from Cassiodorus to Dublin Core(2013-06) Cashion, Debra Taylor; Bair, Sheila; Steuer, SusanThe purpose of this workshop is to introduce librarians and collection managers to medieval manuscripts and discuss issues relevant to cataloging them. Medieval manuscripts are hand-crafted books or documents made in the medieval tradition, that is, without mechanical forms of reproduction, dating from about VI-XVI centuries. As information objects they differ essentially from most modern manuscripts because although they are unique objects, they are usually not unique texts. That is, from a FRBR perspective, they represent expressions of greater works, such as St. Augustine’s The City of God, in all of its translations, recensions and redactions. We thus propose a three-part conceptual model of medieval manuscripts as manuscripts, artifacts, and books, one that considers not only their literary content, but also their physical characteristics and historical background. Thus any catalog for medieval manuscripts should reflect their nature as complex information objects: texts, cultural artifacts, and historical artifacts. We will discover that for any cataloging system, the best records will follow a faceted structure based on three components: 1) Content, 2) Carrier, and 3) Context. To establish a historical and conceptual framework, we introduce our topic not only through examining various types of medieval manuscripts, but also through exploring the traditions of medieval library cataloging. We then discuss several existing platforms for cataloging medieval manuscripts and weigh the advantages and disadvantages to each, including MARC, EAD, VRA-Core. We especially examine the standards available for digital catalogs, including Digital Scriptorium, an online union catalog specifically designed for medieval manuscripts, and ENRICH (European Networking Resources and Information Concerning Cultural Heritage), here introduced with a newly crafted application to Dublin Core, the standard used for many local online digital environments, such as CONTENTdm. Through hands-on exercises the workshop participants will learn how to take a prose description of a manuscript and selectively parse the appropriate information into controlled descriptive data for various applications. Creating catalog records for collections with medieval manuscripts is especially important because the records must serve as surrogates for historically significant and valuable objects that require restricted physical access. It is thus no small challenge to create effective descriptions for medieval manuscripts, especially in the ever changing circumstances of digital technologies and library cataloging standards. We hope this workshop will encourage enthusiasm for these rare and fascinating library materials while taking some of the mystery out of managing them as information objects.Item Open Access Building Collections: Acquiring Materials and Working with the Antiquarian Book Trade(2013-06) Schroeder, E. C.; Slive, Daniel J.The workshop is primarily intended for librarians working at all types of institutions and with all levels of budgets who are responsible for acquisition and collection development of special collections materials. The session will also be of interest to individual collectors and dealers. The purpose is to provide attendees with practical information which can be utilized for building collections and developing beneficial relationships with members of the antiquarian book trade. Although the emphasis will be on printed materials, manuscripts and archives will also be discussed. The workshop will include the context and history of special collections, collection development, and institutional interaction with the trade, particularly in the United States. Practical matters will include materials on the market, auctions, online sources, comparing prices, purchasing collections, deaccessioning, and provenance issues. A full reading list will be provided.Item Open Access Setting the Stage: Engaging Uses of Primary Sources for K-8 Outreach(2013-06) Ahnberg, Katherine; Dekydtspotter, Lori; Williams, CherryThis poster will present the outcomes of a two-year collaboration with K-8 teachers to design an outreach program that helps students contextualize primary sources in both original and digital formats through the use of medieval manuscripts, theatrical performances, self-discovery heuristics and hands-on demonstrations.Item Open Access Lights, Camera…Catalog! Helpful Approaches to Cataloging Screenplays in RDA(2013-06) Rhoda, AndrewThe goal of this poster is to illustrate through specific bibliographic examples two methods of cataloging screenplays that are currently used by the Lilly Library, Indiana University.Item Open Access Hamp’s Legacy: The International Jazz Collections at the University of Idaho(2013-06) Reese, Garth D.This poster will highlight the International Jazz Collections (IJC) at the University of Idaho, formally established in 2000 with the donation of the papers and photographs of the legendary Lionel Hampton.Item Open Access Student Interns Perform Through Exhibits(2013-06) Johnsen, Mary CatherineThis poster will show the “performance” of students in the Posner Internship Program as they research and install exhibits in a small special collections.Item Open Access Hidden Treasures: The Max and Gertrude Hoffmann Papers(2013-06) Mulder, Megan; Petersen, RebeccaThis poster will focus on a “hidden collection” of famous vaudevillian and performing arts figures of the early 20th century uncovered during a survey of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library manuscript storage areas.Item Open Access Collecting at the Crossroads: Cuban theater collections from Cuba and beyond at the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami(2013-06) Baur, NatalieThis poster session will highlight the outreach, instruction and scholarly research conducted using theater collections at the Cuban Heritage Collection with examples of the repository’s role in promoting access and usage of the collections.Item Open Access Unconferences(2013-06) Kelly, Mike; Hubbard, MelissaEasel notes from the New England Institutions Unconference and the Midwest Institutions Unconference. An unconference session is participant-driven, allowing you to explore topics that pertain to what matters most in your careers, professional interests and/or institutions.Item Open Access Discussion 4, Archivist and Librarian Roles in Building Trust with Donors and Patrons(2013-06) Bryan, RuthThe effectiveness of an archives or library for its donors and patrons is based in large part on their trust in both the place and the staff, in donors’ and patrons’ “willingness to be vulnerable to the actions of another party based on positive expectations regarding the motivation and behavior of the other” (Pirson and Malhotra 2007). This trust is developed and built by librarians and archivists performing a variety of roles in order to develop collections and entice people to use them. These roles might include gatekeeper, event planner, booster, counselor, friend, activist, steward, and expert. This discussion session would be an opportunity to share case studies or stories about different roles each of us has played in relation to a particular donor or patron and exploring various questions that have arisen in our own experiences?Item Open Access Discussion 1, Directing without a Script: Strategies for Successful Technical Services Project Management(2013-06) Mascaro, Michelle; DeZelar-Tiedman, ChristineProjects, such as retrospective barcoding, relocating collections, grants to catalog hidden collections, etc., are as common in Special Collections technical services areas as the day to day work of keeping up with new acquisitions. While the final goal of these projects is clearly defined, the path to reaching that goal requires creativity and improvisation. Technical Services projects often become complex production numbers, involving coordinating workflows and personnel. Effective management is essential to direct these projects through unanticipated challenges to completion. Participants in the session will discuss successes and lessons learned from managing past or current technical services projects.Item Open Access Talks 10. Performance in Unlikely Places(2013-06) Schroeder, Edwin C.; Dysert, Anna; Garland, Jennifer; Kochkina, Svetlana“Anatomy Theaters, Legal Dramas, and Landscape Staging: Unexpected Performances in Special Collections”: This session will locate varying types of performances within three historically significant special collections, expanding the definition of what constitutes a performance collection and demonstrating new potential for these thematic research collections. Rare materials in law collections capture the drama and spectacle of the courtroom, while early modern anatomical atlases depict the human body on display in the theater of anatomy, the central prop of an intricate ritual performance. Architectural collections reveal an interest in mise-en-scéne and directing the body in space, creating both a design and a choreography. What further types of performance do these special collections in turn draw around themselves?Item Open Access Talks 9. Wikipedia and Libraries(2013-06) Halvorson, Hjordis; Kosovsky, Bob; Cartwright, Ryan; McGhie, János; Proffitt, Merrilee“Wikipedia and Libraries: a Special Relationship”: Wikipedia can be a highly influential source of information, and if libraries (and their unique holdings) were a part of Wikipedia, they would receive increased attention. Less publicized is Wikimedia’s GLAM-Wiki initiative. GLAM (an acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) is comprised of people whose purpose is to share their organizations’ cultural resources with the world through high-impact collaborations with experienced Wikipedia editors. A panel of four speakers who have engaged with Wikipedia or GLAM-Wiki will offer different viewpoints on how a variety of libraries, archives and similar organizations can collaborate with Wikipedia.Item Open Access Talks 8. Theatre(2013-06) Williams, Cherry Dunham; Brady, Susan; Koffler, Helice; Kurtz, Howard Vincent; Lee, Jennifer“American Theatre Archive Project”: The American Theatre Archive Project (ATAP), an initiative of the American Society for Theatre Research, was established in 2009 to help active theater companies preserve their legacy by deploying regional teams composed of archivists, dramaturgs, and scholars throughout North America and developing a network of resources and community of practice around theater archives. This presentation will introduce attendees to the American Theatre Archive Project and its work with archivists, theater practitioners, and repositories to promote the preservation of America’s theatrical history.; “Costuming in the Federal Theatre: 1935 – 1939”: The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was established under the Works Progress Administration, during the first term of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Radical in concept, the FTP was the only large-scale effort ever undertaken by the U.S. federal government to organize theatrical events. This presentation will introduce the costume designers of the FTP, their original costume designs, and related archival materials deposited in the Special Collections of the George Mason University Libraries, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.; “Joseph Urban Archive at Columbia University”: Joseph Urban (1872 – 1933) was the major U.S. stage designer of his day, working simultaneously for the Metropolitan Opera, Ziegfeld and other Broadway producers, and Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures. This presentation will give an overview of Urban’s creative achievements; note the performers who worked on his sets for stage and screen, such as Kate Smith, Isadora Duncan, Duke Ellington, and Ezio Pinza; outline the work that Columbia has done in processing, conserving, housing, and imaging the archive; and explore ways that new imaging technologies may be able to digitally put back together the 340 set models that came with the archive.Item Open Access Talks 7. Variety(2013-06) Chandler, Katharine; Garner, Anne; MacAyeal, Gregory; White, Eric“Theater in the Margins: Three Case Studies of Annotation in the Berg Collection”: Marginalia, a kind of responsive writing hinging on an earlier text, can be both private and public. Three books from the personal libraries of three esteemed writers in the New York Public Library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection position the annotator as a performer, using the margins to articulate a public interpretation of the text. This talk will look at the ways in which writers (Charles Dickens on A Christmas Carol; Vladimir Nabokov on Flaubert’s Madame Bovary; and Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden on Robert Graves’s Goodbye to All That) respond as readers, using marginalia to stage their own interpretations of classic texts.; “Come Together Now: A Successful Partnership of Northwestern University’s Music Library and Beinen School of Music”: During the John Cage centennial in 2012, Northwestern University’s Music Library and Beinen School of Music partnered to create a series of events that showcased the university as a center for Cage research. The Music Library, which holds one of the most important Cage special collections, created the exhibit “Sound and Silence: John Cage Composing Himself.” The curator performed a DIY 4’33” (Cage’s famous silent work) with an orchestra of university and community members. This talk will highlight a positive collaboration of two university units, provide an example of leveraging departmental strengths toward shared goals, and show how performance and a music collection can illuminate each other.; “Printed for Performance: Ceremonial and Interactive Aspects of Books from Europe’s First Presses”: This presentation demonstrates that many of the books printed in Mainz during the pioneering decade of the 1450s were made and used not for isolated desktop study, but rather for performance–liturgical ceremonies, oral reading, or group learning. Although the earliest European printers faced monumental technical challenges, they succeeded (with the cooperation of the first users of their books) in developing effective typographic means of fulfilling the essential performative functions that had been established within the manuscript tradition. These fifteenth-century solutions continued to resonate in books throughout the typographic era.Item Open Access Talks 6. Interpreting History and Art(2013-06) Smedberg, Heather; Myers, Ann K. D.; Myers, William Andrew; Thompson, D. Claudia“What the Heck is This Thing? Opening Artists’ Books to the User”: This session will address some of the philosophical questions behind describing artists’ books. Thinking of cataloging as performance, how can catalogers best draw the connections between the artist’s intention, description of the object in hand, and the widely varying needs of the user? Book artist William Andrew Myers will show his work in progress, Alpha to Omega, describing the physical processes by which it is being made as well as the philosophical process behind its conception. Rare book cataloger Ann K. D. Myers will use this work as an example to explore ways of describing artists’ books with the goal of bringing users to the materials.; “Performing Outlaws”: Outlaws such as Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and Billy the Kid have been embodied and performed in many different ways. Often the performances have violated history and frustrated teachers, historians, librarians, and archivists seeking to maintain and disseminate a true record of the past. How should curators of history cope? How should archivists and librarians document performances that may, or may not, have a historical basis? Should they distinguish between fiction and falsehood? This presentation will examine depictions of American, especially Western, outlaws, and look at how these performances are preserved in institutions such as the American Heritage Center.Item Open Access Talks 5. Music(2013-06) Kelly, Mike; Wurtz, Michael; Wells, Veronica; Langham, Patrick“Take Five: Integrating Music Collections and the Brubeck Collection into Undergraduate Library Instruction”: The Brubeck Collection at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California is an unsuspected font of information concerning the US during the Cold War and Civil Rights eras. Created by pianist Dave Brubeck (“Take Five”) and his wife Iola, it is one of the largest jazz archival collections. The staff and faculty have digitized large portions of the audio collection, worked carefully with history and conservatory faculty to integrate the Collection into undergraduate learning, created multiple exhibits focusing on Brubeck’s connection to social justice (including a talk and oral history program at the 2012 Monterey Jazz Festival), and sponsored yearly research travel grants to use the Collection. Veronica Wells, Access Services and Music Librarian, has aggressively promoted the use of all music collections to Conservatory faculty and to the music library community. Michael Wurtz, Archivist of the Brubeck Collection, manages the Collection from accession to accessibility. He has curated exhibits for local and nationwide use, managed a Grammy grant for digitization, and continues to work closely with the donors. Patrick Langham is a musician and jazz studies professor who encourages his students to use the library’s music collection and the Brubeck Collection in his jazz history and composition classes.Item Open Access Talks 4. RDA(2013-06) Dekydtspotter, Lori; Talley, Jennifer R.; Maxwell, Robert; Boyd, Morag; Lorimer, Nancy“Rethinking Our Cataloging Choreography: Cataloging Special Collection Materials Using RDA”: Drawing from their expertise as current RDA special collections catalogers, panelists will share their experiences cataloging rare materials in the RDA environment, focusing on what works well in RDA for rare materials description as well as highlighting areas of the new standard where more guidance might be necessary. Panelists will share illustrative bibliographic examples and discuss how they reconcile DCRM(B) practice and the RDA standard in their own cataloging. Panelists will also share their insights on how to best proceed with revisions of DCRM as we work as a community to align with RDA’s framework.