2019 Conferencehttp://hdl.handle.net/11213/108242024-03-28T18:38:04Z2024-03-28T18:38:04ZSeminar: Do Your Metrics Measure Up? Assessment & Implementing the New Standards for Public Services StatisticsKatz, RobinFitzgerald, MoiraBravent, Jay-MarieMyc, MalgosiaHawk, AmandaCall, Elizabethhttp://hdl.handle.net/11213/132332020-05-22T19:38:25Z2019-06-21T00:00:00ZSeminar: Do Your Metrics Measure Up? Assessment & Implementing the New Standards for Public Services Statistics
Katz, Robin; Fitzgerald, Moira; Bravent, Jay-Marie; Myc, Malgosia; Hawk, Amanda; Call, Elizabeth
This seminar will be led by a diverse group of librarians and archivists (including a mix of three first-time RBMS presenters and seasoned members) who are early adopters of the newly-approved Standardized Statistical Measures and Metrics for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries. The session will begin with a moderated panel showing how the presenters have used the new measures to document impact, articulate value, advocate for resources, inform decision-making, and shape sustainable programs. Use of interactive real-time polls will create a rich and highly energetic learning environment. The bulk of the time will be dedicated to breakout sessions for attendees interested in taking immediate action to start implementing the new standards. Participants will leave the seminar with practical strategies that can be used and adapted for a wide range of repositories around issues such as which measures to adopt, gaps in the standards, and tools for data collection.
2019-06-21T00:00:00ZPlenary 3: What a Living World DemandsMallipeddi, RameshStreeby, Shelleyhttp://hdl.handle.net/11213/132322020-05-26T19:07:06Z2019-06-21T00:00:00ZPlenary 3: What a Living World Demands
Mallipeddi, Ramesh; Streeby, Shelley
In Parable of the Sower, a 1993 dystopian science fiction novel set in the wake of major climate change, Octavia E. Butler writes, “There is no end | To what a living world | Will demand of you.” Our collections, institutions, and communities have arisen from colonial and extractive industrial contexts - the same conditions and systems driving anthropogenic climate change. Our closing plenary examines how climate change relates to these systems’ legacies of harm, and how history, memory work, and speculative imagining illuminate possibilities for challenging these systems in order to build more sustainable and equitable living worlds. ----- Moderator: Robin M. Katz, University of California-Riverside, Primary Source Literacy Teaching Librarian.
2019-06-21T00:00:00ZSeminar: Beyond Commerce: Encounters and Exchanges Between Academic Institutions and the Rare Book TradeSeppi, GregMurphy, JohnNesler, MirandaOtt, ElizabethRulon-Miller, RobJohnson, Kevinhttp://hdl.handle.net/11213/131962020-05-21T15:46:19Z2019-06-21T00:00:00ZSeminar: Beyond Commerce: Encounters and Exchanges Between Academic Institutions and the Rare Book Trade
Seppi, Greg; Murphy, John; Nesler, Miranda; Ott, Elizabeth; Rulon-Miller, Rob; Johnson, Kevin
This seminar explores relationships between the academic world and the rare book trade from the perspectives of booksellers and university faculty, including librarians. The starting point for this seminar is Miranda Nesler’s recent experience changing fields from university professor to rare bookseller. How have her priorities changed? What remains the same? How does she use her position as a rare bookseller to recognize and preserve materials relevant to marginalized communities and individuals? The next portion of our seminar will explore tensions between academic libraries and the rare book trade and how those tensions affect the trade. Rob Rulon-Miller, director of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminars and a former president of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), will share his experiences working with university libraries. This portion of the seminar will also highlight how booksellers can work effectively with librarians and archivists to preserve rare materials that might otherwise be destroyed or lost in private collections. Elizabeth Ott, the Frank Borden Hanes Curator of Rare Books at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will speak on working with rare booksellers from an academic librarian’s perspective. We will then break into groups to discuss ethical and practical questions librarians and booksellers face in their day-to-day work, such as breaking up collections, asking about the provenance of books and manuscripts, and other issues. We will reconvene after a short period of discussion and invite each group to share their responses.
2019-06-21T00:00:00ZPanel: Under the Weather: Strategies for Planning and Response to Climate Change for Heritage OrganizationsBoyne, ElizabethDurant, FletcherTansey, EiraWaxman, Jenniferhttp://hdl.handle.net/11213/131952020-05-21T15:19:55Z2019-06-21T00:00:00ZPanel: Under the Weather: Strategies for Planning and Response to Climate Change for Heritage Organizations
Boyne, Elizabeth; Durant, Fletcher; Tansey, Eira; Waxman, Jennifer
Climate change poses significant short and long term threats to the operations and stability of archival institutions and collections across space and time. In the short term, changing weather and disasters may mean more frequent or severe wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding. In the long term, archives may be caught up in larger community conversations around inland migration or relocation as coastal locations are threatened by sea-level rise. The impacts of climate change on archives reverberate at the local, regional, national, and global scales. This seminar will explore the ways in which archivists are building local disaster preparation networks incorporating archives and the broader cultural heritage community, how developing a statewide emergency response network informs preparation for the future, and how national data on archives can give us a glimpse into the large-scale risks we face.
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