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  • Taking the Shifting Gears Challenge 
    Clark Brown, Laura; Proffitt, Merrilee; Weiss, Karen B.; Zinkham, Helena (2009-06)
    The ideas put forward in the paper Shifting Gears (September 2007) seemed radical at the time, but they are beginning to look more mainstream. This seminar will include presentations from institutions who have tried to ...
  • Talks 1. Performance in Literary Collections 
    Ott, Elizabeth; Melton, Robert; Burk, Wendy; Kukil, Karen; Daub, Peggy; Favretto, Cristina (2013-06)
    “Performance and Performers in the Literary Archive”: Many traditional “literary” archives are home to the papers, recordings, printed ephemera, and artifacts of writers whose work has developed a strongly performative ...
  • Talks 10. Performance in Unlikely Places 
    Schroeder, Edwin C.; Dysert, Anna; Garland, Jennifer; Kochkina, Svetlana (2013-06)
    “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, ...
  • Talks 2. Regional Collecting of Performing Arts 
    Koffler, Helice; Diaz, Joseph; Reyes-Escudero, Veronice; Ross, Bill; Crowe, Katherine (2013-06)
    “The Performance of Archives: Challenges and Opportunities”: Typically, performing arts archives include audiovisual materials in a variety of formats, in addition to photographs, paper documents, and 3-D objects. Making ...
  • Talks 4. RDA 
    Dekydtspotter, Lori; Talley, Jennifer R.; Maxwell, Robert; Boyd, Morag; Lorimer, Nancy (2013-06)
    “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 ...
  • Talks 5. Music 
    Kelly, Mike; Wurtz, Michael; Wells, Veronica; Langham, Patrick (2013-06)
    “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 ...
  • Talks 6. Interpreting History and Art 
    Smedberg, Heather; Myers, Ann K. D.; Myers, William Andrew; Thompson, D. Claudia (2013-06)
    “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 ...
  • Talks 7. Variety 
    Chandler, Katharine; Garner, Anne; MacAyeal, Gregory; White, Eric (2013-06)
    “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 ...
  • Talks 8. Theatre 
    Williams, Cherry Dunham; Brady, Susan; Koffler, Helice; Kurtz, Howard Vincent; Lee, Jennifer (2013-06)
    “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 ...
  • Talks 9. Wikipedia and Libraries 
    Halvorson, Hjordis; Kosovsky, Bob; Cartwright, Ryan; McGhie, János; Proffitt, Merrilee (2013-06)
    “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. ...
  • Teaching and Outreach in Special Collections: From K-12 to Undergraduates and Beyond 
    Alvarez, Pablo; Berglund, Lisa (2008-06)
    From Credit to Public Course: Teaching the History of the Book to a Wider Audience by Pablo Alvarez; Introducing Undergraduates to Rare Books and Literary Manuscripts by Lisa Berglund; Two Assignments that Bring Students ...
  • Teaching Hard History: Questions, Lessons, and Strategies for Engaging Students with Challenging Materials 
    Jackson, Petrina; Spitz, Blake (2021-06-09)
    This poster will present experiences of, and strategies for, teaching with challenging and distressing topics and materials in archives.
  • Teaching the Student and the Teacher: Developing Archival Literacies 
    Leaman, Kristin; Harmeyer, Adriana; Shetler, Brian (2023-06-29)
    This seminar will explore the outcomes of a recent collaboration to embed Archival and Primary Source Literacy into a Fall 2022 Freshman Composition course at Purdue University. Adriana Harmeyer, Archivist for University ...
  • To Catch a Thief: Cataloging and the Security of Special Collections 
    Dimunation, Mark; Magness-Gardiner, Bonnie; McDade, Travis; Schaffner, Jennifer; Schneider, Nina (2010-06-27)
    How can libraries fulfill the need to provide access to their collections while simultaneously protecting them? Can full catalog records deter theft? How have they been instrumental in identifying and reclaiming stolen ...
  • Tool Time: tackling long standing metadata issues through new tools and workflows 
    Sherwood, Jessie; Stevens, Gioia; Lyon, Meghan; Campos-Quinn, Michael; Owens, William M. (2022-06-23)
    It’s tool time! In this session, presenters will discuss tools that they developed to take on long-standing needs in special collections in novel (pun intended) ways, including a means for cataloging remotely, prioritizing ...
  • Towards Special Collections Studies: Histories, Theories, Frameworks 
    Watson, Bri; Theisen, Colleen; Modrow, Sebastian; Hubbard, Melissa; Shetler, Brian (2023-06-29)
    Special collections are incredibly diverse in their aims, impacts, and institutional structure. However, they are united by being poorly served terms of the policies, platforms, practices and metadata developed by and for ...
  • Transgressing the Norm: Community Archives, Activism and Human Rights 
    Karlan, Jocelyn; Cifor, Marika; Hubbard, Melissa; Ramirez, Mario H. (2016-06)
    "Archives, Action, AIDS: Archival Collaborations with Visual AIDS": This paper examines a series of archival collaborations between activists, artists, and archivists with Visual AIDS, a community-based arts organization ...
  • Two Embedded Archivists Walk Into a Reading Room: How Two Archivists Navigated a Student Assignment from In-Person to Virtual 
    Beem, Randi; Bennett, Adreonna; Nista, Danielle (2022-06-22)
    Have you wondered how other archivists navigated student projects being switched from in-person format to a virtual world and back again? This session will discuss the best practices with virtual consultations for a ...
  • Unconferences 
    Kelly, Mike; Hubbard, Melissa (2013-06)
    Easel 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 ...
  • Under Construction: A Renovation Support Group 
    Logue, Sara; Planton, Isabel; Thomas, Lynne M. (2021-06-09)
    Many special collections libraries are currently undergoing, preparing for, or have just completed major renovations. Large-scale library renovation projects tend to lay bare the power structure of organizations. While ...

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