Proceedings of the CLIR Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Symposium, March 2015
Cheryl Oestreicher, editor
November 2015. 217 pp. $0.
ISBN 978-1-932326-54-3
CLIR pub 169
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This volume documents the capstone event to the seven-year Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The two-day symposium and unconference brought together more than 180 participants, including many past and current grant recipients. In the proceedings, more than 20 symposium presenters examine inter-institutional collaboration, student and faculty involvement, cataloging, arrangement and description, audiovisual collections, science collections, and outreach.
Innovation, Collaboration and Models-Proceedings of the CLIR Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Symposium, March 2015, published by the Council on Library and Information Resources, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License with the exception of the epilogue, “Hidden Collections for Everyone,” which is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Content in this list is in the same sequence as in the full report
Message from the Editor, Cheryl Oestreicher
Hidden No More, Amy Lucko and Christa Williford
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Introductory Remarks, March 13, 2015, Charles Henry
Keynote Address: Parting the Waters: CLIR’s Pathways into the Archive, Jacqueline Goldsby
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Symposium Presentations
Collaborations
All History is Local: Expanding Access to American Jewish Archival Collections, Susan Malbin, Laura Leone, Rachel Miller, Rachel Harrison, Sarah Ponichtera, Christine McEvilly, and Kevin Schlottmann
International Collaboration to Reveal Rare Chinese Materials Hidden for Half a Century, Zhijia Shen and Jing Liu
The Challenges of Sustaining a Long-Term Collaboration: Reflections on the Philadelphia Hidden Collections Projects, David McKnight and Eric Pumroy
Student and Faculty Involvement
Maximizing Partnerships: Faculty Buy-in, Service Learning, and Hidden Collections, Christopher Harter and Elisabeth McMahon
Collaboration and Education: Engaging High School Students with EAC-CPF Research, Valerie Addonizio and Christopher Case
Engaging Students in Complex Description: Two CLIR Hidden Collections Projects, Lois Fischer Black, Ilhan Citak, Gregory A. Edwards, and Andrew Stahlhut
The “Deceased” Preaches His Own Eulogy: Training Students to Provide Access Points on Discovery-Level Records, Felicia Piscitelli, Lisa Furubotten, Anton duPlessis, Alma Beatriz Rivera-Aguilera, and Ángel Villaba Roldán
Cataloging
Obstacles and Solutions in Establishing Cataloging Standards for Fine Print Collections, Katharine Malcolm and Christen Runge
The Churchill Weavers Collection: An American Treasure Uncovered, Jennifer Spence
Pennsylvania German Textile Cataloging, Candace Perry
Arrangement and Description
The Benefits of Planning: Cataloging the Vertical Files of the Anton Brees Carillon Library, Joy M. Banks and Jaime L. Fogel
Discovering the Future: The New York World’s Fair Collections of 1939 and 1964 at the Museum of the City of New York and Queens Museum, Annie Tummino
Preserving a Montana Senator’s Image: The Lee Metcalf Photograph and Film Collections Project, Matthew M. Peek
Audiovisual Collections
Accelerating Exposure of Audiovisual Collections: What’s Next? Karen Cariani, Sadie Roosa, Jack Brighton, and Brian Graney
Putting Archival Audiovisual Media into Context: An Archival Approach to Processing Mixed-Media Manuscript Collections, Megan McShea
Science Collections
The Opportunities of Engagement: Working with Scholars to Improve Description and Access at thewordp Center for the History of Medicine, Emily R. Novak Gustainis
The Practice of Privacy, Emily R. Novak Gustainis and Phoebe Evans Letocha
Grinnell to GUIDs: Connecting Natural Science Archives and Specimens, Christina Fidler, Barbara Mathé, Rusty Russell, and Russell D. “Tim” White
Outreach
Opening up the Urban Archive: Digital Outreach to Urban Studies Scholars, Morgan Gieringer and Jaime Janda
Success Beyond Access: CLIR-ing the Way, Harlan Greene, Dale Rosengarten, and Amy Lazarus
Concluding Remarks, William Noel
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Epilogue: Hidden Collections for Everyone, Michael Peter Edson
APPENDIX 1: Unconference Summaries and Group Notes (link to Googledocs)
Workshop Session: Using Open Refine to Clean and Gather Data, Daniel Johnson
Workshop Session: Quick Tools for Visualizing Collections Information Geographically, Mitch Fraas
Discussion Session 3: GIS Mapping as an Access Tool, John Zarrillo
Metadata
Workshop Session: Description at Scale: Working with DPLA, Amy Rudersdorf
Discussion Session 1: Replicable and Scalable Metadata Methodologies, Jackie Dooley
Discussion Session 2: Sustainability of Web Presence, Karen Cariani and Jack Brighton
Discussion Session 3: The Challenge of Rich Media: Best Practices for User-Contributed Metadata, Sadie Roosa, Mark Cooper, Mark Williams, and Karen Cariani
Sustainability
Discussion Session 1: Collaborating between the Public and Private Sectors, Ramsay Thurber
Discussion Session 3: Sustainability of Collaborations, Margery Sly and Katie Rawson
Community
Workshop Session: Using Special Collections for K-12 Students, Tamar Dougherty
Discussion Session 1: Building an Inclusive Community of Archival Practice, Jack McCarthy and Celia Caust-Ellenbogen
Discussion Session 1: Alt-Archives: Community Based Video Collections, Rachel Mattson, Yvonne Ng, and Rebecca Fraimow
Promoting Collections
Discussion Session 2: Cataloging and Promoting Collections, Jordan Patty
Discussion Session 2: Working with Wikipedia, Annie Johnson
Donors
Discussion Session 2: The Living Donor and Archives: Strategies, Benefits, and Challenge, Stephanie Maxwell
Assessment
Discussion Session 3: Assessment and Evaluation of Projects, Naomi Steinberger and Christa Williford
APPENDIX 2: Posters
APPENDIX 3: Learning at Work in the Archives: The Impact of Access to Primary Sources on Teaching and Learning
Kelly Miller and Michelle Morton
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