tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.comments2023-10-29T02:43:47.491-07:00SAA RAO NEWSRAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-40086533596081793342013-03-01T12:51:37.101-08:002013-03-01T12:51:37.101-08:00I am trying to put something together about digita...I am trying to put something together about digital file management and arrangement for high school students, if you are interested. hannahwillbe@gmail.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10248703595882891813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-86828533773104026622010-08-09T07:21:12.808-07:002010-08-09T07:21:12.808-07:00Approaches and experiences related to outreach to ...Approaches and experiences related to outreach to academic faculty teaching undergraduate classes and providing reference services for large classes.It's a Processhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06362051626378694242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-2551528144387350622010-02-22T12:49:18.146-08:002010-02-22T12:49:18.146-08:00Jenny raises an important point - The terms we use...Jenny raises an important point - The terms we use can hide materials from researchers. One issue I keep debating is when and whether to use "Minority" in subject headings for photographs. Davidson was once male only - if we don't use women or coed and if we don't use minority for non-white students, we make those images hard to find. But those headings imply an ongoing norm that relegates women and minorities to being newcomers decades after they are part of the community. We've gone to using qualifiers for all students - students -men, students-women, basketball-men's, basketball-women's, etc. -so we don't create social barriers even as we seek to make images more visible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-91842580989042896552010-02-21T19:44:19.892-08:002010-02-21T19:44:19.892-08:00I think I was ready to write off access - thinking...I think I was ready to write off access - thinking of it mainly as legal access, and being of the opinion that this is decided at the acquisition phase, not by reference staff. But in subsequent discussions, I am seeing that there is definitely a reference angle to enhancing other aspects of access to archives.Kathy Marquishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02007778578940670230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-70482938608547486912010-02-20T08:43:13.677-08:002010-02-20T08:43:13.677-08:00In addition to physical barriers, we should consid...In addition to physical barriers, we should consider intellectual and social barriers. How do we - in the very acts of arranging and describing - mystify records, the past, etc.? I don't think we as a profession can say, "We're not interested in ____" if historians, psychologists, social scientists, humanities scholars, artists, students, and other stakeholders are interested in it. If we're not paying attention, we become irrelevent. We need to learn to speak their language. Even if we disagree, we should be speaking with the same vocabulary.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14950621151241362135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-29399988206377693912009-08-24T18:29:42.721-07:002009-08-24T18:29:42.721-07:00Just in case you missed them, check out this post ...Just in case you missed them, check out <a href="http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=331" rel="nofollow">this</a> post from Kate Theimer and <a href="http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=332" rel="nofollow">this</a> post from Dan Santamaria at ArchivesNext on the continuing discusses about MPLP and Archives 2.0.Amy C. Schindlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16291061441657005520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-70392347189807836322009-07-25T09:48:28.889-07:002009-07-25T09:48:28.889-07:00When I looked at the program, I thought these thre...When I looked at the program, I thought these three looked interesting.<br /><br />SESSION 201 - Videogame Archives: Collecting, Preserving, and Providing <br />Videogames offer some of the thorniest aspects of digital preservation and also raise questions related to traditional models of creation, representation, access, and stability. This interactive discussion provides a general overview of videogame preservation theory and practice. Panelists address specific archival issues of collecting, describing, preserving, and providing sustained access to these materials.<br /><br />SESSION 303 - Sleeping with the Enemy: Hate Collections in Catholic, Masonic, and LGBTQ Repositories<br />Repositories with collections that document minority or historically maligned communities may collect material produced by groups and individuals who are intent on the destruction or disenfranchisement of these communities. These hate/bias collections can present challenges related to management, collection development, access, and use. In this session, representatives from Catholic, Masonic, and LGBTQ archives discuss some of these challenges and why they collect hate material.<br /><br />SESSION 608 - Lasting Memories: Sustained Use of Collections of Tragedy<br />During the past few decades an alarming number of catastrophic events have affected university campuses. Documenting tragic events of institutional history is a difficult task. Sustained access to these collections by researchers, filmmakers, and families creates an unusual balance between privacy and memory. In this session, archivists from Marshall University, Syracuse University, Texas A&M, and Virginia Tech describe the collections that document tragedies at their institutions and the wide range of researcher use.Reference, Access and Outreachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11831213767274248412noreply@blogger.com