Program
Seminars
Seminar A
Digital Initiatives and the Impact on Cataloging Departments
Many of our libraries are engaged in digitizing unique and rare materials from
within our specialized collections. There are numerous benefits for scholarship
and preservation resulting from such digitization efforts. The success of such
projects relies greatly on the descriptive metadata accompanying digital projects.
This session will explore many of the issues involved in such projects from the
perspective of standards, cataloging, and workflow for cataloging departments.
The seminar will feature presentations by Genie Guerard (UCLA) and Rebekah Irwin
(Yale University). Each will speak from the perspective of their own institutions,
providing case studies which represent two approaches to digital production that
have resulted in different ways of addressing cataloging issues - that of a large
institutional project based model, and that of a specialized collection driven by
patron needs. The speakers plan to present examples of their digital efforts and
discuss the choices they have made in hopes of stimulating a conversation with
attendants of the seminar.
Moderator: Ann Copeland, Bibliographic Standards Committee Member, Penn State.
Genie Guerard, Manuscripts Librarian, UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections;
Rebekah Irwin, Catalog Librarian for Digital Projects, Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Seminar B
Virtual St. Louis: A Digital Urban Archives
This seminar examines a project based at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, History Department.
The St. Louis Regional History Project utilizes interactive web technologies to explore
the history of the City of St. Louis and the St. Louis region drawing content from
area special collections.
Moderator: John Hoover, St. Louis Mercantile Library, University of Missouri, St. Louis.
Speakers: Louis Gerteis, Professor of History, University of Missouri, St. Louis;
Andrew Hurley, Professor of History, University of Missouri, St. Louis;
Dave van Bakergem, Senior Research Fellow, University of Missouri, St. Louis;
Laura Westhoff , Professor of History and Education, University of Missouri, St. Louis.
Seminar C
Redefining Rare, or, What's So Special About That Collection
This seminar will explore the implications of collecting popular culture and other
"unusual" collections, as well as examining their impact as educational tools.
The speakers will discuss issues of collection development, institutional support,
outreach, cataloging and arrangement/description. The speakers will describe their
personal experiences working with collections on the history of surfing, penny
dreadfuls and inspirational series literature (i.e. the Horatio Alger stories),
cookbooks, and zines.
Moderator: Cristina Favretto, San Diego State University.
Presenters: Lynn Thomas, Northern Illinois University;
Jenna Freedman, Barnard College Library;
Roger Adams, Kansas State University; Ruth Hughes, Chief Cataloger, Library Company of Philadelphia
.
Seminar D
Current trends in Fellowships
This seminar explores the current trends in fellowship programs at a variety of rare books
and special collections libraries: how are fellowships supported, who is the audience,
how do institutions build a research community, and what is expected of recipients.
Moderator: E.C. Schroeder, Yale.
Presenters: Margaret Powell, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University; Hjordis Halvorsson,
Newberry Library; Gregg Ames, St. Louis Mercantile Library, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Seminar E
Preservation Education for Special Collections Librarians
Special collections librarians frequently assume preservation responsibilities for
which their education has not prepared them. Presenters will discuss a range of
options for special collections librarians to broaden their understanding of
preservation, from on-the-job experience, to a structured part-time program,
to programs that build skills for the care of audio-visual materials.
Moderator: Barbara Paulson, National Endowment for the Humanities.
Presenters: Mona Jimenez, New York University; Jennifer F.Paustenbaugh, Oklahoma State University;
Jennifer Hain Teper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Seminar F
Contemporary Issues and Initiatives Pertaining to Access in Special Collections
Moderator: Arvid Nelsen, University of California, San Diego.
Presenters: Susan Allen, Getty; Beth Russell, Ohio State University; Ellen Cordes, Yale University.
This seminar seeks to examine current attitudes regarding access to special collections
materials and the initiatives libraries have made, if any, to expand access including
is there a problem with access in special collections, are special collections
librarians able to agree among themselves on what constitutes acceptable levels
of access, when do the concerns of preservation prevail over those of access, have
technological solutions met our need to provide access.
Seminar G
Going Over to the Dark Side: Librarianship and the Book Trade
This seminar is a conversational panel of luminaries who have worked on both sides
of rare book curating and selling. Topics will include training for both professions,
lessons learned, cross-over skills and knowledge, ethics, collegial relationships,
competitions and jealousies, mutual interests, and collaborative relationships.
Moderators: Jennifer Schaffner, UCLA; Cynthis Davis Buffington, Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Presenters: Jessy Randall, Colorado College; Andy Armacost, Duke; Jesse Rossa,
University of Delaware; David Whitesell, Houghton Library, Harvard
University; David Brafman, Getty.
Seminar H
Describing Archives: A Content Standard, or What do EAD, MARC, APPM, ISAD (G),
EAC, and ISAAR (CPF) all have in Common?
Moderator: Mary Lacy.
Presenters: Kris Kiesling, University of Texas, Austin; Michael Fox, Minnesota Historical Society.
Seminar I
Digitizing Cultural Heritage: Academic Special Collections in Partnership with Native American Communities.
This seminar will explore partnerships between Academic Special Collections and
Native American peoples, examining in particular how digital technology can reintroduce
cultural heritage materials into communities, how these materials can impact
cultural revitalization efforts in ways that may be unexpected by librarians and
archivists, and how such "virtual repatriation" serves general scholarship. The
seminar will examine the idea of "the record" from a North American indigenous
perspective; chronicle the history of national and international cooperative efforts
between institutions and Native peoples; and envision the landscape of possibilities
afforded by future endeavors.
Moderator: Kathleen Burns, Yale.
Presenters: Anne Bingham, Community Museum Project, Washington Statewide Virtual Reference project;
Kari R. Smith, Cornell University; Kate Cleland-Sipfle, Southern Oregon University.
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