Sponsored by: Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers

Once communities know about you through outreach efforts, collaborations and partnerships can be created. This plenary session is intended to serve as a venue in which the special collections community can have productive conversations about its potential engagement with a broader range of cultural materials than it might traditionally.

Moderator: Verónica Reyes-Escudero, University of Arizona

Speakers:

Sponsored by: Preservation Technologies, L.P.

Getting Out of the Inbox: Using Customer Service Ticketing Systems for Reference Email at Brooklyn Historical Society and UC Riverside
Presenters:
Robin M. Katz, University of California, Riverside, formerly Brooklyn Historical Society
Joanna Lamaida, Brooklyn Historical Society
Zayda Delgado, University of California, Riverside

DC Africana Archives Project
Presenter: Alexandra Krensky, George Washington University Libraries

Working with Donors to Create Metadata for Archival Materials: a New Form of Special Collections Outreach
Presenter: Joseph Nicholson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Libraries

Engaging the Archives: Collaborative Teaching with Faculty and Archivists
Presenter: Cinda Nofziger, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

TOME (Toolkit of Material Evidence): Tracing Readers, Owners, and Users of Books
Presenters:
Philip S. Palmer, Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles
Laura Aydelotte, Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania

Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis: Philosophy and workflows for the digitization and dissemination of medieval manuscripts
Presenters:
Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania Libraries;
Lois Black, Lehigh University Library
Janine Pollock, Free Library of Philadelphia

Discover Florida Citrus
Presenter: Gerrianne Schaad, Florida Southern College

Artifact as Identity: Freshmen, archives, and the exploration of culture
Presenter: Greg Schmidt, Auburn University Libraries

Introducing HMML: 50 years of International Collaboration for Cultural Preservation
Presenter: Eileen Smith, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library

The Library Machine
Presenter: Michaela Ullmann, University of Southern California

Cataloging Palm-leaf Manuscripts in the Classroom
Presenter: Alia Levar Wegner, University of Tampa

"I sing my song, and all is well" - The Paul Laurence Dunbar Book Collection at the West Virginia & Regional History Center
Presenter: Ashleigh Coren, West Virginia & Regional History Center

Sponsored by: Read'Em Again Books

The purpose of this roundtable discussion is to begin a dialogue about the challenges that face special collections librarians and archivists who work alone or at smaller, less-well-funded institutions. The moderators will share their own experiences...

Sponsored by: Rare Book School at the University of Virginia

Moderator: Athena Jackson, Pennsylvania State University

Common Touch: Re-Envisioning the History of the Blind
Common Touch: The Art of the Senses in the History of the Blind is a joint project of the Library Company’s Visual Culture Program and artist Teresa Jaynes...
Speaker: Rachel D’Agostino, Library Company of Philadelphia

When Bad Things Happen to Good Manuscripts: A Case Study of the Zora Neale Hurston Papers at the University of Florida
In 1960, celebrated African American author Zora Neale Hurston died in relative obscurity in a Florida hospital. With no one coming forward to claim them, her belongings were ordered destroyed...
Speaker: Florence M. Turcotte, John Freund, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville

Latinos en Oregón: A Latino/a community oral history project
While the development and implementation of an oral history project may be well- known to you, specifically working with your local Latino/a communities on such a project may not be...
Speaker: Natalia Fernández, Oregon Multicultural Archives, Oregon State University Libraries and Press

Connecting, Contributing, Commemorating, Collaborating: Archival Adventures with the Records of the Chinese YMCA Movement
The work of the North American YMCA in China during the period from the late 1890s to the 1940s is richly documented in the Kautz Family YMCA Archives. Following several decades of isolation
Speaker: Lara Friedman-Shedlov, Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of Minnesota

Sponsored by: Lux Mentis, Booksellers

Librarians working with special collections often find themselves thrust into working with donors, with little to no experience or preparation. This seminar will feature insights, strategies, real world examples, and food for thought...

Sponsored by: Arthur Fournier fine & rare

“Wish you were here!” extends postcard sentiment into action, exploring ways in which special collections can create invitational programs and policies directed at undergraduates. Using examples from three academic and public libraries,

Sponsored by: University of Miami Libraries, University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries

Sponsored by: Maggs Bros. Ltd.

This session seeks to demonstrate the myriad ways special collections and archives can engage and interact with multiple constituencies. The communities and cultures in which institutions are situated strongly influence what is collected, how resources are described, and how materials are accessed and used. Speakers will share with us new methods by which we communicate and the infrastructures we create to elicit productive conversations about engagement with a broader range of communities and cultural materials than we might traditionally.

Moderator: Erika Dowell, Indiana University

Speakers: