Sponsored by: FacsimileFinder.com

Moderator: Audra Eagle Yun, University of California, Irvine

What Became of the Archives of Negro History?: Investigating Efforts to Establish a New Orleans Community Archives
In 1968, African American community leaders in New Orleans founded The Archives of Negro History, whose mission was to collect materials relating to Black history...
Speaker: Christopher Harter, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University

Grasshoppers in the Reading Room: Building Special Collections at NYU Abu Dhabi
In the fall of 2014, New York University opened its permanent location in Abu Dhabi, part of its vision of the University as a global entity...
Speaker: Nicholas Martin, Archives and Special Collections, New York University Abu Dhabi

From Technology to the Literary: Special Collections at the University of Trinidad and Tobago
e University of Trinidad and Tobago (2004) evolved from the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Technology an institution charged with the responsibility of providing trained personnel for the local energy sector...
Speaker: Janice Blake, Technical Services Department, University of Trinidad and Tobago

For decades, Rare Book School (RBS) and RBMS have fostered the professional growth and career development of special collections professionals. In an effort to support... Read More

Sponsored by: Tavistock Books

This seminar will focus on the ways in which book collecting contests serve as outreach tools, educational opportunities, donor relations events, and a means to cultivate the next generation of collectors...

Sponsored by: Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

Sexism in the workplace can be overt, but more often, it manifests in "soft" forms that undermine women's leadership ability. Why are women more likely to perform "low value" work, such as taking notes in meetings, or stay quiet during team discussions?...

Sponsored by: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques LLC

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From motorcycle clubs to cyberpunks, humanities researchers have increasingly come to recognize the scholarly potential of 20th-century materials created by visionary, outsider and underground communities. As representatives of major institutions...

Sponsored by: FacsimileFinder.com

Moderator: Randal Brandt, University of California, Berkeley

When the Well Runs Dry: Lessons Learned from Creative Models for Retrospective Cataloguing
This presentation will present a case study and speculative research on developing trends in long-term retrospective cataloguing projects...
Speaker: Daryl Green, University of St Andrews Library, United Kingdom

Fear of Linked Data? Collaboration to the Rescue!
Linked data is all the rage… but emerging technologies can sometimes seem intimidating- especially if going it alone. At the University of California, Irvine...
Speaker: Kelly Spring, Special Collections& Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries

Online Collaboration for Researching Marks in Books
The Provenance Online Project, or POP, brings together over 12,000 images...
Speaker: Laura Aydelotte, Provenance Online Project, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

But We Don't Have a Rare Books Cataloger: an Inter-institutional Experiment to Surface a Rare Book backlog
Approached by a professor of history interested in having her students enhance under-described rare book catalog records at UC Irvine,...
Speaker: Audra Eagle Yun, Special Collections & Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries

Sponsored by: ABAA Southeast Chapter

Speakers will share reflections and advice on developing community-oriented partnerships. A librarian from the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University will discuss a project that enlisted community participation to digitize large amounts of genealogical information and create virtual family trees...

Sponsored by: Michael R. Weintraub, Inc.

Special Collections librarians and archivists make concerted efforts to make our spaces welcoming and remove perceived barriers to use. The day-to-day research that takes place in our reading rooms is highly personal and can be in fact sacred to many users. At the same time...