Amy Schindler, Director of Archives & Special Collections, Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library – University of Nebraska-Omaha The Archives & Special Collections department at UNO’s Criss Library is home to the Afghanistan Collection, U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel Archive, University Archives, and other special collections. Learn about how these unique and specialized collections were developed in different eras and their shared future.

1. Rediscovering Uniqueness:
Archives & Special Collections
at UNO
Amy Schindler
Dr. C.C. & Mabel L. Criss Library

4. U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel Archives

6. Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection

7. Rare Books & Other Special Collections

10. University Archives

12. Archives 2.0
• Open
• Transparent
• User-centered
• Technology-savvy
• Archivist as facilitator
• Open to iterating products
• Innovative & flexible
• Looking for ways to attract
new users
Archives 1.0
• Closed
• Opaque
• Archivist- and record-
centered
• Technology-phobic
• Archivist as gatekeeper/
authority figure
• Focused on “perfect”
products
• Adhering to tradition
• Relying on interested users
coming to the repository on
their own
From Kate Theimer, Archives Next Blog:
http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=2273

17. Amy C. Schindler
acschindler@unomaha.edu
Thank you!
Archives & Special Collections’ website (we’ll be bigger & better by the end
of 2014!): http://libguides.unomaha.edu/ArchivesSpecialCollections

22. “As feeling becomes commodified and neutered through a variety of
online filters, perhaps archives can hack us directly into powerful
conduits of meaning and emotion.
How might this happen? There’s the technical stuff — persistent
identifiers, blah, blah, blah — vitally important of course. But then
there’s the relationship stuff. We have to stop talking about users and
start talking about collaborators. We need to stop building services to
be consumed, and start opening opportunities to create, to play, to
break and to hack. We are all making connections.
Most importantly we need to find and support the people, both inside
and outside our organizations, who are driven by passion. The people
who care.”
--Tim Sherratt (2012), http://discontents.com.au/archives-of-emotion/
Thanks to Mark Matienzo & his “Emotion in the Archives” for bringing this in front of my eyeballs.