Created Equal: Civil Rights Outreach @ Mississippi Academic LibrariesHillary Richardson
This dynamic session will showcase how three universities in Mississippi promoted and participated in the “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle” grant. This film and discussion series is part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History’s effort to continue the conversation about civil rights and equality in the United States. Participants will learn about the grant process, challenges and highlights from the events, and lessons learned through collaboration. In addition to the films and their follow-up discussions, the libraries offered supplemental programming and used social media to garner more publicity and generate more discussion for these events. We will discuss the in-person methods and media outlets used to keep the conversation about civil rights going on our respective campuses, and will discuss how outreach and social media factored in the evaluation of our efforts and the planning for future programming.
Created Equal: Civil Rights Outreach @ Mississippi Academic LibrariesHillary Richardson
This dynamic session will showcase how three universities in Mississippi promoted and participated in the “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle” grant. This film and discussion series is part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History’s effort to continue the conversation about civil rights and equality in the United States. Participants will learn about the grant process, challenges and highlights from the events, and lessons learned through collaboration. In addition to the films and their follow-up discussions, the libraries offered supplemental programming and used social media to garner more publicity and generate more discussion for these events. We will discuss the in-person methods and media outlets used to keep the conversation about civil rights going on our respective campuses, and will discuss how outreach and social media factored in the evaluation of our efforts and the planning for future programming.
Presented by Andrew Walsh on 1/9/19 at Sinclair Community College: Learn about the history of Dayton, including the lost residential neighborhoods that occupied what is now Sinclair and about the exciting projects that are transforming downtown!
Wikipedia Loves Art 2009 and Britain Loves Wikipedia 2010Nadia Arbach
A look at the Wikipedia Loves Art (2009) and Britain Loves Wikipedia (2010) events, and an analysis of how museums and Wikipedia worked together on these projects. See http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI for an audio file of the presentation.
Gathered Together: A Survey of the Unique and Distinct Collections held by CONULElaine Harrington
In 2015 the CONUL Collections, Preservation & Conservation Sub-Committee began a survey of Unique and Distinct Collections across the CONUL Libraries, with the aim to identify the size of the UDC’s, their age ranges, their accessibility via records and digital surrogate, and their preservation need. With this data we hope to promote the cultural and scholarly value of the collections, and to open discussion about collaborative work packages. Synergies, complementarity and overlaps run through all our libraries where collectively we tell the story of Ireland, its history, its people, and their preoccupations. This paper will present some of the highlights from our survey which we hope will lead to joint projects to expose our rich and valuable resources in new and innovative ways, and provide for their continued preservation.
Using a University film archive and Questions of Opulence: Perception of Wome...ablwr
Two presentations in one:
Moving Image Research Collections, or
“We have a film archive?”
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Questions of Opulence: Perception of Women's Bodies Within Roaring Twenties Newsreels
Presented by Andrew Walsh on 1/9/19 at Sinclair Community College: Learn about the history of Dayton, including the lost residential neighborhoods that occupied what is now Sinclair and about the exciting projects that are transforming downtown!
Wikipedia Loves Art 2009 and Britain Loves Wikipedia 2010Nadia Arbach
A look at the Wikipedia Loves Art (2009) and Britain Loves Wikipedia (2010) events, and an analysis of how museums and Wikipedia worked together on these projects. See http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI for an audio file of the presentation.
Gathered Together: A Survey of the Unique and Distinct Collections held by CONULElaine Harrington
In 2015 the CONUL Collections, Preservation & Conservation Sub-Committee began a survey of Unique and Distinct Collections across the CONUL Libraries, with the aim to identify the size of the UDC’s, their age ranges, their accessibility via records and digital surrogate, and their preservation need. With this data we hope to promote the cultural and scholarly value of the collections, and to open discussion about collaborative work packages. Synergies, complementarity and overlaps run through all our libraries where collectively we tell the story of Ireland, its history, its people, and their preoccupations. This paper will present some of the highlights from our survey which we hope will lead to joint projects to expose our rich and valuable resources in new and innovative ways, and provide for their continued preservation.
Using a University film archive and Questions of Opulence: Perception of Wome...ablwr
Two presentations in one:
Moving Image Research Collections, or
“We have a film archive?”
&
Questions of Opulence: Perception of Women's Bodies Within Roaring Twenties Newsreels
Museum as Platform: Envisioning Visitors as Creators & ContributorsEffie Kapsalis
The session at the American Alliance of Museums in 2009 explored online museum projects that encourage visitors to be creators and contributors in the online museum exhibit. This presentation is about the Smithsonian Photography Initiative's project, click! photography changes everything (www.click.si.edu). Other presenters included:
Matthew Fisher, president Night Kitchen Interactive (www.whatscookin.com)
Danielle Rice, Executive Director, Delaware Art Museum, Art of Storytelling website (http://www.artofstorytelling.org/)
Bill Adair, Director of the Heritage Philadelphia Program for The Pew Charitable Trusts, Rosenbach Museum's 21st Century Abe project (www.21stcenturyabe.org/)
SXSW 2016 - Give It Away to Get Rich: Open Cultural HeritageEffie Kapsalis
A presentation by Effie Kapsalis, Shana Kimbal, & Shyam Oberoi at SXSW interactive. Open content, open access; what do these things mean? Over 50 galleries, libraries, archives, and museums have pursued open access with permissions to reuse over the last decade, to a varying degree, removing technical and copyright barriers to their public domain collections. With a decade of practice under the belts of these early adopters, we can better understand the impact of open initiatives on several fronts: Brand, Finances, Public engagement, Institutional Relevance, Mission, Organizational Culture, and Staffing.
Metrics, Metrics, Everywhere: Choosing the Right Ones for Your Website and So...Effie Kapsalis
#MWXX Workshop
Brian Alpert, Smithsonian Institution, USA, Sarah Banks, Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, USA, Erin Marie Blasco, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, USA, Effie Kapsalis, Smithsonian Institution Archives, USA
From the web’s earliest days, digital professionals have been pressed to demonstrate that their online efforts were contributing to their organizations, whether by increased revenue, a more finely-honed brand identity, or the profound ability to enhance their mission via content delivery to anyone with a browser. Along comes social media, connecting millions in ways never before possible, disrupting the landscape and breathing new life into the questions: “Why is this important and how do we know it’s working?” Today’s landscape is a splintered collection of new channels, inscrutable metrics, and a dizzying array of tools offering a dizzying range of possibilities with which to answer the classic question, “What do I measure?” and its first cousin, “What does that have to do with our program?”
Join Smithsonian’s Brian Alpert, Sarah Banks, Erin Blasco and Effie Kapsalis as they work with participants to refine and articulate this conversation through a series of examples, case studies and recommendations. In addition to presenting a manageable, common sense approach to selecting metrics and extending the web analytics process to social media, examples will demonstrate how metrics served to support organizational goals and what tools proved most useful. Brian will present the process for measuring websites and social media in terms of your goals. He will also discuss the ongoing conversion to Google’s “Universal” code, the “User ID” feature, and discuss what changes are in store for ALL Google Analytics users. Effie and Erin will present case studies showing this process in action, illustrating how their approaches to social media, website and mobile measurement are mapped to specific goals. Erin will lead a group exercise that will bring participants closer to the actual process steps and definitions, and Sarah will talk about Google Analytics for mobile apps and show a framework she devised to help measure a museum’s impact through its social media outreach.
2009 presentation at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Pre-Conference on the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum. Located in Culver City, CA, MCLM holds African Americana including rare books, manuscripts, photographs, motion pictures, ephemera, and art.
Two presentations from the OSTI-Con Conference (7/24 & 7/25, Fort Worth, Texas)
Bringing the Smithsonian to You—Full STEAM Ahead!
Did you know the Smithsonian isn’t just one museum—it’s 19 museums, 9 research centers and the National Zoo? Join Smithsonian educators as they showcase the variety of different online programs and STEAM resources available to K-12 mentors, teachers, students and their families. We'll look at how the Smithsonian examines content themes from an interdisciplinary lens and how to incorporate these tools into your programming.
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Smithsonian Quests—Connecting Youth with the Smithsonian through Digital Badges
The Smithsonian’s digital badging program offers students a way to explore their interests, build skills and try out new roles through project based-learning activities, called “Quests”. In this session, we’ll explore the interdisciplinary online program and learn more about digital badging as a larger ecosystem of online learning.
Digital Programs & Initiatives @ Smithsonian Libraries: Scholarly Communicati...Martin Kalfatovic
Digital Programs & Initiatives @ Smithsonian Libraries: Scholarly Communications | Digital Library | Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Presentation for the National Library of Medicine Staff. Smithsonian Libraries. Washington, DC. 9 June 2017
CUNY Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2013 Frans Albarillo
In a time when many students begin their research by Googling and turning to Wikipedia, valuable, authoritative content is often overlooked. Archival material is difficult to identify, find, and search on the Internet because only a small portion of this material has been digitized or have finding aids.
CUNY libraries subscribe to hundreds of research databases that give full-text access to peer-reviewed scholarly articles and full-length academic books. Moreover, the libraries have built unique collections of original documents that support historical and other kinds of research. These collections provide especially rich resources for students and faculty who are interested in researching topics on diversity and multiculturalism. In addition to peer-reviewed journals, libraries in CUNY provide access to a wide variety of resources such as archival material and specialized library databases. The library faculty and staff who develop these collections are experts at identifying hard to find resources that might otherwise go undetected.
The main purpose of this presentation will be to convey the depth and the richness of diversity-related special collections in CUNY schools, which faculty, students and staff may not be aware exists. This presentation celebrates the same values as the newly approved Association of College and Research Libraries Diversity Standards, which provides diversity guidelines for academic libraries. In particular this presentation is concerned with Standard 4, which states:
Librarians and library staff shall develop collections and provide programs and services that are inclusive of the needs of all persons in the community the library serves. (ACRL 2012 http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/diversity)
CUNY’s libraries live up to this standard by providing a wide array of resources that support student and faculty research in topics that involve diversity, gender, cultural, LGBT, and multilingual issues.
In the first half of this 45-minute presentation, Professor Albarillo will give a short overview of general services that library special collections provide, focusing on the types of materials these departments collect, and the unique opportunities they provide for students to become familiar with and to use primary resources for class projects. Professor Albarillo will focus on archives and special collections that are part of CUNY and will identify papers and archival material of diverse individuals and organizations available in library special collections throughout the system.
A Quick Guide to Gaming Teen Interest in HistoryEffie Kapsalis
A lightening talk presentation by Effie Kapsalis, Smithsonian Institution Archives, and Kellian Adams, Green Door Labs, on a live mystery game developed for the Smithsonian's Castle. Part scavenger hunt, part escape room, the Smithsonian worked with teens to co-design the game concept and storyline. The pilot game ran during Summer 2017 in Washington D.C. Here are some lessons learned.
In this session, we explored effective ways to create more inclusive dialog around American history regardless of whether or not an organization’s primary purpose is to capture the history of minority Americans. Speakers included Effie Kapsalis, Smithsonian Institution Archives, and Lanae Spruce, Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The Impact of Open Collections...and What's NextEffie Kapsalis
Delivered at the Europeana AGM 2016, the presentation looks at the impact of open collections and the need to further these programs with accessibility and relevance efforts.
Rethinking Evaluation Metrics in Light of Flickr Commons: The Smithsonian Ins...Effie Kapsalis
This presentation examined how several institutions on Flickr Commons – the Library of Congress, the Powerhouse Museum, the Smithsonian, New York Public Library, and Cornell University Library – are navigating the concept of evaluation in an emerging arena where compelling statistics are often qualitative, difficult to gather, and ever-changing. The joint presentation looked at how these different institutions managed metrics and evaluation in highly collaborative Web spaces.
Rethinking Evaluation Metrics in Light of Flickr Commons: The Smithsonian Ins...
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1. Smithsonian on the Flickr Commons Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag, 1900, National Postal Museum
2. Background Launched June 2008 1,980 images contributed 22 photo sets 10-25 images contributed every two weeks Portrait of Albert Einstein and Others (1879-1955), Smithsonian Institution Libraries
4. 45 National & International Flickr Commons Members Library of Congress State Library of New South Wales Library of Virginia State Library of Queensland, Australia DC Public Library The National Archives UK The National Archives USA Texas State Archives Getty Research Institute Swedish National Heritage Board New York Public Library Cornell University Library Brooklyn Museum Portrait of Felix Nadar (1820-1910), Prior to 1910, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
16. Smithsonian Institution LibrariesTennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: The seven scientists asked to testify for the defense standing in front of the Defense Mansion, 1925, Smithsonian Institution Archives
17. How SIA Manages Process OCIObatchuploads images using EDAN and FlickrAPI Untitled, Anacostia Community Museum
18. Original Goals 1 Increase public knowledge of and access to the Smithsonian’s digital collections 2 Develop a Smithsonian online community 3 Encourage use and re-use 4 Improve public outreach The Eagle Nebula (M16), 2001, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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20. Nearly 8000 FlickrfriendsGramma loreto, Adult (Royal Gramma), 2002, National Museum of Natural History, Division of Fishes
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22. Successes: Information “The person on the top right is Mr. P. B. Shekar, former collections specialist at the Bombay Natural History Society and a regular camp member of many expeditions by Dr. Ripley in India. Mr. Shekar would have many a splendid tale to speak of about the Ripley expeditions and someone from the Smithsonian should probably get in touch with him at the BNHS and record the stories.” - Flickr user, bharatbhushan@yahoo.com
23. Successes: Power Users/Researchers Penny L. Richards , research scholar affiliated with UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women and serves on the board of the Disability History Association
25. “Here she is in the 1920 Central High School yearbook - I think we have a match!” - Flickr user, rockcreek “I think she may have been an artist, rather than a scientist - from the 7/27/1924 Washington Post.” - Flickr user, rockcreek “Hello, this is my grandmother, Ida Elizabeth Sabin. Brenda Anderson's post is about my family and Rockcreek is correct about her being an art student. She was an illustrator for a science magazine. please let me know what information, if any that you would like about the Sabin, Goodwin family.” - Linda Goodwin Eisenstadt Flickr user, linstadt