Bringing Stories to Life by Sharing Archival Material

Last summer I researched the experiences of women at Gettysburg College during the pivotal decade 1965-1975 with the support of a college grant, the Koble Fellowship, a ten-week humanities based faculty-mentored research project. I tracked women\u27s experiences at the college during this period and designed a digital scholarship project to share their stories. As a history major and as a feminist, a project about the history of women and their activism on campus nicely complemented by interests. (excerpt

Privacy, Restriction, and Access: Legal and Ethical Dilemmas

This paper examines the intersection of privacy and access in archival repositories. Archival repositories are well known for containing restricted material, and for protecting the privacy of the donors. This literature review examines the need for restricted material from both legal and ethical standpoints, as well as discussing culturally sensitive materials while determining what archives and libraries can do to protect both themselves and their donors while enhancing accessibility and freedom of information

Provenance research and Perseverance: the testimony of an archivist

Since the early 1990s elaborated research on looted WWII cultural assets has mainly focused on the war period and the immediate post-war years. The purpose was obvious and practical: documenting and facilitating restitution claims. When we examine archival restitutions so far we can conclude that important results have been achieved. But this should not prevent us from evaluating our approach and deepening our research. It is clear that our quest is far from finished. Cooperatively with archivists from the countries whose archival material remain, the contribution of colleagues in the archival institutions concerned could be vital to opening new perspectives and to create possibilities for further research and international co-operation. The Russian archival administration and the archivists in the former Osobyi archive in Moscow have failed to do so. Now the international community must take on the responsibility. The enforcement of this steady process will depend on the joint efforts of archivists from East and West and will need to be based on international law and universal archival principles and practices. The main purpose of my contribution is to indicate the importance, the relevancy and the practical feasibility of such a joint scientific and archival task

Technical Report for “When People Estimate their Personal Intelligence Who Is Overconfident? Who is Accurate?”

The Technical Supplement includes additional information about the article “Who Believes they are High in Personal Intelligence.” The Supplement is organized such that material follows the organization of the article, with the exception that group-wise analyses—i.e., analyses based on median splits of the archival samples on the Test of Personal Intelligence and Self-Estimated Personal Intelligence, are in their own Appendix owing to the considerable length of that material

Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Manajemen Kearsipan Berbasis Metode Demonstrasi untuk Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Mahasiswa

The objectives of this research are as follows: (1) to produce the demonstration method-based Archival Management learning material; and (2) to investigate the effectiveness of the demonstration method-based Archival Management learning material to improve the students' learning achievement.This study used the demonstration-based research and development (R&D) method. The measure (syntax) used in this research was the one claimed by Sugiyono. The subjects for the field experimentation were the students as many as 38 of the Study Program of Office Administration, the Faculty of Economics, State University of Malang, Offering( Class) R of 2011, who were taking the course of Archival Management. The data of research were validated by three experts, namely: textbook expert, language expert, and learning material expert.The development of learning material for the demonstration method-based Archival Management uses the R&D model claimed by Sugiyono. Its characteristics are as follows: it uses chart images, pictures or photos which resemble archival articles/materials/devices/equipment so that the students are easy to study the learning materials on the main topic of discussion of Incoming and Outgoing Mail Handling, and Archival Systems of Mail Numbers and Dates. The result of questionnaire validations by the textbook, language, and learning material experts shows that the average percentage is 95%, meaning that in general the learning material of Archival Management is valid or can be used effectively. The students' pre-test score is 68.05. Following the application of the developed learning material, the average score becomes 80.63. This proves that the use of the demonstration method-based Archival Management learning material can effectively improve the students' learning result. In addition, the result of hypothesis testing i.e. zero hypothesis (Ho) which reads “The use of the demonstration method-based Archival Management learning material in the teaching and learning process is worse than or similar to the other learning methods in improving the students' learning result.” is rejected. This means that the demonstration method-based Archival Management learning material can effectively improve the students' learning result

The supernova impostor PSN J09132750+7627410 and its progenitor

We report the results of our follow-up campaign of the supernova impostor PSN J09132750+7627410, based on optical data covering $\sim250\,\rm{d}$. From the beginning, the transient shows prominent narrow Balmer lines with P-Cygni profiles, with a blue-shifted absorption component becoming more prominent with time. Along the $\sim3\,\rm{months}$ of the spectroscopic monitoring, broad components are never detected in the hydrogen lines, suggesting that these features are produced in slowly expanding material. The transient reaches an absolute magnitude $M_r=-13.60\pm0.19\,\rm{mag}$ at maximum, a typical luminosity for supernova impostors. Amateur astronomers provided $\sim4\,\rm{years}$ of archival observations of the host galaxy, NGC 2748. The detection of the quiescent progenitor star in archival images obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope suggests it to be an $18-20$\msun white-yellow supergiant.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, supplemental material available in the source file. Accepted for publication on Astrophysical Journal Letter

What Produced the Ultraluminous Supernova Remnant in NGC 6946?

The ultraluminous supernova remnant (SNR) in NGC 6946 is the brightest known SNR in X-rays, ~1000 times brighter than Cas A. To probe the nature of this remnant and its progenitor, we have obtained high-dispersion optical echelle spectra. The echelle spectra detect H-alpha, [N II], and [O III] lines, and resolve these lines into a narrow (FWHM ~20--40 km/s) component from un-shocked material and a broad (FWHM ~250 km/s) component from shocked material. Both narrow and broad components have unusually high [N II]/H-alpha ratios, ~1. Using the echelle observation, archival HST images, and archival ROSAT X-ray observations, we conclude that the SNR was produced by a normal supernova, whose progenitor was a massive star, either a WN star or a luminous blue variable. The high luminosity of the remnant is caused by the supernova ejecta expanding into a dense, nitrogen-rich circumstellar nebula created by the progenitor.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures. To be published in The Astronomical Journal, March 200