Streaming the Archives: Repurposing Systems to Jumpstart a Media Digitization Program

Presenting lessons learned by the archives at Central Washington University during the first year of its new media digitization program. This poster, presented in 2015 at ACRL\u27s national conference, demonstrates how the archives jumpstarted its program by using available systems--an institutional repository and cloud-based streaming service--to disseminate digitized media. The poster presents advantages and disadvantages uncovered while using these repurposed systems, including consequences for metadata, workflow, interoperability, and discoverability

\u27\u27I Want My Agency Moved Back ... , My Dear White Sisters : Discourses on Yakama Reservation Reform, 1920s-1930s

This article discusses the multiple, competing discourses surrounding the relocation of the Yakima Indian Agency during the 1920s-1930s. Specifically, it considers whether Yakama Indians were able to exercise agency in their fight against government officials and businessmen during the relocation debate, and how they did so by appropriating the discourse of the women\u27s clubs in the Pacific Northwest. As an entry point to these discourses, the article uses the work of a particular women, Margaret Splawn, who stood at the nexus between business, women\u27s club, and indigenous interests in her West

Open Access and the Theological Imagination

The past twenty years have witnessed a mounting crisis in academic publishing. Companies such as Reed-Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, and Taylor and Francis have earned unprecedented profits by controlling more and more scholarly output while increasing subscription rates to academic journals. Thus publishers have consolidated their influence despite widespread hopes that digital platforms would disperse control over knowledge production. Open access initiatives dating back to the mid-1990s evidence a religious zeal for overcoming corporate interests in academic publishing, with key advocates branding their efforts as archivangelism. Little attention has been given to the legacy or implications of religious rhetoric in open access debates despite its increasing pitch in recent years. This essay shows how the Protestant imaginary reconciles–rather than opposes–open access initiatives with market economics by tracing the rhetoric of openness to free-market liberalism. Working against the tendency to accept the Reformation as an analogy for the relationship between knowledge production, publishers, and academics, we read Protestantism as a counterproductive element of the archivangelist inheritance

Building a Community of Practice: Strategies Developed by Librarians in the SPARC OpenEd Leadership Program

Do you want to know how other universities develop their OER initiatives? This panel of five librarians will discuss their participation in the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program, a two-semester professional development experience aimed at building expertise and capacity to advance open education in academic libraries, and how it helped shape the development of OER initiatives at their institutions. Over two semesters, the program blends online, peer-to-peer, and project-based learning opportunities to develop participants into subject matter experts with the practical know-how to advance open education initiatives on their campuses. The panelists will discuss how their participation in the SPARC OpenEd Leadership Program has helped them actualize their visions of an OER initiative at each of their respective institutions. Participants will leave the panel with replicable strategies for effectively communicating with other Open Education coordinators, building an OER knowledge base for their institution, and utilizing methods for developing their own OER initiative. The course content developed for the SPARC program, which is published and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution license, will be shared, as well as strategies for how they can be used by practitioners outside of the program. The SPARC OpenEd Leadership Program started in August 2017 with a pilot cohort of 14 fellows selected from SPARC member libraries. Pilot fellows were both students and creators, helping to evaluate and improve the curriculum along the way. Moving forward, the program will accept a cohort of fellows each year, who upon successful completion will receive a certificate and the title of SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow. Whether you’re interested in applying for the 2018-2019 SPARC Open Education Leadership Program or want to build your own learning community, this panel will provide you with ideas for how you can move forward in your OER project development. Strategies will be scalable for different initiatives, from building small OER outreach efforts to expanding upon an already established program. This panel is intended to support OER Coordinators and librarians, but other individuals are welcome to attend to learn about how programs like the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program could support projects underway at their own institutions

Registering with SHARE

This lightning talk will describe recent activity surrounding SHARE—an open dataset supported by the Association of Research Libraries and the Center for Open Science. SHARE is working to aggregate metadata found in institutional and disciplinary repositories in order to improve discovery and access to scholarly research. This presentation will cover how to register a repository with SHARE, and will summarize projects recently undertaken as part of the SHARE Curation Associates program of 2016-2017

Disability, Race, Class, and Gender in Seventh-day Adventist Health Publications, 1880-1910

This article examines discourses in early Seventh-day Adventist health publications with particular attention to the ways that disability played into discussions of vegetarianism. In the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, the Adventist church was at the forefront of conversations in western countries about the value of a meat-free diet. During this time, Adventist health publications made or echoed a variety of arguments in support of vegetarian eating. Pervasive in these arguments were ableist tropes calculated to show how vegetarianism equated to youth, physical stamina, beauty, and intellectual superiority. This rhetoric effectively used disability to craft a vision of vegetarians as white, upwardly mobile people who conformed to traditional gender roles. Disability thus served to demarcate insiders from outsiders by underlining perceived differences between genders, races, and classes of people

My dear white sisters...I want my agency moved back : Female moral authority in the service of reservation reform, 1920s-1930s

From the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, the United States government shifted its policies regarding Native Americans, moving from assimilationism to recognition of tribal sovereignty. In the 1920s-1930s, a new generation of white reformers helped secure these changes by criticizing assimilationist policies initiated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Although nominally more culturally sensitive, these twentieth-century reformers have been accused of forcing their agendas onto Native-American communities without regard for their perspectives. This paper complicates such assumptions by demonstrating how Yakama Indians shaped reform efforts in central Washington state. In the 1920s, Yakama Indians turned to local women’s clubs for support in their protests against policies of the Yakama Indian Agency. They won the women’s support by appealing to their sense of moral authority in society. As a result, the two groups worked together to oppose particular policies of the BIA. Drawing on this history of cooperative protest, this paper contends that BIA officials and white male reformers cannot be credited with the totality of Indian policy reform. Rather, Native Americans and women—-groups frequently overlooked in histories on this subject—-played an important role in guiding local and national policy changes

Accessibility Case Studies for Scholarly Communication Librarians and Practitioners

The goal of this resource is to support scholarly communication librarians wanting to implement accessibility measures in their open access, open education, and open data initiatives.</p

Telling the story of the Disability March

This poster considers the Disability March (https://disabilitymarch.com) as an example of counter-narratives presented during the Women’s March of January 2017. The Disability March emerged as a digital space where women with disabilities could voice their opposition to the Trump administration following the president’s inauguration. Although the Women’s March embraced principles of democracy and inclusivity, the protest by and large failed to include the voices of disabled women, many of whom were physically unable to participate in the march. The Disability March responded by encouraging women to put forward their own narratives. On its face, the website thus presents a contrast to recent discussions about disabled people like Serge Kovaleski—the reporter whom Trump mocked during his campaign and whose crippled body became the symbol of leftist outrage. Kovaleski had no voice, either while being mocked by Trump or while inspiring anger in left-wing circles. In contrast, the Disability March website allowed women to present their stories using self-selected images, identifiers, and text. This poster uses brief discourse analysis to examine these narratives, and further to consider how these stories push back against prevailing stereotypes about disability