College Women: Documenting the Student Experience at the Seven Sisters Colleges

White Paper prepared for the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources as part of a grant for the College Women: Documenting the Student Experience at the Seven Sisters College

College Women: Documenting the Student Experience at the Seven Sisters Colleges

White Paper prepared for the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access, Humanities Collections and Reference Resources as part of a grant for the College Women: Documenting the Student Experience at the Seven Sisters College

Centering the community in liberal arts open source: reports on the work of the Islandora Collaboration Group and the Five College Consortium

Project briefing delivered at the Coalition for Networked Information meeting, December 2018

Crossing Institutional Boundaries to Create a Collaborative Digital Archives: The Collegewomen.org Project

The Collegewomen.org project is a collaborative effort by the colleges once known as the Seven Sisters to create a portal that brings together the institutions’ extensive collections of letters, diaries and scrapbooks that document the lives of the first generations of women to attend college. Funded by a planning grant from the NEH in 2014 and an implementation grant in 2016, the project aims to stimulate significant new work in women’s history and encourage a greater understanding of the role that women’s colleges played in advancing the position of women in American society. The session will examine both the work required to build and sustain a collaborative digital archive, the technical challenges to overcome in building a multi-institutional resource, and the additional outreach and supplemental content that is needed to make the digital archive a productive tool for research and teaching

Knowledge Management in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

KM principles often apply to large companies (more than 200 employees), where issues of general management and skill sets, as well as resources, often require comprehensive and multi-department solutions. However, many small businesses experience the same issues of knowledge sharing and management, but may find boundaries in the development and implementation of programs. How can small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) benefit from KM principles? What areas in the traditional literature immediately apply, and what boundaries arise? Often encompassing multiple roles, managerial practices, and efforts in microcosm, how can these smaller companies provide the structure and impact needed to make KM principles work for them? This work analyses the problems that small businesses face in the collection, dissemination, and storage of company knowledge, including issues of technology, communities of practice, and "stickiness" for best-practice goals. The definitions of small business, as outlined by the European Commission and U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), will serve as a useful tool for scope and discussion. This research will explore three key classifications of traits — structural or systemic, communication, and qualitative — through a review of the areas in which the challenges of small businesses, because of their size, imply somewhat different approaches to KM.Small business, small- and medium-sized enterprises, metrics, traits, communication

Making Islandora Work at the LAC-level

Islandora is an open-source repository platform that offers great flexibility and adaptability but also takes deep technical ability to maintain. Members of the Islandora Consortial Group (ICG) discussed what it takes to have a stable, usable Islandora instance, what you can do with it once you\u27ve got it, and how the ICG supports this work. Short presentations were offered with most of the session left free for questions and discussion

The Professional is personal : reflections on personal digital archiving day in four liberal arts colleges

When is the personal the professional? For faculty and students, spending countless hours researching, writing, and developing new ideas, the answer (only sometimes tongue-in-cheek) is “always:” digital archiving of their personal materials quickly turns into the creation of collections that can span multiple years, formats, subjects, and versions. Colleges and universities serve a unique set of users who produce a variety of digital materials for both their personal and professional life, which often overlap and provide different challenges. A student may want to save coursework, personal social media, and student club materials for long-term preservation. A faculty member may want to save research data, drafts of papers, and email correspondence. Staff may have similar issues with being able to organize various digital data across a department. This can become overwhelming and lead to mismanagement and loss of important data. In the library, we know well that “save” and “curate” are very different. What role can liberal arts college libraries play in helping our faculty and students curate and sustain their digital research materials and scholarly communication objects, and provide education and outreach to address all of these complexities? We have found that personal digital archiving events serve as an excellent conversation starter for each of these groups, uncovering a variety of different projects that can benefit from a stronger library partnership, while providing an opportunity to raise awareness about the challenges involved in sustaining digital materials long-term. Amherst, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, and Wheaton Colleges each held Personal Digital Archiving Days for students, faculty, and staff. This panel will introduce what each institution does for their Personal Digital Archiving Day and then follow with a moderated discussion about goals, outcomes, and further plans for comparison and feedback.Non UBCUnreviewedFacult

CONFERENCE REPORT: Code4Lib 2009

Conference reports from the 4th Code4Lib conference, held in Providence, RI from February 23 to 26, 2009. The Code4Lib conference is a collective volunteer effort of the informal Code4Lib community of library technologists. Included are four brief reports on the conference from the recipients of conference scholarships

Take back the archive; College women : a collaborative cross-institutional archives portal; Connecting users and IRs : personal archiving via Zotero

Take Back the Archive -- Drawing on research by Sadler and Bourg (2013), Olsen (2002; 2007), Reucker et. al. (2011) and others, this project update demonstrates working solutions for "rich prospect" and "generous" interfaces that also consider respectful representations of survivors of sexual violence. Imperative to the success of our project is the need to attend to the collection and presentation of our materials in ways that advocate for rape survivors and challenge a community of complacency and ignorance. Presenters: Purdom Linblad (University of Virginia) Co-author: Jeremy Boggs (University of Virginia). College Women: A Collaborative Cross-Institutional Archives Portal. -- Institutions are collaborating in order to pool resources as well as create new ways to discover collections through innovative digital scholarship projects. The College Women: Documenting the History of Women In Higher Education project brings together the extensive collections of letters, diaries, and scrapbooks created by students at the "Seven Sisters" colleges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and now held by Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley Colleges, and the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Our project update will examine our one-year pilot project process as well as next steps. Presenters: Rachel Appel (Bryn Mawr College), Joanna DiPasquale (Vassar College), Monica Mercado (Bryn Mawr College). Connecting Users and IRs: Personal Archiving via Zotero -- This project update shares forthcoming Zotero enhancements that will allow users to connect with their institutional repository (IR) and self-archive materials from within the Zotero interface. This functionality is currently being tested at Penn State University, and will be open source and available to other institutions employing Hydra-based IRs. The project is aimed towards bringing self-archiving into the user's personal workflow, as well as connecting the local IR with citation management software. Presenters: Ellysa Cahoy (Penn State University), Smiljana Antonijevic (Penn State University), Dawn Childress (University of California, Los Angeles)Non UBCUnreviewedFacultyResearcherPostdoctoralOthe