Investigating the Potential of Deaccessioning as a Tool for Public Archaeology Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-427
Author(s):  
Jenna Domeischel ◽  
Tawnya Waggle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Educational Programming ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Similar Program ◽  
The Creation

ABSTRACTIn the United States, deaccessioning is a poorly understood collections management tool. Archaeologists often view deaccessioning with what Robert Sonderman called “primal fear,” and this fear has caused them to overlook the opportunities that deaccessioned artifacts and collections may provide in the area of public archaeology education. Although deaccessioning without checks and balances can be problematic, when done properly and ethically, it offers previously untapped resources to the creation of educational programming, such as teaching trunk programs. This article discusses the process of deaccessioning and suggests that deaccessioned artifacts may be useful as content for teaching trunk programs. We discuss a case study from our own institution, where we implemented a trunk program in 2016 that was largely stocked with material from a deaccession we had performed the previous year. We also offer suggestions for anyone wishing to implement a similar program.

scholarly journals The Brown Family archive : assigning intellectual order & physical arrangement to a private photographic collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Whitney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
The United States ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Lake County ◽  
Historical Societies ◽  
National Bank

This project focuses on the methodology of assigning intellectual and physical arrangement to private family photographic collections. I selected the Brown Family Archive as a case study, working directly with the Brown Family and Lake County Historical Museum in Crown Point, Indiana. The collection brings together photographs and related artifacts from the Civil War, the First National Bank of Crown Point, Indiana, and several interrelated families. The size and scope of the collection is analagous to many family collections. It is historically and culturally significant due to its visual documentation of a sociological milieu in the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. Equally important, the photographs offer insight ito the widespread problem of deterioration due to improper housing, mishandling, and chemical break down. Through research and best practices in photographic preservation and collections management, the project delivers a model for use by family historians, museums, historical societies and libraries.

If You Build It, They Will Come

2018 ◽  
pp. 177-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M Horne-Popp ◽  
Elisabeth Bliese Tessone ◽  
Joshua Welker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Library Assessment ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University ◽  
Assessment Activities

Like many academic libraries throughout the United States, the James C. Kirkpatrick Library at the University of Central Missouri has increasingly documented its impact on the university and its students. A library statistics dashboard tool was developed internally to assist with increased assessment activities. The Information Technology Librarian and the Library Assessment Team collaborated to create the dashboard tool. This case study discusses the impetus for developing the tool and provides a detailed explanation of the creation and testing of the dashboard. The chapter also describes the outcomes of using the dashboard tool in the library's assessment activities, along with recommendations for how other libraries may develop similar tools and skills within their organizations.

scholarly journals Poetry of the Colorado Miners: 1903-1906

2014 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Dan Tannacito
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Nonferrous Metal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Working Class Literature ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Surrounding Areas

The poetry published in the Miners Magazine during the first decade of this century provides us with an illuminating case study of the characteristics and development of working-class literature in the United States. The creation of poetry by nonferrous metal miners in Colorado and surrounding areas illustrates the need for expression, affirmation, and communication on the part of the workers themselves and their allies during times of struggle.

scholarly journals The digital exhibition defined: The M.O. Hammond Collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Anne Bognar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Insight Into

This thesis consists of a digital exhibition presented online at: http://ppcm2017-hammondexhibition.myfreesites.net/. This digital exhibition is used as a case study for the written component. As such it outlines the criteria that attempt to define digital and virtual exhibitions in 2017. The case study is analyzed alongside research from cultural and historical institutions and interviews with professionals in Canada and the United States. These interviews and research provide insight into how different institutions approach the worldwide interest of digital exhibitions. This thesis not only examines the criteria of digital exhibitions but also analyzes the success of the case study created for this project. Appendices included in this thesis outline the digitization process, image selection information, web text and layout used during the creation of the case study digital exhibition.

scholarly journals The digital exhibition defined: The M.O. Hammond Collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Anne Bognar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Insight Into

This thesis consists of a digital exhibition presented online at: http://ppcm2017-hammondexhibition.myfreesites.net/. This digital exhibition is used as a case study for the written component. As such it outlines the criteria that attempt to define digital and virtual exhibitions in 2017. The case study is analyzed alongside research from cultural and historical institutions and interviews with professionals in Canada and the United States. These interviews and research provide insight into how different institutions approach the worldwide interest of digital exhibitions. This thesis not only examines the criteria of digital exhibitions but also analyzes the success of the case study created for this project. Appendices included in this thesis outline the digitization process, image selection information, web text and layout used during the creation of the case study digital exhibition.

The Creation of the Federal Census by the Constitution of the United States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Schor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Free Blacks ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Law ◽  
Free People ◽  
Us Census

This chapter discusses the creation of the federal census. The US census was created to put into operation the system of checks and balances. It attributed to each state through apportionment, a number of representatives in proportion to its population as well as a level of tax contribution, while the Three-Fifths Compromise required that slaves be counted as less than free people. The first US census took place in 1790, framed by a law passed by Congress, the First Census Act. This law inaugurated a tradition that continued up to the census of 1930: the list, the order, and the text of the questions on the schedules followed the text of the law, which meant that Congress played a central role in the preparation of the census. It added to the distinction of status (free or slave) a distinction of color to distinguish free blacks from whites.

scholarly journals The Brown Family archive : assigning intellectual order & physical arrangement to a private photographic collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Whitney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
The United States ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Lake County ◽  
Historical Societies ◽  
National Bank

This project focuses on the methodology of assigning intellectual and physical arrangement to private family photographic collections. I selected the Brown Family Archive as a case study, working directly with the Brown Family and Lake County Historical Museum in Crown Point, Indiana. The collection brings together photographs and related artifacts from the Civil War, the First National Bank of Crown Point, Indiana, and several interrelated families. The size and scope of the collection is analagous to many family collections. It is historically and culturally significant due to its visual documentation of a sociological milieu in the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. Equally important, the photographs offer insight ito the widespread problem of deterioration due to improper housing, mishandling, and chemical break down. Through research and best practices in photographic preservation and collections management, the project delivers a model for use by family historians, museums, historical societies and libraries.

Gendered differences in emigration and mobility perspectives among European researchers working abroad

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Highly Skilled

This paper focuses on gendered mobilities of highly skilled researchers working abroad. It is based on an empirical qualitative study that explored the mobility aspirations of Austrian scientists who were working in the United States at the time they were interviewed. Supported by a case study, the paper demonstrates how a qualitative research strategy including graphic drawings sketched by the interviewed persons can help us gain a better understanding of the gendered importance of social relations for the future mobility aspirations of scientists working abroad.

‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

2015 ◽  
Vol 36-37 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
National Museums ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document