scholarly journals Overcoming Legacy Processing in Photographic Collections through Collaboration and Digital Technologies

Collections ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-150
Author(s):  
Terri Holtze ◽  
Rachel Howard ◽  
Randy Kuehn ◽  
Rebecca Pattillo ◽  
Elizabeth Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Local History ◽  
Organizational Decision Making ◽  
Original Order ◽  
University Of Louisville ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University ◽  
Application Developers

In the 1960s, a Louisville photography studio began donating its negatives, prints, and invoices to the University of Louisville Photographic Archives. The Caufield & Shook collection remains a significant primary source for local history and a prime candidate for digitization. Unfortunately, on its receipt, nonarchivists processed the collection with little documentation of original order or organizational decision making. Additionally, workflow choices were determined largely by the desire to maximize student labor. In 2017, the digital initiatives librarian worked with in-house application developers and archives staff to create a workflow that has significantly sped up the process of making this valuable photographic collection accessible online. This article describes how archivists recovered from the poor processing decisions, used technology to enhance the digitization workflow, and developed a list of best practices for future processing and digitization of large photographic collections.

scholarly journals Digitization of historical wind speed observations at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Engström ◽  
Cesar Azorin-Molina ◽  
Lennart Wern ◽  
Sverker Hellström ◽  
Christophe Sturm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Wind Speed Data ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

<p>This contribution presents the first work package (WP1) of the project “Assessing centennial wind speed variability from a historical weather data rescue project in Sweden”, funded by FORMAS – A Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (ref. 2019-00509); previously reported in EGU2019-17792-1. Under a warming climate, one of the major uncertainties on the causes driving the climate variability of winds over land (i.e., the “stilling” phenomenon and the recent “recovery” since the 2010s) is mainly due to short availability (i.e. since the 1960s) and low quality of observed wind records as stated by the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).</p><p>In this study we present the first steps of a joint initiative between the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) and the University of Gothenburg aimed at filling the key gap of short availability and low quality of wind datasets, and improve the limited knowledge on the causes driving wind speed variability in a changing climate across Sweden. The aim of the WP1 is to rescue historical wind speed series available in the old weather archives at SMHI for the 1920s-1930s. 13 stations with daily wind speed data (in meters per second) during the period 1925-1938 have been selected for digitization; i.e., spanning back our records 2 decades more. To get wind observations from paper to screen we will follow the “Guidelines on Best Practices for Climate Data Rescue” of the World Meteorological Organization. Our protocol will consist on (i) designing a template for digitization; (ii) digitizing papers by an imaging process based on scanning and photographs; and (iii) typing numbers of wind speed data into the template. WP2 will ensure the quality and homogeneity of wind speed series rescued.</p>

scholarly journals The Katipunan Movement in CEBU: Significance to the Philippine Struggle for Independence

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 195-202
Author(s):  
Rex Argate ◽  
Delfin T. Cabañero ◽  
Harline L. Barcoso
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Local History ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
National History ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Informal Interview ◽  
Main Instrument ◽  
The University ◽  
San Carlos

The study focused on the Katipunan movement in the province of Cebu and its significance to the Philippine struggle for independence. This qualitative research utilized a historical research approach in gathering and analyzing historical evidence.   The primary source of data of this study was the research informants.  These informants were chosen based on their knowledge of the study. Likewise, the Cebuano Studies Center of the University of San Carlos, Cebu Historical Association Office, Patria de Cebu Archives, and the Historical Association of Cebu (HACE) Office were utilized as sources of data.  Books and articles written by expert historians, as evidence of past conditions were also used as secondary sources of data. The main instrument of the study was the researcher and the key informants.  However, an informal interview guide with open-ended questions was utilized to aid the researcher. This research was able to ascertain that national history is a product of local history, and that local history provides the foundation and the substance of our true national history; two, the Cebuano Katipunan was patterned after and influenced by Manila, especially in its organizational structure and objectives; third, though influenced by Manila, the Katipunan in Cebu was a struggle of the Cebuanos and some leaders from other parts of the Visayas in the name of independence of the Philippines from Spain (the credits of its victory must be given to Cebuanos and not to the Tagalogs); fourth, women contributed a lot to the success of the Cebuano uprising; fifth, the Cebuanos fought with little else but bravery; some Cebuano secular priests were not passive spectators in Cebuano uprising, and the Katipunan movement in Cebu was an integral part of the national struggle for independence in the annals of Philippine history.

scholarly journals Digital Shakespeare Is Neither Good Nor Bad, But Teaching Makes It So

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Jim Casey
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Critical Interpretation ◽  
The University

Digital Shakespeare is all around us: mobile apps, YouTube videos, online “participatory cultures,” electronic playtexts, web-based educational materials, even Shakespeare-themed videogames. But how do these resources intersect with the teaching of Shakespeare in the university classroom? In particular, how might digital technologies aid or impede the effective teaching of close reading and critical interpretation in relation to Shakespeare? Rather than discussing the various creative and interactive platforms and media available to the Shakespeare instructor, this essay focuses on recent studies exploring the consequences of using e-readers and other digital devices on individual brains in order to present (1) the demonstrably negative impact of “multitasking” on student learning, (2) the potentially damaging effects of using e-readers and e-texts in the Shakespeare classroom, and (3) suggestions regarding the best practices for teaching students to engage with complex texts like the works of Shakespeare.

Native Americans and the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
LaNada War Jack
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Third World ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The University

The author reflects on her personal experience as a Native American at UC Berkeley in the 1960s as well as on her activism and important leadership roles in the 1969 Third World Liberation Front student strike, which had as its goal the creation of an interdisciplinary Third World College at the university.

scholarly journals Challenges for Change Agents. Best Practices at the University Library of Freie Universität Berlin

ABI-Technik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-364
Author(s):  
Martin Lee ◽  
Christina Riesenweber
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Large Change ◽  
University Library ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe authors of this article have been managing a large change project at the university library of Freie Universität Berlin since January 2019. At the time of writing this in the summer of 2020, the project is about halfway completed. With this text, we would like to give some insight into our work and the challenges we faced, thereby starting conversations with similar undertakings in the future.

Library Impact Practice Brief: Freshman Fellows: Implementing and Assessing a First-Year Primary-Source Research Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Burri ◽  
Joshua Everett ◽  
Heidi Herr ◽  
Jessica Keyes
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
First Year ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
College Career ◽  
Library Impact ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Impact Framework

This practice brief describes the assessment project undertaken by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University as part of the library’s participation in ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative to address the question “(How) do the library’s special collections specifically support and promote teaching, learning, and research?” The research team investigated how the Freshman Fellows experience impacted the fellows’ studies and co-curricular activities at the university. Freshmen Fellows, established in 2016, is a signature opportunity to expose students to primary-source collections early in their college career by pairing four fellows with four curators on individual research projects. The program graduated its first cohort of fellows in spring 2020. The brief includes a semi-structured interview guide, program guidelines, and a primary research rubric.

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