scholarly journals A Subject Index : The Canadian Architect Image Archive At Ryerson University Library's Special Collections

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Shoemaker
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Image Archive ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
User Access ◽  
Subject Indexing

The Canadian Architect Image Archive (1955-1990) was donated to Ryerson University Library's Special Collections in March 2009. Over the course of a year, the archive was catalogued and properly housed. This applied thesis project describes the process of subject indexing a photograph collection in order to provide easy user access and preservation of the archive. The two groups of photographs chosen as case studies are 'Toronto' and 'Quebec', and are the most commonly requested to use for research. This thesis provides a discussion of the context and methodology of subject indexing a unique photographic archive. The thesis contains an appendix with the two subject indexes, proposed subject index testing questionnaire, and an accompanying CD with the indexes in their full format.

scholarly journals A Subject Index : The Canadian Architect Image Archive At Ryerson University Library's Special Collections

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Shoemaker
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Image Archive ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
User Access ◽  
Subject Indexing

The Canadian Architect Image Archive (1955-1990) was donated to Ryerson University Library's Special Collections in March 2009. Over the course of a year, the archive was catalogued and properly housed. This applied thesis project describes the process of subject indexing a photograph collection in order to provide easy user access and preservation of the archive. The two groups of photographs chosen as case studies are 'Toronto' and 'Quebec', and are the most commonly requested to use for research. This thesis provides a discussion of the context and methodology of subject indexing a unique photographic archive. The thesis contains an appendix with the two subject indexes, proposed subject index testing questionnaire, and an accompanying CD with the indexes in their full format.

Managing visitor experiences in nature-based tourism

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Visitor Experiences ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
Tourism Destinations

Abstract This book on visitor experiences in nature-based tourism destinations demonstrates current knowledge using empirical evidence covering six continents. It provides insights into conceptual issues as well as case studies. Content is presented in three main parts: 'Nature-based Experiences in Tourism', 'Managing the Nature-based Tourism Experience' and 'Visitor Experiences and Destination Management'. The book has 16 chapters and a subject index.

scholarly journals Subject indexing in humanities: a comparison between a local university repository and an international bibliographic service

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 1193-1214
Author(s):  
Koraljka Golub ◽  
Jukka Tyrkkö ◽  
Joacim Hansson ◽  
Ida Ahlström
Keyword(s):  
Research Output ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Citation Database ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Index Terms ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Subject Indexing

PurposeAs the humanities develop in the realm of increasingly more pronounced digital scholarship, it is important to provide quality subject access to a vast range of heterogeneous information objects in digital services. The study aims to paint a representative picture of the current state of affairs of the use of subject index terms in humanities journal articles with particular reference to the well-established subject access needs of humanities researchers, with the purpose of identifying which improvements are needed in this context.Design/methodology/approachThe comparison of subject metadata on a sample of 649 peer-reviewed journal articles from across the humanities is conducted in a university repository, against Scopus, the former reflecting local and national policies and the latter being the most comprehensive international abstract and citation database of research output.FindingsThe study shows that established bibliographic objectives to ensure subject access for humanities journal articles are not supported in either the world's largest commercial abstract and citation database Scopus or the local repository of a public university in Sweden. The indexing policies in the two services do not seem to address the needs of humanities scholars for highly granular subject index terms with appropriate facets; no controlled vocabularies for any humanities discipline are used whatsoever.Originality/valueIn all, not much has changed since 1990s when indexing for the humanities was shown to lag behind the sciences. The community of researchers and information professionals, today working together on digital humanities projects, as well as interdisciplinary research teams, should demand that their subject access needs be fulfilled, especially in commercial services like Scopus and discovery services.

scholarly journals The picture press in archives: facing the institutional challenges of newspaper photo collections

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Lynn Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Photo Collections ◽  
Photo Collection ◽  
Institutional Challenges

Over the last few decades newspaper companies have either sold or donated large-scale photographic press archives to collecting institutions of all kinds. This paper explores the major challenges faced by museums, archives and libraries acquiring large scale press archives through two case studies carried out in 2018. The Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at York University acquired the photo collection of the Toronto Telegram in 1974 and 1987, and the Archives of Ontario acquired the Globe and Mail photo collection in 2016. Each institution has been forced to address the logistical issues of the physical and intellectual organization of these enormous collections while also dealing with the preservation problems specific to photographic archives. This paper looks at relevant literature, presents findings of my site visits as well as interviews with collections managers at the two institutions.

Women's Collections in Egypt: Insights into the American University in Cairo's Rare Books and Special Collections Library and the Women and Memory Forum's Archives

Collections ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-329
Author(s):  
Stephen Urgola ◽  
Maissan Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
American University ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Rare Books ◽  
Women’S History

Two institutions of relatively small size play a major role in documenting women's history in Egypt: the Rare Books and Special Collections Library (RBSCL) of the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Women and Memory Forum (WMF), a feminist research center in Cairo. This article presents case studies of these institutions’ efforts. The AUC RBSCL's collections are described, including those of leading 20th-century feminist leaders Huda Sharaawi (1879-1947), Doria Shafik (1908-1975), and Aziza Hussein (1919-2015), as are oral history initiatives related to women's history. The article also discusses programs and collections of the WMF, including private papers collections such as that of activist Wedad Mitri (1927-2007), and its Archive of Women's Oral History, which documents women's lives in Egypt and beyond. The initiatives in Egypt of the RBSCL and the WMF indicate how institutions can employ archival collecting, oral history, and outreach-like exhibitions to document and highlight women's historical contributions.

scholarly journals Proprietary and open source collections management systems: two case studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niloufar Ameli
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Management System ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Institutional Transition ◽  
Special Collections

This thesis is comprised of two case studies on the selection and implementation of systems Mimsy XG at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and AtoM and Islandora at Ryerson University’s Archives and Special Collections. These studies highlight the changes cultural heritage institutions are currently undergoing to digitally structure, manage, and access collections data by using a relational collections management system (CMS). The findings show that the success of a CMS is largely determined by the type of cultural heritage institution implementing it (archives, libraries, and museums), the types of collections within that organisation, in addition to institutional mandates and requirements. The ways in which a CMS platform answers these requirements through the data model and proprietary or open-source implementations determine the outcome of an institutional transition to a CMS.

scholarly journals Alison Cullingford. The Special Collections Handbook. London: Facet Publishing, 2011 (distributed in the United States by Neal-Schuman Publishers). xiv, 210p. ISBN 9781856047579. $125.00

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-205
Author(s):  
Laurel Davis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

This short, easy-to-use handbook was written by Alison Cullingford, the Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. It covers the world of special collections from soup to nuts in ten relatively brief chapters, capturing basic points and then pointing the reader to a variety of additional resources for more information. Each chapter ends with a list that includes further reading suggestions, examples and case studies, and useful websites. The focus is on special collections in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia, though much of the information is universally applicable.This is a particularly useful . . .

scholarly journals Special Collections as a catalyst for flexible pedagogical approaches: three case studies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Kukhareva ◽  
Anne Lawrence ◽  
Katherine Koulle ◽  
Nazlin Bhimani
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Education Literature ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Thinking Processes ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

University Special Collections are increasingly being recognised as a valuable pedagogical resource in higher education teaching and learning. The value of historic artefacts as a cross-disciplinary tool to promote higher order thinking processes such as criticality, questioning and narrative construction is well-established in the museum education literature and is gaining increasing attention in teaching and learning development. In this paper, we present three case studies in which we explore the application of Special Collections in a range of learning development contexts, in order to help students engage with their discipline and discipline-specific higher order skills. Our case studies are explorative in the sense of ‘trialling’ the use of historic artefacts in the classroom, to inform our next steps and development of our method. We conclude with our reflections on the process and outcomes of our explorations, to inform our practice and that of other educators looking to apply this method.

scholarly journals Early Book Collections and Modern Audiences: Harnessing the Identity/ies of Book Collections as Collective Resources

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Leah Tether ◽  
Laura Chuhan Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Book Collections ◽  
Rare Books

This article summarizes and contextualizes the discussions of a workshop held at Durham University in November 2018. In this workshop, participants (including academics, students, independent scholars, special and rare books librarians, and archivists) discussed the notion of the collection (that is, the identity of collection as a whole, rather than just its constituent parts), and its potential to serve as a means of engaging both scholarly and public audiences with early book cultures. This study sets out a series of considerations and questions that might be used when tackling such special collections engagement projects, including ones involving more modern collections than the case studies examined here.

scholarly journals Proprietary and open source collections management systems: two case studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niloufar Ameli
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Management System ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Institutional Transition ◽  
Special Collections

This thesis is comprised of two case studies on the selection and implementation of systems Mimsy XG at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and AtoM and Islandora at Ryerson University’s Archives and Special Collections. These studies highlight the changes cultural heritage institutions are currently undergoing to digitally structure, manage, and access collections data by using a relational collections management system (CMS). The findings show that the success of a CMS is largely determined by the type of cultural heritage institution implementing it (archives, libraries, and museums), the types of collections within that organisation, in addition to institutional mandates and requirements. The ways in which a CMS platform answers these requirements through the data model and proprietary or open-source implementations determine the outcome of an institutional transition to a CMS.

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