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There are gaps in the historical record of Purdue University as evidenced in the lack of source materials in the University Archives. In particular, researching history on Black alumni, faculty, and staff and other people of color in Purdue's past is challenging due to the scarcity of source material. This presentation discusses gaps or archival silences in the University Archives and measures being taken to preserve and share access to Black history at Purdue.

Knowledge organization, cataloguing and bibliographic description, are prerequisites for special collections to be used as sources in humanities research and work. The creation of bibliographic records is a crucial function of librarians in special libraries, but research on special collections cataloguing shows that librarians and library institutions frequently overlook use of research-based solutions for bibliographic description of special material. Using domain analytic approaches described by Birger Hjørland, and critical theory of knowledge organization, the following study examines the knowledge organization of material from the Modern Museum project After the Wall: Art and Culture in Post-communist Europe at the Art Library of Swedish National Museum and Modern Museum. With the objective to illustrate the formative effects of knowledge organization, a case study of the cataloguing methods and objectives of the collection was carried out through domain analytic approaches. Results of the analysis concludes that epistemological and ontological approaches of the Art Library and Modern Museum impacts the knowledge organization of the collection. Epistemological claims of the domain have formative effects on the material and its potential as research material and knowledge resource. This is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.

There are gaps in the historical record of Purdue University as evidenced in the lack of source materials in the University Archives. In particular, researching history on Black alumni, faculty, and staff and other people of color in Purdue's past is challenging due to the scarcity of source material. This presentation discusses gaps or archival silences in the University Archives and measures being taken to preserve and share access to Black history at Purdue.

There are gaps in the historical record of Purdue University as evidenced in the lack of source materials in the University Archives. In particular, researching history on Black alumni, faculty, and staff and other people of color in Purdue's past is challenging due to the scarcity of source material. This presentation discusses gaps or archival silences in the University Archives and measures being taken to preserve and share access to Black history at Purdue.

There are gaps in the historical record of Purdue University as evidenced in the lack of source materials in the University Archives. In particular, researching history on Black alumni, faculty, and staff and other people of color in Purdue's past is challenging due to the scarcity of source material. This presentation discusses gaps or archival silences in the University Archives and measures being taken to preserve and share access to Black history at Purdue.

The development of digital technology affects our whole society, and the cultural heritage sector is no exception. The aim of this thesis is therefore to map practical experiences of digitization and cataloguing of older material at Lund University, both from a library perspective and a research perspective. To achieve the purpose of the study, qualitative interviews have been conducted with library staff who work with digitization and cataloguing at the university library (UB) and with researchers who use older materials. Since Lund University mainly uses Alvin and Libris for digitization and cataloguing, these channels are in focus, although digitization is also discussed more generally. The empirical findings are discussed through analytical concept from both LIS and the historical field, with the focus on how digitization of older materials affect knowledge circulation. Digitization as a practice is also discussed in relation to the concepts of mass digitization and critical digitization. Findings of the study shows that both the library staff and the researchers consider accessibility to be both the main purpose and the major benefit of digitization, and Alvin and Libris are considered central knowledge arenas in which knowledge is allowed to circulate. The library staff are currently the leading knowledge actors in the digitization process, though the informants believe that the actorship should be more fluent regarding the roles of users and producers. This could be achieved by increased collaboration between the professions. Analogue material and the digitized material also offer different types of knowledge and experiences, which is highlighted by the researchers. It is also concluded that Alvin is more fitting for critical digitization than Libris, because of Alvin’s possibilities of analytic metadata. Currently, UB has neither the resources nor the technology to engage in mass digitization. The library staff would also like to have more time to engage in

Keynote for the Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting 2022 Virtual Conference. Reanimated social movements for liberation in the US and around the world at this historical moment should garner greater attention, care, and involvement by library and archival institutions. Starting from a recognition of our shared goals to advance a more inclusive cultural heritage, we propose a framework of C.A.R.E. approaches in community archives from our location in an institutional context. This presentation/conversation will situate our personal and professional commitments in community-centered archives practice and expand on the practical application of how we do this work alongside partners on our campus and organizations beyond.

In 2020 the IFLA Rare Book and Special Collections Section (RBSC) published the Competency Guidelines for Rare Books and Special Collections Professionals. The guidelines are divided into five chapters and are intended as a white paper for all librarians dealing special collections. The document focuses on the figure of the librarian, his interactions with the collections owned by the cultural institution in which he works, his relations with the users. A remarkable tool especially from the point of view of professional ethics, the IFLA standard defines ideal situations to which documentation professionals can look for the strengthening of their knowledge.

This paper investigated the influence of availability of electronics resources and special collections on Students Satisfaction with the Use of School Library in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State. The study was carried out by using a descriptive survey research design. Two specific objectives, two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study, hypotheses was tested at 0.05 level of significance. One out of the two hypotheses was rejected and one was accepted. The population of the study consists of 3,760 Senior Secondary School Students and sample size of 376 Students which was selected randomly using stratified random sample techniques. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection with Likert 4 point scales. Copies of the questionnaire were administered to the respondents by the researcher in each of the school under study and the data collected was analysed using the mean, standard deviation, simple percentage, and t-test. The findings show that, availability of electronic resources had significant influence on students' satisfaction with use of school library, while the availability of special collection had no significant influence on students' satisfaction with the use of school library. Based on the findings, recommendations were made as follows: Since the study revealed that there is significant influence of availability of electronic resources on students' satisfaction with the use of school library, it is recommended that school management should approach National Communication Commission, oil companies and Educational Trust Fund, for donation of electronic resources to equip their library to enhance students easy and quick access to information resource. Also since the study revealed that there is no significant influence of availability of special collection on students’ satisfaction with the use of school library, it is recommended that whether special collection is collected or not, sch

Keynote for the Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting 2022 Virtual Conference. Reanimated social movements for liberation in the US and around the world at this historical moment should garner greater attention, care, and involvement by library and archival institutions. Starting from a recognition of our shared goals to advance a more inclusive cultural heritage, we propose a framework of C.A.R.E. approaches in community archives from our location in an institutional context. This presentation/conversation will situate our personal and professional commitments in community-centered archives practice and expand on the practical application of how we do this work alongside partners on our campus and organizations beyond.

In 2020 the IFLA Rare Book and Special Collections Section (RBSC) published the Competency Guidelines for Rare Books and Special Collections Professionals. The guidelines are divided into five chapters and are intended as a white paper for all librarians dealing special collections. The document focuses on the figure of the librarian, his interactions with the collections owned by the cultural institution in which he works, his relations with the users. A remarkable tool especially from the point of view of professional ethics, the IFLA standard defines ideal situations to which documentation professionals can look for the strengthening of their knowledge.

The FIU Libraries Special Collections and Cataloging departments are immersed in a project to make primary source materials more accessible to the South Florida community and internationally. This presentation will demonstrate how archivists and catalogers worked collaboratively to provide access by leveraging traditional approaches and new tools to increase discoverability in Finding Aids and the library catalog. Throughout the years, the archives at FIU Libraries has collected historical records that represent the history of the Hispanic community in Miami. Although Miami is known as having a large Hispanic community, the discovery of collection material represents a challenge for non-English speakers which has led to the under use of collection materials. The archivists and catalogers have identified language as one of the barriers in locating materials in the Finding Aids. As part of the FIU Libraries larger initiative to provide equitable access to our collections, the Special Collections and Cataloging departments have decided to enhance access to collections using the original language of the community documented in addition to English. We will discuss our processes working with specific collections to provide bi-language description, multiple points of access, and full text transcription.

Library Special Collections (LSC) is embarking on a Retrospective Accessioning Project to address the archival collections backlog. This backlog is an estimated 11,663 linear feet of collections. These collections lack physical, administrative, and intellectual control thus remaining undiscoverable and inaccessible to our users. To ensure LSC is fulfilling its role as responsible stewards of our collections and meeting our mission to provide access to collections and serve our users, we need to establish baseline levels of control. This long-term, multi-year project will take an iterative approach to accessioning LSC's backlog in order to establish those necessary levels of control to facilitate discovery, reappraisal, prioritization, and access activities within the department. This presentation will provide a general overview of the project, project work that has been done so far, and project end goals.

We acknowledge historical absences in library collections, including those of the University of California Libraries. We will develop practices that counteract a paradigm of racist, sexist, and white-centered collecting, description, instruction, and access. Metadata, digital exhibits, and archival descriptions in particular have disadvantaged communities of color, limited points of subject-based access, and contributed to a culture of exclusivity and inequity. We commit to immediate and enduring work to elevate the narratives, perspectives, and expertise of the marginalized: those who identify as Black, Indigenous, persons of color, immigrants, women, disabled people, and those from the LGBTQ+ communities. We recognize that this work is iterative and ongoing, inherently risky, and messy, but entirely necessary.

We acknowledge historical absences in library collections, including those of the University of California Libraries. We will develop practices that counteract a paradigm of racist, sexist, and white-centered collecting, description, instruction, and access. Metadata, digital exhibits, and archival descriptions in particular have disadvantaged communities of color, limited points of subject-based access, and contributed to a culture of exclusivity and inequity. We commit to immediate and enduring work to elevate the narratives, perspectives, and expertise of the marginalized: those who identify as Black, Indigenous, persons of color, immigrants, women, disabled people, and those from the LGBTQ+ communities. We recognize that this work is iterative and ongoing, inherently risky, and messy, but entirely necessary.

Library Special Collections (LSC) is embarking on a Retrospective Accessioning Project to address the archival collections backlog. This backlog is an estimated 11,663 linear feet of collections. These collections lack physical, administrative, and intellectual control thus remaining undiscoverable and inaccessible to our users. To ensure LSC is fulfilling its role as responsible stewards of our collections and meeting our mission to provide access to collections and serve our users, we need to establish baseline levels of control. This long-term, multi-year project will take an iterative approach to accessioning LSC's backlog in order to establish those necessary levels of control to facilitate discovery, reappraisal, prioritization, and access activities within the department. This presentation will provide a general overview of the project, project work that has been done so far, and project end goals.

The aim of this master’s thesis is to increase knowledge about how Swedish research libraries work with special collections, in aspects of preservation and user availability. Currently there is no general regulation in Swedish law regarding special collections, which may cause inconsistency in the management of collections. In order to illustrate this problem, and investigate what commission research libraries have when it comes to special collections, the current legislation and other policy documents are being studied. To exemplify how two large research libraries work with their special collections, the National Library of Sweden and Uppsala University Library are being studied through interviews with one special collection librarian from each library. The purpose is to see if there are considerable similarities and differences between the two libraries’ work. To analyze the empirical results in a theoretical context, ideas from institutional theory are being used. The main results of the study show that the two interviewed librarians work in similar ways, and that both stress the importance of seeing the work with special collections in a long-term perspective. They also highlight the importance of practical work, such as cataloguing, for making the collections available now and in the future. The leadership of the libraries, and their strategic and economic priorities, are key for providing enough resources. Also, knowledge and understanding the needs of special collections are crucial in library organizations. The thesis conclusion is that it would be desirable to have a legislation or national plan regarding special collections in research libraries, to make sure that the collections are treated in a proper manner, and preserved for future generations.

This lesson plan engages students with primary materials as ingredients for creative work, with attention to the ways researchers read and notice in archives and special collections. This hands-on creative activity helps students to identify and analyze many facets of materials in a special collections setting, and it allows students to explore those materials together. Students create found poems based on a prompt distributed by the librarian-instructor and then engage in reflective sharing of the poems. The prompt draws students toward the textual, paratextual, and metadata elements of materials, and the sharing of poems among students highlights the variety of their observations.

This chapter presents Purdue Archives and Special Collections as a case study in growing an organizational culture committed to teaching information literacy parallel to classroom learning through student worker experiential learning. While student employment or internships may not traditionally be considered co-curricular activities, Purdue University Archives and Special Collections provides an environment not only for students to gain pre-professional experience but also expertise, confidence, and competence in information; for many students, this preparation has resulted in careers in museums, archives, libraries, and cultural heritage institutions. The result is a new approach to student employment: one designed to establish an environment to prepare, encourage, and mentor students to become leaders in new knowledge creation while also instilling information literacy skills and a belief in sharing that knowledge with others. The analysis outlines the relationship of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy and student employment in academic archives as well as potential benefits of a conscientious approach to student employee training and mentoring.

The early modern period in England (c. 1500-1800) is often best remembered for dramatic developments that transformed the political, religious and economic life of the country. Henry VIII’s rejection of the papacy in the 1530s severed the English church and its worshippers from the wider Catholic community. In 1649, the execution of Charles I at the end of the Civil War marked the beginning of a transformation in the relationship between king and people. That relationship continued to evolve and in 1689, it was recast in the Bill of Rights, which subordinated the Crown to the people. The economy thrived through much of the period and by the eighteenth century England was both a leader in European and in the overseas colonies for which so many nations vied. This exhibit seeks to explore the lives of ordinary people who lived through these dramatic events. While such developments were important, they did not always gure in the everyday lives of those who were not members of the political nation. For them, concerns about their work, families, education and spiritual lives loomed larger than the activities and debates taking place at Westminster. The objects here reveal the concerns, desires and fears of some of the English people during the early modern era and how they sought to manage them--not always successfully.

When tragedy strikes your community, few people think about preserving the objects associated with the social mourning process. This paper discusses a project to document our community’s response to a mass murder. It describes how we collected and organized materials from spontaneous memorials to make them accessible to scholars in the future. Material culture is not just the realm of archaeologists; it is also the domain of librarians, archivists, curators and historians. Our project demonstrates how a campus community can work together to preserve materials that tell the story of such an event and those who were affected by it.

The early modern period in England (c. 1500-1800) is often best remembered for dramatic developments that transformed the political, religious and economic life of the country. Henry VIII’s rejection of the papacy in the 1530s severed the English church and its worshippers from the wider Catholic community. In 1649, the execution of Charles I at the end of the Civil War marked the beginning of a transformation in the relationship between king and people. That relationship continued to evolve and in 1689, it was recast in the Bill of Rights, which subordinated the Crown to the people. The economy thrived through much of the period and by the eighteenth century England was both a leader in European and in the overseas colonies for which so many nations vied. This exhibit seeks to explore the lives of ordinary people who lived through these dramatic events. While such developments were important, they did not always gure in the everyday lives of those who were not members of the political nation. For them, concerns about their work, families, education and spiritual lives loomed larger than the activities and debates taking place at Westminster. The objects here reveal the concerns, desires and fears of some of the English people during the early modern era and how they sought to manage them--not always successfully.

When tragedy strikes your community, few people think about preserving the objects associated with the social mourning process. This paper discusses a project to document our community’s response to a mass murder. It describes how we collected and organized materials from spontaneous memorials to make them accessible to scholars in the future. Material culture is not just the realm of archaeologists; it is also the domain of librarians, archivists, curators and historians. Our project demonstrates how a campus community can work together to preserve materials that tell the story of such an event and those who were affected by it.

The guidelines about Third Mission/Social Impact published by the Italian relevant authority (ANVUR) in November 2018 are focused also on the academic libraries’ heritage and on the activities aimed to promote it. This heritage – not only the special collections but also the buildings where libraries are housed – is unique and original, so can identify each library. As libraries’ heritage is often fascinating, as well as outstanding from the historical and artistic points of view, and sometimes of local interest, it can attract non-academic audiences, too. Many different skills (about history, bibliography, ICT, marketing, financial management etc.) are required to manage projects on libraries’ heritage, so cooperation both with academic staff and external partners may be helpful. Furthermore, this perspective can make academic libraries explore new ways to strengthen their role in society (e.g. cultural tourism). An evaluation scheme for such activities is proposed thanks to some methodological suggestions gathered from professional literature, guidelines, reports and case-studies. The scheme refers to academic libraries in the context of Third Mission/Social Impact.., Le Linee guida per la valutazione di Terza Missione/Impatto Sociale pubblicate da ANVUR nel novembre 2018 si focalizzano anche sulla gestione del patrimonio storico delle biblioteche di università e sulle attività di valorizzazione ad esso correlate. A motivo della propria unicità e originalità, il patrimonio storico e speciale - non solo le collezioni ma anche gli edifici che le ospitano - identifica la singola biblioteca e può rivelarsi utile per avvicinare anche i non esperti, per il fascino che esercita ed il valore storico-artistico, spesso unito all’interesse locale, che spesso lo contraddistingue. Per far fronte alla complessa articolazione dei progetti di valorizzazione e alla necessità di competenze diverse per realizzarli (storiche, bibliografiche, informatiche, di comunicazione e marketing, economico-gestionali, etc.), importante è la collaborazione sia all’interno dell’ateneo sia con partner esterni. Il settore può aprirsi ad ambiti d’azione ancora poco esplorati dalle biblioteche delle università (p.e. turismo culturale), contribuendo a rafforzare il ruolo di questi istituti nella società. A partire dai suggerimenti metodologici derivati dall’analisi di letteratura professionale, linee guida, reports e casi-studio, è stata elaborata una prima proposta di schema di valutazione delle attività di questo tipo svolte dalle biblioteche di università e riconducibili al quadro di Terza Missione/Impatto Sociale.

This chapter presents Purdue Archives and Special Collections as a case study in growing an organizational culture committed to teaching information literacy parallel to classroom learning through student worker experiential learning. While student employment or internships may not traditionally be considered co-curricular activities, Purdue University Archives and Special Collections provides an environment not only for students to gain pre-professional experience but also expertise, confidence, and competence in information; for many students, this preparation has resulted in careers in museums, archives, libraries, and cultural heritage institutions. The result is a new approach to student employment: one designed to establish an environment to prepare, encourage, and mentor students to become leaders in new knowledge creation while also instilling information literacy skills and a belief in sharing that knowledge with others. The analysis outlines the relationship of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy and student employment in academic archives as well as potential benefits of a conscientious approach to student employee training and mentoring.

This presentation discusses an oral history project undertaken by archivist John Davis at Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA) at the University of Maryland. Since 2017, Davis has interviewed more than thirty fanzine creators from the Washington, D.C. punk subculture and has gathered the interviews in a series of the D.C. Punk and Indie Fanzine collection. The presentation includes examples of the interviews and also describes how the interviews were conducted using the Oral History Association's best practices.

Purdue at 150: A Visual History of Student Life by David M. Hovde, Adriana Harmeyer, Neal Harmeyer, and Sammie L. Morris tells Purdue’s story through rare images, artifacts, and words. Authors culled decades of student papers, from scrapbooks, yearbooks, letters, and newspapers to historical photographs and memorabilia preserved in the Purdue University Libraries Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections. Many of the images and artifacts included have never been published, presenting a unique history of Purdue University from the student perspective. Purdue at 150 is organized by decade, presenting a scrapbook-like experience of viewing over 400 rare photographs, documents, and artifacts alongside critical contextual information. Each chapter provides a decadal historical sketch of Purdue University, offering insight into the institution’s unique culture while incorporating campus responses to major national events such as world wars and the Great Depression. Spotlight sections highlight Purdue firsts, including the first graduates of programs, the growth and development of the international student population at Purdue, the creation of significant student organizations, and the foundations of both old and new campus traditions. This curated journey through the personal experiences, spaces, and events of Purdue’s history not only celebrates major accomplishments and acknowledges the contributions Purdue has made to society, but it also explores some of the challenges and tragedies that shaped Indiana’s land-grant university. As a result, Purdue at 150 connects the identity and character of the University of 1869 to the University of 2019 and beyond, as told through the stories of its students. Running throughout this journey is the enduring vision of the land-grant institution and its impact on society, as seen through the material culture of Boilermakers from around the world., https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_previews/1024/thumbnail.jpg

Murdoch University in order to share its collaborative approach to supporting future generations of library professionals organised its first group practicum project in 2017. The project targeted a group of library students from Curtin University with an interest in science fiction. Seven students were recruited for a practicum placement to create a collection development report with recommendations on the management of the library’s Science Fiction Collection. The practicum project was a success, as the students delivered an industry relevant report in an environment that resembles the dynamics of a team project. The Library experience was also successful due to the development of a partnership with Curtin University’s Placement Coordinator and the engagement of Murdoch Library team to support the student experience and the outcomes of this project. In 2018, the Library decided to develop a new project in conjunction with Curtin University. This time, the Library collaborated with the Curtin University lecturers in creating a new project, from inception to completion, to consolidate the students’ knowledge and experience in information literacy. In 2018, five students carried out a project to create a Special Collections digital learning object and two other projects including the indexing of fanzines using Dublin Core Metadata Elements and a presentation to all Library staff. The 2018 project proved to be another success for both universities and caught the attention of others in Western Australia. As a result, Murdoch decided to expand its partnership with Curtin University and engaged with other Universities to help them develop similar practicum experiences with the view of developing future partnerships for the benefit of the library and information industry. This paper will explore Murdoch’s approach to support the library industry in Western Australia through collaboration, engagement and partnerships. The paper will also focus on the lessons learnt and futu

Murdoch University in order to share its collaborative approach to supporting future generations of library professionals organised its first group practicum project in 2017. The project targeted a group of library students from Curtin University with an interest in science fiction. Seven students were recruited for a practicum placement to create a collection development report with recommendations on the management of the library’s Science Fiction Collection. The practicum project was a success, as the students delivered an industry relevant report in an environment that resembles the dynamics of a team project. The Library experience was also successful due to the development of a partnership with Curtin University’s Placement Coordinator and the engagement of Murdoch Library team to support the student experience and the outcomes of this project. In 2018, the Library decided to develop a new project in conjunction with Curtin University. This time, the Library collaborated with the Curtin University lecturers in creating a new project, from inception to completion, to consolidate the students’ knowledge and experience in information literacy. In 2018, five students carried out a project to create a Special Collections digital learning object and two other projects including the indexing of fanzines using Dublin Core Metadata Elements and a presentation to all Library staff. The 2018 project proved to be another success for both universities and caught the attention of others in Western Australia. As a result, Murdoch decided to expand its partnership with Curtin University and engaged with other Universities to help them develop similar practicum experiences with the view of developing future partnerships for the benefit of the library and information industry. This paper will explore Murdoch’s approach to support the library industry in Western Australia through collaboration, engagement and partnerships. The paper will also focus on the lessons learnt and futu

Purdue at 150: A Visual History of Student Life by David M. Hovde, Adriana Harmeyer, Neal Harmeyer, and Sammie L. Morris tells Purdue’s story through rare images, artifacts, and words. Authors culled decades of student papers, from scrapbooks, yearbooks, letters, and newspapers to historical photographs and memorabilia preserved in the Purdue University Libraries Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections. Many of the images and artifacts included have never been published, presenting a unique history of Purdue University from the student perspective. Purdue at 150 is organized by decade, presenting a scrapbook-like experience of viewing over 400 rare photographs, documents, and artifacts alongside critical contextual information. Each chapter provides a decadal historical sketch of Purdue University, offering insight into the institution’s unique culture while incorporating campus responses to major national events such as world wars and the Great Depression. Spotlight sections highlight Purdue firsts, including the first graduates of programs, the growth and development of the international student population at Purdue, the creation of significant student organizations, and the foundations of both old and new campus traditions. This curated journey through the personal experiences, spaces, and events of Purdue’s history not only celebrates major accomplishments and acknowledges the contributions Purdue has made to society, but it also explores some of the challenges and tragedies that shaped Indiana’s land-grant university. As a result, Purdue at 150 connects the identity and character of the University of 1869 to the University of 2019 and beyond, as told through the stories of its students. Running throughout this journey is the enduring vision of the land-grant institution and its impact on society, as seen through the material culture of Boilermakers from around the world., https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_previews/1024/thumbnail.jpg

Ballet is an ephemeral and experiential performing art whose choreographed works change constantly through performance and interpretation. Despite this constant evolution, archivists and librarians have found numerous mediums to document choreographed works and the greater ballet culture and community. This thesis surveys current practices and standards within the fields of ballet choreography documentation and preservation to answer the following questions: How are choreographed dances documented in public and private dance archives and libraries? Who are the primary users and how does that influence collecting methods? Which forms of notation and technologies are used in capturing choreographed dances and what does this choice of format say about the utility and accessibility of the archive? Interviews were conducted with dance practitioners and professionals, archivists, and librarians at the Balanchine Trust, Dance Notation Bureau, Ohio State University, New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Division, and Museum of Performance + Design. Discussions of current collections, projects, and future goals revealed three common mediums of documentation, written notation, video, and oral history interviews, as well as a common practice for archival institutions to partner with dance companies and schools to ensure that their assets are used to inform reperformance. Overall, the choreography and dance research field would benefit from documentation efforts in more diverse locations with additional performance companies. The three documentation methods can be adopted by individuals and research institutions in cities with rich dance communities to create a more informative and diverse set of choreographic primary resources.

The UC Santa Cruz University Library supports the creation of digital projects which aid student scholarship, enhance on-site exhibit experiences, engage broader communities through online exhibitions, and promote our unique collections. This case study explores the use of a digital tool, ThingLink, to create a virtual 360° tour of a library exhibit space which features material from the Grateful Dead Archive. Librarians and students created this virtual tour (https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/loveonhaight360) in order to promote the library’s collections, engage students in creating new forms of scholarly work, preserve a record of a physical exhibit after deinstallation, and increase use of library resources.

The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine how social media, specifically Instagram, is utilized in three special collections libraries in Sweden. The intent is to understand why Instagram is a plausible platform for the purpose of showcasing the libraries’ cultural heritage collections, how this is done and who the target audience is. The theoretical framework for this study is based on Roland Barthes’s visual semiotic terms denotation and connotation. The study also applies Lorri Mon’s analytical tools when examining how libraries can use social media in a successful manner. The three selected libraries are Uppsala University Library, Lund University Library and Roggebiblioteket. Six Instagram posts, between October 2018 and Mars 2019, from each library are analyzed, and e-mail interviews have been conducted with the librarians behind the accounts. Finally, the results are compared to showcase their differences and similarities, but also to compare them to previous studies on social media use in libraries. The results show that Instagram is used to display the libraries’ cultural heritage and make the collections more approachable to the general public – specifically to foreign researchers. The librarians also use Instagram as a platform to connect with other cultural heritage institutions and librarians all over the world. Through publishing esthetically pleasing pictures of old historical books, maps and other materials, they want to attract new users and put their library on the map. This is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.

The UC Santa Cruz University Library supports the creation of digital projects which aid student scholarship, enhance on-site exhibit experiences, engage broader communities through online exhibitions, and promote our unique collections. This case study explores the use of a digital tool, ThingLink, to create a virtual 360° tour of a library exhibit space which features material from the Grateful Dead Archive. Librarians and students created this virtual tour (https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/loveonhaight360) in order to promote the library’s collections, engage students in creating new forms of scholarly work, preserve a record of a physical exhibit after deinstallation, and increase use of library resources.

Ballet is an ephemeral and experiential performing art whose choreographed works change constantly through performance and interpretation. Despite this constant evolution, archivists and librarians have found numerous mediums to document choreographed works and the greater ballet culture and community. This thesis surveys current practices and standards within the fields of ballet choreography documentation and preservation to answer the following questions: How are choreographed dances documented in public and private dance archives and libraries? Who are the primary users and how does that influence collecting methods? Which forms of notation and technologies are used in capturing choreographed dances and what does this choice of format say about the utility and accessibility of the archive? Interviews were conducted with dance practitioners and professionals, archivists, and librarians at the Balanchine Trust, Dance Notation Bureau, Ohio State University, New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Division, and Museum of Performance + Design. Discussions of current collections, projects, and future goals revealed three common mediums of documentation, written notation, video, and oral history interviews, as well as a common practice for archival institutions to partner with dance companies and schools to ensure that their assets are used to inform reperformance. Overall, the choreography and dance research field would benefit from documentation efforts in more diverse locations with additional performance companies. The three documentation methods can be adopted by individuals and research institutions in cities with rich dance communities to create a more informative and diverse set of choreographic primary resources.

Murdoch University in order to share its collaborative approach to supporting future generations of library professionals organised its first group practicum project in 2017. The project targeted a group of library students from Curtin University with an interest in science fiction. Seven students were recruited for a practicum placement to create a collection development report with recommendations on the management of the library’s Science Fiction Collection. The practicum project was a success, as the students delivered an industry relevant report in an environment that resembles the dynamics of a team project. The Library experience was also successful due to the development of a partnership with Curtin University’s Placement Coordinator and the engagement of Murdoch Library team to support the student experience and the outcomes of this project. In 2018, the Library decided to develop a new project in conjunction with Curtin University. This time, the Library collaborated with the Curtin University lecturers in creating a new project, from inception to completion, to consolidate the students’ knowledge and experience in information literacy. In 2018, five students carried out a project to create a Special Collections digital learning object and two other projects including the indexing of fanzines using Dublin Core Metadata Elements and a presentation to all Library staff. The 2018 project proved to be another success for both universities and caught the attention of others in Western Australia. As a result, Murdoch decided to expand its partnership with Curtin University and engaged with other Universities to help them develop similar practicum experiences with the view of developing future partnerships for the benefit of the library and information industry. This paper will explore Murdoch’s approach to support the library industry in Western Australia through collaboration, engagement and partnerships. The paper will also focus on the lessons learnt and futu