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Item Combining Forces: Using multiple out of the box programs when programmers are out of the question!(2010-08-12) Graham, Susan; Loeper, LindseyWe will outline the interaction between two third-party software applications for streamlined collection management and user access to Special Collections materials. Combining the accession, donor and patron management, description, and online user interface capabilities of PastPerfect with the more sophisticated digital asset management system of CONTENTdm, we have centralized access to our diverse collections. Special Collections, Reference, Collection Management, and Administration Departments have collaborated to make PastPerfect our single access point for over twenty separately maintained Library created databases that are not included in the University System consortium’s catalog. Standardized metadata creation for accession and descriptive records in both PastPerfect and CONTENTdm facilitates interoperability between the two systems. If digital objects are available, we can extract the metadata from PastPerfect using a Dublin Core crosswalk; conversely, our digitization workflow allows for item level metadata from CONTENTdm to be imported into PastPerfect. This ensures that PastPerfect is a one-stop shop for discovery of Special Collections’ analog and digital materials. Researchers now search one interface and retrieve results from our varied collections – including finding aids, photographs, fanzines, and university publications - with a link to the digital object in CONTENTdm if one exists. Due to our lack of programming staff it was essential to select out of the box software that offered customization and a high level of support, as opposed to building a program in-house or utilizing open source software. We feel that this is a unique and valuable workflow that has not been implemented by other institutions in similar circumstances.Item Content and Context in a Single Image: Multi-format Analysis of Lewis Hine Photographs at UMBC(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2023) Loeper, Lindsey; Graham, SusanItem Content and Context in a Single Image: Multi-format analysis of Lewis Hine photographs in Special Collections(2023-04-21) Graham, Susan; Loeper, Lindsey; LibraryWe will present a lesson plan developed by Special Collections faculty leading archival and visual literacy sessions. During the hands-on exercise, students analyze an original photography print, a digital surrogate, and a publication that includes the same photograph within the text. The worksheet directs their analysis and a class discussion includes both structured and unstructured, open reflection on the photograph and their research experience. Our goals are to introduce visual literacy concepts for historical research; encourage use of historical visual items when developing research questions; demonstrate the research process using multiple format types for comparison; and familiarize students with working in a special collections department. This case study is the focus of a book chapter, “Content and Context in a Single Image: Multi-format analysis of Lewis Hine photographs at UMBC,” in the forthcoming book, Unframing the Visual: Visual Literacy Pedagogy in Academic Libraries and Information Spaces.Item Creative Engagement with Archival Collections: The Hughes Remix Project(2015-06-05) Graham, SusanThe Hughes Remix project was a collaboration between UMBC's Special Collections and Visual Arts Department to foster creative engagement with archival materials in conjunction with the 2014 Society for Photographic Education annual conference. Images from the Hughes Company Glass Negatives collection were offered for artists to reinvent, reinterpret, and reimagine.Item Engagement, enthusiasm, and empowerment: participatory learning in Special Collections instruction(2018-06-22) Graham, Susan; Loeper, Lindsey; LibraryEngagement, enthusiasm, and empowerment: participatory learning in Special Collections instruction Students less than enthused? Energize them with active learning, critical pedagogy, and reflective teaching! UMBC Special Collections faculty Lindsey Loeper and Susan Graham have developed an interactive one-shot instruction session that fosters a welcoming environment and allows students to practice visual and archival literacy. Our poster will showcase a practical example of primary source instruction through the lens of active learning, critical pedagogy, and reflective teaching. The example comes from a selection of 200-level courses in the arts and humanities. Early iterations of these classes were structured like a show and tell of the prized collections. Although we were enthusiastic, the students were not as engaged as they could be. We have developed the session to be more meaningful and participatory, incorporating aspects of critical feminist pedagogy. We emphasize diverse formats and creators and prompt the students to question what has historically been collected in archives, and by whom. For this session we designed an active learning exercise where the students form groups and cycle through stations with varied formats of archival materials centered around a theme. They complete a worksheet that asks questions to encourage critical thinking about context, creators, and compare the research experience of using different formats. They have ample time at each station to handle, examine, and informally discuss the materials; we have seen firsthand that this greatly increases engagement and participation in discussion. The session concludes with each group sharing their experiences and insights.With this more active approach, we have witnessed deeper analysis, students making connections, and the thoughtful application of the ACRL Visual literacy standards and ACRL Information Literacy frames such as “Authority Is Constructed and Contextual,” “Information Creation as a Process,” and “Scholarship as Conversation.” We aim to foster an enthusiasm for original research and a sense of empowerment that they can have a voice in scholarly communication.Item Making "Digital Cruikshank": A Special Collections Collaboration(2023-04-21) Graham, Susan; DiCuirci, Lindsay; Library & EnglishIn Fall 2022, students in Lindsay DiCuirci's combined undergraduate and graduate English seminar participated in a semester-long collaboration with UMBC Special Collections. This course was supported by a Hrabowski Innovation Grant which allowed Susan Graham and her team to digitize a collection of donated materials related to George Cruikshank. Cruikshank was nineteenth-century England’s most prolific caricaturist and illustrator; the Merkle family's donation included unbound manuscript materials and over 120 printed works. Working in teams to build a digital resource based on these materials, students produced "Digital Cruikshank: Etching & Sketching in Nineteenth-Century England" (https://library-dev.umbc.edu/wp/specialcollections/cruikshank/) The resource features over 130 sketches gathered into collections with accompanying explanatory content. This presentation will share elements of the project management workflow and student-created guides and templates. We will also highlight the interdisciplinary affordances of collaborative, archival work as well as the significant pedagogical benefits of a project-based class in the Humanities.Item Reunited and It Feels So Good?: Reunifying the Baltimore News American Collection(2021-10-08) Graham, Susan; Mark, CoulbourneThe Baltimore News American was a newspaper that operated in Baltimore for nearly two hundred years and closed in 1986. After closing the Hearst Corporation donated the photographs, and clippings morgue to the University of Maryland, College Park while the bulk of the photographic negatives were donated to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In 2018 an agreement was reached that would reunite the collection in College Park. Moving the photographic negatives would prove to be more complex than initially thought. The collection at UMBC consisted of approximately 48,000 glass plate and acetate negatives that were housed together in the basement of the Albin O. Kuhn Library.