Special Collections Roundtable

A newsletter for members of the RI library community who have responsibility for the care and access of unique or rare manuscripts, records, books, audio and/or visual materials, local history and other special collections. To sign-up, send an email to donna.dimichele@olis.ri.gov

N.B. November Deadlines and Dates in this newsletter

Digital Discovery at the International Tennis Hall of Fame

Thursday, November 14, 2019, 2:00pm - 4:00pm

The International Tennis Hall of Fame preserves and promotes the history of tennis and celebrates its champions. The Hall of Fame is set on the property of the Newport Casino, originally constructed in 1880 as the premier setting for sport and socializing in Gilded Age Newport. Opened in 1880, the Newport Casino was the premier setting for sport and socializing in Gilded Age Newport. Designed by McKim, Mead & White, its campus featured shops, dining, lodging, and leisure activities.

Beginning in 2017, the International Tennis Hall of Fame embarked on a multi-year project to digitize its vast museum collection. With the addition of an Isilon Scale-out NAS storage* system, the museum can build a comprehensive digital archive to engage tennis fans around the globe, to encourage online learning, and to build new programs.

For more information and to register Looking forward to seeing you!

Fairly Useful: Copyright in Libraries, Part Two

Tuesday, November 19, 1-4:45 pm

Warwick Public Library 600 Sandy Lane Warwick, RI

This copyright workshop will offer 4 programs in 2 concurrent tracks. Audiences will have the opportunity to attend two 90-minute programs on topics including Creative Commons, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and more. (participation in part 1 not required)

For more information and to register

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Book Club: White Fragility by Robin D'Angelo

Thursday, November 21, 2-3:30 pm

Warwick Public Library 600 Sandy Lane Warwick, RI

Join the EDI book club to discuss Robin D'Angelo's book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism with other interested library staff. In this in-depth exploration, anti-racist educator Robin DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what can be done to engage more constructively.

For more information and to register

Carnegie-Whitney Awards for Guides to Library Resources

The American Library Association Publishing Committee provides a grant of up to $5,000 for the preparation of print or electronic reading lists, indexes or other guides to library resources that promote reading or the use of library resources at any type of library. Application deadline: November 1, 2019. Recipients will be notified by the end of February 2020. List of previous Carnegie-Whitney recipients

For more information and guidelines, visit the ALA webpage or contact Mary Jo Bolduc, Grant Administrator, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611.

Save America’s Treasures Grants

Designed to support the preservation of nationally significant historic properties and collections, the Save America's Treasures grant program is competitive and requires a dollar-for-dollar match. Individual properties or collections that received an SAT grant in the past are not eligible for additional funding. List of past funded projects

Eligible Activities: Preservation and/or conservation assistance to nationally significant properties and collections, including book, paper, and photographic collections.

Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grants are administered by the National Park Service in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

News Release with links for more information
Deadline: December 10, 2019

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) announced that 13 institutions have been awarded Recordings at Risk grants. Brown University Archives received $23,215 for Global Perspectives from Campus Speeches.

This is the sixth group of projects supported by the Recordings at Risk awards program, a national regranting program funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by CLIR to support the preservation of rare and unique audio and audiovisual content of high scholarly value. More detail on funded projects

CLIR will begin accepting applications for a new Recordings at Risk grant cycle beginning November 1, 2019

In partnership with The 1772 Foundation, Preserve Rhode Island is excited to announce a new 1:1 matching grant opportunity for up to $10,000 to non-profit organizations for historic preservation projects.

Eligible projects include exterior painting, finishes and surface restoration, fire detection, lightning protection, security systems, porch, roof, and window repairs, foundation and/or sill repairs, chimney repairs, and masonry re-pointing. Learn more. Letters of inquiry will be accepted through December 6, 2019. Direct questions to 1772@preserveri.org.

The Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) program is a joint effort of IMLS and the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation to help small and mid-sized museums better care for their collections. A CAP assessment is a study of an institution’s collections, buildings, and building systems, as well as its collections care policies and procedures. The assessment involves a site visit by collections and building assessors, who spend two days touring the museum and interviewing staff and governing officials. The assessors then prepare a comprehensive report that outlines recommendations for improving collections care.

Application Deadline: February 1, 2020

The session facilitators of the 2019 Society of American Archivists (SAA) session “Young, Old, Season, Green: Assessing Power Dynamics in Multigenerational Archives” are currently gathering data to further study the impact of age and experience in the archives. The session addressed issues about how age and experience can have huge impacts, both positively and negatively, in multigenerational archival work environments.

The survey includes questions such as “What challenges/opportunities do multigenerational archival workplaces face?” and “How do age and experience relate to other aspects of diversity and power dynamics? The responses will help shape further research on this important topic that affects the field. The survey will be open until October 30, 2019. Contribute to the survey

For more information contact, Alison Clemens, Assistant Head of Arrangement and Description, Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library, 203-432-9029

“How did technology change the lives of ordinary people during the Industrial Revolution in Britain?” Mia Ridge, British Library digital curator

Living with Machines is both a research project and a bold proposal for a new research paradigm. In this ground-breaking partnership between The Alan Turing Institute, the British Library, and the Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Exeter, and London (QMUL), historians, data scientists, geographers, computational linguists and curators have been brought together to examine the human impact of the industrial revolution.

The work on the project is organized around five ‘Labs’ that explore different historical and methodological questions and approaches. The Labs are: Language, Space and Time, Sources, Communities, and Integration, Infrastructure and Interfaces.

The RI Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission (RIHPHC) is headed BACK TO THE FUTURE at the 35th Annual Historic Preservation Conference on April 25, 2020, in Warwick. The conference will explore concepts of the future and historic preservation, including post-war architecture and landscapes, the suburbs, historic utopias, preservation and popular culture, new preservation technologies, and more. Suggestions for topics using historical records and other documents to explore these and other subjects are welcome.

Submit your suggestions for presentations, topics, tours, and speakers by November 15.

Contemporary Art and Historical Archives: Collaborations and Convergences in a Digital Multicultural Age, Suzanne S. LaPierre, The Student Research Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2019)

The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS) announced the publication of three new articles in Volume 6 (2019):

• Assessing Impact of Medium-Sized Institution Digital Cultural Heritage on Wikimedia Projects by Elizabeth Joan Kelly, Loyola University, New Orleans
• Economic Provenance: The Financial Analysis of Art Historical Records by Elizabeth Hobart, New York University
• Review of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section 2019 Conference by
  Elizabeth Hobart, The Pennsylvania State University

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