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.

Beginning in September 2019, special collections and archives job announcements will be posted only on the OLIS Jobline and not on the RI Special Collections Google Group.

Out of deference to members who are NOT looking for jobs and to reduce duplication of effort, job announcements will be posted only on Jobline. Position announcements on the OLIS Jobline, are available to the RI Special Collections community and a wider audience.

Additional library/archives job search and posting resources are provided by OLIS on http://www.olis.ri.gov/about/jobs.php. Please use this resource to post job opportunities at your organization!

Until September I will continue to send job announcements to the listserve and post on Jobline. ~ Donna DiMichele

First topic: Security for Special Collections includes:

• ACRL/RBMS Guidelines Regarding Security and Theft in Special Collections
• ACRL/RBMS Guidelines for Interlibrary and Exhibition Loan of Special Collections Materials
  
• ALA Security LibGuide
• Society of American Archivists, Security Section
• Research Room Policies from RI Libraries and Historical Societies
• Selected Articles and Books on Library Security

The Special Collections LibGuide will supplement to OLIS' web pages for Special Collections Roundtable and Preservation & Disaster. Resources relevant to meetings of the Special Collections Roundtable will be posted on the LibGuide.

The Pawtucket Public Library and the Preservation Society of Pawtucket invite you to the celebratory launch of the Pawtucket Library Digital Newspapers (PDLN) website project.

Date: August 14, 2019, 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Place: Pawtucket Public Library, Auditorium, 13 Summer Street, Pawtucket, RI

The PLDN Collection contains over 60 years of digitized local Pawtucket newspapers from 1886-1947. PLDN coverage encompasses Pawtucket and the surrounding Rhode Island cities and towns of East Providence, Cumberland, and Lincoln, and many villages in the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor. Online searchable access to this newspaper collection will make the local history of this historic region broadly available to researchers.

This project was made possible in part by a $49,775.00 grant from the RI Office of Library and Information Services using funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

• August 8 Caring for Scrapbooks (1 Hour)
• August 15 Digitizing Scrapbooks (1 Hour)
• August 29 Preventing and Responding to Mold in Book & Paper Collections (1 hour)

Details and to register

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office invite public and academic libraries to apply to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 9, 2019

More information

Protecting America’s Collections: Results from the Heritage Health Information Survey, Institute of Museum and Library Services. Washington, D.C. the Institute, Feb. 2019

The Heritage Health Information Seruvery report provides selected updates from the Heritage Health Index of 2004 and assesses the preservation needs of today’s cultural heritage institutions with non-living, tangible, and digital collections.

Ephemera 40, the Ephemera Society of America Annual Conference

Greenwich, Connecticut, March 27, 2020

Topics will focus on women’s accomplishments, relying heavily on tangible ephemera to illustrate their subject. Each presentation will be 30 minutes in length, followed by a brief Q&A. Proposals for presentations are being accepted. Proposals should include the following:

• Presentation title and a written abstract, focusing on the way ephemera tells the story of your chosen topic. Please describe the specific types of ephemera you will use to illustrate your topic. Proposals should not exceed 150 words.
• 5 to 6 representative ephemera images
• A one-paragraph biography, including any affiliations
• Mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address

Proposals must be submitted by August 15, 2019, to Barbara Loe, Ephemera 40 Conference Chair bjloe@earthlink.net or by mail to Barbara Loe, Ephemera Society of America, Inc., P.O. Box 95, Cazenovia, NY 13035-0095. (Extensions available on request.)

The Ephemera Society is eager to expand the use of ephemera in the classroom and encourages presentations on all subjects addressing the use of ephemera in teaching and academic research.

The first man on the Moon, Medieval Manuscripts Blog, British Library, July 21 2019

Image credit: Fly me to the Moon: Dante and Beatrice launch towards the Moon in this Tuscan manuscript of the Divine Comedy from around 1444: Yates Thompson MS 36, f. 131r

• “Not ‘Just My Problem to Handle’: Emerging Themes on Secondary Trauma and Archivists,” by Katie Sloan, Jennifer Vanderfluit, and Jennifer Douglas.

• “Lessons from the 1800s: Creating the Miss Porter’s School Digital Archive,” by Deborah Smith

• “Curating Care: Creativity, Women’s Work, and the Carers UK Archive,” by Alice Hall and Hannah Tweed
  

• “Recognizing Co-Creators in Four Configurations: Critical Questions for Web Archiving,” by Amy

• “The Strategy of Using Social Networks in the Arab Archives,” by Elsayed Salah Elsawy

• OLIS Special Collections Roundtable web page

• Special Collections LibGuide

• RISpecialCollections@googlegroups.com Join for a convenient way to communicate with others who work with special collections and archives in Rhode Island libraries, historical societies, museums, and cultural heritage organizations. Use the link to subscribe. It's your list, so use it to share what matters to you in the field of special collections and archives!

• Special Collections Roundtable Newsletter To subscribe, email to Donna Longo DiMichele

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