Symposium 2005

Keynote Address
Room 130

Breakout Session 1 ~ 9:30-10:20 a.m.

Room 117

Maps to Multi-media: Comparative Strategies for Online Access to Oral History Collections at Five Academic Archives ~ Presented by Nancy Bronte Matheny
Oral histories lead researchers to persons, things, and events, in a most unique way.  Personal stories integrate lived experiences with written history. The purpose of the presentation is to understand best practices in enabling access to researchers of oral history collections at five academic archives, via the World-Wide Web.

Room 129

Faculty Tenure Standards vs. Open Access Initiatives in Academia ~ Presented by Kim Leeder
This paper reviews the open access movement at universities across the county, as evidenced by the passing of institutional resolutions, and addresses the tenure system as a major obstacle to its success. The author calls for administrators and tenure committees to actively endorse open access and revise their standards accordingly.

Curriculum-based classification: Case Study at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine Library~ Presented by Daniela Solomon

Classification systems such as NLM and LCC have been developed to implement standardization within libraries. However, for a variety of reasons, many libraries have created new classification systems to improve accessibility of highly specialized collections. This paper presents the case of SCNM Library that has adapted its classification system to match the curriculum structure at the College.

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Trading With The Enemy: An Exploration of U.S. Censorship Against Scholarship from Sanctioned Countries ~ Presented by Jennifer Redford
Historically, the United States government has enacted strict security measures against enemy nations in times of war. This trend has evolved into a system whereby scholarship from sanctioned countries is now subject to censorship by the U.S. government, which raises serious constitutional questions.

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Middle East Collection Librarianship: The Special Challenges and Rewards of Preserving Intellectual Achievement and Collective Memory~ Presented by Christine Dykgraff
Middle East librarians are rarely described as preserving collective memory, though that is what they do. This paper presents the philosophy and history of Middle East collections and the ways they preserve collective memory with too little money, experts, respect, space, personnel, and honestly, with often too narrow an understanding of the Middle East.

Breakout Session 2 ~ 10:30-11:20 a.m.

Room 117

Bioacoustic Archives: A World Tour ~ Presented by Diana Stirling
Join the presenter on a guided tour of bioacoustic archives around the world. A brief introduction will be followed by notes on the history, organization and purpose of each of the archives surveyed. No need to scrimp and save for this adventure - your ticket is absolutely FREE!

Room 129

Collaborating with Users to Improve Websites ~ Presented by Marti Lindsey
Web sites are virtual libraries and are best created collaboratively. This paper discusses a model of asynchronous collaboration between creators and users of web sites. It highlights important work from the field of information literacy and identifies methods of obtaining feedback and feedthrough from the users to improve web site collections and user access to web site materials.

Room 135

Casualty of the Digital Revolution: Preserving Preservation ~ Presented by Michelle Ganz
In today’s technology-driven world librarians have a duty to protect the paper versions of important work. The preservationist will repair and preserve; but it is the librarian who must decide what will be saved. We must remember that our choices will impact the future of knowledge as we know it.

Preservation of Electronic Correspondence ~ Presented by Sabrina Thomas
For the past two decades, literature discussing the loss of digitally born items has been limited to electronic publications and Web sites while little attention has been given to the loss of personal correspondence among scholars, artists, and scientists. A new understanding of the impact of technology on archival collections is required to prevent the loss of such important information.

Room 145

Reggae Music: Rez Style ~ Presented by Janelle Joseph
Representation of Native American culture in various forms, such as Reggae music, is nearly non-existent in library collections. This paper addresses the characteristics, influence and origins of Reggae music on some southwestern tribes – mainly the Hopi. Reggae music, for Native Americans, has been a more recent source of expression, activism, and empowerment.

Minority Underrepresentation: The Need for Diversity in Librarianship ~ Presented by Joy Wilcox
Many libraries have instilled diversity initiatives, developed diversity committees and held conferences on multiculturalism and have done so for decades. Yet statistics reveal that minorities are still underrepresented in the profession. Most within our field agree that this phenomenon is unacceptable and that changes need to be made.

Breakout Session 3 ~ 11:30-12:20 p.m.

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The Achievement Standards Network~ Presented by Bruce Fulton
Learn about the Achievement Standards Network (ASN), a research project funded by the National Science Foundation. The ASN provides librarians, media specialists and educators with an authoritative collection of state and nationally recognized academic learning standards in formats useful for cataloging, research, reporting, and integration with education technology applications.

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Designing Instructional Curriculum: From Collaboration to Class Sessions
~ Presented by Christina Prucha
This talk highlights the process used to create English as a Second Language (ESL) instructional materials with an emphasis on the role of collaboration. This framework is appropriate for most school libraries from universities to elementary schools. Curriculum development and Information Literacy Competency Standards will be addressed and ESL materials will be provided as examples of these principles.

Sharing Literacy: Redefining Space and Community in Youth Literacy Programming
~ Presented by Deborah Sandler
This paper discusses a youth poetry program, Inside/Out, which consists of students in an alternative high school and in juvenile detention. The program is discussed in terms of the ways in which it stretches and challenges definitions and purposes of literacy programming, challenging concepts of space and community, and illustrating the importance of process-oriented programming.

Room135

Knowing Pa’O: Identity and Information in Myanmar (Burma) Ethnic Minority Library
~ Presented by Christopher Miller
This paper investigates the role of internal and external challenges to the library of the Pa’O Literary and Cultural Committee in the preservation, access, and (re)presentation of ethnic Pa’O knowledge structures and culture. Central to the study is the negotiation of Pa’O identity and agency in the library environment and beyond.

Room 145

A New Multilingualism: Librarians and Computer Programming Languages
~ Presented by Juliann Couture
The emergence of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) a decade ago began to blur the lines between archivists and computer programmers. Now it is time for librarians to blur those lines as well. Having more librarians that understand computer languages will change the way that we can serve the users of our libraries.

Underrepresented Minorities in Archives ~ Presented by Jennifer Young
The field of archives in western civilization has historically under-valued and under-prioritized collections consisting of minority individuals and groups. This presentation describes the processing of the Esther Don Tang collection, emphasizing the significance of the life of a Chinese-American woman who has been vital to Tucson’s community and business growth since the 1950’s.

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