Poster Session
Please join us for the poster session featuring speakers from Europe and the US. With a common theme of collaboration, the posters will cover a variety of topics, including special and area studies collections, digital humanities, and mentoring. There will be opportunities for questions and comments.
Monday, April 12: Chair, André Wenzel (University of Chicago)
Pacific (PST) 9-10:30 AM; Mountain (MST) 10-11:30 AM; Central (CST) 11am-12:30 pm; Eastern (EST) 12-1:30 PM; Central Europe (GMT + 1) 6-7:30 PM
Expertise Sharing through Virtual Mentoring
Kelsey Corlett Rivera (Library of Congress, National Library Services for the Blind) and Pirjo Kangas (Finland)
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This poster will explore how best practices developed for a virtual mentoring program could be applied to facilitate expertise sharing, relationship building, and collaboration among European Studies Librarians and vendors in the US and abroad. Virtual options have become even more necessary due to travel and budget restrictions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Cross-Atlantic Collaboration
Hélène Huet (University of Florida)
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This poster will highlight a one-semester collaboration in Fall 2018 between a student from the École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB) and librarians at the University of Florida. As part of their internship, the student’s goal was to create and implement outreach strategies geared towards international students.
The poster will discuss three things. First, it will focus on the intern’s benchmark analysis of outreach strategies at other state and peer institutions and the various outreach strategies consequently proposed by the intern. Second, it will discuss the outreach strategies devised by the intern that were implemented during International Education Week in 2018 and 2019, ranging from a book display to an international film festival.
Third, it will focus on what was learned from this experience: learning how librarianship differs between France and the US, gaining mentoring, supervisory, and project management skills, as well as strengthening a library’s relationship with international students and an international library school. The poster will also mention how the work accomplished during this collaboration impacted the work done in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to reach out to international students and more.
Cooperative Collection Development: Current Practices for Area Studies
Brian Vetruba (University of Minnesota)
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Using results from a 2020 survey sent to librarians at ARL institutions, this poster will provide a composite view of current cooperative collection activities for area studies and foreign language collections. Data for the type of cooperative collection initiative and collection criteria used, as well as languages and formats included, will be shared. The poster also notes librarians’ attitudes and opinions regarding cooperative collection development, especially its benefits and challenges.
Considerations for Building Special Collections in a Consortial Environment
Rachel Makarowski, Katie Gibson (Miami University, Ohio)
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This poster will examine building unique and rare collections for a special collections department in a consortial environment in the United States. Responsible members of a large state-wide consortium must consider all issues of acquisition, cataloging, collaboration with subject librarians and other subject experts, teaching and outreach, opportunities with shared collections, and consortial lending and interlibrary loan.
Two Institutions, One Collection: A Success Story Told with Data and Documentation
Heidi Madden (Duke University, North Carolina), Joanneke Elliott (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and Justin Clark (Harrassowitz)
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European Studies faculty conduct research across the humanities and social sciences in global contexts, and no longer identify as working in a single discipline, region, or language. How can a library maintain PhD level collections on canonical topics, while also procuring materials for diverse, interdisciplinary, and transnational research? Duke University and UNC librarians combined their budget power to build one local collection in German Studies.
Data Management for the Humanities
André Wenzel (University of Chicago)
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Research Data Management (RDM) is a very current and important topic for universities; however, most of the time the Humanities are left out of the frame. More attention needs to be paid to the data produced by Humanists and how librarians are supporting them in the retention of their data.
A DH Model Kit: An Experiment in Team Building with Arts & Humanities Liaison
Morag Stewart, Elliott Stevens, Deb Raftus, and Theresa Mudrock (University of Washington)
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This poster describes how the University of Washington Libraries Arts & Humanities Liaison Team used a Digital Humanities (DH) project to get to know one another, to learn about DH, and to explore the ever-changing role of librarians in the research process. Collaborative learning is energizing and creative while a real project creates structure, purpose, and deadlines. A team-based organization can build trust, minimize duplication of effort, and pool expertise to sustainably offer new services and meet the needs of our academic communities.
New Methods in Digital Libraries: Python Programming for Access to Online Materials
Ian Goodale (University of Texas, Austin)
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This poster examines two case studies of successful coding projects completed at UT Austin. The first is PyGallica, a Python wrapper for the National Library of France’s Gallica API, and the second is a program for full-text extraction of documents available via the Europeana API. The poster addresses the ways in which working on such coding projects can help librarians better serve communities both on and beyond their campuses, assisting with research needs of faculty and students while opening doors for collaboration with international colleagues.
