49 research outputs found
Ambiguity and the Digital Archivist
No full textThis article presents an exploratory study of the use and interpretation of the position title “digital archivist,” and considers issues in how this term is used and understood, particularly in regard to working with born-digital materials. It looks at discussions of terminology and mentions of the digital archivist title in professional literature and provides a brief content analysis of digital archivist position advertisements from between 1995 and 2012 that focuses on responsibilities of working with born-digital versus digitization. The lack of clarity and consensus regarding what a digital archivist is or does reflects uncertainty within the archival profession even as its members and organizations declare the need for consistent or agreed-upon terminology.This article (c) 2013 by the author. It has been digitized from its published print version in Provenance 31(2).Peer reviewe
Conversations with Danielle Cronin, Philip Howard and Julian Thomas
No full textThis chapter focuses on the expanding civic role and challenges for investigative journalists using digital and social media. The chapter includes conversations with Danielle Cronin (national deputy editor of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), as well as Professor Philip Howard (director of the Oxford Internet Institute), along with Distinguished Professor Julian Thomas (director of the ARC Centre of Excellence at RMIT University). They share their insights into setting an agenda of priorities for research and practice about public interest journalism. This chapter is an edited transcription of their conversations with the author, Dr Caryn Coatney, for a panel session sponsored by the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association.
- This chapter provides new material about the impact of social media, online audiences and automation on investigative journalism
Romance Writers' Use of Archives
No full textThe relationship between popular romance—a frequently marginalized and disdained genre—and the library and archival field has attracted varying degrees of attention. Yet the question of whether writers of popular romance use archives when researching their stories has been little studied. This article draws on a survey of 200 romance writers to show that, far more than many archivists may have thought, romance writers are a constituency, and quite often a passionate one. Nearly half of the respondents indicated that they have used archives for researching their works, with more using libraries. Romance writers enjoy working in archives, appreciate the level of detail that archival research enables them to bring to their work, and can feel inspired and even awed by what they find there. But like other "nontraditional" users, they also report feeling at times frustrated by their inability to locate materials due to inadequate guidance, limitations in travel, and a lack of digitized collections. Reflecting on these and other findings from the survey, the article offers an examination of potential benefits of romance writers using archives and suggests further steps for research and outreach. It also considers the impact that archivists' perceptions of researchers and topics as "serious" versus "frivolous" may have on interactions with users.Peer reviewe
“Complete and in Order”: Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the Archival Profession
No full textArchival literature has discussed the portrayal of archives and archivists in fiction, but has not offered a reading of a work of fiction with little-to-no overt mention of the archival profession. This article demonstrates the value of looking at such works of fiction through an archival lens by providing an “archival reading” of one famous novel that has been the subject of numerous scholarly articles and books, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Although a tale of the supernatural, Dracula’s narrative portrays the importance of recordkeeping, research, and access to and organization of information. This article considers the narrative and plot of Dracula from an archival perspective, discusses literature about the portrayal of archives and archivists in fiction, and examines how Dracula reflects nineteenth-century trends in organizing information.Originally published in The American Archivist, and available at: http://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.76.2.wn3964n4r01h7034Peer reviewe
Rutgers' 1870 Centennial Celebration and Other Charter-related Puzzles
No full textAs Rutgers celebrates its 250th anniversary, this article looks back at other moments of celebration in its history, particularly its centennial celebration and the first Charter Day. It discusses how, after celebrating the centennial in the "wrong" year, the Rutgers community came to have a better understanding of its own founding and history. This article examines how Charter Day came into being, and demonstrates the impact of Rutgers' acquisition of a contemporaneous copy of its second charter (from 1770)
Rutgers' 1870 Centennial Celebration and Other Charter-Related Puzzles
No full textAs Rutgers celebrates its 250th anniversary, this article looks back at other moments of celebration in its history, particularly its centennial celebration and the first Charter Day. It discusses how, after celebrating the centennial in the "wrong" year, the Rutgers community came to have a better understanding of its own founding and history. This article examines how Charter Day came into being, and demonstrates the impact of Rutgers' acquisition of a contemporaneous copy of its second charter (from 1770)
Curiosity's Cats: Writers on Research
No full textReview of the book Curiosity’s Cats: Writers on Research, ed. Bruce Joshua Miller (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2014)
Mirriam-Goldberg, Caryn, collection, circa 1975-2022
No full textCaryn Mirriam-Goldberg was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1959. Her early years were spent in Brooklyn and Manalapan, New Jersey. As a young adult she traveled west to study journalism at the University of Missouri, earning a degree in labor history. Caryn received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, and she has trained in organizational development and group process, grassroots organizing, poetry therapy, and teaching yoga. She is the recipient of Kansas Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Rocky Mountain National Park artist-in-residency, and other honors.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg was the Kansas Poet Laureate from 2009-2013, and today is a writer, teacher, coach and consultant. Founder of Transformative Language Arts, Caryn is the author or editor of over twenty books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, a memoir, and anthologies. A registered songwriter with BMI, her poetry and prose has been published widely. Caryn lives near Lawrence, Kansas with her husband, bioregional writer Ken Lassman.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/1427/thumbnail.jp
Legacies and Lifecycles: Digitizing Oral History Collections at Rutgers University
No full textBoth the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) and Special Collections and University Archives (SC/UA) have undertaken projects to digitize legacy oral history collections in collaboration with Technical and Automated Services. Although the goals of the projects were the same, the teams working on them faced different issues and challenges regarding formats, rights, and delivery as they moved through the digital project life cycle. The solutions to these required different approaches.Poster presented at Data Driven: Digital Humanities in in the Libraries conference June 22, 2014, Charleston, SC.Peer reviewe
A Crucible Moment and the Current State of Engagement: A Conversation with Caryn McTighe Musil
No full textThis article discusses A Crucible Moment, a “National Call to Action” by the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement commissioned by the Department of Education. The report describes a national crisis in civic engagement and calls on higher education to make civic learning and democratic engagement an expected part of every student’s college education. The article includes an interview with the report’s lead author, Caryn McTighe Musil, who offers her view on the current state of engagement in American universities, describes the process through which A Crucible Moment was produced, and discusses the concepts of collective civic problem solving and generative partnerships. I reflect on key themes from the interview and A Crucible Moment and explore how readers can work to improve regional engagement efforts on their campuses in response to this call
