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Digital Oral Histories: The Case of the Daughters of Bilitis Oral History Project

In this presentation, Laura Cooper Brown will present the class project from LIS 668 Projects in Moving Image and Sound Archiving, which is the digital video oral history…

Voces Digital Audio Achive

CentroSILS showcase Presentation Laura Marte Piccini and Alexandra O’Hara will present on Voces Digital Audio Archive, which is a digital archives created by students in LIS 665 Projects…

Protective Boxes and Enclosures

The goal of this project was to create book enclosures, which are usually made to protect fine and rare books. For our boxes students used only archival, acid…

DPLA Exhibition: The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression

The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression, is an exhibition created in LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives for the DPLA Digital Curation Pilot. The exhibition was launched on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) in Spring 2014

Creating Dancers on Dance: Oral Histories of Ballet

The Dancers on Dance: Oral Histories of Ballet digital archive collects audio interviews with ballet greats and makes them available through a browsable and searchable Omeka interface, with improved discoverability provided by Dublin Core metadata elements.

Archiving Cemeteries

Archives store, maintain and organize a variety of primary sources, which can range from letters to audiovisual recordings along with any primary documentation in-between. Archiving cemeteries offer an…

Vanishing Histories: A Look at Loss and Theft in Archives

Theft of unique items from special collections and archive departments is not a new phenomenon, nor is it a thing of the past. Understanding the seedier side of the industry can help librarians secure history for future generations.