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This lecture explores contemporary factors shaping electoral, partisan and policy developments. After late 20th century civil rights reform, and the growing political incorporation of African Americans into electoral politics, social and political scientists tracked the gradual rise in African American political participation, the increasing numbers of elected officials of color, and perhaps most remarkably, the election in 2008 and 2012 of Barack Obama to the Presidency. Donald Trump’s unexpected election in 2016 challenged that framing of the development of successful racial reform. The 150th Anniversary of the 15th Amendment, and the 50th Anniversary of Civil and Voting Rights legislation, offer an opportunity for reflection. This address, delivered after January 2021’s Three Wednesdays: the January 6th Insurrection on the Capitol, the second Trump Impeachment and the Biden Inauguration, considers our options and where the nation heads from here in the 21st century.
Recently, the Indiana University Libraries implemented Blacklight, an open source discovery layer, as the new public interface for IUCAT, the statewide shared online catalog. Blacklight was chosen as the solution to improve the usability and accessibility of the catalog in response to user and staff dissatisfaction with the traditional ILS OPAC interface and in preparation for IU's upcoming move to the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE). A successful discovery implementation requires buy-in from library staff as well as the approval and acceptance of users; this presentation will highlight the numerous challenges in achieving success in a complex environment of diverse stakeholders with divergent needs and goals. Courtney will give a brief overview of the project thus far, discuss the impact of the new interface on user and staff workflows, and share hopes for further enhancements and plans for the transition to OLE.
In 2011, Adam Matthew Digital published London Low Life: Street Culture, Social Reform and the Victorian Underworld, a digital collection based on books and manuscripts held at the Lilly Library, the principal rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library of the IUB Libraries. Public Services Librarian Erika Dowell, who oversees digital initiatives at the Lilly Library, will talk about the library's experience working with a commercial partner from initial discussions with editors to the nuts and bolts of collaborating with a British publisher and a California based imaging company. Now that the project has been finished for almost a year, she will share lessons learned and important issues to consider when developing a commercial partnership.
In preparation for the opening of the Indiana University Libraries' Scholars' Commons, staff from across the libraries including, Collection Development & Scholarly Communication, Library Technologies, Reference Services, and Arts & Humanities, will engage in an extended, hands-on learning project known as Research Now: Cross Training for Digital Scholarship. Our project team will develop a digital archive tentatively called The History of the Indiana University Libraries, which is conceived as a comprehensive, multimedia, and perpetual digital archive documenting the earliest days of the Indiana University (IU) Libraries through present times. The archive will serve as an engaged learning opportunity for first-year, front line Scholars' Commons staff as we retool our skills and knowledge in preparation for the opening of the Scholars' Commons.
The project aims to:
consolidate two parallel web sites that cover the history of the IU Libraries by migrating the existing content into services such as Archives Online, Image Collections Online, and other services for long-term digital preservation and access
digitize and describe existing content (35 mm slides, photographs, manuscripts, newspaper clippings and other ephemeral materials and objects) held by Lou Malcomb, Head of Social Sciences, Gov Docs and GeoSciences
cross-reference existing digital content about the libraries' history from related resources and repositories
identify, digitize, and describe additional materials in existing repositories across campus
create and compile original primary and secondary source contextual information by way of oral histories, essays, timelines and chronologies, biographical sketches, bibliographies, and other related information
Above all, this is a learning project for frontline Scholars' Commons staff with three broad goals:
to understand the multi-faceted dimensions, iterations and phases involved in designing and developing a curated digital archive
to contribute to this project as researchers
to cultivate ad-hoc learning strategies
Cross-training began in mid-November 2013, and we would like to take this opportunity to provide you with an overview of our praxis-based cross-training initiative, and an update several months into our program. For more on the Research Now: Cross-Training for Digital Scholarship initiative, visit our blog.
Over the course of the 20th century, scholars took up categories of knowledge constructed through classification work done in the library and archive, but methods of analytical bibliography were never well integrated into the academy. As scholars increasingly read and work with digitized texts, however, there is renewed and critical need for bibliographical skills in order to understand how texts have changed over time, especially vis-à-vis their material form. In addition to making a case for bibliography as an essential skill for the modern humanities scholar, I will describe my recent work on creating a TEI bibliography of Isaac Newton's alchemical sources. This project, part of "The Chymistry of Isaac Newton" seeks to reconstruct a comprehensive list of the hundreds of alchemical texts that Newton read and employed from over 5000 fragmentary citations in his manuscripts. Because Newton was a lifelong and extensive alchemical reader, reconstructing a bibliography based on his annotations provides an ideal test case for how alchemical texts were studied in the seventeenth century. As such, this bibliography will be a substantial contribution to modern scholarship on Isaac Newton and the history of science more generally, underscoring the argument that bibliography has an important place in modern humanities scholarship.
Imago is a prototypic 'next-generation' digital repository that is dynamically linked to the collection management databases supported by a unique partnership between the IU Libraries and the Center for Biological Research Collections. Imago is the next stage in the metamorphosis of research data that are currently housed, in the form of physical collection objects, in the collections of the Indiana University Herbarium, the Indiana University Paleontology Collection, and the William R. Adams Zooarchaeology Lab. By taking advantage of dynamic cyberinfrastructure, high-throughput digitization workflows are enabled to build preservation-quality digital research products (3D scans, scanned 35 mm film, specimen photographs etc.), robust metadata integration, and robust linkages to propagate changes in taxonomy, georeferencing, or other augmentations to the existing metadata. Imago also greatly facilitates the discoverability of these collection objects and their metadata to the broader scientific and public community by providing a versatile framework that readily interacts with the API of large-scale biodiversity data aggregators, online curated galleries of images and 3D objects, and citizen-science platforms.
In recent years, the "maker movement" has gained serious traction in higher education. Makerspaces, fab labs, and hackerspaces are popping up in universities and libraries around the world, including Indiana University. In this talk, Leanne Nay, Scholarly Technologies Librarian, will share an overview of makerspaces and services available to the IU community. Join us to learn more about the challenges and opportunities of these initiatives, as well as the library's role in supporting a culture of creativity and making.
