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From Silos to (Archives)Space: Moving Legacy Finding Aids Online as a Multi-Department Library Collaboration
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2016)
Prior to 2014, finding aids from Hunter Library’s Special Collections did not have a publicly
accessible online presence and resided as Microsoft Word documents on an internal library
server. In 2014, Hunter Library began ...
Research First? Assessing the Role of Special Collections Librarians in Academia
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2016)
In academic libraries, one of the lesser-explored discussions surrounds the value and validity
of research done by librarians outside of their own professional literature (LIS). For this
study, the authors surveyed ...
When the Curioso Meets the Curator: Engaging Students Outside of the Classroom
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2016)
University special collections librarians and archivists have a primary mission to
engage students with the material in our collections. For small liberal arts schools
this engagement has traditionally happened in a ...
Assessing agreement level between forced alignment models with data from endangered language documentation corpora
(2012)
Automatic forced alignment between transcriptions has achieved high levels of agreement for languages with large corpora, but the technique holds great promise for work on all languages. Here, we apply two forced alignment ...
From Brooklyn to Binghamton: The Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library & Museum Collection at Binghamton University
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2016)
The Kurds number over 40 million and are a diasporic people scattered
throughout the world, often far from their homeland. An American, Dr. Vera
Beaudin Saeedpour started the Kurdish Heritage Foundation, Kurdish Library
and ...
From Dusty Boxes to Data Bytes Acquiring Rights to Special Collections in the Digital Age
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2016)
Acquiring the rights to special collections material is of increasing importance
as special collections are increasingly being digitized and placed online. Greater
access to materials can lead to greater risk of copyright ...
Acts of Curation: The Curating of Poetry & The Poetics of Curating: a roundtable discussion
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2015-09)
This event was held on Friday, September 19, 2014, in the Poetry Collection of the
University Libraries, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York as part of the
UB Poetics Program’s Fall 2014 Poetics Plus ...
Collecting Nineteenth-Century Books with Photographs
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2015-09)
In the years before photographs could be reproduced in ink alongside letterpress
text, some publishers experimented with photographic illustration by pasting
original photographs into books. Most of these books went ...
Philanthropy, Faith, and Influence: Documenting Protestant Missionary Activism during the Armenian Genocide
(The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2015-09)
American Protestant missionaries played important political and cultural roles in
the late Ottoman Empire in the period before, during, and after the Armenian
genocide. They reported on events as they unfolded and were ...
Typologizing grammatical complexities or Why creoles may be paradigmatically simple but syntagmatically average
(John Benjamins, 2012)
An important theme in work attempting to situate creoles with respect to non-creoles
typologically is the extent to which it can be said that creole grammars are relatively
simple from a cross-linguistic perspective. ...