Moving Toward “Mega-choice”: The Evolution of Access Technologies in Special Collections
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Moving Toward “Mega-choice”: The Evolution of Access Technologies in Special Collections |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Sean Heyliger; <p><b>Sean Heyliger</b> currently works as an archivist at the African American Museum & Library at Oakland, a division of the Oakland Public Library. He has worked previously as an archivist for the City of San Antonio and as the university archivist at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He holds an MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin with an emphasis in archives and records management and has been a Certified Archivist since 2008 and earned his DAS certification in 2014.</p> <p><b>Juli McLoone</b> joined the University of Michigan Special Collections Library as an Outreach Librarian & Curator in January of 2015. Previously, she held the position of Rare Books Librarian at the University of Texas at San Antonio beginning in 2009. She holds an MA in library and information science with a Graduate Certificate in Book Studies and an MA in Cultural Anthropology, all from the University of Iowa. During her time at Iowa, she gained experience in Special Collections as an Olson Fellow from 2007 to 2009. Her professional interests include primary source literacy and hands-on instruction, outreach in the digital age, children’s literature and illustration, food studies, and born-digital collections.</p> <p><b>Nikki Lynn Thomas</b> is currently the Archivist for Collection Management for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Special Collections and University Archives, where she oversees accessioning, arrangement, description, and preservation functions for the department. Prior to UNC Charlotte, she was Manuscripts Curator at the University of Texas at San Antonio for more than 7 years. Nikki was awarded an MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin with an emphasis in archives and records management in 2006, has been a Certified Archivist since 2008, and received her DAS certification in 2013. Her professional interests include appraisal, documenting underdocumented communities, social media use by archival repositories, web archiving, and debating the merits of access versus preservation.</p> |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Juli McLoone |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Nikki Lynn Thomas |
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| 4. | Description | Abstract | Introduction Recent technological changes have brought questions of access to the forefront of the special collections and archival professions and transformed the process by which access is attained. Librarians and archivists are increasingly called to make far-reaching decisions about the evolving shape of both in-person and remote access to collections, and newcomers to the profession, in particular, can benefit from better understanding the adoption, evolution, and disruption of older access technologies. While contemplating RBM’s call for submissions on the theme of “the digital vs. the physical,” the authors found themselves reading extensively on the subject of past access systems. Hoping . . . |
| 5. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Assn. of College & Research Libraries, a division of theAmerican Library Association |
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| 7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2016-03-01 |
| 8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://rbm.acrl.org/index.php/rbm/article/view/455 |
| 10. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | https://doi.org/10.5860/rbm.17.1.455 |
| 11. | Source | Title; vol., no. (year) | RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage; Vol 17, No 1 (2016): Spring |
| 12. | Language | English=en | en |
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Copyright Sean Heyliger, Juli McLoone, Nikki Lynn Thomas This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. |