UW Alum, Joe Karpen, donated the photographs documenting his years at the Seattle campus university between 1968 and 1972. His collection includes seven boxes of negative film, copy sheets, prints, and enlarged mounted photographs. Student events, concerts, construction, protests, rallies, and speakers were captured by his camera. These moments caught on film deserve to be protected, preserved, and processed. Current student, Kelly Omodt, is processing his work to ensure its viable use in the future. Besides following UW standards for processing a collection, Kelly researches places, people, and events to create context for the collection.

Haiti Coffee Co. wanted to create a digital platform to connect the entire ecosystem including farmers, buyers, roasters, consumers, and investors who are interested in spreading awareness and supporting the recovery of Haiti’s coffee industry. To do so, we developed a custom Shopify Theme to enable each of these groups to better engage with Haiti Coffee. This includes tools to ease the build and design of a site, a platform for all target segments to engage with, and a way to better manage the different areas of business that our sponsor works with.

Local companies have a difficult time finding a bulk amount of workers for one-time jobs. This lack of ability to distribute job information and match it to multiple qualified workers is an information distribution problem. By simplifying entry into our database, standardizing job types, and using a custom-built algorithm to match jobs with workers, we are able to provide large quantities of workers to those who need it. We now have a fully designed software that fits our client & contractors’ needs. We also have a prototype, business plan, and development team that will continue the creation of our software.

The Seattle Art Museum Research Libraries are non-circulating and hidden from the public. Promoting and providing access to their newly defined artists’ books collection is a challenge. This project provides access to a select number of artists’ books using a digital exhibit built with quality photographs, rich descriptive metadata, and context on the medium’s history. Artists’ books, as artworks that convey ideas and inspire, expand the notion of what museum libraries collect, broadens the audience it serves, and aids community building among (book) artists. The exhibited works highlight unique structures, regional artists, promote social justice, and/or collaborative projects.

People are constantly busy due to their hectic schedules, which ultimately leaves their lifestyle in total disarray. Individuals tend to rely on quick unhealthy solutions to satisfy their nutritional needs because they lack the effort and time to cook at home. Discovering a recipe that matches the number of their ingredients and equipment can also be a hassle. So how do we improve this process tenfold? With QuickTaste of course! QuickTaste is an intuitive interactive online cookbook that engages users, who wish to save money and reinstill home-cooked meals within their lives by providing a selection of vibrant 30-minute recipes.

HEALWA is an online medical library that provides resources at no additional cost to eligible healthcare professionals in Washington State, in partnership with the WA Department of Health. HEALWA sponsored us to redesign their medical toolkits as part of their outreach and expansion project to increase utilization among potential users. We evaluated HEALWA’s toolkits for accessibility and functionality using their eJournals, eBooks, Databases, and Continuing Education materials, and we created new interdisciplinary toolkits for specific health topics. Our toolkit recommendations have the potential to improve health outcomes for Washington state residents by promoting healthcare provider access to clinical research information.

Spectrum is a melting pot of different sources and types of news, all on one website. We challenge individuals to read from multiple sources and categories and encourage users to reflect on their personal reading habits. We challenged ourselves to create a place where people can leave with a more well-rounded understanding of current events in the world we live in. In the end, we hope to impact everyone who comes across Spectrum and inspire individuals to be aware of various viewpoints and generate mutual understanding between persons of different perspectives, and opinions.

As part of the Oregon Folklife Network’s “Telling Our Stories” online toolkit for educating the public on how to document, archive, and share their history, I created a how-to guide for archiving and retaining value in historic family photographs, using LIS best practices. The guide covers photo preservation basics, looking for themes to assess, organize, and digitize your collection, and collecting and sharing your stories through photos. The "Telling Our Stories" Family Photo Archiving Guide helps individuals to recognize their own stories and connections to history and the value that individual and collective experiences bring to the cultural heritage landscape.

Challenge: How to preserve and make accessible materials related to a Central Washington University ROTC alumni missing in Vietnam. Materials were housed in copy paper boxes and binders in the ROTC offices. Solution: Housed the materials in Archival quality boxes and folders. Had cadets scan the materials and uploaded the files to the institutional repository at Central Washington University, ScholarWorks. Impact: The information on the institutional repository will enable cadets to research San Dewayne Francisco for their reports. It will also bring greater awareness of missing servicemen, efforts to find their remains, and the need of fundraising for those efforts.

Captain David Wilsey, M.D., was one of 27 doctors who entered Dachau concentration camp during its liberation in April 1945. They spent the next month giving medical care to former prisoners. The liberated prisoners were quarantined to prevent the spread of disease. These physicians risked their lives to bring healing to the 30,000 survivors. During his deployment, Wilsey wrote more than 280 letters home. This collection brings these materials together online for the first time. It involved metadata creation, digital curation, community engagement, and educational resource creation. The collection will be housed online permanently for the Holocaust Center for Humanity.