In small, mid-sized clinics, inventory management is a chore that takes valuable resources away from more important tasks. Our project aims to streamline this task in the healthcare space by making it more accessible and updatable. By creating a reactive web app, we intend to make item logging and status almost instantly accessible through each users personal device. This makes it easy for the entire medical staff to locate, refill, and reorder essential medical supplies. By diversifying the accessibility to item inventory and locations, we hope to improve the flow of daily operations within the medical space.

Cataloging streaming audio resources ensures streaming audio content is accessible and discoverable. However, many records do not adhere to standardized file formats. These errors cause increased workload and lost work hours. Enhancement of streaming audio metadata can be addressed in multiple ways: facilitating metadata conversations with content providers, original cataloging of streaming audio resources, and creating recommended best practices. This project focuses primarily on creating best practices and demonstrating those practices in original cataloging records. Through establishing best practices for creating streaming audio metadata, this project takes an important first step toward improving accessibility and discoverability of streaming audio resources.

“William S. Boyd School of Law: The First 20 Years” is an online archives and physical exhibit which invites members of the Nevada legal community to reflect upon the growth of our state’s only law school since its founding in 1998. The Wiener-Rogers Law Library at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law sponsored this project. From the sponsor’s existing holdings, over 200 artifacts were selected for digitization. Roughly half of the digitized artifacts were added to a newly created online collection. Certain other artifacts were selected for physical exhibition, on display in the sponsor library through December 2019.

We do not believe that having a disability limits a person’s potential. Everyone should have the equal access to the “new world”. We adopted the four principles published by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the UW record management websites, to make sure they are perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. This project is going to help both Records Management Services and its over 20,000 users.

The hardworking board members and volunteers of the Washington National Guard Museum have dedicated themselves to collecting, preserving, and displaying the rich history of Washington State’s brave military personnel. By continuing initial cataloging efforts of the Museum’s vast photographic collection, and beginning to make the entire collection available through an online database, our team helped further the Museum’s mission to instruct, inspire and educate all citizens. This project ensures the Museum’s goal of becoming an essential research library will soon become a reality.

For my capstone project, I processed and created finding aids for five visual materials collections from UW Special Collections. As a result of this project, materials that were previously inaccessible to researchers are now contextualized and fully searchable through Archives West and UW Digital Collections. Multiple steps had to be taken in order to make the materials accessible: researching and arranging materials, housing materials in appropriate archival housings, encoding materials using the XML publishing program XMetaL Author, scanning images and creating digital surrogates, and revising finding aids based on the feedback of UW’s Visual Materials Curator Nicolette Bromberg.

The Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) Digital Archive was created with the goal of cataloging and digitizing slides, posters, audiotapes, videos, photographs and ephemera collected over the past 35 years. We helped CoCA move closer towards that goal by digitizing selected photographic slides and newsletters, cataloging individual items, and posting them onto the CoCA website. We successfully added 9 exhibits from 1990-2002, digitizing and cataloging almost 100 slides, along with several CoCA newsletters (1983-1990). As a result, these exhibits will be accessible to the public, and will hopefully stir more interest to continue digitizing other materials collected by CoCA.

The city of Los Angeles consists of a diverse population sprawled over 500sq. miles. One unifying theme throughout the city is its love of artwork; street art has taken over the city, giving each borough its own culture and attitude. Street art defines the attitude of the citizens and presents a message, unlike graffiti, which is used to promote hate and fear. Many have tried to document the art throughout the city, but almost none have been trusted within the communities. Along with the Los Angeles Public Library, I have worked to begin a digital collection available to the public.

Virtualizing the physical for the world to discover.

My task was to curate an online exhibit for University of Washington Special Collections, highlighting the rare early twentieth-century Russian children’s books that were recently donated to Special Collections by the Harer family. I selected and digitized fifty of the most historically significant books, conducted background research, and wrote contextual essays on children’s book design, juxtaposing the pre-revolutionary dream-world of stylized ornament with the constructivist, geometrical forms of the revolutionary era. Now people throughout the world will have access to these important books, which are not only for children but are also works of art in themselves.