Understanding collation is an important part of studying material texts. However, current tools for representing this information, such as collation formulae, can provide obstacles to accessibility. The Collation Visualization project (VisColl) helps to remedy these issues by providing a means of visualizing a codex’s collation via a digital model. In this project, I created models for 39 codices held by Penn Libraries using VCEditor, the software implementation of VisColl. I then helped prepare the models for upload to ScholarlyCommons, University of Pennsylvania’s open-access institutional repository, and created documentation to assist future VisColl contributors.

The goal of this project was to help a preschool-8th grade independent school to evolve their Innovation Vision through research about stakeholders goals, review of existing resources, collaboration with other school learning lab spaces, and a foundation in the school’s own mission. By synthesizing input from each of the stakeholder groups with my MLIS experiences, I was able to write an Innovation Vision for the school, along with a specific list of observations and suggestions for development of their new Innovation Center. This Vision will serve as a guide for the evolution of the Innovation Curriculum in the coming years.

A small collection of 8 early printed books resided in the vaults for 70 years, unidentified and uncataloged. This collection was only known to two librarians in UW Libraries Special Collections, and remained unidentified due to lack of time available for catalogers to work with them, and lack of urgency for such materials from researchers. In order to help catalogers begin the cataloging process, I identified and created proto-records for these books, and designed two outreach events for rare books librarians to use in the future that would bring more awareness to the existence of the collection.

The project's goal is to digitize all the physical records, documents, artifacts, photos, that have originated from and around the Puyallup area. These digitized objects will then be uploaded onto the Puyallup Public Library website for local use.

The library cataloging communities are transitioning to the official Resource Description and Access (RDA) as their new standard for resource description. This project addresses the need for application profiles to facilitate the creation of well-formed RDA metadata. The focus is on designing a profile for describing print monographs and implementing new data models, entities, and elements introduced in the official RDA. The result is eight Sinopia resource templates and accompanying HTML guidance documents. This pioneering work will enable libraries to start creating RDA/RDF description sets and is expected to promote wider adoption of the official RDA.

This project took digitized films of Robert Garfias (founder of the UW Ethnomusicology Archives) and made them accessible via the UW Ethnomusicology Archives and Internet Archive. This largely included cleaning up and working with the metadata, and creating standard filenames, all the while considering copyright and ethics of the films. While uploading films there was a deeper work with metadata, particularly with subject headings and material descriptions, and continuously learning about the processes of preserving and/or digitizing film.

Scarecrow Video is a nonprofit video store and archive that houses over 145,000 titles. Scarecrow has been growing its collection for over 30 years, across various catalog system conversions, resulting in many inconsistencies and gaps in the catalog’s metadata. For our capstone project, we were responsible for checking and correcting metadata within the Sci-Fi and Japanese Horror genres. Ultimately, we verified metadata for over 600 titles. This updated metadata will increase the usability and searchability of Scarecrow’s catalog, and assist the transition into Scarecrow’s new web-based system that will be launched in the next few months.

This project sought to support the work of the librarians at Lakeside School Upper School, a private high school in Seattle, WA. The librarians needed to find a solution to a decrease in time available to devote to direct instruction pertaining the use of the many databases that the library purchases for access by its students. The Capstone team, in order to help solve this problem, created 31 video-based user guides on how to use 11 different databases, as well as videos devoted to general database use instruction (i.e. search strategies, keywords, etc.).

Last year, SGS, a private, nonprofit middle school, moved into its permanent home, along with a collection of 2,000 books and no library staff. The library presented many challenges, namely an uncataloged fiction collection, a nonexistent circulation system, and an overwhelming lack of student engagement. Together with my sponsor and four students, I developed the Student Librarianship Program, cataloged 775 fiction books, established a check out process, and celebrated our progress with the entire school. SGS’s community of 170 students and staff now have a library they can use and a renewed sense of excitement about its continued evolution.

Working with the Whitman County Historical Society to help them discover what specific surplus materials they have in storage, I inventoried over five hundred individual items while creating a directory of potential new homes for those materials that fell out of the Society’s scope and flagging those that might be considered for integration into their collection. In conjunction with an interactive PowerPoint presentation, this project allows the Society to easily find and access these materials, with the end-goal of opening up storage space and moving on surplus materials to organizations that will recognize and utilize their full informational potential.