Special Collections currently houses a large donated collection of Historical Children’s Literature that focuses on Indigenous people, approximately 1500 books. Our project centers on how Natives Americans were depicted between the 1930s and 1970s, how their portrayal has changed over time, and what we as information professionals can do to present this data accurately and responsibly in the current day. We approached this by splitting the scope between public libraries, where possible, and academic libraries/special collections, as each of us has different interests and goals but a common purpose of making these historical materials available.

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.

Patrons, staff, and researchers at The Seattle Public Library have difficulty finding Seattle Grunge music items in the library’s collection. The catalog keyword search, “Seattle grunge”, only produces 24 items. We amassed a Seattle Grunge Collection of both cataloged and uncatalogued materials to ensure that everyone can easily discover and access the library’s current and future holdings of music, movies, books, articles, local zines, posters, fan club newsletters, and other ephemera. We not only provided easy search and access of this collection, we also created a model that can be replicated to develop and preserve other local Seattle music collections.

Thomas Handforth was an artist, author, and winner of the 1939 Caldecott Medal. After his death, the Tacoma Public Library agreed to archive over 900 pieces of his artwork. The main objective of this capstone was to organize, digitize, and catalog the most fragile and friable pieces in the collection for online accessibility to the public. I scanned and photographed, created metadata, and integrated the digital files of his art into the library’s online catalog. For too long Thomas Handforth has been unknown. By creating this catalog, users will be able to learn more about this incredible artist.

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.

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.

Students studying lighting design have limited opportunities to publish their work in an academic setting. Very few institutions publish theatrical design documentation as they are not considered student research in the traditional sense. This project sought to showcase how Institutional Repositories are a perfect solution for this publishing gap. The results included the publication of the design process work of an undergraduate student for three separate productions. Furthermore, Boise State University's Institutional Repository is now better equipped to support student research in the Arts & Humanities, allowing them to diversify their collections.