This project was a pilot for collaborative work between Special Collections’ Book Arts & Rare Books and University Archives curatorial areas to accession and steward archival materials pertaining to book and literary arts, beginning with Broken Moon Press (1982-1997)—a small independent trade press publishing international literature. After labor-intensive inventorying, arrangement, description, preservation activities, and records creation, 45 boxes (47.3 linear feet) of materials were accessioned into Special Collections. A comprehensive finding aid was created to guide user access to this now publicly available collection encompassing the Press’s work, the underrepresented creators they collaborated with, and a broader independent press network.

This digital humanities project presents a selection of digitized French and Vietnamese-language books, published between 1920 and 1937 in Vietnam, when Vietnam was part of French colonial Indochina. The books are contained in the Indochina Collection of Robert Jones III at University of Washington Libraries. The exhibit seeks to 'bring these books to life' by introducing the publishing houses that created them, and providing context about the authors and publishers involved in their creation. This project demonstrates how curated digital humanities exhibits can provide context and interpretation to interest new users in digital collections and improve archival access for all.

This project addresses the need for discoverable and accessible archival materials about Black histories at Occidental College. In the last decade, Oxy students increasingly utilize archival study and the digital humanities to advance their research and progress student movements. The College’s archive is rich with materials, but access is limited due to slow processes towards digitization, lack of finding guides, and loss of digital exhibits. Using Collection Builder, this project builds a framework for a sustainable, publicly accessible digital archive that benefits its target audience and presents a replicable model for other affinity organizations and community archives.

Camano Island has a lot of incredible history and a lot of people who are interested in it but, until recently, had nowhere to connect the two. The Camano City Schoolhouse Archive solves an information need for historians and genealogists on the island, as well as local people who have historic materials they want to donate. We’ve been able to establish the archive, build procedures, and train volunteers so archival work can continue for decades. Now, our space is open for any researcher, and our digital collection is growing every week - which connects people with Camano’s varied history.

This project evaluated Marshall County Public Library’s response to the December 2021 tornado in Western Kentucky. The primary deliverable was a revised tornado response plan for use at the library. Secondary deliverables included a crisis response taxonomy suggestion for the Marshall County Public library website, and a general framework for consideration in climate disaster planning. The Cycle of Disaster Planning and trauma-informed solutions presented here are a synthesis of information gathered about Marshall County Public Library, as well as current disaster management literature.

The “Cataloging Community Stakeholders” allows WCLS staff to catalog information on significant relationships with key community stakeholders in Whatcom County. Staff members can input contact information for community stakeholders, as well as basic information about the organizations, areas of expertise, or topics that they represent. The project took the form of an Airtable where information about key community stakeholders is housed and searched based on criteria determined by WCLS staff. This tool supports outreach and relationship building between WCLS and the Whatcom County Community by centralizing information and easing the burden for new and veteran staff collaborating with community partners.

In the realm of amateur fan archiving, the digital preservation of its fanfiction is held paramount. However, fanfiction is the natural result of its hosting platform, and it is crucial to consider this in its preservation. Through exploring both the history of the tenuous digital space of fan communities and its fanfiction terminology, this series of blog posts reveals three potential solutions to the natural difficulties of preserving context and space: introductions, disclaimers, and emulation. This project can function as a complement to the work of fan archivists to ensure that their efforts are as complete as is feasible.

This capstone project wanted to determine characteristics of materials shared internationally by libraries’ interlibrary loan (ILL) departments, seeking to determine drivers behind such resource sharing and whether any interesting or useful patterns in the practice could be identified. By interviewing institutions who participate in international ILL, we found that the experience, and number of resources shared by the participants varied greatly and were the result of differing circumstances. It was determined that participants faced similar challenges the world over, but that the responsibility ILL teams feel to their users to provide the best access to resources is universal.