The problem our project is trying to solve is that our Sponsor organization, a PreK-8 school, is unable to provide adequate library time to the students in grades PreK-3 due to a lack of resources. We created a diverse classroom library that rotates between the PreK-3 classrooms. Our goal is to support their literacy growth by increasing their access to high quality and appealing books. The books focus on diversity and inclusion acting as windows, mirrors, and doors. We also provided the school with resources that will assist them in continuing the work of adding diverse books into their library.

The John Wott Slide Collection was originally intended to support academic reference and research, and it is now combined with 35mm slides created by Joy Spurr. Through this project, we intend to set up an organized foundation for the Elisabeth C. Miller Library to digitize these materials on a manageable budget and make them available to support teaching and research in a more modern era of technology. Deliverables include a weeded, organized, and cataloged slide collection, an online exhibit established in Omeka, and a research paper discussing digitization, preservation, funding, and budget options for the collection materials.

We worked with Reach Out and Read Colorado, a nonprofit that incorporates reading into pediatric care, to help improve literacy-rich waiting rooms in an urban and a rural clinic. First, we interviewed rockstar clinics about what makes a successful space. We then established community partnerships to provide books, art, and furniture. And we connected clinics with local librarians to promote library resources. Finally, we compiled our learnings into a best practices guide to be distributed nationally to ROR partner clinics. Although Covid-19 prevented us from delivering all materials, we managed to support the clinics and their efforts for early literacy.

The Cost-Effectiveness Meta-Regression team at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) informs health policy by conducting analyses exploring the cost-effectiveness of health service provisions. This project aims to simplify the maintenance of IHME’s Health Interventions Taxonomy (HIT), while exploring the potential for resource enrichment through annotations. This project resulted in an evaluation of HIT and workplan for improvements, alongside a prototype system demonstrating the benefits of using an ontology for representing and processing the datasets. The evaluation and workplan provides a guide for IHME researchers to transition their taxonomy into a formal knowledge organization system.

The Washington Talking Book Library is committed to serving the needs of Washington residents that are unable to read standard print material due to blindness, visual impairment, deaf-blindness, physical disabilities, or reading disability. In addition to librarians and staff, patrons at the library are served by an auto-select function in the catalog that sorts through and matches individual preferences with appropriate books--for patrons new to the library, this function may not serve their interests. For new and experienced patrons alike, the collection will offer something new to explore. The Crowd-Pleasers Collection aims to give patrons what they want to read.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Thurston County WA, serve a diverse group of children. For various reasons, some club members do not have access to a public library. Members spend a large amount of their afterschool time at the clubs, Our solution: setting up small libraries at the clubs, to provide an opportunity for club members to checkout books that they would be interested in. Being stakeholders in the library, club members select the books, setup ,and run the library. The library supports literacy as well as the Club's mission of inspiring and enabling youth to realize their greatness.

The Hoosier Dome, an all ages DIY music venue in Indianapolis, Indiana, has hosted several generations of local musical talent since its inception in 2012, and has had a significant impact on the development of the Indianapolis music scene. Photos taken at the Hoosier Dome have been spread across various social media accounts, and as time has passed these photos are in danger of disappearing or becoming inaccessible. The Hoosier Dome archive is creating a space to store and create community access to these photos and to preserve Hoosier Dome history.

As Starbucks increases its drink lineup, with currently over 90 beverages, beverage recipe cards have become increasingly important learning and reference materials. We worked with Starbucks stakeholders and baristas to explore how beverage recipe cards are used across physical and digital platforms. We created information architecture and standardization recommendations, metadata, content models, and dictionaries to steer recipe card sharing and development. By standardizing the content and organization of recipe cards, we improve the barista learning experience and move towards making beverage recipe and preparation information interoperable data resources to empower other business activities, such as supply ordering and efficiency studies.

The Data Refuge Data Catalog archives federal climate and environmental data. It provides historical snapshots of datasets released on government data portals, which are vulnerable to deletion. Yet the metadata associated with these Data Refuge records have been minimal, and their relationship with the source records have not been clearly defined. To address this, we investigated crosswalking solutions, improved metadata of target datasets, customized an extensible schema, standardized tagging with controlled vocabulary, and documented workflow for future-phase implementation. The results improve trustworthiness and interoperability, facilitate more seamless data discovery and retrieval, and meet the needs of both archivists and researchers.

UW Special Collections received a collection from deceased Seattle-area photojournalist Grant Haller in 2018. The collection has high anticipated research value because it documents many instances of activism lead by a variety of underrepresented groups, and fills in coverage gaps of modern photographers at Special Collections. However, very little was known about the condition, specific contents, and preservation needs of the material until this project began, and there was low institutional and public knowledge of the collection’s existence. This project combines several archival competencies—including processing, researching, arranging, preserving, and outreach—to help increase knowledge and future use of the photographs.