Ithaka/JSTORASB New York – Abby Smith

● Created a matrix for evaluating primary source digitization programs

● Identified key projects

● Evaluated 10 important digitization initiatives

Folger Shakespeare LibraryFinding Guide Recon

� Entering information from

paper finding aids into

Archivists’ Toolkit

� Creating item level

descriptions of materials

using original documents

� Handling special and rare

materials related to

Shakespeare

Adriana Maynardhttp://living-in-washingtondc.com/closestmetro-folgershakespeare.php

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center

Suitland, Maryland

• Great Archives and Records Management internship!

• Weeded NMAI records according to SI NMAI records retention schedules

• Prepared records to be sent to the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Alicia Kildau, MSI 2013 ARM 

Folger Shakespeare Library

 Refoldered William Winter autograph letter collection

 Described items in Archivist’s Toolkit

 Improved online access for 19th century collections

Allison Bailey – ASB – 2012 – Washington, D.C.

Search  Engine  Op.miza.on    at  the  Chicago  Office  of  Tourism  

Allie  Bartoszewicz    First  Year  MSI  

• Assessed  page  content  on  ExploreChicago.org  website  for  Neighborhoods,  Tours,  Events,  and  AHrac.ons  

• Created  and  updated  meta-­‐descrip.ons  and  keywords  

• Improved  search  for  both  local  tourists  and  visitors  to  Chicago  

NEW YORK PUBLIC

LIBRARY Clason’s Point Branch

Bronx, NY

• Created a “recommended reads” display

• Helped answer patrons’ questions

• Developed information resources on career exploration

for teens

Amanda Kauffman

ITHAKA/JSTOR Collection Development Research Andrea Neuhoff ASB 2012

Goal: Create an interdisciplinary list of core journals to inform a content development strategy.

Process: Gathered journal indexes from multiple sources and reviews; cleaning up data and removing duplicates

Final Product: Massive excel sheet that consolidates data from multiple sources and allows user to filter information by discipline, index, factor, publisher, and other important subjects.

Most Valuable Part: Conversations with my mentors about the larger issues with collection development and taxonomy. Andrea Neuhoff

Andrea B.

Usability Intern Space Visualization Lab,

Adler Planetarium

Adler Planetarium

Gravity Wall Case Study Spring Break – Chicago - 2012

• Utilized research methodologies including field

observation, heuristic evaluation, survey administration,

and usability testing.

• Challenged to think about heuristics for a gesture-

controlled interface.

• Gained real-world experience employing methods

learned in SI classes.

• Based on evaluation findings, Adler changed the Gravity

Wall display to improve visitor experience.

I spent my week at the Adler Planetarium evaluating

their Gravity Wall display, which incorporates

embodied interaction via an Xbox Kinect to allow

visitors to explore how gravitational pull impacts the

movement of cosmic structures.

Andrew Katz at the Media Burn Video Archive

• Watched lots of documentaries about Chicago.

• Wrote lesson plans so teachers could use the videos in class.

• Put the plans up the MBVA’s new Website.

During ASB I had the great opportunity to work with Bob Kosovsky of the Music Division of the New York Public Library.

We digitalized programs, networked with people within the field, got insider knowledge and tips on how to conduct interviews and network.

And the best part? The people I connected with and the friendships I made. - Angeline “Angie” Chang (ASB 2012)

ASB in Washington, D.C.

Annie Stoehr

Working at the Smithsonian Institution Archives:

• Reformatted field books for the SIA’s Field Book Project on its Flickr site

• Entered metadata for internal access and tracking of electronic images

Visiting DC:

National Institutes

of Health Library Social media strategy for

the NIH Library and NIHL

Writing Center

• Twitter best practices

report

• Example Tweets

• Writing Center user

survey questions Ashley Bigham

Detroit Historical Society���Ashley Clark

I worked at the Detroit Historical Society in Historic Fort Wayne. I spent my week digitizing and creating records for their postcard collection. I learned a lot about digitizing records and about describing items and the language that needs to be used in these descriptions.

During my time at the Space Visualization Laboratory, we conducted a study of how users interact with The Milky Way Project’s interface on a touchscreen and desktop. We also developed a prototype augmented reality app using Layar that overlays information about stellar objects on the Milky Way Galaxy Wall located in the museum.

Space Visualization Laboratory

Caitlin Barta

The Illustrations of Jules Richard A Digitization Project for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s Invertebrate

Zoology Department

Caitlin Wolfe

• This was the beginning of a larger digitization project

• I helped work the kinks out of the system and make things easier for future interns

• Digitization saves on the wear and tear of artifacts and allows for easier access to the research of early and influential scientists such as Richard

American Library Association

Worked with American Libraries Magazine to research important dates in library history

Created a spreadsheet of dates and annual celebrations for staff members

Entered dates into database for future publication on ALA’s website and (potentially) a physical calendar

Hidden History Calendar

Caitlin Rozich

What did I do? • Verified and updated the Research Guide for

International Statistical Yearbooks, providing links to current governmental data on the web.

• Observed interactions at the reference desks… And even handled a few minor questions on my own.

• Discussed the future of the NYPL and libraries in general, challenges facing the profession, and unique qualities of urban and research libraries with an absolutely awesome bunch of librarians!

Name: Caroline Mossing Site: NYPL’s Science, Industry, and Business Library

Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library

• Created a database to store metadata for Depression-era mugshots from the Detroit House of Corrections

• Weeded out duplicates and arranged photos in archival sleeves and boxes

My main accomplishment: taking the picture on the left and turning it into the picture on the right

Chuck Adams

I’m sooo into this exhibit!!

Behind the scenes at the National Museum of

Natural History.

The Hyperactive Butterfly.

Snazzy Restaurants.

So many monuments!

FBI Squirrel wants to know where you’ve stashed your nuts.

Behind the scenes at the National Museum of

Natural History.

•The Smithsonian Gardens Institute in Washington, DC

•I configured and designed a Blog and started a Pinterest Page.

• Smithsoniangardens.wordpress.com, pinterest/sigardens

Chloe Prince – Informatics Undergraduate Student

I used by foreign language knowledge and law background to select and include works in the Library of Congress’ Global Legal Information Catalog.

I also evaluated the user interface of their cataloging program and made recommendations on possible improvements.

Chris Galeczka, first-year MSI student

Image from the Library of Congress Image from the Library of Congress Suffrage Pageant in Washington DC on Suffrage Pageant in Washington DC on 3 March 19133 March 1913

Claire Barco

Researched references made about the Researched references made about the Suffrage Movement in Suffrage Movement in The Passing Show of The Passing Show of 1913 –1913 – a comical performance at the Winter a comical performance at the Winter Garden TheatreGarden Theatre

New York Public Library of the Performing ArtsNew York Public Library of the Performing ArtsBroadway Revues ExhibitionBroadway Revues Exhibition

Completed 90% of the research Completed 90% of the research for that part of the exhibitionfor that part of the exhibition

Deepika YuvarajInformaticsUndergraduate

Adler PlanetariumGravity Wall Case Study

Usability Intern Observations about mind‐

body‐environment connection

How does user experience change when the Gravity Wall is manipulated via body movement vs. hand movement?

Federal  Trade  Commission  Elizabeth  Garre-  

Working  with  the  FTC’s  Records  and  Filing  Office  (RFO),  I  developed  a  list  of  goals  and  researched  a  variety  of  strategies  and  resources  for  future  a-orney  Records  and  

InformaHon  Management  (RIM)  training.  

Researched each topic to create lists of relevant websites to be crawled (captured and stored by Archive-It). Added websites to collections, created and standardized metadata for new and existing collections. Ran test crawls and analyzed resulting data for errors. Scheduled ongoing capture of sites!

Created two web archive collections using Archive-It: • Islamophobia • Arab Americans and Immigration

Archival Collection Processing• Worked on the Michael Suleiman Collection

• Specifically processed documents related Arab American organizations

• Learned about the Arab American community and the mission of the Arab American National Museum

Emma Hawker, ARM & LIS

Elizabeth Skene (AANM) and Emma Hawker (SI)

The Library of Congress &

NUCMC •Worked with the National Union Catalog of

Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) on the

2013 installment of the 150 year

observance of the Civil War

•Worked with OCLC to aggregate

collections for the online exhibit and

searched the LoC database (PPOC) to find

complimentary visual materials for the

website

•Got to explore the Manuscript Division of

the Library of Congress!!

Erin Platte

Washington, D.C.

Chicago Office of Tourism and CultureDeveloping Chicago Neighborhood Content for SCVNGR and Foursquare

What We Did:

• Interviewed business owners and staff in four different Chicago neighborhoods

• Provided photos for the ExploreChicago Instagram page

• Wrote FourSquare tips for the businesses with whom we spoke

Our Impact:

• Reached over 70,000

FourSquare followers

• Reached over 20,000

Twitter followers

• Provided valuable

content that would not

otherwise be completed

ASB at the Poets House Esti Brennan, MLIS '13

During my ASB experience, I created a finding aid for the Poets House Oral Histories project. I got to learn all about the fascinating history of the organization while working with the fantastic staff and stuffing my head with poetry. For someone with my background in literature and future in libraries, it was more or less the perfect week.

Working on an interview with Lee Briccetti, Executive Director of Poets House.

decoding #detroitfuture A week of volunteer analysis from Gabriel Krieshokat New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative

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• OTI is a member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (DDJC), an alliance of organizations that received Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grants in 2010 to run Sustainable Broadband Adoption (SBA) and Public Computer Center (PCC) programs in Detroit in partnership with Michigan State University.

• Detroit Future includes three program areas: 1) Detroit Future Media, a multi-week training program covering a range of digital media skills and concentrations in education, entrepreneurship and media-based organizing; 2) Detroit Future Schools, which partners graduates from Detroit Future Media with K-12 teachers to design and implement digital media arts-integrated curriculum; and 3) Detroit Future Youth, a network of youth-led organizations using media and the Internet for organizing and creative problem solving.

• I spent the week analyzing, cleaning, and presenting the data of various Twitter datastores that contain information on #detroitfuture. I set up a robust database parsing system to feed the Tweets to an onsite server. This will help future analysis of this information via Network Theory and Sentiment analysis.

Library of Congress- ASB 2012

• Processed original Civil War era newspapers.

• Cataloged newspaper maps and illustrations.

• Conducted historical research and wrote captions for the potential display of unique maps.

Civil War Maps in Newspaper Collection Processing Serial and Government Publications Division Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Geoff Iverson

GIERAD LAPUTGIERAD LAPUTChicago Office of Tourism - Chicago, ILChicago Office of Tourism - Chicago, IL

FourSquare Team KOPI Traveler’s Cafe 57th Street Books Z&H Metro Cafe

I was part of a quad-member ensemble dubbed “the FourSquare Team” at the Chicago Office of Tourism. In our role, we go out in the

field to explore local establishments in outer Chicago neighborhoods, and promote them through FourSquare and ExploreChicago.org.

In one week, we explored the Andersonville, West Loop, Hyde Park, Old Town, and Lincoln Park neighborhoods. We talked to locals,

listened to their rich stories, and discovered amazing things that make their establishments worthwhile. We crafted these findings into “call-

to-action” tips, which are now available to 70,000+ ExploreChicago FourSquare followers and millions of Chicago visitors.

I was part of a quad-member ensemble dubbed “the FourSquare Team” at the Chicago Office of Tourism. In our role, we go out in the

field to explore local establishments in outer Chicago neighborhoods, and promote them through FourSquare and ExploreChicago.org.

In one week, we explored the Andersonville, West Loop, Hyde Park, Old Town, and Lincoln Park neighborhoods. We talked to locals,

listened to their rich stories, and discovered amazing things that make their establishments worthwhile. We crafted these findings into “call-

to-action” tips, which are now available to 70,000+ ExploreChicago FourSquare followers and millions of Chicago visitors.

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SI-ASB 2012

EDUCAUSE HANWENBO YANG

• Policy research on accessibility and affordability of

technology in higher education

• Worked with another intern to help my mentor

widen his perspective on topics in his field of

policy research.

• Met with some high profile individuals on Capitol

Hill

• Had a lot of fun with the staff and other interns at

EDUCAUSE!

• Ate really good food

GRANT ANALYSIS AT

THE NATIONAL

LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

Irina Zeylikovich

Project Mentor: Suzy Roy

Over my week at ASB I helped gather

initial data on NLM’s feasibility grants,

the R21 series. My process included:

• Using NIH RePORTER to pull

data on all R21 grants

• Running PubMed searches to find

all articles attributing funding to

any R21 grant

• Using Scopus searches to conduct

initial bibliometric analysis on

articles funded by R21 grants

National Archives and

Records Administration

My Week consisted of:

• Discussion of Office of Presidential Library’s Databases

& Descriptive Metadata

• Organizing Metadata of Presidential Inauguration

Images

• Pinning of images to HistoryPin.com

• Picking the brains of archivists & social media specialists

Jeff Nash, 2012

JEREMY SALFEN

ASB 2012 – NEW YORK CITY – ITHAKA / JSTOR

• Developed a workflow for tracking

overlap in journal holdings

between JSTOR and other digital

platforms

• Outlined detailed procedures for

how content development staff

should check for overlap

• Presented findings to all staff

working on content development

in the New York and Princeton

offices

Tasks Included:

Recording descriptive metadata on Great Lakes ship plans into PastPerfect

Scanning historic postcards and assigning metadata to images via PastPerfect software

Jerry Marshall

Cataloging  and  Rehousing  Haggadot  at  the  Library  of  Congress  

•  Read  cover  pages  and  calculated  dates  •  Put  them  in  new  acid-­‐free  housing  and  created  labels  for  the  outside  •  Found  one  rare  Haggadah  from  Napoleon’s  personal  press  to  be  put  on  display  

Jessica  Schaengold  

JJ PionkeWorked on inputting metadata into a database of newspaper headlines to

assist in clearing a backlog. The folders I was working with were

mostly from 1989-1994 including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the death

of Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis, events that I remember well so my

project was a bit of a trip down memory lane!

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS –NEWSPAPERS AND SERIALS DIVISION

Jodee Jernigan

First-year MSI, Social Computing

SOCIAL MEDIA AT

SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS

• Created a Smithsonian Folkways presence on

the social bookmarking site Pinterest.

• Researched best practices for social media

marketing on Pinterest and submitted

comprehensive report of findings and

recommendations.

Office of the HistorianU.S. House of Representatives

Julia Corrin

ASB 2012

Project Tasks• Developed Finding Aids from

record transfer inventories• Developed content for a new

website• Document descriptions• Photo captions

Also…• Attended a forum on

Congressional records• Toured the National

Archives Legislative Treasure vault

ALA—LIBRARIES MATTER! | ASB 2012 | KATE DAVIES

• Researched the impact of

libraries on society

• Added impact statements

and citations to the

Libraries Matter database

• Conducted a usability

review of Libraries Matter

• Presented usability

findings to project

stakeholders

• Loved Chicago!

Exposing Hidden CollectionsSmithsonian Institution Archives

Kelsey Duinkerken

I spent the week scanning correspondence from the 1850's-1870's about book requests, scientific conferences, and checks as well as photographs of an Alaskan expedition. I also created item-level metadata for the digitized correspondence, field books, and bird-watching journals. The images were saved as TIFF files at a minimum of 600 dpi. The metadata gathered included author, date, title, description, comments, etc.

AMED Pamphlet Collection Finding Aide at the Library of Congress

ASB 2012 Washington, D.C. Kendra Tsai

I edited an Excel spreadsheet that lists the items, boxes, subjects, authors, titles, and page numbers that make up the African Section Pamphlet Collection.For the African Section Pamphlet Collection web page, I edited the text and gave suggestions to make the Collection more accessible to researchers. I also utilized a finding aid from the Library of Congress’s Music Division to better represent the Collection on its web page to enhance research accessibility.

Ken Lee, (Informatics undergrad)

ASB 2012 @ Dearborn, MI

Problem: Existing community resource

directory was in library catalog. Outdated

and inaccessible for visitors.

Solution: Converted directory to easily

accessible, self-sustaining MediaWiki site.

Developed style guidelines and framework.

Learned a lot about the inner workings of

a museum. Ate lots of great baklava!

http://arabamericanmuseum.org

Library of Congress * Washington, D.C. * Kirsten Terry

Researched  historical  events  using  

interface  for  accessing  digitized  newspapers.  

Wrote  reference  guides  to  be  published  online  describing  the  timeline  for  each  historical  topic  and  my  search  strategy,  along  with  links  to  relevant  articles.  

Krishna BathinaHost: Eric Breitung

I got to work in the PRTD of the Library of Congress. I would take audio samples(CDs, reels, etc.) and getX‐rays of them with the machine showed in the picture. Then, I would runa statistical analysis on theX‐rays in order to see hownormal they were. 

• Evaluated “Plan Your Visit” portion of website• Conducted comparative analysis of similar pages on other Chicago

Museum websites • Created wireframe of interactive planning tool• Came up with ideas for mobile site and possible in-house app• Presented findings to museum staff

ASB 2012 – Adler Website Evaluation

Laura Andrews

I worked at the Library of Congress in the

Preservation Research & Testing Division

doing research on vermilion pigment and

red lead used on 15th century Armenian

manuscript illuminations. The research was

focused on instrumental techniques for

testing vermilion, as well as its use in

alchemy. I also evaluated research

databases and created a searchable

bibliography.

• Processed the Anne Boylan collection, mostly school notebooks, essays and exams

• Created an EAD compatible finding aid and a MARC record

• Digitized photos for the online Mundelein College Photograph Collection

Library of Congress: African & Middle Eastern Division

Leigh Stutler

•Surveyed and rehoused collection of 100+ haggadot•Digitized title pages and printed image labels for each item

Usability Tests Did several usability tests, discussed with the team

Interview with Special Collection Departments Take a short tour to the special collections

Report and Presentation

ASB 2012 – ALA-DC Office Lisa Hardman

Research on the e-lending policies of the Big Six publishers to libraries –

Hachette

HarperCollins

Macmillan

Penguin

Random House

Simon & Schuster

Mott Haven Branch, New York Public Library

Shadowed Children’s Librarian

Organized future craft ideas and supplies

Led a craft-programming session for children of all ages

Assisted with bulletin boards for the year

Image Credits: http://www.nypl.org/locations/mott-haven http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=693895&imageID=806000&word=Carnegie%20libraries%20--%20New%20York%20%28State%29%20--%20New%20York%20--%201910-1919&s=3&notword=&d=&c=&f=2&k=0&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&sort=&total=3&num=0&imgs=20&pNum=&pos=3

~Lucy Wines

Chicago ASB 2012 – Field Museum Library Marisa Szpytman

• Project: Paginated and quality checked scanned books for the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project

• Impact: Once the books are scanned and quality checked, they are uploaded to the BHL website, where they are available for researchers all over the world to access. Many of these books are rare copies or first editions and don’t exist in any other libraries.

• Explored the Field Museum of Natural History and had a wonderful time!

JSTOR/Ithaka New York

Mark Bremel

Document Delivery Project the-digital-reader.com

• Analyze price points to determine @ what

price a publisher may increase sales

• Research how other aggregators facilitate access for individuals

to online journals (i.e. cheaper prices, article rentals)

• Help JSTOR work with publishers to lower single-article fees

and increase access!

JPEG 2000 has recently been recommended by the Library of Congress as the digital image preservation standard. My research consisted of: • Listing institutions who do and do not use JPEG 2000 as

their preservation standard and why • Finding recent literature on uses of JPEG 2000 outside of

historical preservation, such as satellite pictures and medical images

• Using the countless databases to which the Library has access to complete the project

• Assembling a bibliography of the use of JPEG 2000 today on the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative’s wiki

Mary Buchner - JPEG 2000 Research Project

Presenting the final project to the Library’s Office of Strategic Initiatives

New York Public Library

for the Performing Arts Billy Rose Theatre Division

3-Dimensional Archives Project - Inventoried over 600 archival objects part of the Billy Rose Theatre Division collections

- Linked objects to paper-based collections

- Provided recommendations for finding aid updates to improve public access to this rich array of objects

Megan Darlington

MSI Student, ARM

During my week at the Library of Congress I worked at the African and Middle Eastern Division. Here I developed a Finding Aid for the recently acquired Macedo Collection and worked on scanning some of the manuscript material within the collection.

Melissa Hernández Durán

Image from : http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2012/03/african-and-middle-eastern-division-library-of-congress-pic-of-the-week/

African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress

GREEN MAP SYSTEM is in the process of transferring their digital archive to the New York Public Library and needed the map's inventory list to be checked, completed and possibly translated by map makers from around the world. Our group created a Google site that served as a vehicle for informing map makers of the archive’s progress and goals. Care was taken to make the site translation friendly and a form was included to allow for the submission of new materials. We expanded and clarified the inventory list and provided safeguards to limit (and recuperate from) accidental editing.

MIRIELY GUERRERO

-  Cataloged and prepared donated poetry collections for shelving, which included monographs, chapbooks and artists books

-  Identified valuable or at-risk materials as non-circulating

-  Standardized the periodicals database and made recommendations

-  Rigorously tested sandwiches in the vicinity of Tribeca/Battery Park

Nabil Kashyap ASB - NYC 2012

Make Finding Aids for MOCA Institutional Archives –Nan Dong

• What I did I have learnt a new software, Archivists’ Toolkit, to make finding aids for the physical documents and materials. Due to the limited time, I was only able to finish one collection-Mapping Our Heritage. But because I was the first one in MOCA to use this software, I created a fully functional template for them to refer to in the future.

Office of Strategic Initiatives Nick Krabbenhoeft

Project: Making born digital

Collections more accessible

with ViewShare

Challenge: How do you make

data about Congressional

district races understandable

when they constantly change

size, shape, and location?

Tools: Excel VBA

Lessons: You can never know

too much programming.

New Goals: Developing

skills to help others visualize

their data.

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOMobile App Development: Chicago Archive of Endangered

Language Research

Conducted six user interviews and presented recommendations for their website

Created an HTML5 iPhone web application to browse and listen to the recordings

Omkar Chandgadkar

Wednesday 7 March 12

Green Map Archives

ASB 2012 •Created a multi-page website that

donors can use to check the

information on file for their donated

materials

•Manipulated inventory

spreadsheets to make them more

user friendly

•Create documentation for

sustaining the inventory list and

adding to it before the materials

move to the NYPL (Patrick Galligan)

Center for Responsive Politics

Name: Phillip Tularak

Project Scope: Website Usability Study

Methods:

• Google Analytics

• Heuristic Evaluation

• Think-aloud usability test

Deliverables:

• SiteMap

• Page Inventory

• Marketing Analysis

• Presentation of Recommendations

The Newberry LibraryRocky Fischer

•Rebuilt a database for keeping track of fellowship recipients

•Experienced life at the library

Ronald Liu - My Experience Social Web/Initiatives Intern at Adler Planetarium. We tried to make recommendations for their social media

sites such as Facebook and Twitter, based on statistical data and visits. Furthermore, we also made

recommendations for mobile apps as well. Overall, it was a fun and worthwhile experience.

•Created business content for  the iexplore Chicago Foursquare app•Worked in the Andersonville, Greektown, Little Italy, West Loop, Hyde Park, Lincoln Park, and Uptown neighborhoods•Posted pictures to the iexplore Chicago Instagram app to give people ideas of all the amazing things to do in Chicago that they may not know about!

Sara Sterkenburg ‐ SI ASB – New York City, 2012

•Integrated, processed, and archived a portion of Guggenheim Collection A0035: The Department of Public Affairs Press Releases

•Updated & expanded the collection, adding 3 cubic feet with records from 2008-present

•Assisted in digitization, & added downloadable PDF documents to the finding aid

•Edited and updated Guggenheim website and online finding aid in EAD XML using Joomla! & Oxygen

 

Sarah  Helm  –  ASB  2012,  Washington,  D.C.    

Smithsonian  Ins<tu<on  Center  for  Folklife  and  Cultural  Heritage  

 �  Organized  and  rehoused  Folkways  Records  photographs  

from  the  The  Ralph  Rinzler  Folklife  Archives  and  Collec>ons.      

�  Assisted  in  the  digi>za>on  of  the  paper  records  in  the  Moses  and  Frances  Asch  Collec>on.  

"

Coalition on Temporary Shelter (COTS)

Sarah Sherman ASB Detroit 2012

At COTS, I worked wi th Development staff to establish a workflow for online inquiries from community members, including volunteers, potential donors, and COTS clients.

Located in Detroit’s Midtown neighborhood, COTS provides emergency, transitional, and long-term shelter to needy men, women and children. COTS staff also provide valuable support services that help their clients find stable housing.

Sarah Wingo: Shakespeare Collection Book Trade and Illustrator Added Entries

Worked in cataloging creating trace records for the post 1700 Shakespeare book collection.

My work will help to increase access to materials within the Folger’s collection by allowing for more precise searches to be carried out by users.

For a detailed account of my project please see the blog I kept during ASB https://sites.google.com/site/wingoasb/journal-blog

Title image from http://www.folger.edu/

Before ASBI didn’t have any experience with cataloging, and now I have worked on a cataloging project within a professional and highly respected institution. ASB is important because it gives students the chance to learn new skills, make professional connections and try their hand at different aspects of the professional world.

Brookfield ZooWebsite Design & Content Building

Sharona

Ginsberg

๏ Planned, designed, and developed full structure of a zoo history website

๏ Learned about the zoo, the animals, and the zoo library

๏ Fed giraffes and saw a secret room with lots of baby guinea pigs

My name is Stacy Maat and I spent my time during ASB at the Folger Shakespeare Library. My project was to create BookReader views for a few of the digitized books the Folger wanted to link to their catalog Hamnet. I was able to do my dream career and work on creating a digital library for the Folger. When I first arrived, their online digitized book collection only had 8 items, by the time I left, I have more than doubled their collection; increasing it to 20 books. I loved my time at the Folger and am grateful for the opportunity.

FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY

HISTORIC EVENTS

NEWSPAPER COLLECTION –

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Stephanie DeFouw

•Inventoried a donation of

newspapers from Chicago

•Entered information about

historic events newspapers into a

database

•Wrote captions of newspapers to

be used in future exhibits

Fordham University Law School Library

• Processed unorganized archival records

• Placed collections within record group series, and created new series when appropriate

• Digitized approximately fifty objects for future inclusion in Fordham’s online institutional repository

-Stephanie Soule, ASB New York Image from http://lawlib1.lawnet.fordham.edu

EDUCAUSE Steven Grady-Washington,

DC

1. SOPA and PIPA Policy

Research

2. Evaluated EDUCAUSE

website for layout

improvements

3. Met and discussed

numerous policy issues

concerning IT in higher

education

�  The project �  To create a online site

for mapmakers to learn about Green Map’s archive, complete and confirm the contents of the inventory.

�  My tasks �  To design and build

the website �  To translate some

contents into Chinese �  Documentary

Wenke Wang @ Green Map, NYC SI ASB 2012 2/27/2012 – 3/2/2012

William Zhang

Washington DC – Future of Music Coalition (FMC)

• Participated in the “Artist Revenue Stream” project that explores how

musicians make money in the new information age!

• Analyzing data of the large scale survey covering 5371 musicians and

composers in the US (intense work but fulfilling!).

• Enjoyed the “Book Reading Club” at FMC, absorbing knowledge about

music industry, music copy right, cultural policy, etc.

Law Library Reference Internship

• Student Name: Xin (Sherry) Chen • Major: MSI with Specialization in LIS • Project City: Washington D.C. • Organization Name: Georgetown University Law Library

• My Experience: During the 2012 ASB, I participated in

the Georgetown Law Library Reference Internship in Washington D.C. I really enjoyed my experience at Georgetown.

Thanks to Georgetown's superb organization, every day of my internship was spent meaningfully and productively. I had the opportunity to meet with many interesting persons during the internship, to be involved in various activities at the Law Library (special collections, circulation desk, reference work, round table discussions, etc.), and to work on an interesting project to improve my skills. Everyone we met at Georgetown is super nice, warm and friendly. Our project organizer and mentor sat down with us multiple times to ask about our feedback of the internship program, to discuss the future trends in law librarianship, and to offer advice on professional skills and future career development. After 5 days at Georgetown, I am very impressed by the organization and hospitality at Georgetown. Also, after working with the reference librarians for 5 days, I am very impressed by their integration of the newest technology into their innovative services, and by their team efforts in providing the best user experience for their patrons.

Chicago Office of Tourism and CultureXin Li ASB2012

- Audited page meta keyword- Change page description- Update site content- Enjoy the city

DIANA HUANG

– PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA

PROJECT:

CONFERENCE WEBSITE AND REGISTRATION SYSTEM

TOUR AROUND THE CITY Learned webpage design

- Dreamweaver , Home Site

- JavaScript

Applied them in the project

Built up the main frame of the

conference website and

finished some pages given the

information available so far

Tested the registration system for

the conference and added in

defensive features

Visited the Art Institute of Chicago

Had dinner in the Signature Room

on 95th floor of John Hancock

Center! Wow!

And more!!

Usability Analysis for LawHelp Interactive •  Conducted field study in five courts in New York •  Generated findings and recommendations,

represented to LHI group at the end

YANQI WU

2012 Alternative Spring Break

• Who am I: Yanting Zhang - HCI student

• Organization: Seven German Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS7)

• Project: Search engine design and optimizing interaction with linked

• What I did:

- Search Interface Design

- Database Construction

- Providing Recommendation

Columbia University

C.V. Starr East Asian Library

Chinese special collection

project

Learned archiving

processing for materials in

East Asian languages

Arranged and described rare

materials including primary

sources

Learned responsibilities of

Chinese Studies Librarian

Yiwei Wang

wangyiw@umich.edu

Washington DC. Project

Botany department in

Smithsonian National

Museum of Natural

History

Planning a plant list for

botany department

Inventory herbarium

collection- a journey

with all the old plants.

By Yuwang Long