Week 7: Access and Discovery
Due
In class we will start the weekly activity, The User’s Experience. Submit your completed activity summary in Brightspace by Sunday night.
Read
- Wiedeman, G. (2023). Designing Digital Discovery and Access Systems for Archival Description. code{4}lib Journal, 55. https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/16963
- Stephanie Becker, Anne Kumer, and Naomi Langer, “Access is People: How Investing in Digital Collections Labor Improves Archival Discovery & Delivery,” in The Lighting the Way Handbook: Case Studies, Guidelines, and Emergent Futures for Archival Discovery and Delivery, edited by Maria Matienzo and Dinah Handel, 29-38. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries, October 2021. https://doi.org/10.25740/gg453cv6438
- Abumeeiz, Salma. “Collections over People: Critiquing Notions of Institutional Inclusion within Library Heritage Materials.” Presentation at the Item Not Found conference, moderated by Nina Schneider, University of California, Los Angeles, April 4, 2023. YouTube video, 38:07-59:14. Accessed July 2, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53M1UwyYPug
- Berry, Dorothy. “Take Me into The Library and Show Me Myself: Towards Authentic Accessibility in Digital Libraries.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (2022), pp. 111-126. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45420503
- Zhang, Jane. 2012. “Original Order in Digital Archives”. Archivaria 74 (November), 167-93. https://archivaria-ca.proxy.library.nyu.edu/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13410
- Alison Anderson; Kristin Bjork; Kyle DeCicco-Carey; Sylvia Welsh (2021). “Laying a Foundation for Digital Collections at the Property Information Resource Center,” The American Archivist (2021) 84 (2): 256–280. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e6pwdBBlqX8W2b00EviDxvEY819JSIU5/view?usp=drivesdk
- Schechter, Gayle. “Legal and Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to Born-Digital Collections: Copyright.” Digital Library Federation (DLF) Blog. January 13, 2023. Accessed January 22, 2024, https://www.diglib.org/legal-and-ethical-considerations-for-providing-access-to-born-digital-collections-copyright/.
- Gentry, Steven. “SAA 2019 recap - Session 204: Demystifying the Digital: Providing User Access to Born-Digital Records in Varying Contexts”. bloggERS https://saaers.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/saa-2019-recap-session-204-demystifying-the-digital-providing-user-access-to-born-digital-records-in-varying-contexts/
- Valentine, Rebekah. “Why Piracy Fears are Keeping Some Researchers from Accessing the Games They Need.” IGN Entertainment, May 17, 2024. https://www.ign.com/articles/why-piracy-fears-are-keeping-some-researchers-from-accessing-the-games-they-need.