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Welcome and Introduction to the Forum: A brief introduction to ArchivesSpace and the intent behind our first-ever Online Forum.
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- Mark Custer, Yale University - Mark Custer is an Archivist / Metadata Coordinator at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Mark has served on the ArchivesSpace Users Advisory, helped oversee the redevelopment of the ArchivesSpace Public User Interface, and helped launch the Archives at Yale discovery platform at Yale University which uses ArchivesSpace. Previously, he worked at the Smithsonian Institution, at East Carolina University, and at the Granville County Public Library in North Carolina.
- Amanda Focke, Rice University - Amanda Focke is Asst. Head of Special Collections at Fondren Library, Rice University, in Houston. She is a certified archivist and digital archives specialist, and has served on the steering committee for Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO) for the past 8 years. TARO is a state-wide consortium for displaying archival finding aids online.
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ASpace to Learn: Training Student Employees to Use ArchivesSpace: For many institutions, student employees play an integral part in processing of archival collections and data entry into collection management systems. In this presentation I will share some lessons I learned in the process of training student employees to use ArchivesSpace and the importance of having centralized training for ALL ArchivesSpace users.
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- Stephen Innes, University of Auckland - Stephen Innes is the Team Leader, Cultural Collections (Special Collections) at the University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services. He has over 30 years’ experience managing and developing New Zealand and Pacific-related collections, including archives and manuscripts, in a tertiary education environment. He was a key player in the transfer of the Western Pacific High Commission archives to the University in 2002. Stephen has a special interest in improving access to archival collections, which researchers have always found difficult to use to full effect. Adopting ArchivesSpace, an open-source web application for managing and discovering archival collections, has been a key focus in the last 10 years, culminating in the release of a public interface, Manuscripts and Archives, in 2019.
- Emma Jolley, National Library of Australia - Emma Jolley is the Curator of Digital Archives at the National Library of Australia, working in the Pictures and Manuscripts Branch with a collection of more than 18,000 linear shelf metres of private records dating from the eighteenth century to the present day, which document people and organisations of national significance to Australia. Before joining the National Library in 2006, she was an Assistant Director at the National Archives of Australia, responsible for the transfer, appraisal and arrangement and description of Government records and held the Senior Archivist position at the Noel Butlin Archives of Business and Labour at the Australian National University. In 2013 Ms Jolley was seconded from her position as Curator of Manuscripts to lead a key strategic project of 18 months duration for the National Library to develop and re-engineer policies, procedures and workflows associated with the acquisition and management of archival collections. She was the project manager of several projects associated with the implementation of ArchivesSpace and predecessor collection management systems from 2007 to the present.
- Venkat Srinivasan, National Centre for Biological Sciences - Venkat Srinivasan is a visiting researcher and archivist at the Archives at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India (http://archives.ncbs.res.in/). The Archives at NCBS is a new public space for the history of contemporary biology in India. It opened in February 2019. In addition to the setting up of this archive, the team is developing templates to pull archival material into coherent stories, and connect personal stories to established records of a scientific process.
- Leilani Dawson, University of Hawaiʻi - Mānoa - Leilani Dawson serves as the Manuscript Collections Archivist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library. Leilani administers the staff and patron front-ends of the library's ArchivesSpace implementation, working closely with colleagues across the institution to support, maintain, improve, and populate the application. Past positions have included archival work at the Bentley Historical Library, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and the Bronx Zoo, as well as a stint volunteering at the Franklin Furnace Archives of performance art.