Put your hands in the air for HISTORY & PRESERVATION!
At this year’s conference, there are three History & Preservation Section co-sponsored programs. Make sure you check them out!
On Thursday, May 31st from 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM in Wildwood 8 & 9, CUS and History & Preservation are presenting Raise Your Voices: Award Winning Authors. Award-winning authors Kathryn Watterson from the University of Pennsylvania (I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton) and Dorothy Cobble from Rutgers University (Feminism Unfinished: A Short Surprising History of the American Women's Movements) will provide insight into two incredibly important topics.
On Friday, June 1st, from 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM in Wildwood 8 & 9, the Technical Services and Collection Development Section, CUS, and the History & Preservation Section are sponsoring Digitization on a Dime. Annamarie Klose Hrubes from William Paterson University and Isaiah Beard from Rutgers University will discuss low-budget strategies to handle digitization while ensuring quality. The session includes specific examples with tips and tricks on when to splurge and when to pinch your pennies.
Lastly, on Friday, June 1st, from 3:40 PM – 4:30 PM, in Wildwood 12 & 13, you can catch We Go Way Back: Libraries & Communities Web Archiving, sponsored by the Reference Section, Emerging Technologies Section, and History & Preservation Section. Jacquelyn Oshman of New Brunswick Free Public Library, Natalie Milbrodt of Queens Public Library and Diana Bowers-Smith of the Brooklyn Public Library will talk about the Internet Archive, creator of the Wayback Machine, that awarded New Brunswick Free Public Library and 27 libraries across the country a grant to begin digital archiving of websites that relate to local history, culture and social events. This updated version of creating vertical file collections comes with challenges like learning a new technical language, but overall it will expand collections for patrons around the world to view and capture news as it is happening. An interesting way to end your conference experience this year!
- Kimberly Paone and the 2018 NJLA Conference Committee