LYRASIS Member Showcase - Preserving the Photographic Legacy of HBCUs: A Project Funded by the Mellon Foundation

In December 2010, LYRASIS received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to improve the preservation of significant photographic collections held in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Following a survey of the needs of these collections and a Preservation Symposium, ten institutions were selected to receive grants to support preservation demonstration projects, staff training, environmental monitoring, and student internships. The HBCU Photographic Preservation Project has enabled participants to address the needs of their significant at-risk collections ensuring their availability to scholars.

In this session Steve Eberhardt, Project Coordinator, will speak about the structure of the project and the collections involved. Steve received his M.A. in Sociology from Georgia State University in 1993 and has worked on various preservation projects at LYRASIS (formerly SOLINET) since 1994. He served as the Coordinator in the previous Mellon-funded HBCU Photographic Preservation Project.

Host: Regan Harper
Presenter: Steve Eberhardt, Project Coordinator HBCU

Date: Decmeber 5, 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00 ET

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LYRASIS Member Showcase - The Engaged Library: Information Literacy Instruction and the First-Year Experience at Washburn University

Washburn University is an open-admissions medium sized public university in Topeka, Kansas, whose University Libraries, by 2007, were increasing irrelevant to the campus community of learning. Indeed, like many other similar sized libraries, the Washburn Libraries had to answer the question of their relevancy in the age of Google. Now, as 2013 begins, the Washburn University Libraries have returned to their historic position at the center of the University community of learning and this presentation will detail how this occurred during a period of fiscal austerity. This discussion will examine a five-year plan that saw the Washburn Libraries engage the campus community in effective and transformative ways through Information Literacy instruction and as a key partner in developing the institution's new First-Year Experience program.

Presenter: Alan Bearman, Dean of Libraries - Washburn University
Cost: $0

Date: Wednesday, March 27 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00 ET

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