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(Video) CAFe Speaker Series: “Developing the Maryland State Archives’ Indigenous Records Website for Engagement and Access”
Featuring Maria Day, Senior Director of Special Collections, Conservation, and Library Services at Maryland State Archives
News Release: UMD College of Information Soars to #3 in Nation for Master of Library and Information Science Program
Prestigious U.S. News & World Report ranking reflects program’s excellence and innovation
(Video) CAFe Speaker Series: “The Future of Memory: Navigating Standards in Audiovisual Preservation”
Featuring Jimi Jones, Ph.D., scholar and researcher specializing in audiovisual preservation, digital archiving, and media technologies
This 1900 image of the Carlisle Indian School football team includes one of Assistant Professor Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner's ancestors. She said this and the photo of her great-great-great grandmother Joaquina Nahwilet (image at bottom) is a rare example of good photo metadata; improving the tools in archival research is a primary goal of the new Indigenous archives project she's co-leading. Photo by John N. Choate/Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Maryland Today: UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives
Project co-led by INFO and ARHU will develop tools, standards, and reparative practices to restore Indigenous histories
(Video) CAFe Speaker Series: “Centering Community and Care in Rapid Response Research”
Featuring Anna Kijas, Assistant Director of Digital Scholarship, Head of the Lilly Music Library, Tufts University
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AICollaboratory Launches HERITAGE–AI Initiative with Major Grant
This IMLS-funded project aims to revolutionize how users engage with library and archival collections
American Libraries Magazine: Serving New Neighbors (by Ana Ndumu)
Resources for embracing immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers
(Video) CAFe Speaker Series: “Community Archives: Empowering Voices and Preserving Heritage”
Corey Lewis discusses the impact of community archives in preserving cultural heritage and empowering underrepresented voices
Casilda Luna, second from right, in conversation with a group in Washington, DC's Columbia Heights neighborhood, ca. 1970s. (Photo from Black Mosaic Exhibition Records, Anacostia Community Museum)
Our Black Mosaic Podcast: A Love Letter to Afro-Latine Youth
UMD INFO PhD student Manuel Mendez chronicles Black Latine lived experience in the DC area