ASB Student Slideshow 2010

SI ASB 20104 Cities • 112 Students

• 48 Sites

SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

OF AMERICAN HISTORYARCHIVES CENTER

Processed two collections:

Grand Central Terminal Collection

Norwich Eaton Pharmaceutical Collection

Created finding aid for Grand Central Terminal Collection

Cleaned and re-housed Norwich Eaton

Toured curatorial storage room and paper preservation lab.

Got our hands nice and dirty!

http://newsdesk.si.edu/images_full/images/buildings/general/building_10.jpg

Alisha McCullick

Annelise Doll US DOT – National Transportation Library

Caitlin, Gabe, and I in front of the National Transportation Library

•Survived the transportation furlough of 2010!

•Created a Wikipedia page for the National Transportation Library

•Attended meetings of library staff and learned how each member came together to make the library run efficiently

SI Alternative Spring Break 2010- Library of Congress

Arielle Sokol working with Peggy Pearlstein and Claire DekleI worked both in the African and Middle Eastern Division

(AMED) and at the Conservation Lab. I focused on two

separate projects, the Berman Haggadah Collection and the

Judaic Poster Collection..

At AMED, I created

spreadsheets, assessed content

and condition, made photocopies

on Acid-free paper, and housed

and shelved materials.

In the conservation lab, I used the cutter to

correctly size labels. I also used PVA to

attach labels to housings. I learned what it

was like to work in a real conservation lab

using state of the art equipment.

Overall, this was a great experience because it allowed me

to accomplish a variety of tasks, using skills from several

different disciplines. My mentors were eager to help me

learn and apply my knowledge from my SI classes.

Media Burn Independent Video Archive

Project: Website Design, Website Content Analysis and Usability Study

SI Students: Christina, Alex, Andrew and Arjun. Arjun Vora

Adler Planetarium Website Redesign/Social Media Intern

+ analyzed adler’s social media presence on facebook, twitter, youtube, flickr, and their use of podcasts

+ designed a survey to determine if adler was addressing museum visitors’ social media needs

+ implemented the survey using a combination of surveymonkey and in-person interviews

+ briefed the interactive media team on general findings from the surveyBecky Chu

Bo WangGreen Map System, NYC

Participated in designing usability test guideline.Translated the Chinese Green Map System platform.Redesigned a part of Open Green Map web interface—Legend Bar.Made a Chinese version instruction flow chart for using Open Green Map System.

Columbia College

Library Website

Usability Study

The library redesigned its interface in September and had not conducted any user testing.

We conducted 25 usability studies over 2 days.

The webmaster will use the data to create reports for upper management to drive future iterations of the site.

ASB allowed Columbia to do testing that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.

National Transportation LibraryCartographic Archives Internship

Caitlin Marineau

• Created a preliminary report documenting the types of maps the collection held, years spanned, and general condition

• Wrote a second report offering recommendations for archival quality storage

• Began the framework for a database containing information on the individual maps

• Toured the Holocaust Museum Library

Office of Presidential LibrariesPODCASTING STRATEGIES

• Reviewed podcasts previously created by

the Presidential Libraries

• Analyzed user feedback

• Reviewed other government agencies’

podcasting strategies

• Brainstormed content suggestions

• Wrote technical guidelines for podcast

production

• Created a project timeline for the

production of a six-episode series of

podcasts

Caitlin Holman

The Library of Congress

Caroline Moran1st Year, LIS Specialization

“Cookery” Subject Term Revision Project

Worked with MARC authority records,evaluating and revising those that contained“Cookery” in the subject heading

Learned about how and why the Library ofCongress Subject Headings are set up theway they are

Learned about and gained practicalexperience with some aspects of cataloging,and will be looking into learning more aboutcataloging in the future

Library of CongressSerials and Government Publications Division

Catherine Emery

•Created Topic Page research guides for

digitized newspapers in the Chronicling

America collection

•Devised format for search strategies

•Created list of future Topic Page subjects

•Explored interesting areas of American

history through primary documents

Information-Seeking

Needs of Limited

English Proficient

UsersProject goal: Conduct a research scan to

identify key demographic trends and information-seeking factors to inform how multilingual www.lawhelp.orgwebsite content can best be marketed to and serve Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals searching online for legal information. Present strategic recommendations.

Key trends related to Internet access and use by LEP Spanish-speaking users

LEP information-seeking behavior

Best-practices in multilingual website design and usability

Lexicons and databases for translation

Catherine Hong Le

http://www.lawhelp.org/

Media BurnIndependent Video Archive

Educational Curriculum Development

• Created online availability for videos from the Chicago Collection

• Developed curricula guides to show teachers which videos in the collection could be appropriate for various subject matters

• Composed brief lesson plan outlines including critical thinking questions and activities to accompany the videos.

• Collaborated with fellow interns to integrate and showcase work on MediaBurn.org.

Christina Heady

The Future of Science Libraries

Columbia University

Christine Murray

Compiled annotated bibliography on:•Trends in science librarianship•e-Science•Data curation•Faculty/library relations in the sciences

ProPublica - New York City

Project : Source Database

Goal : recommendations for a database to track and store the responses from website visitors for later use by reporters

Delivered:- Designed db schema- Discussed db needs further- Rejected schema- Developed new application

using non-relational database platform (MongoDB)

- Provided sample app, source code, documentation, UI wireframes

Verdict:- ProPublica was great- Lots of potential for information

work in the field of journalism

Daniel [email protected]

Shedd Aquarium Library I wrote a new collections

development policy for the library, which is only open to staff & volunteers.

I also helped with other daily library tasks, such as inter library loan requests & routing journals to staff.

Later in the week, I met with the librarians at the Field Museum & Adler Planetarium as well.Elena Azadbakht

National Library of Medicine

Worked at the National

Library of Medicine, on the

NIH campus in Bethesda, MD

Rehoused materials used in

past exhibitions

Updated catalog records to

reflect changes

Attended a staff meeting and

observed staff working on the

next exhibition

Toured current exhibition and

learned how it was put togetherElizbaeth Skene

1st year; ARM/CI

Ellen Creal

New York, NY

• HTML/CSS templates to create base layouts for the petition system

used to gather support

• Twitter and Facebook graphic designs for consistent branding

• Coding of web page for the after school program educating children

about the causes of hunger and how they can help

Lady Liberty from just outside the

Action Center

Magnolia Bakery Cupcake - just

like in SATC!

Walking to the Office from the

Action Center - Around Wall St.

For a Big Name in News,

A Little Help from SI……

With three other students, I helped this new, nonprofit project of the most popular news site on the web:

-- Refine its social media strategy

-- Brainstorm new slogans

-- Open discussions with the Library of Congress about digitally archiving the Fund’s website

-- Conduct a quick user experience study

Emilia Askari, first year, tailored specialization

LIBRARY OF CONGRESSPOLICY AND STANDARDS DIVISION

Emily Alinder, 1st year LIS

ASB PROJECT 2010:Links for Subject Headings

Construction Project

* Analyzed the hierarchy subject headings for particular subdivisions

* Created searches, usingBoolean operators, for future batch operations

to add links

Heide lbergo logy at the Heidelberg Project,

Detroit

Emily Petty Puckett

• I developed a system of organizing stories, testimonials,

publications and other information about the Heidelberg

Project.

•This information can now be archived, cataloged and

used by the Heidelberg Project staff for their Abstract

Advocacy campaign that illustrates the urgency,

importance and overall impact of the Heidelberg Project on

the Detroit community.

C a t a l o g i n g

R e f e r e n c i n g

O r g a n i z i n g

the

IMPACT of the

H e i d e l b e r g P r o j e c t

Emily Sanford – 2nd Year ARM/LIS

Project: U.S. Consulate at Glauchau, Germany – Records of Foreign Service.

• Inventory bound volumes that comprise the consulate's records

• Establish archival series of records for the volumes

• Describe each series providing: the date span of records, the number of volumes, how the records are arranged, and a brief description of the contents.

Paley Center for MediaNew York City

Student: Emily Thompson

Mentor: Jane KlainResearch Sevices:

Answered reference

questions.

Tagged articles to prepare

them to be added to the

research library.

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) wanted a wiki on their website to define CASE terminology.

Compared and contrasted >100 different wiki software.

Made software recommendation and researched installation & customization of wiki.

Created wiki website implementation timeline.

Erica Willar - Informatics

• Created flyers for each day’s events• Tweeted during Otaku TakeOver• Took photos, filmed b-film and interviewed teens• Created a video of the tweets and photos made during OTO

Erin Klinthong - Anime Festival Intern at the NYPL Grand Central Branch

Still Image Collection Eunah Kim

What I did…* Scanned a box - about 500 sheets-

of black and whit photographs

* Resized & watermarked the photographs

* Inventory check of old multimedia materials

What I learned…* An archivist has many roles & responsibilities in a small organization and should know lots of things ex) processing materials, reference service, digitization, technology trends…

Department of Transportation

National Transportation Library

Wrote Social Media & Web 2.0

Policy and Strategy Guidelines

Evaluated Archived

Transportation Map Collection

with Recommendations for

Future Strategies

Researched Agency History

and Records Information and

Authored Wikipedia Articles,

Sections, and Stubs related to

the NTL

Gabriel Krieshok

Gayathri BalasubramanianDocumentCloud NYC

Me, Huang and our mentor Amanda Hickman

•Evaluated the user interface of DocumentCloud’s

production web site

•Compared the existing entity extraction system

with other system

•Submitted a report on our findings and

recommendations

•Tasted Korean cuisine for the first time and

enjoyed it (Thanks for the lunch

DocumentCloud!!)

•Went on a walking tour of Wall Street, Castle

Clinton, Brooklyn bridge and Manhattan bridge

(Thank you so much Amanda)

Hanna Stelman

1st year, PI

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

Project: Rehousing Plan for Exhibition Media Assets

Exhibits: Changing the Face of Medicine Dream Anatomy

The Once and Future Web Visible Proofs

Sorted assets by type per exhibition

Housed assets in protective sleeves and archival boxes

Labeled boxes and sleeves

Updated database records Heather Norris, Beth Mullen & Liz Skene

The AAMC represents : All 148 accredited medical schools in U.S.

and Canada 400 major teaching hospitals and health

systems Nearly 90 academic and scientific

societies.

The Reference Center is a small special library and archive that serves the AAMC

While there, I: Processed a collection of records from the

Group on Women in Medicine and Science Observed archival reference work

Hilary Savage – a lovely Spring morning in D.C.

“About the AAMC,” AAMC, http://www.aamc.org/about/start.htm.

Correctional Services Librarianship @ NYPL

-I answered inmate letters with reference questions or requesting reintegration information.

-We pushed the book cart to both solitary confinement and four separate male houses on Rikers Island.

-We organized the tiny high school library in the women’s juvenile facility.

-And I got asked for my phone number by a prisoner (I didn’t give it to him).

Jamie Niehof, 2nd year LIS

Jessica Scott - Library of CongressPrints and Photographs Division

Worked with the National Photo Company collection (1850-1945)

Added subject terms to digitized photographs to increase access on the Web

Got to see some really cool photographs!

Image Courtesy of Library of Congresshttp://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/npcc/01300/01391v.jpg

The ARChive of Contemporary Music

Jessica HanesProject: New York Musicians Index & Archive

Supervisor: Bob George

Project Tasks:

Update Venue & Broadcasting/Radio Categories by:

correcting errors in pre-existing entries & adding new entries

Generate comments and suggestions to improve the database usability & design

Jessie Mannisto1st year - LIS/IPol

Assisted NSF Historian with processing of archives, including drafts of Congressional testimony, letters from all manner of interested parties, internal communications, and other behind-the-scenes program materials.

Learned a lot about the process and purpose of archives, not to mention about the legislative process, research funding, biotechnology, and the logistics of getting in and out of the polar regions. (Did you know there's a Lonely Planet guide to Antarctica?)

Attended a meeting of the Office of Integrative Activities, talked about the Large Hadron Collider with staff of the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, and discussed the Antarctic bibliographic project with the staff of the Office of Polar Programs.

Kate Flynn

Washington, D.C.

Library of Congress – Digital Preservation Program (NDIIPP)

Created Usability Evaluation Plan for http://digitalpreservation.gov

Wrote report on Organizational & Institutional Evaluation of Facebook Use

Tested the user guide for a tool to share digital collections

Wrote an article for http://digitalpreservation.gov on ASB experience

Attended NDIIPP meetings

http://digitalpreservation.gov/



NYU: Digital Preservation at Bobst LibraryKayla Ondracek

What was wrong?

Lots of digital files placed insecurely on a networked drive before the department's development of a digital repository.

What did I do?

Completed a survey of these materials to see what they were and whether they were available in other formats.

Besides this, I had meetings with people in the preservation department and the Digital Studio to talk about digital preservation workflow. I also helped convert video to a digital format.

Kristen Kogachi – New York City

Social Media for Green Map Systems

•Conducted usability testing and wroteguidelines for future testing

•Redesigned a portion of the Green Mapwebsite

•Made recommendations to encourageyouth and community involvement

Catalyst (SI ASB 2010 – NYC)

Project Scope: Create a Fact Sheet on Generations in the Labor Force

United States and Canada

Four Generations in the Labor Force: Silent Generation/Traditionalists Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y/Millenials

Summary Learned daily life of an info pro working in a non-profit special library

setting (e.g., research, reference, collaboration, teamwork)

Learned a variety of reference and research strategies in retrieving information (e.g., government statistics, business journals, reports)

Learned how to compile data and design charts for public audiences

Lauren Walker

Information Visualization Project at Cabrini Connections

Created an animation of a blog article written by my mentor, Daniel Bassill.The completed project represents his article in an visually pleasing and interactive way, showing how volunteers grow their understanding and commitment to the programs helping youth in poverty, and thus become leaders and advocates in those programs, and how the programs they are in help their growth and transformation.

Li Li, 2nd HCI

Me, and my mentor, Daniel Bassill

Digital Preservation Support Program

• Usability Report on digitalpreservation.gov - Addressing the needs of different kinds of users, casual vs. professional users.

• Use of Social Networking for NDIIPP – How NDIIPP can use social networking, like Facebook, to engage the broader community.

•Testing of Recollection tool – NDIIPP’s new tool that takes simple excel sheets and creates more visual interesting data, which can be linked to other users’ data through a social networking aspect.

The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digitalcontent, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations.

Lindsey Williams – 1st year, ARM/PI

At the Library of Congress

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the Library of Congress

Lorelei Rutledge

*Analyzed series for missing books

*Created collection development priorities list

*Offered suggestions of new

authors to consider for

the NLSBPH Collection

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(NLSBPH)

Law Library of CongressSupreme Court Web Capture

Lori Donovan

• I worked at the Library of Congress in the Law Library

• I evaluated web pages archived as part of the 2005-2006 Supreme Court Nominations Collection, identifying metadata for cataloguers.

• I did not see Sean Connery.

Georgetown Law Library

Placed all the content of the law library website on index cards

Gave the cards to users to sort in patterns that made sense to them

Used the patterns to organize the website in new ways

Matt Scheinerman

High-Level Round Table Analysis & Navigation PlanMaurini Strub

• Analyzed types of content on 17 sub-sites• Identified shared themes• Developed plan for: • Consistent labeling• Left-hand navigation plan

Kelly, We’re Not in New Jersey Anymore!

Meg Hixon

Columbia University: Collection Development at the Butler Library with Barbara List and Jeff Carroll

Studying Collection Development Policies

Assessing collection development policies of similar institutions

Offering recommendations for Columbia’s proposed template

Observing the Library at Work

Attending meetings with subject selectors

Meeting with librarians in music, GIS systems, and assessment

Creating a budget and reviewing the strategic plan

Bonus! I gave my regards to

Broadway, seeing Corbin

Bleu in In the Heights.

Bonus! I went to my second

Ivy on a field trip to

Princeton.

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

evaluating the impact of the Army’s traumatic brain injury research

Mel Whitehead, LIS

• Designed search strategies for data collection• Used bibliometric methods to measure

publication and citation trends • Drew implications regarding the impact of Army

researchers and specific papers• Compared data to general trends in TBI

research• Presented findings to Army colonel and

prominent TBI researcher, as well as Library Director – used for acquisition decision and upcoming hearing

Participant: Morgan Keys1st Year MSI, studying HCI/ICD

Project: To help CASE evaluate and improve their new website by developing a usability test-plan.

Host Organization: Council for Advancement and Support of Education, a professional organization for Development, Fundraising, and similar education employees.

Performed simple task-evaluations, and completed a report covering four low-cost usability/design methods.

Smithsonian Institution –National Museum of Natural History

Worked on a project:

•Digitizing and organizing rare maps held by the museum

•Cataloging the maps into a database for online access by researchers.

•Exploring behind the scenes of the Smithsonian

Owen Ellis – Washington DC

REBECCA MCNITT

CZS BROOKFIELD ZOO LIBRARY

Updated all links to

on-line resources

Created wiki of

library resources

using Moinmo.in

Set up wiki for use

on the zoo’s intranet

Huffington Post Investigative Fund

Building wireframes for future participate page

Making wireframes on a document page about health insurance claims.

Executing User Testing around the office building (just right next to the White House!)

Ricardo Yi, 2nd HCI

DUTIES AND ACTIVITIES

Observed and participated in the digitization and preservation workflows for film and audio-visual records

Introduced to two of the latest digitization tools, the SAMMA, a U-Matic tape converter, and the Spirit 4K, a film scanner

Helped fill film and audio-visual reference requests

Attended meetings concerning the ERA and file format validation tools

Guided tours of the vaults at Archives I, and the vaults, a conservation lab, and preservation labs at Archives II

MET THE ARCHIVIST OF THE UNITED STATES!!

Samantha Ashby, ARM/LIS, 1st year

World of Maps – Sarah HeggeSmithsonian Natural History Museum

Working hard to help with the map collection

Cataloging

Digitizing

Reorganizing

Taking time out for fun

Tour of the Cullman Library

Natural history museum butterfly exhibit

My project was to gather

information about organizations

that work on policy related to

OITP’s broad range of issues,

including:

- copyright and intellectual

property

- the broadband plan and internet

access

- digital literacy and privacy

Also participated in:

- Informational interviews with members of two non-profits

(Internews and Council on Competitiveness)

- A briefing on an FCC –commissioned report on broadband

adaption in low-income communities

Sarah Pipes

Sarah Barbrow spent the week at the

Marine Mammal Division of the National Museum of Natural History

Sub-sampled tissue samples of beached whales for a frozen tissue sample repository

Organized these tissue samples Toured the collections facilities

“Think Tanks” and the War on DrugsDrug Enforcement Administration

• Downloaded and organized

drug trafficking reports written

by “Think Tanks” like the RAND

Corporation.

• Helped to put those reports on

their local secure intranet.

•DEA agents don’t have internet

access at their desk, so my

work helped to increase their

access to information critical to

carrying out their mission.

Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/emingus/870934011/

The DEA headquarters in Arlington,

VA. I worked in the building on the

right.

Stephen X. Flynn

1st year LIS/IPOL

< (with Michael)

Project:

Cataloging CDs >

Steve Cherry

at the

ARChive of Contemporary Music (NY):

the largest collection of popular music recordings in the world!

The project is to visualize the Stimulus

data online. The data include the

amount of money for each state and

each county and where departments or

organizations they are from. We used

Adobe Flex and arcGIS web API to

create the system. arcGIS provides a

great online mapping services that are

comfortable to program with Flex.

*

Yiwei Ma

Revealing The Hidden Gems

ALA, Chicago

Guide: Sheila Joy / Louise Gruenberg

As part of my Alternative Spring Break Program I completed a Project for the HRDR department of ALA. The project was called 'Revealing the Hidden Gems' and job functions included converting the existing pdf's on the website into accessible webpages.

For this purpose I initially learnt and got accustomed to their Content management system, Collage, and redesigned the webpage from the emerging leaders link. I removed the pdf's that contained almost 60% of the information and embedded them as searchable webpages by converting the pdf's to xml first.

For the purpose of usability, I added interactive channels such as Pods to search for Information and latest postings. The task also required me to add user friendly navigation links and accessibility tags through collage.

The complete process was documented and submitted to the organization as part of training material for future interns.

Technologies learnt - used : Collage (CMS), Adobe Acrobat Pro, XML.

Aditya Doshi

Media Burn Chicago

3 Employees

4 School of Information ASB Interns

30 years of Independent Video Footage

6,000 hours of videotapes

1 Very Old Website (and CMS)

Arjun and I were able to able to make many functional changes to the

mediaburn.org website. We redesigned the frontpage, added social media

functionality, and integrated the site with the organization's youtube,

facebook, and wordpress blog. Media Burn is planning a complete

redesign of their website in the next year. Our consultation should prove

invaluable for the limited technical expertise of such a small organisation.

SI Alternative Spring BreakChicago

Alex Pompe

SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

OF AMERICAN HISTORYARCHIVES CENTER

Processed two collections:

Grand Central Terminal Collection

Norwich Eaton Pharmaceutical Collection

Created finding aid for Grand Central Terminal Collection

Cleaned and re-housed Norwich Eaton

Toured curatorial storage room and paper preservation lab.

Got our hands nice and dirty!

http://newsdesk.si.edu/images_full/images/buildings/general/building_10.jpg

Alisha McCullick

Annelise Doll US DOT – National Transportation Library

Caitlin, Gabe, and I in front of the National Transportation Library

•Survived the transportation furlough of 2010!

•Created a Wikipedia page for the National Transportation Library

•Attended meetings of library staff and learned how each member came together to make the library run efficiently

SI Alternative Spring Break 2010- Library of Congress

Arielle Sokol working with Peggy Pearlstein and Claire DekleI worked both in the African and Middle Eastern Division

(AMED) and at the Conservation Lab. I focused on two

separate projects, the Berman Haggadah Collection and the

Judaic Poster Collection..

At AMED, I created

spreadsheets, assessed content

and condition, made photocopies

on Acid-free paper, and housed

and shelved materials.

In the conservation lab, I used the cutter to

correctly size labels. I also used PVA to

attach labels to housings. I learned what it

was like to work in a real conservation lab

using state of the art equipment.

Overall, this was a great experience because it allowed me

to accomplish a variety of tasks, using skills from several

different disciplines. My mentors were eager to help me

learn and apply my knowledge from my SI classes.

Media Burn Independent Video Archive

Project: Website Design, Website Content Analysis and Usability Study

SI Students: Christina, Alex, Andrew and Arjun. Arjun Vora

Adler Planetarium Website Redesign/Social Media Intern

+ analyzed adler’s social media presence on facebook, twitter, youtube, flickr, and their use of podcasts

+ designed a survey to determine if adler was addressing museum visitors’ social media needs

+ implemented the survey using a combination of surveymonkey and in-person interviews

+ briefed the interactive media team on general findings from the surveyBecky Chu

Bo WangGreen Map System, NYC

Participated in designing usability test guideline.Translated the Chinese Green Map System platform.Redesigned a part of Open Green Map web interface—Legend Bar.Made a Chinese version instruction flow chart for using Open Green Map System.

Columbia College

Library Website

Usability Study

The library redesigned its interface in September and had not conducted any user testing.

We conducted 25 usability studies over 2 days.

The webmaster will use the data to create reports for upper management to drive future iterations of the site.

ASB allowed Columbia to do testing that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.

Columbia College Library website

Bruce Shields

• Conducted a usability study on the redesigned library home page

*Interviewed 25 students

* Also interviewed 5 faculty members.

• Created a detailed statistical report of findings.