Erin Passehl

How Institutional Repositories Provide a Digital Compliment to the First Year Experience

Erin Passehl et al. — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:35:39 PST

In Fall 2011, Western Oregon University Archives partnered with Interdisciplinary Studies to digitally capture capstone projects created in the First Year Experience Program (FYE). These seminars provide incoming first-year and transfer students with the necessary skills to succeed in the college classroom and campus life. WOU Archives and FYE instructors collaborated to preserve a digital sample of students’ capstone work, including papers, creative art, posters, presentations, and videos. This presentation will discuss this our shared promotional goals and the library’s role in supporting student retention. We’ll also discuss the nuts and bolts of digitally documenting student work, including permissions, formats, sampling methods, and the overall development of the digital collection.

Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive

Erin Passehl — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:28:42 PDT

Web Site review for the Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive, maintained by Washington State University–Vancouver. Developed to highlight hidden ethnic histories of the Columbia River basin, the Archive includes reports, records, maps, newspapers, artifacts, and oral history interviews from the Pacific Northwest region dating back to 1860.

Capitalizing on (un)limited Potential: Building Digital Collections with a Student Workforce

Erin Passehl — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:39:25 PDT

Regardless of size or budget, libraries and archives are being asked to do more with fewer resources. Digitization projects are susceptible to these same demands. One way to make progress in this digital environment with a shoestring budget is by taking advantage of a student workforce. This presentation shares strategies for digitizing collections using undergraduate student labor, including working with students with no prior knowledge or experience with archival materials or digital collections. The presentation will also address managing additional educational requirements for credit-earning interns, appropriate assumptions for timelines and workflows, scheduling dilemmas, student turnovers, and working with an untrained workforce with an average age of twenty.

Primary Source Literacy Using YouTube and ESPN College GameDay Videos

Erin Passehl — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:43:21 PDT

This presentation looks at a trend that I employed with archival instruction: the use and creation of video in one-shot instruction sessions. I used three specific videos to emphasize certain concepts in my primary source literacy efforts, three videos that have very different audiences, purposes, ways they were created, and distribution models. It will also look at why video can be a useful choice to connect students with primary sources through archival instruction.

Boise's Basque Radio Program

Erin Passehl — Tue, 24 May 2011 11:58:05 PDT

Passehl will present her research on Boise's Basque radio program, an hour-long radio spoken in Basque on KBOI for approximately thirty years. The presentation will include audio clips from the radio program and historical information about the show and its hosts.

Past and Present Contributions of Idaho Women: Advancing Northwest Women’s History and the Crafting of Idaho Women’s History Day

Erin Passehl et al. — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:28:58 PST

Students in the Boise State University course, “History of Women in Idaho,” helped develop Idaho Women’s History Day with research papers and poster exhibits at the Idaho State Capitol. These papers represent three perspectives on that project and highlight research on three individual women in Idaho history: Espe Alegria, May Arkwright Hutton, and Agnes Just Reid.

Digital Archives 101 Workshop

Erin Passehl et al. — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:47:00 PDT

Passehl and Vecchione geared the workshop towards how to get started with digital collections and how even small institutions can start the digitization planning process. The workshop was not an in-depth explanation about standards or scanning processes; instead they presented the different issues to consider when planning for digital projects. By creating a Digital Collection Resources toolkit to accompany the presentation, Passehl and Vecchione hoped to help smaller libraries understand the process and resources needed to start creating their digital collections.

Digital Archives 101

Erin Passehl et al. — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:38:23 PDT

Learn about the decisions you need to make before embarking on a digital collections journey at your library. Using several examples and years of experience, Erin and Amy will show you the different ways you can build your own digital collection from scratch. Even with a limited budget you can create a digital collection that is accessible to the public. Amy and Erin will address questions, issues, and problems local to your institution as needed. Attendees will acquire additional resources that will help take their library's unique collections from print to online in no time.

Espe Alegria: Cultural Advisor and Voice of the Basques in American Radio

Erin Passehl — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:32:14 PDT

This presentation will showcase Basque immigrant Espe Alegria (1906-1991), who spent her life preserving and promoting Basque language, culture, and identity in Boise, Idaho. Espe Alegria’s continuous work left a legacy on the American Diaspora in three areas: her work in radio broadcasting, translation and immigration services, and the arts. Espe hosted The Basque Program, a one-hour radio program that aired every week from 1955-1981. Known as the “Voice of the Basques,” Espe used her social connections to personalize the program in ways that connected with listeners in both cities and Basque-speaking sheepherders. This presentation will also look at Espe’s work with Basque immigrants for over forty years as an interpreter for government agencies and as a “word of mouth” service. Espe spent most of her life in Idaho volunteering for the arts and collecting one of the largest Basque music collections in the United States. This presentation will reveal Espe Alegria as one of the matriarchs of the Boise Basque community who preserved the Basque language and culture via the radio and acted as a trusted advisor to immigrants throughout the Treasure Valley. Visual displays and audio excerpts from The Basque Program will be included.

Documenting Tragedy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Historic Plaques, Remembrance Books, and Implications for Archives and Memory

Erin Passehl — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:15:08 PDT

On August 24, 1970, a bomb exploded outside Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The bombing killed an innocent physics researcher, injured three others, and devastated the physics department located inside Sterling Hall. This presentation considers two common themes: documenting “official” history and memory and implications for archives including the affect of collective and social memories on archives, collection policies, and access points. This presentation examines local agencies and their means of portraying and advancing histories and memories of the bombing over the past thirty-six years.

Wrangling Digital Collections into Existence

Erin Passehl et al. — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:24:12 PDT

The presentation will highlight local/regional efforts to digitize collections. Presenters will provide useful tools to getting started with your digital collection and tips to avoid potential pitfalls. This presentation is geared to librarians of all types (academic, public, school, and special).

“Should I Copy That Photograph?”Real-world Duplication Quandaries

Erin Passehl — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:55:37 PDT

Archivists grapple with hard decisions about reproducing images every day. Aside from the copyright gray zone that so many photographs fall under, there are also issues of professional courtesy, digitization, cultural sensitivity, political pressures, and commercial use. In this panel four archivists discuss some of the more difficult reproduction questions, and resultant solutions, they have encountered. These questions will resonate to similar situations that other archivists have encountered and provide some measure of clarity for dealing with difficult reproduction questions. The panel will also be open to questions and situations presented by the audience.

Collaboration for Promotional Success: The Western Writers Series Digital Editions at Boise State University

Erin Passehl — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:47:51 PDT

In the fall of 2008, Boise State University Special Collections published its first online digital collection entitled Western Writers Series Digital Editions (1), a selection of titles from the Boise State University Western Writers Series. Published at Boise State University since 1972, volumes in the Western Writers Series provide brief, authoritative introductions to writers and classic texts of the American West. The impetus behind digitizing 23 of the 172 titles was to make accessible the out-of-print booklets that the editors still receive purchasing requests for, as well as showcase one of Boise State University's unique publications. With the booklets at 50-60 pages each, it was an inexpensive digitization project to undertake. To achieve this, Boise State University Albertsons Library formed a partnership with the university's English Department to digitize the out-of-print editions and later made them available using CONTENTdm, the content management system hosted by the Special Collections department. Once the project was completed, discussion commenced regarding how to best promote the new digital collection both on and off-campus. This paper describes the collaboration between Special Collections, departments on campus, and within the community to successfully promote the Western Writers Series Digital Editions.

Collaboration and Motivation for Digital Success: The Western Writers Series Digital Editions @ Boise State University

Erin Passehl et al. — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:18:22 PDT

Recently the Boise State University English Department and Albertsons Library collaborated on digitizing a collection of out-of-print editions of the Western Writers Series. Boise State publishes the Western Writers Series which consists of 50-60 page booklets of authoritative introductions to writers and classic texts that relate to literature of the American West. This poster will showcase the collaboration and motivation that went into the Western Writers Series Digital Editions. The motivation behind each stakeholder’s participation in this project will be outlined. The collaboration tactics used when working with librarians, catalogers, archivists, academic units and the community at large will also be highlighted. Participants will walk away with a sense of what obstacles to look for and anticipate when collaborating to create and promote digital collections at their libraries.

For more information on the Western Writers Series Digital Editions, please see: http://library.boisestate.edu/westernwriters/.

Corralling Digital Collections From Across the Region: A Survey of Digital Collections in the Pacific Northwest

Erin Passehl et al. — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:06:32 PDT

Digital collections exist at all types of institutions throughout the Northwest. Wrangling these online resources all into one place is quite a challenge. This poster will raise awareness and highlight digital collections both big and small throughout the region. The range of collections spans from historical documents detailing local histories to the digital repositories of official government business to photographs and to objects documenting Northwest culture (music, art, and environment). Librarians and teachers will learn what collections are freely available to the public, relevant to the reference desk and classroom, and meaningful to patrons and students. Libraries, archives, and special collections can use this poster to assess the state of digital collections in the Northwest, including subject strengths and opportunities for collaboration. Libraries of all types can benefit from adding these digital thoroughbreds to their corral of online library resources.

Announcing Digital Collections at Boise State University

Erin Passehl — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:57:02 PDT

Beyond the Blue: Creating Digital Collections at Boise State University

Erin Passehl — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:12:48 PDT

Student Users of Archives: An Analysis of Recent Data

Erin Passehl et al. — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:19:22 PDT

We report the findings of 16 student interviews conducted at a large public university in fall 2005 as part of the research project "Developing Archival Metrics in College and University Archives and Special Collections." Fourteen archivists and twelve professors from North American academic institutions were also interviewed, in order to determine what aspects of archival interactions these groups found important to measure. This presentation considered how do students, professors, and archivists perceive different aspects of archival service and how would they like to see these evaluated?