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Interim Dean of University Libraries

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2010 - Present	University Archivist and Curator of Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Boston
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Cultural History, Women's History, Italian Language and Literature, Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Library and Information Science, and Archival Science

Digital humanities, Community Archives Theory and Practice, and Educational Technology

HONORS 680 "Boston Harbor Islands: On the Ground and in the Archives"

University Archives and Special Collections
Joseph P. Healey Library, Fifth Floor
Tel: 617-287-5927
joanne.riley@umb.edu

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Rows and Columns to the Rescue: Genealogy Fun with Spreadsheets

New England Regional Genealogical Consortium Conference (2017)

Joanne M. Riley

Presented at NERGC 2017 Annual Conference, Springfield, MA on April 29, 2017.

Rows and Columns to the Rescue: Handout

New England Regional Genealogical Consortium Conference (2017)

Joanne M. Riley

Paving a Two-Way Street: The Rewards and Challenges of Archival ...

Faculty & Staff Presentations (2015)

Eva Guggemos, Joanne Riley, Kathleen Spring and Rachael Woody

Academic libraries are increasingly engaged in establishing community-based archives programs, often with digital preservation, delivery, and exhibit components. Often these ...

Batch Uploading to ContentDM with the Help of MS Access

Using ContentDM: An Amigos Online Conference (2015)

Joanne M. Riley

Microsoft Access is a great tool for minimizing headaches, streamlining data entry and ensuring quality control in preparing batch uploads ...

Doing History with Online Mapping Tools: An Introduction

Linn Foundation Workshop Series on Maps and Mapping, Museum of Our National History (2014)

Joanne M. Riley

In November, 2014 the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Mass., offered a presentation titled "How to Do History with Online ...

University Archives and Community Organizations: Ensuring Access through Collaboration

Joseph P. Healey Library Publications (2014)

Jessica R. Holden, Andrew Elder and Joanne Riley

How can a university archives establish a successful ongoing relationship with a community organization? What are the benefits and challenges ...

Mining Family History: Gold in Local Archives

Local and Family History Lecture Series, Boston Public Library (2014)

Joanne M. Riley

The Boston area contains dozens of archives that are open to the public for research. The University of Massachusetts Boston ...

Working with Data in Archival Settings

Guest Lecture for UMB Course in Archival Management, UMass Boston (2014)

Joanne M. Riley

Structured data plays a vital role in archival administration, preservation and access activities. Three case studies are presented that demonstrate ...

Memories and Mortuary Records: Community Archiving Projects at UMass Boston

Boston Public Library, Local and Family History Lecture Series (2013)

Joanne M. Riley

UMass Boston houses many archival collections that are utilized by family historians and researchers interested in exploring Boston and Massachusetts ...

Building Bridges in the Clouds: Connecting Researchers and Hidden Works

Joseph P. Healey Library Publications (2013)

Andrew Elder, Joanne M. Riley, Daniel Ortiz-Zapata, Ann Blum, et al.

The work of two researchers, Mercedes Agullo and Rita Arditti, is the raw material for the development of two projects ...

Mass. Memories Road Show: Your Place in Massachusetts History

Office of Community Partnerships Posters (2013)

Andrew Elder, Carolyn M. Goldstein, Joanne Riley and University Archives & Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Boston

The Mass. Memories Road Show is an event-based public history project that digitizes family photographs and stories shared by the ...

Mass. Memories Road Show

Office of Community Partnerships Posters (2012)

Heather Cole, Joanne M. Riley, Andrew Elder and Joseph P. Healey Library, University of Massachusetts Boston

The Mass. Memories Road Show is an event-based public history project that digitizes family photos and stories shared by the ...

Designing a University Level Course: A Practical Approach

Originally presented as an invited workshop at the Johns Hopkins University in 1998, 1999 and 2000. (2000)

Joanne M. Riley

Teaching at the University level requires skills that are often outside the comfort and experience of many faculty, who have ...

Articles (6)

University Archives & Community Organizations: Ensuring Access through Collaboration

Archival Outlook (Society of American Archivists) (2014)

Jessica R. Holden, Andrew Elder and Joanne Riley

In 2011, to further our community-engaged mission, UASC began to focus on working with, promoting, and assisting community archives in ...

Pocket diaries: windows to the past

The Public Humanist (2010)

Joanne M. Riley

There's something enchanting about reading the unmediated words of people from the past, especially when those writings are unedited, brief, ...

Sites That Make You Say "Whoa!"

The Public Humanist (2009)

Joanne M. Riley

Nowadays we use the World Wide Web for so many mundane tasks that it is easy to forget the utter ...

You Can But You May Not

Public Humanist (2009)

Joanne M. Riley

“You-can-but-you-may-not” is a familiar frustration for a lot of us these days, now that digital advances have made it possible ...

Whither Digital Natives?

Public Humanist (2008)

Joanne M. Riley

Rumor has it that the nature of human thinking is changing. As Nicholas Carr puts it in Is Google Making ...

The Mass. Memories Road Show: Some Notes on Bridging and ...

The Public Humanist: Mass Humanities Group Blog (2008)

Joanne M. Riley

Four years ago, the Mass. Studies Project at UMass Boston launched a cultural heritage project that we dubbed the “Mass. ...

Contribution to Book

The Mass. Memories Road Show: a State-Wide Scanning Project

Digitization in the Real World: Lessons Learned from Small and Medium-Sized Digitization Projects (2010)

Joanne M. Riley and Heather Cole

Running a state-wide digital history project on a shoestring budget and staffed primarily by volunteers is not only possible, but ...

Contribution to Book

Tarquinia Molza (1542-1617): A Case Study Of Women, Music And ...

The Musical Woman (1988)

Joanne M. Riley

Tarquinia Molza (1542-1617), an Italian musician of the late Renaissance, worked at the Este court of Ferrara in the 1580's ...

Concurrent Session 1: Resources for Open Education – UMass Boston Libraries ...

OpenEd Forum (2015)

Mary Moser, Xuan Pang, Andrew Elder and Joanne Riley

Librarians at UMass Boston discuss different models of using “fully open” and “modified open” educational resources in your classroom and ...

Doing History with Online Mapping Tools: Handout

Joanne M. Riley

Handout listing resources and links that accompanied Riley's presentation "Doing History with Online Mapping Tools: an Introduction"

Closing Remarks

Archives of an Activist: Celebrating the Donations of Rita Arditti to UMass Boston (2013)

Joanne M. Riley

Closing remarks by Joanne Riley, University Archivist at UMass Boston.

Exhibition, “Nunca Más”: Niños Desaparecidos en Argentina y Las Abuelas ...

Archives of an Activist: Celebrating the Donations of Rita Arditti to UMass Boston (2013)

Doris Cristobal, Andrew Elder, Jessica R. Holden, Teresa Maceira, et al.

Reception and opening of the exhibition titled “Nunca Más”: Niños Desaparecidos en Argentina y Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo ...