Articles

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Using iPads in the Reading Room (with Cheryl Oestreicher, Julia Stringfellow, and Jim Duran), Archival Outlook (2013)

In 2010, Boise State University began integrating mobile technology into teaching and learning environments on...

 

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Embattled Ecumenism: The National Council of Churches, the Vietnam War, and the Trials of the Protestant Left [Review], The Idaho Librarian (2012)

Review of "Embattled Ecumenism: The National Council of Churches, the Vietnam War, and the Trials...

 

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Connections, The Bridge: Finlandia University (2010)
 

William1 Burnell of Boston: Eight Generations of Male-Line Descendants in Boston and Nantucket, Massachusetts, The American Genealogist (2009)
 

Children of Joseph4 and Tabitha (Tobey) Freeman of Duxbury, Mayflower Descendant (2007)
 

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Finglish, The Genealogical Society of Finland (2004)

On her first day in the Americas, Finnish Professor Marja-Liisa Martin was told by her...

 

Contributions to Books

No Bottleneck Here: The Role of Physical and Cultural Place in Finnish American Archival Collections, Identity Palimpsests: Ethnic Archiving in the United States and Canada (2013)

Although the Finns do not make up a large American ethnic group, there are two...

 

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One Year Underground, Reminiscences of a Trammer’s Helper, Upper Peninsula Folklore (Not yet published) (2009)

Reminiscences of Clyde Randell during his one year spent underground as a 3rd generation miner,...

 

Presentations and Lectures

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International Health Care Issues and Services Identified while Mapping the Gerontological Nursing Literature (with Marilia Antunez, Marcia Henry, and Dorice Vieira), 2013 Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Medical Library Association (MLA ’13), the 11th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML), the 7th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS), and the 6th International Clinical Librarian Conference (ICLC) (2013)

Bibliometric analysis of cited references; analyzed keywords, subject content, and authors to discern global issues...

 

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Genealogy Resources at the St. Mary's College of Maryland Archives and Library, St. Mary's County Genealogical Society (2013)

Presentation given to the St. Mary's County Genealogical Society during their monthly meeting, the evening...

 

Connections Between Basque and Sámi Culture and History: Language, mtDNA Studies, and Other Surprising Connections, Sámi Siida of North America (SSNA) Annual Meeting (Siidastallan) (2012)

The Sámi and Basque share the most uncommon mtDNA haplogroup (V), speak languages that are...

 

Case Study: Design, Workflows, and Final Results of a Large-scale and In-house Oral History Digitization Project At a Small Institution, 93rd Annual Meeting of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Pacific Division (2012)

The presentation will analyze procedures that allowed an extant oral history project to be digitized...

 

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NEH Grant: Expanding Access in the Northwest Digital Archive (with Linda Morton-Keithley), Boise State University, Albertsons Library, Special Collections (2012)

Boise State University Special Collections and Archives, with the assistance of a grant from the...

 

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The Use of Primary Sources in Special Collections (with Julia Stringfellow), Graduate Student Workshop (2012)

This workshop will cover BSU's Special Collections and Archives and its many collections and research...

 

[Panel Organizer and Moderator] Cross-Currents and Contemporary Issues Facing the Indigenous Sámi Peoples of Northern Europe, Native Americans in the United States, and American Finns, FinnFest 2012 (2012)

With the rising popularity of genealogy and the historic population bottlenecks that occurred in Northern...

 

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Digitization of the 'Finnish Folklore and Social Change in the Great Lakes Mining Region' Oral History Collection, National Park Service, Keweenaw National Historic Park Fourth Thursday in History Program (2011)
 

Preparing for a Large Scale Oral History Project, Guest Lecturer, Oral History Seminar, Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College (2011)
 

Finnish Genealogy, Finn Grand Fest (2010)
 

Projects

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Finlandia University Oral History Digitization Project (2010)

Funded in part by a grant from the Keweenaw National Historic Park Advisory Commission. Created...

 

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Northern Michigan University Conversion from InMagic to Archivists' Toolkit (2009)

Created text output from InMagic software, data mapped output to appropriate EAD and Archivists' Toolkit...

 

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Alexander Jefferson Papers Finding Aid, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan (2007)

Ret. Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, Tuskegee Airmen pilot and ex-P.O.W., collection of personal papers and...