Friday, February 18, 2022 via Zoom
About the Symposium
Bridging the Spectrum: A Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information Science offers a knowledge-sharing forum and meeting place for practitioners, students, and faculty in Library and Information Sciences and Services. Presentations are selected to showcase innovative practices, projects, and research activities in a variety of library, archives, or information services activities. Because students, faculty, and practitioners all share their work, the Symposium encompasses many different aspects and points of view on library and information professional work. The program's goal is to foster unexpected connections across the spectrum of the information professions.
Keynote Address
The 2022 keynote address will be delivered by Jeremy J. Myntti, the Head of Digital Library Services at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library.
Title: Curating the History of COVID-19
Abstract: Many libraries and archives have a mission to document local or regional history and current events. Rapid response collecting during a crisis has become increasingly necessary in recent years in order to curate content during an event rather than after the event has concluded. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, libraries across the world recognized the importance of documenting contemporary history for the current and future study of the pandemic. Many projects were created to document different aspects of the pandemic, each with a slightly different focus based on types of content, populations, or regions. This talk will provide an overview of the many types of COVID related collections that have been created. A case study of the Utah COVID-19 Digital Collection will be shared, including how the project developed over time, workflows developed for processing user-submitted content, and the outreach efforts used to promote the collection.
Bio: Jeremy Myntti is Head of Digital Library Services at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. His research interests revolve around making library collections more discoverable and accessible to our patrons. He is on the project team for the Utah COVID-19 Digital Collection collecting photos, stories, and oral histories from Utah residents related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Program Agenda
(all times Eastern Standard)
9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. - Opening Session
9:20 a.m. -10:20 a.m. - Keynote Address by Jeremy Myntti
10:20 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Break
10:30 a.m. - 12 Noon - Sessions 1 &2
Noon - 1:00 p.m. - Lunch (on your own)
Poster Lightning Talk Presentations
Talk with Sponsor - LAC Group
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Sessions 3 & 4
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Break
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Sessions 5 & 6
To attend the symposium, please register at https://CUA.
Accommodations and Special Needs
Please include any disability accommodations when you register, or contact the Symposium committee at CUA-slis-symposium@CUA.edu or 202-319-5085. In all situations, a good faith effort (up until the time of the event) will be made to provide accommodations.
Symposium Committee
Dr. Sung Un Kim (chair), Dr. Jane Zhang, and Dr. Sue Yeon Syn
Sponsor
