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Nadean Meyer Learning Resources Librarian at Eastern Washington University 9002 Sherman Rd. Spokane, WA 509-443-8866-home, 509-359-4262-work billandnadean@earthlink.net nmeyer@ewu.edu Julie Miller is Associate Dean of Libraries at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington. She has a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature and taught college English for several years. Since completing her library science degree at Kent State University in 1994, she has worked in public, special, and academic libraries. She currently serves on the Standards and Accreditation Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Her professional interests include leadership and student engagement. Her passions include contemporary poetry and the American West. She is a member of Women Writing the West and has served as a judge in the annual WILLA award for literary works by women about the West. Julie Miller, PhD, Associate Dean of EWU Libraries at Eastern Washington University. Julie.miller@ewu.edu Information Literacy Resources National Forum on Information Literacy The National Forum on Information Literacy was created in 1989 as a response to the recommendations of the American Library Association's Presidential Committee on Information Literacy. These education, library, and business leaders stated that no other change in American society has offered greater challenges than the emergence of the Information Age. http://www.infolit.org/ Information Literacy meets Library 2.0 This is the extensive and well organized blog of Peter Godwin and Jo Parker, authors of the book Information Literacy meets Library 2.0. They also have a location in Second Life. http://infolitlib20.blogspot.com/ Pageflakes on Information Literacy This page has feeds from blogs on information literacy and related subjects, plus feeds from a few journals and discussion lists. It is maintained by Sheila Webber, University of Sheffield, s.webber@sheffield.ac.uk http://www.pageflakes.com/informationliteracy/ University of Idaho Information Literacy Online Course Information literacy is critically important because we are surrounded by a growing ocean of information in all formats. Not all information is created equal: some is authoritative, current, reliable, but some is biased, out of date, misleading, false. The amount of information available is going to keep increasing. http://www.webs.uidaho.edu/info_literacy/ Texas Interactive Library Tutorial: Information Literacy Information is available from many sources and in many formats, such as printed text, television, videos, library databases, web sites, and more. To be "information literate" you need to know why, when, and how to use all of these tools and think critically about the information they provide. Visitors can take this tutorial as a Guest. http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/ Education Libraries, Volume 31, No. 2, Winter 2008 30
Photo Identity Crisis: Creating a Classification and Organization Method for Unidentified Photographic Archives By Heidi Blackburn, Pam Bower, and Alysia Starkey Abstract Institutional archives have always provided a sense of history and unity for most universities. This is especially emphasized for the Kansas State University at Salina photographic collection. The school has gone through four different name changes in the last fifty years and the library has amassed an overwhelming assortment of photographs documenting various events on campus, from groundbreaking ceremonies to Information & Media Literacy student social occasions. With an estimated total of over 11,000 unlabeled photographs, the K-State at Salina librarians have worked hard to begin the process of providing the university community with a useful resource for historical research in the future. Introduction The focus of this paper is the pictorial collection of nearly 11,000 items in the Kansas State University (K-State) at Salina archives. Candid photographs make up the greater part of the collection and document momentous historical events throughout the life of the college. However, the majority of the collection was never labeled with names, dates, and location information, which has rendered the collection virtually impossible to catalog or use. The collection plays a central role in preserving the diverse history of K-State at Salina. It should also be noted the materials contained in this collection do not include activities which took place on the main campus of Kansas State University. The Hale Library Special Collections department, located in Manhattan, Kansas, is in charge of preserving those artifacts in the University Archives and Manuscripts collection. K-State Salina library staff have recently begun taking comprehensive measures to maintain the integrity of this unique collection. The storage of photographs, documents and other historical material is not a new concept. It could be considered an innate human need to leave a legacy; to prove “I was here and this is what I accomplished.” Archival documents are the tapestry that provides future generations meaning into how things came to be. Would the telling of history be as powerful without photographs of Anne Frank’s attic or those of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington in which to associate these events? The K-State at Salina Library’s photographic archival collection serves as the medium for which future students, faculty and administrators will connect with the past. Literature was reviewed prior to the project inception to ensure best practices were applied during the selection and organization of materials. This section provides a brief overview of these findings. Archival collections in libraries and museums exist to fill a need in the society for which they serve. An archival collection is an important component to an institution. It provides a comprehensive record and measure of the institution’s “importance to the public and their influence on society” (Ostby, 2006). More specifically, photographs play a critical role in documenting a library or museum’s value and bearing on society. The Impact of Photographic Archival Collections Most photographic archival collections are acquired through in-house production. Berinstein (1998) states, “Inhouse personnel may generate the pictures the library collects, either by creating them, donating them, or both.” Education Libraries, Volume 31, No. 2, Winter 2008 31
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