George Mason University • November 30, 2018
Twitter #DASummit2018
All sessions will take place in Fenwick Library, Main Reading Room (#2001), George Mason University, Fairfax Campus.
8:30 – 8:45 • Coffee
8:45 – 9:00 • Welcome Remarks
9:00 – 10:15 • Session 1 • Institutional Opportunities and Challenges in Building or Re-Imaging Digital Archives
Michelle D. Brock, Washington and Lee University, Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Digital Scholarship and Collaboration at Teaching-Intensive Universities
Patricia Dillon Sobczak and Sam Byrd, Virginia Commonwealth University, Advertising Icons: Preserving the Cultural Record of Brand Ambassadors
Zachary Hoffman and Ryan Wolfe, University of Virginia, When New Acquisitions Change Your Archive: The University of Virginia Law Library Pacific War Crimes Trials Collection
10:15 – 10:30 • Break
10:30 – 11:45 • Session 2 • Roundtable Discussion: Finding the Hidden in Plain Sight: The Enslaved Children of George Mason and Mason’s Legacies Projects
Moderator: Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University
Participants (All George Mason University):
George Oberle
Benedict Carton
Rebecca T. Beuschel
Clare E. Yordy
Viktoria Wilkins
Ayman Fatima
Alexis Bracey
11:45 – 12:00 • Break
12:00 – 1:00 • Lunch Workshop • The Library of Virginia Transcription Initiative
Kathy Jordan, Digital Initiatives and Web Service Manager
Jessica Bennett, Digital Collections Specialist
Sonya Coleman, Digital Engagement + Social Media Coordinator
1:00 – 1:15 • Break
1:15 – 2:30 • Session 3 • Revealing Hidden Histories and Rebuilding Lost Spaces with Digital Technology
Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Center for Presidential History Southern Methodist University, The President’s House: Museum Collections, Virtual Reality, and Physical Space
Alice W. Campbell and W. Gardner Campbell, Virginia Commonwealth University, Digital Surrogates and Communities of Inquiry: Online Annotation for the Social Welfare History Image Portal
Lorna M. Loring, Handley Regional Library & Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, Hidden Within: How Digitization Brought New Life to the Pages of Account Books
Steve Bookman, Old Dominion University, A Step in Time: Implementing the TribeTrek Walking Tour App
2:30 – 2:45 • Break
2:45 – 3:30 • Session 4 • Lightning Round
Megan Brett, George Mason University, Discovery and Image Description: Accessibility, Archives, and Pedagogy
Mark Lane and Sarah Roth-Mullet, James Madison University, Oral History Collections at James Madison University
Additional Presentations from the Audience
3:30 • Concluding Remarks
4:00 • Happy Hour
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