Claire in the Library

Outcome 4a. Apply library and information science theories, principles, and research to professional
practice.

For LIS 759: Digital Libraries, one of two major projects in the course is to create a grant proposal. Staying on theme, I selected a performing arts collection and proposed to digitize the New York Public Library’s Theatre on Film and Tape Collection (TOFT). Our instructions were to base these proposals off of real IMLS grant applications in order to create something as close to professional and legitimate as we can within the classroom.

This artifact is a good example of the culmination of many library and information science principles, including technical skills like how to digitize and creating easier access to digital items, but also management and professional skills like communications across departments and encouraging good evaluations at multiple steps of the process.

Outcome 4b. Evaluate current and emerging technologies for information capture, organization,
dissemination, access, and/or curation to meet the variety of information needs of diverse communities.

This artifact comes from Metadata for Digital Resources, LIS 882, taken in my penultimate semester of school. For this assignment, we were to select a person without a Wikidata page and create one for them. I selected nonbinary playwright Liliana Padilla, a 2019 finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. I love this assignment because there are finally real-world connections to my library school work and because we were exposed to a current technology that aims to meet diverse needs for a number of different fields of study and type of user. I was also forced to select elements to add to the Wiki page based on what I thought other users might find helpful, such as Padilla’s alma mater or their prize history.

View this page on Wikidata here.

Outcome 4c. Demonstrate teaching and learning principles in relation to professional practice.

As part of my LIS 701 course, I was responsible for selecting a professional library association to research and then present to my peers. I seelcted the Theatre Library Association as I was already familiar with their resources and services. The teaching/learning principles come in the form of a video presentation (teaching) and discussion board posts from my 701 peers (learning). The peer posts responded with further questions about the organizaiton and performing arts libraries. Because these screenshots were taken from Canvas, I have blocked peer names and pictures out for privacy reasons. Post date and time stamps remain for authenticity.