Browsing by Author "Rayman, Denise"

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    Addressing Nonprofits’ Historical Harm to Minority Groups through Radical Transparency: Urban Displacement and the Making of a University
    (2020-11-13) Rayman, Denise
    How can today’s nonprofits address their past harmful actions to minorities and other vulnerable groups? This paper will present and analyze one method nonprofits can use to address this history: radical transparency. This paper will present a historical transparency project at IUPUI to address our racist history, placing it within existing public history work around radical transparency as a method of social repair, comparing to current trends in financial and governance transparency in nonprofits, and ultimately showing a broader concept of public transparency within the nonprofit sector as a valuable tool for social justice.
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    Building a COVID-19 Web Archive with Grant Funding
    (2021-05-13) Blair, Lyndsey Denise; Drone-Silvers, Claire; Rayman, Denise; Weber, Rhys
    Grant funding can be a mixed blessing for archivists, and as the economic effects of COVID-19 reduce budgets for libraries and archives nationwide, our profession will see even greater reliance on “soft” money. While there are issues with the damaging effect of grants on the future of the profession, a more pressing concern is the burden that ongoing maintenance costs from former grant projects place upon archival budgets. However, due to the Internet Archive’s forward-thinking subscription model, web archiving is one project that can be completed with a one-time grant, even a small one, with little ongoing cost to the hosting archives. This makes creating a web archive around a current event an attractive and practical project within the limitations of grant funding. This poster will show how we created a web archive documenting COVID-19 in Central Indiana, covering how to pitch web archiving to a grantmaker, how to make appraisal decisions when gathering URL seeds, how to manage crawling within a limited data budget, and tools and techniques for managing this work between several people working remotely. We will also discuss certain pitfalls that we encountered and what other archivists can do to avoid them in the future.
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    Graduate School Archives Internships: High Impact or High Barrier? Preliminary Results
    (2024-07-24) Rayman, Denise; Spotts, Lydia C.
    This presentation reports on a SAA Foundation-funded study of the efficacy of archival internships in improving career success in the profession. While variables are vast and complex, our study is limited to identifying the relationship between internship completion and post-graduate employment. While there are studies on the efficacy of internships in undergraduate education, our study is the first research on the efficacy of internships as a component of graduate education for the archival profession. Part one of the study, a survey, is complete and analysis of part two, qualitative interviews, is in progress. We will share preliminary results, including how outcomes differed among surveyed archival science program graduates who completed internships, students who worked in archives, and students who had no experience in archives upon graduation. Internships have a notable impact on emergent archives professionals who are the future of archival work. Formally or informally requiring internships, often unpaid or for only nominal compensation, as a part of education is a significant barrier to entry in the profession for people from historically excluded and persistently underrepresented backgrounds. Per A*CENSUS II, the profession remains majority white (84%). If we continue with the current model, how can graduate programs and the archives profession reduce barriers for students? If ineffective, can we remove the barrier?
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    Making Internships Work! A Guide to the Care and Feeding of the Profession for the Working Archivist
    (2024-04-19) Rayman, Denise
    Internships are an important part of how we train the next generation of archivists, but hosting an intern can be yet another burden on the overworked archivist. In this presentation, Denise Rayman, who is the archives internship instructor for the IU Indianapolis Department of Library and Information Science and also supervises student workers at Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives, will share advice and ideas for how to make internships a great experience for both student and host. Topics will include: ethics of internships, conducting remote internships, developing meaningful work projects for interns, writing grant proposals that include internships, and how to pay interns.
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    Managing a Digital Media Backlog: Lessons Learned on Zipping Through Disks
    (2023-03-31) Rayman, Denise
    Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives at IUPUI is working on a 2-year project, funded by the Indianapolis Foundation Library Fund, to transfer all records off of a 30-plus year backlog of floppy disks, optical discs, zip disks, flash drives, and all other sorts of obsolete digital media hiding in paper collections. Like many archives, we have known for years that our window to preserve this material was rapidly closing as media readers disappeared, and the media itself succumbed to inherent vice. Denise Rayman will present how they created a plan to save this material, including inventorying material, estimating labor hours needed, developing a budget, and managing the logistics of multiple student workers processing media simultaneously. These hard-won lessons in project management are applicable to other archivists working on similar backlog projects.
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    Mixed Bag: Describing and Publishing a Collection of Open and Restricted Born-Digital Records using Digital Objects
    (2020-05-20) Rayman, Denise
    Arranging and describing collections with mixed open and restricted content can be tricky, and especially tricky when working with born-digital records. Likewise, as with physical material it is often not practical to describe born-digital material to the item level. This presentation will show a method of representing both the openly accessible and restricted born-digital material within a single collection. The method uses folder-level description combined with the published/unpublished feature in ArchivesSpace’s digital objects. This provides a record for all born-digital files in the collection, with a public link to the repository for open material, and a hidden digital object accessible from the staff interface only. This method balances the need for basic description of restricted content while providing privacy to the donor’s materials, and provides maximum clarity for researchers in what is accessible and what is not. It also allows staff to quickly find and access the material when needed, and any temporarily restricted material can be published and unrestricted easily at a later date. The presentation will show this method using a DSpace repository and DSpace’s published/unpublished feature for objects, but it is applicable to other systems as well.
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    Take the Data, Leave the CD-ROMs: Rescuing information from legacy databases
    (2023-11-15) Sipocz, Olivia; Rayman, Denise
    How can we rescue good data from bad databases? Many archives have interesting and unique material languishing in legacy databases on CD-ROMs. We present a case study on rescuing unique nonprofit tax returns stored on over 700 CD-ROMs and show how other archivists can work with similar material.