Meet Maesa Ogas (they/them), a Railsback Fellow for Library Engagement and an Arts and Humanities Library Assistant pursuing a joint M.L.S. and Folklore M.A. degree. Read about their academic journey from studying at Purdue, joining ILS, and interning at Harvard here!
Tag: digital collections
Connecting Communities: Digitization Efforts at the IUMAA Reading Room
As the Curator of Archives and Library Resources at the IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (IUMAA), Kelsey Grimm (MLS IU 2015) wears many hats. As the steward of the museum’s library and archival collections, Grimm oversees the preservation and organization of diverse materials such as the Great Lakes-Ohio Valley Ethnohistory Collection (also known as… Read more »
Digitizing History: Ellie Harrison’s Exhibit on Karl Martz’s Mashiko Sabbatical
By Quentin Kitchell This summer, dual M.L.S./M.A. Art History candidate Ellie Harrison curated an exhibit titled Karl Martz’s 1971–72 Mashiko Sabbatical and Japanese Studio Pottery. Working with supervisor Sarah Carter, Ellie highlighted photographs from the IU Legacy Slide Collection that document Martz’s sabbatical in Mashiko, Japan, during the early 1970s. Read more about her work… Read more »
IU alums hope to make impact with new digital collection creation tool
Two ILS department alums, Devin Becker (MLS ’10) and Olivia Wikle (MLS ’18) are part of a team out of the University of Idaho that created and maintain CollectionBuilder, a new free tool for publishing online digital collections. See what they’re up to and read more about their project here! ** For further information about… Read more »