Access, Description, and Meaningful Collaboration: Mukurtu CMS and “The Right to Know” in Community-based Archives, Kathryn Manis, Instruction and Community Engagement Librarian, University of Georgia
Mukurtu CMS, maintained by the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation (CDSC) at Washington State University (WSU), represents one way in which LIS professionals have reimagined what access means in the case of cultural heritage materials and in careful consideration of both “the need to know” and “the right to know.” Mukurtu’s creators – members of the Warumungu community of Australia, Dr. Kim Christen, and Craig Dietrich - developed a culturally sensitive framework for digitizing, describing, and making available Native and Indigenous collections. This platform, now utilized by communities across the globe, demonstrates the value of shared stewardship and proves that it is possible to make significant, nuanced changes to how we approach both physical and digital archives.
This talk will introduce attendees to Mukurtu CMS and some of its functionalities, spotlight Mukurtu projects that I became familiar with during my time working at the CDSC, and consider digitization and long-term collaboration in light of Deloria and O’Neal’s calls for more equitable, complex, and conscientious stewardship of Indigenous and community-based archives.
Avoiding Total Eclipses in Your Repository: Leveraging Grants, Digitization, Consortia-OAI Harvesting, Digital Exhibits and PR Campaigns, Rachel Evans, University of Georgia Law School Library
Over the course of the last two years the University of Georgia School of Law and Library have pursued a variety of grant funding opportunities to increase digitization efforts of our special collections and archives. This partner spotlight will touch on the grant writing process, discussing our rejections and successes, and give takeaways to others interested in digitization grants. This talk will culminate in the relationship building our grant writing has helped facilitate including the continued resource sharing with the Digital Library of Georgia. This partner spotlight will share details of the OAI harvesting used specific to our law library's Digital Commons institutional repository's documentation and provide visual examples of promotional efforts related to grant-funded digitization cycles and fulfillment.