Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, both the Gosford Training School for Boys in New South Wales and the Westbrook Farm Home for Boys in Queensland were well-established institutions. Both were state-run facilities that ostensibly existed to incarcerate, educate and reform boys convicted of criminal offences. Gosford and Westbrook had total…

Courses: Digital Storytelling, Community Journalism. Objectives: This course is designed to introduce students to basic concepts in digital storytelling and community journalism. "Immersed in urban oil" is an interdisciplinary project-based, community-engaged course focused on documenting the historical and contemporary oil…

Emphasizing the important role of "history" within comparative education is the classic way, much celebrated in the writings of Andreas Kazamias, to treat this theme. This article uses a different perspective. The argument is that "comparative education" and "history" use two words as professional identifiers of a way…

Describing, preserving, and providing access to data is now the purview of many science librarians, although the emphasis has been on data in electronic format. Data in paper or analog format might be found in many places around our campuses. At the University of Minnesota we conducted a preliminary investigation of analog data through discussions…

This article describes the ongoing efforts at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries to evolve the role of the institutional repository (IR) and to effectively position it within the context of the Libraries' collections, research support, and scholarly communication services. A major component of this process is re-examining the…

This multiple case study research was conducted to study lone-arranger archivists at small colleges and universities who have utilized their archival collections to provide instruction to undergraduates. The study's primary research question focused on answering how university archives and archivists utilize the primary source materials in their…

For the past five years, the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository has been documenting intricacies of the Alutiiq language with the help of Elder speakers and a grant from the National Science Foundation (#1360839). The project's primary focus has been recording vocabulary, grammar, and ways of speaking for this threatened Native Alaskan…

The following paper makes the case for a recommended practice of depositing undergraduate student dissertations into Higher Education Institute (HEI) institutional research repositories. In discussing this, the reasons for doing so, and a comprehensive discussion of the benefits and challenges (motivationally, logistically and ethically) for the…

The Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A|S|I|A, http://a-s-i-a-web.org) is a digital collection of East / Southeast Asian Shakespeare performances, containing full-length video-recordings, scripts, and data translated between English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean in parallel language interfaces. In conversation with Roweena Yip, I examine…

Digital language data provide accessible and enduring records for world languages. While legacy data collections may offer new insights into small or endangered languages, their digitization can raise practical challenges in terms of navigating vast databases of files with limited metadata. This paper demonstrates the practical benefits of…

Background: As the state standards increase, along with the instructional rigor within developed curriculum and state accountability, the need to improve ineffective teachers and their practices in the classroom has become a national priority. The need for relevant professional development that meets both the instructional needs of the teacher and…

Twenty percent of occupational therapists are employed in schools nationwide. Despite years of service since the Brown vs. U.S. Board of Education Law was enacted in 1954, school-based occupational therapists are restricted from advancing into formal Professional Educator License leadership roles. Due to state legislation and credentialing issues,…

As a consulting archivist, the author always thinking about the "backstory" of a place, how an institution's legacy is cultivated and preserved, and how all of the stuff a school collects over time can reveal the culture of the place. School archives are by far a favorite "genre" of archive for the author, primarily because she…

Social media campaigns such as #BlackLivesMatter have demonstrated Twitter as a powerful tool for anti-racist social activism. This article traces one local hashtag, #BeingMinorityatTCU, which has resurged on the TCU campus in the wake of a university lawsuit. Drawing from Critical Race Theory (Delgado, 1989; Martinez, 2014; Yosso, 2013),…

At 7,000 literacy narratives and counting, it is becoming clear to Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) co-directors Michael Harker and Ben McCorkle that the Archive's joint commitment to preserving and sharing stories make it a valuable and important resource to their profession and the public. And while the DALN's mission remains to…