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Morehouse College's
Challenge Journal Goes Open Access
by Josh Hogan, Metadata/Digital Resources Librarian |
Partnering with faculty to support academic publishing is a trend in academic libraries and a goal of the AUC Woodruff Library. Over the past year, Digital Services has significantly expanded the faculty publications portion of our institutional repository,
DigitalCommons, and is working with member institutions to provide support for online scholarly publishing.
We are excited to announce the addition of Morehouse College's peer-reviewed journal,
Challenge, to
DigitalCommons.
Challenge is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on issues relevant to the African Diaspora, particularly the issues facing African American men, their families, and the communities in which they live. As part of this move,
Challenge will officially become an open access journal. The editorial board of the journal will manage the submission, review, and publication process through the DigitalCommons platform, making
Challenge the first completely online journal hosted by the Library.
In addition, Digital Services staff will upload all back issues of the journal, making them available free of charge. Volumes 13 through 16 are currently available
here. The newest issue is planned for release during the Fall 2016 semester.
For more information about DigitalCommons, contact Christine Wiseman, Head of Digital Services, at
[email protected].
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Now Access AUC Resources with One Set of Credentials
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Now students and faculty can use one set of credentials to access information and resources on their AUC campuses and at the AUC Woodruff Library.
Federated authentication is here!
Simply use your campus-issued username and password to log into workstations at the Library, connect to our free Wi-Fi (Woodi-Cafe and Woodi-Greenscape) or to access online resources via our website when you're away from the Library.
Thank you to the Information Technology teams at CAU, ITC, Morehouse and Spelman for collaborating on this project.
Questions? Visit our resource page for campus tech support information.
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REFLECTIONS FROM AN ARC INTERN:
JoyEllen Freeman
"Any archivist will tell you that it's always a treat to work with a collection that speaks to you personally or that piques one of your interests. Processing the Dr. Bernard W. Bell collection at the
Archives Research Center was always exciting for me, because I share many of Dr. Bell's academic interests. We both have degrees in English, and he even co-wrote one of the textbooks I used in my African American Poetry course during my undergraduate studies. These connections, among many others, made my nine months of studying, inventorying, arranging, and describing Dr. Bell's collection of records and books an enlightening and fascinating experience. I learned that it was one thing to enjoy working with the Bell collection but another thing to enjoy experiencing the Bell collection."
JoyEllen recently completed her master's degree in Archival Studies from Clayton State University. She currently works as the Outreach/Special Collections Archivist at Kennesaw State University.
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Special Programs Support Extended "Start Something" Exhibit
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"Start Something: Activism and the Atlanta Student Movement" has been extended through May 22, 2017. In su
pport of the exhibit, a variety of special programs will be presented thr
oughout the academic year to tie the exhibit to today's student activism and current social issues.
Each program is free and open to the public.
Upcoming offerings include:
- The Politics of the U.S. Presidential Electoral College, September 15, 5:30-7 p.m.: Panelists will discuss the history of the Electoral College, how it works, why it continues, who benefits, and why your vote counts. Panelists include Dr. Marilyn Davis (Spelman College) and Mr. Noel Whelchel (Clark Atlanta University) and moderator Dr. William Boone (Clark Atlanta University).
- Lecture and Book Signing by Dr.
Carol Anderson, author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, October 18, 5:30-7 p.m.: In her book, Dr. Anderson, a professor of African American Studies at Emory University, pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, and protection against fraud; rendering visible the long lineage of white rage.
Events will take place in the Library's Exhibition Hall. Call 404.978.2003 for information. Click
here
for details about the exhibit, which is also free and open to the public.
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ARC Hosts SAA/COSA Annual Meeting Participants for Workshop and Tour
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| ARC's processing archivist Stacy Jones (third from right) answers questions during SAA tour. |
The Archives Research Center (ARC) participated in this year's joint meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the Council of State Archivists (COSA) held in Atlanta earlier this month. ARC hosted an ArchivesSpace workshop and provided tours of our facilities for meeting participants. During the week leading up to the event, ARC provided guest posts, including photographs and videos, on the SAA's Instagram feed to generate excitement for the workshop and tours and the meeting as a whole. SAA is the oldest and largest archivist association in North America, serving the needs of over 5,000 individual and institutional members.
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REFLECTIONS FROM AN ARC INTERN:
Joshua Williams
"The experiences I've had at the
Archives Research Center have contributed to my practical understanding of libraries, expanding on working knowledge gained from Fisk University's John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library in Nashville, Tennessee. The projects I undertook included additions to
Seeking to Tell a Story, Woodruff's online exhibit documenting the Atlanta Student Movement. I was fortunate enough to be involved on multiple levels of the project, such as proposing substantial additions, new narratives for the digital exhibit, finding and editing spelling and grammatical errors, and searching through editorials of the Movement's flagship newspaper, The Atlanta Inquirer
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Joshua is a junior majoring in English at Fisk University where he is also a student assistant in the Special Collections and Archives Department this semester.
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| Spreading the Word Project Continues to Expand |
Last fall, t
he AUC Woodruff Library received a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to broaden access to under-represented humanities collections through the Spreading the Word project. Below are the latest collections arriving on Digital Commons:
C. Eric Lincoln Lecture Series: This collection includes both audio and video recordings of lectures from this series, dating between 1983 and 2000. Speakers include Asa Hilliard, C. Eric Lincoln, Alex Haley, and many more.
Stay abreast of what's new with the project by following the blog.
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HBCULA Study Results Published in
Journal of Library Administration
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Authored by HBCULA Board Chair Mantra Henderson and HBCULA Executive Director Sandra Phoenix, the article brings to the forefront the variety of issues faced by libraries as they support faculty research and faculty perceptions of library support. It provides a starting point for greater understanding of activities to engage faculty and improve library support of faculty research. The article outlines the results from
an HBCULA study - which was funded by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant and with support from LYRASIS -
to assess library services in support of faculty research.
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