Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation

Archives and special collections on women in medicine.

Information Literacy Instruction and Archives & Special Collections: A Review of Literature, Methodology, and Cross-Disciplines

This paper examines the role archives and special collections (ASCs) play in information literacy instruction (IL) in academic libraries, and explores how ASCs can use primary resource instruction to improve existing IL instruction programs for undergraduate students. An examination of the literature indicates significant possibilities for undergraduate IL instruction by ASCs. Lacking assessmen...

Information Literacy Instruction and Archives & Special Collections: A Review of Literature, Methodology, and Cross-Disciplines

This paper examines the role archives and special collections (ASCs) play in information literacy instruction (IL) in academic libraries, and explores how ASCs can use primary resource instruction to improve existing IL instruction programs for undergraduate students. An examination of the literature indicates significant possibilities for undergraduate IL instruction by ASCs. Lacking assessmen...

Mining News Sites to Create Special Domain News Collections

We present a method to create special domain collections from news sites. The method only requires a single sample article as a seed. No prior corpus statistics are needed and the method is applicable to multiple languages. We examine various similarity measures and the creation of document collections for English and Japanese. The main contributions are as follows. First, the algorithm can bui...

Persistent Archives for Data Collections