This presentation highlights the Library’s commitment to building meaningful relationships with faculty, staff, and the broader community. Through campus and community outreach, collaborative research support, and cultural initiatives, the East Asian Library serves as a vital hub for cross-cultural exchange and academic engagement. This presentation explores the various efforts undertaken to foster connection, enhance accessibility, and create a dynamic space for learning and dialogue.
The Mellon-funded initiative develops new strategies for planning for the preservation of born-digital poetry, using Mary Jo Bang’s papers as a pilot. Through interdisciplinary collaboration with digital-native poets, translators, scholars, and information professionals, the project integrates creative, theoretical, and technical expertise to shape the future of digital poetry archives. This session will explore innovative approaches, challenges, and the evolving landscape of literary archives.
With the increasing emphasis on data sharing from funders and publishers, researchers are facing growing expectations to comply with evolving data management requirements. To support the WashU community in navigating these expectations, two library teams—the Data Services Team at Olin Library and the Data Management and Sharing Team at Becker Medical Library—have been collaborating to provide comprehensive guidance and resources for faculty, staff, and students.
By leveraging the strengths of both teams, we provide a unified approach to data management, ensuring that WashU researchers receive the necessary support to effectively manage, share, and preserve their research data. This session will provide an overview of our strategies, resources, and the impact of our collaboration, offering insights into best practices for interdisciplinary library partnerships.
Jennifer Moore leads a team focused on data sourcing, data management, sharing and curation, data exploration and visualization, 3D/AR/VR, digital humanities, and geographic information systems (GIS). Moore is a co-PI on the Geospatial Research Initiative (GRI) funded by WashU, a... Read More →
WashU libraries has a variety of oral history collections with various focuses. The circumstances around the collections, while they are different, offer lessons on the sustainability of oral history creation and preservation at WashU. Included will be a brief overview of the history of the oral history collections focusing in particular on the various collaborations, processes, and methods that resulted in the collections. Discussion will cover current process and methods to create, preserve, and make accessible past and future oral histories, including efforts at platform migration, metadata standardization, and the use of AI transcription tools. There will be an overview of tools, resources, and subject guides which WashU libraries makes available for students, faculty, and community members who wish to create oral histories. And there will be a discussion of the innovative use of oral histories for exhibitions and programing.
