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Preserving Science Through Storytelling: MLIS Student Supports Audiovisual History at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives
MLIS student Jamila Hinds helps preserve and inventory decades of STEM media at NBLA

This 1900 image of the Carlisle Indian School football team includes one of Assistant Professor Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner's ancestors. She said this and the photo of her great-great-great grandmother Joaquina Nahwilet (image at bottom) is a rare example of good photo metadata; improving the tools in archival research is a primary goal of the new Indigenous archives project she's co-leading. Photo by John N. Choate/Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Maryland Today: UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives
Project co-led by INFO and ARHU will develop tools, standards, and reparative practices to restore indigenous histories

(Video) CAFe Speaker Series: “Centering Community and Care in Rapid Response Research”
Featuring Anna Kijas, Assistant Director of Digital Scholarship, Head of the Lilly Music Library, Tufts University

American Libraries Magazine: Serving New Neighbors (by Ana Ndumu)
Resources for embracing immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers

(Video) CAFe Speaker Series: “Community Archives: Empowering Voices and Preserving Heritage”
Corey Lewis discusses the impact of community archives in preserving cultural heritage and empowering underrepresented voices

(Video) CAFe Presents: “Archiving the Crisis: What urgency should archivists feel regarding living archives of state-sponsored violence?”
Doran Larson discusses the American Prison Writing Archive and its role in amplifying incarcerated voices

A UMD library researcher helped create the first update to nationwide guidelines on jail and prison libraries in 32 years; they add new guidance on accessibility, among other measures designed to maximize the facilities' benefit to incarcerated people. Illustration by Valerie Morgan.
Maryland Today: UMD Researcher Writes a New Chapter for Prison Libraries (ft. Victoria Van Hyning)
Expert Contributes to First Update in American Library Association Standards Since 1992

Press Release: Best Practices & Collaborative Strategies in Digital Equity: Get Ready for the 2024 Maryland Statewide Digital Equity Summit
Experts will gather at the 2024 Maryland Digital Equity Summit to share strategies for advancing digital inclusion.

The Indigenous Archival Training program team receives SAA Archival Innovator Award 2024
News Release: Archival Innovator Award is Presented to Team Including INFO Faculty
A program aimed at centering Indigenous stewardship practices in archives receives award from the Society of American Archivists