C&RL News June 2019 312 N e w s f r o m t h e F i e l dDavid Free Swarthmore Libraries Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary project From 2017 to 2019, the Swarthmore College Libraries partnered with the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility on Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary, a project that sought to use art to build empathy and belonging for recently resettled Iraqis and Syrians. Spe- cifically, the project employed the book arts to bring archival resources in the college’s Friends His- torical Library and the Peace Collection into conversation with the ex- periences of collaborators. The project hosted more than 20 work- shops, led by renowned book artists Is- lam Aly, Mau- reen Cum- mins, Erik Ruin, and the People’s Paper Co-op. Collaborators came together to share their own skills, learn new skills, and make paper-based and book-based art. The libraries recently ex- hibited work that emerged from the project from both collaborators and professional book artists. An expanded multisite exhibition will take place at Philadelphia’s City Hall, the Parkway Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, and Twelve Gates Gallery from June 7 through mid-August 2019. Major support for Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, with additional support from the Cooper Founda- tion and the Mellon Foundation. Brooklyn Historical Society opens Ronald Shiffman Collection The Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) re- cently opened the Ronald Shiffman Collec- tion on the Pratt Center for Community Devel- opment for research. The collection provides material related to community planning, hous- ing programs and policies, community de- velopment corporations, and land use across New York City and internationally. Shiffman is a city planner, architect, and expert in commu- nity economic development and sustainable development assistance for community-based groups in low- and moderate- income neigh- borhoods. A graduate of Pratt Institute’s School of Ar- chitecture and later its gradu- ate program in City and Regional Plan- ning, Shiffman c o - f o u n d e d the Pratt Insti- tute Center for Community and Environmental Development, now known as the Pratt Center for Community Development. The collection includes materials related to community planning projects, including the rebuilding of Coney Island after Hur- ricane Sandy and redevelopment projects in Red Hook, the Gowanus Canal, the Atlantic Yards, and Columbia University. Many of the community development materials relate to Brooklyn neighborhoods, such as Bedford- Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, and Williamsburg- Greenpoint, as well as the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. As an accompaniment to the collection, the society developed a research guide on neighborhood change and gentrification, which highlights related resources in BHS’ Othmer Library, including oral histories, maps, books, and manuscript collections. The guide is available The book Conference of Birds, created by Islam Aly from a 12th C Persian poem and presented In English and Arabic, is part of the Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary project. Photograph by Lawrence Kesterton. June 2019 313 C&RL News Scholarship in the Sandbox: Academic Libraries as Laboratories, Forums, and Archives for Student Work ACRL announces the publication of Schol- arship in the Sandbox: Academic Libraries as Laboratories, Forums, and Archives for Student Work, edited by Amy S. Jackson, Cindy Pierard, and Suzanne M. Schadl. This collection of case studies and discussions describes efforts to curate student work, ex- plores intellectual property issues, and pro- vides tips for promoting and preserving access to this production through new programming and services that affirm librar- ies’ roles in intellectual processes. Students are emerg- ing scholars whose work should be recognized and shared along with work created by established scholars. Libraries are ac- tively engaged with stu- dent-created content and encourage students to see themselves as producers, not just consumers, of information. By shifting priorities, libraries should include student-created content in their spaces and become participants in high-impact edu- cational practices, increasing students’ invest- ment in their learning, their engagement with scholarship at the institutional level, and their success and retention. These new priorities also open the library to new campus partner- ships, making student scholarship and content a common goal. Scholarship in the Sandbox is broken into four sections—Library as Laboratory, Library as Forum, Library as Archive, and Articulating the Value of Student Work—containing case stud- ies that address the innovative ways libraries are actively occupying more central space on campus as practical laboratories outside of the classroom. They demonstrate collective learning in a sandbox environment, where the answers are far less important than the multiplicity of prospective solutions, and pres- ent several models for providing a supportive environment in which students, teaching faculty, and librarians can practice, explore, fail at, and refine their academic work through collaboration. Whether students share their scholarly production with their professors on librar y platforms via blogs, per- formances, repositories, zines, makerspaces, gal- leries, or spect-acting, the experience is transforma- tive because production ties classroom learning into research and prac- tice done outside of the classroom. This enables students to employ their own academic or cre- ative practices, establish stronger footholds in their disciplines, prepare for a career, and publicly display competence. Scholarship in the Sandbox provides multiple ways that the library can support experimenta- tion, productive failure, and amazing successes outside of our traditional roles of teaching and providing access to resources. Scholarship in the Sandbox: Academic Libraries as Laboratories, Forums, and Archives for Student Work is available for purchase in print and as an ebook through the ALA Online Store, in print through Amazon. com, and by telephone order at (866) 746- 7252 in the United States or (770) 442-8633 for international customers. C&RL News June 2019 314 enrichment support. Team participation is encouraged. IUPUI University Library holds first annual Open Education Awards In March 2019, faculty and staff gathered in the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library for the university’s 1st Annual Open Education Awards event. This event was created to recognize the work of IUPUI faculty mem- bers who have been committed to integrat- ing Open Educational Resources into their coursework. Robin Janson, clinical assistant professor in the IUPUI School of Health and Human Sciences’ Department of Occupation- al Therapy, was named this year’s awardee. Janson uses Thingiverse, a free, down- loadable open source repository of digital designs, to create a proportional upper limb bone anatomical model that can be 3-D printed and assembled. Thingiverse is an open website that allows people to make, share, and discover 3-D models. In addi- tion to using the upper limb models during classroom and lab instruction, students are able to check out the models for home study. at www.brooklynhistory.org/research-guides /neighborhood-change-and-gentrification/. ALA and The Harwood Institute offer Public Innovators Lab for Libraries The 2019 Public Innovators Lab for Librar- ies will be held October 15-17, 2019, at the Loudermilk Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Librarians, community partners, and stakeholders in libraries of all types— public, academic, school, and special li- braries—are invited to attend. The Harwood Public Innovators Lab is an intensive workshop that explores the practice of Turning Outward—using the community, not your conference room, as the reference point for library choices and action. Participants will leave the lab as the next class in a group of more than 4,000 library professionals who have learned this approach to community engagement. Participants must register online by October 15. The cost is $995 per person, which includes a Public Innovator Lab Book, a Public Innovator Toolkit that you can use with your staff and community partners, and three months of post-Lab Kellam receives 2019 ACRL ULS Outstanding Professional Development Award Lynda Kellam, data services and government information librarian at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, has been chosen to receive the 2019 ACRL University Libraries Section (ULS) Outstanding Professional Develop- ment Award for her work in creating the webinar series “Help! I’m an Ac- cidental Government Information Librarian.” The $1,000 award and plaque, donated by Library Juice Academy, will be presented to Kellam at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. “Lynda Kellam has created a unique product which grew out of her recognition that interest in government information is universal,” said Award Chair Alexandra Rivera of the University of Michigan. “The mission of the series is reflected in the humorous title that acknowledges that while we, as library professionals, may not hold special expertise in govern- ment information, we are often called upon to provide access to this important information. “The breadth and depth of topics covered in this series is im- pressive,” continued Rivera. “The fact that they are open access is even more so, with the result that they are heavily utilized by novice and expert alike.” Lynda Kellam http://www.brooklynhistory.org/research-guides/neighborhood-change-and-gentrification/ http://www.brooklynhistory.org/research-guides/neighborhood-change-and-gentrification/ June 2019 315 C&RL News Tech Bits . . . 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Microsoft Planner https://tasks.office.com/ More information on the award is available at www.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/blog /iupui-university-library-holds-first-annual -open-education-awards. AALL announces 2019 Gallagher Award winners The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) recently announced the 2019 recipients of the association’s highest honor, the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award. The 2019 AALL Gallagher Award recipients are James S. Heller, Kenneth J. Hirsh, Jacquelyn J. Jurkins, and Darcy Kirk. Established in 1984 to acknowledge sustained service to law librari- anship, exemplary association support, and outstanding contributions to professional liter- ature, the Gallagher Award is presented to in- dividuals who have completed, or are nearing completion of, an active professional career. For more information about AALL’s Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, visit http://bit.ly/AALL-gallagher. New Alexander Street video interface launches ProQuest has announced the launch of a new interface for its Alexander Street stream- ing video products, including Academic Vid- eo Online. The new interface is simpler and faster with a continued focus on content and features for the academic market—including on-screen transcripts, clip-making abilities, and single-sign-on technology for seam- less use with learning management systems. During a multi-month “dual access” period, customers will have the option to try out the new experience and become familiar with its features and benefits. In mid-2019, all video- only collections will automatically redirect to the new interface. Preview the new interface at https://video.alexanderstreet.com. Archival materials of suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt online The papers of suffragist and political strate- gist Carrie Chapman Catt, including her time as president of the National American Wom- an Suffrage Association, have been digitized and are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress. The collection includes approximately 9,500 items dating primarily from 1890 to 1920, as Catt helped lead the fight for a federal suffrage amend- ment. Catt is perhaps best known for her second stint as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, beginning in 1915. She soon unveiled a two-pronged strat- egy to coordinate both state-by-state advocacy to win voting rights for women along with an aggressive lobbying effort in Washington for a federal suffrage amendment. Catt also helped found the International Woman Suf- frage Association. 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