In
April, Digital Humanities Librarian Dr. Lindsey R. Peterson attended the
Organization of American Historians’ Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana
to discuss strategies for connecting people to the past using digital history
projects about the American Civil War Era. Along with project co-director Dr.
Susannah J. Ural (Mississippi State University), Peterson delivered a
co-authored paper entitled, “Do They Work? Free Digital Archives and Reaching
Marginalized Audiences.” Peterson focused on the USD-based Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi project’s
efforts to create keyword, advanced, and faceted search mechanism to increase
the discoverability of marginalized voices in digital collections without
replicating the racial and gendered violence found within the archival
collections.
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Librarian Dr. Lindsey R. Peterson delivered a guest lecture and ran a workshop
in March with the New York Historical Society’s Student Historian Internship
program. Around thirty high school students transcribed documents from the USD-based
Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi project and discussed
the importance and challenges of editing historical documents for born digital
editions. Peterson introduced students to the workflows and components of
scholarly digital editions like CWRGM, and they discussed importance of
increasing digital access to cultural heritage materials, like nineteenth
century governors’ records, and the challenges they can present.
The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has added historical volumes of the United States Statutes at Large (Statutes at Large) to GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. The newly added Volumes 1–64 (1789–1950) date back to 1789 and include the text of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, amendments to the Constitution, treaties with Indians and foreign nations, presidential proclamations, and treaties and international agreements approved by the Senate. GPO added these Volumes to the previously existing collection covering the years 1951–2018. The entire Statutes at Large collection now covers 1789–2018 (1st–115th Congresses).
The Statutes at Large is the permanent collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress. The Statutes at Large is prepared and published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Volumes were added through collaborative digital imaging efforts between the Library of Congress and GPO.
Users may browse each volume on GovInfo by Bills Enacted into Laws, Private Laws, Presidential Proclamations, Public Laws, Treaties, and other levels of granularity. In addition to these digitally imaged files, GPO will also make available a version of each document in the United States Legislative Markup (USLM) XML schema in the future.
In March, USD RED had 11424 full-text downloads and 19 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 1750. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 968 institutions across 138 countries.
The University of South Dakota’s University Libraries is set to host an open house for the newly renovated special collections area on the third floor of the I.D. Weeks Library on USD’s campus Thursday, April 18, from 4-6 p.m.
The open house is free and open to the public, and snacks and refreshments will be available.
The third floor of the library is home to the Archives & Special Collections; Digital Humanities initiative; Digital Imaging Lab, Digital Library and Photographs; and the South Dakota Oral History Center.
The Archives & Special Collections houses collections of manuscripts and rare books, as well as the institutional archives for USD. Materials held by Archives & Special Collections relate to local, state and regional history and politics, including Native American history and culture. Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Ryan Burdge will be present to give guided tours of the collections, giving attendees a behind-the-scenes look at where and how these valuable resources are kept and preserved.
Digital Humanities Librarian Lindsey Peterson, Ph.D., and a team of undergraduate and graduate students will share their editorial work on the Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi project (CWRGM), a digital documentary edition of over 20,000 archival documents sent to Mississippi’s governors during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The CWRGM team will discuss their efforts to use metadata, transcriptions, subject tags and annotations to digitally disseminate this vast collection of documents, which feature the voices of thousands of Americans from diverse backgrounds as they engage with their government during a tumultuous and pivotal era of U.S. history.
Sarah Hanson-Pareek, head of the Digital Imaging Lab, Digital Library and Photographs, will discuss USD’s holdings in the Digital Library of South Dakota. The Digital Imaging Lab, Digital Library and Photographs is home to an advanced imaging facility, mechanisms for providing open access to USD’s cultural heritage collections through the Digital Library of South Dakota and the curation of unique photographic materials housed in the Archives & Special Collections.
Attendees will also have a chance to visit the South Dakota Oral History Center with Director Samuel Herley, Ph.D., and examine sample transcripts and recordings from its collections, which include the American Indian Research Project and South Dakota Oral History Project. The South Dakota Oral History Center, founded in 1966, contains more than 5,000 recordings from some 50 tribal nations and all 66 counties in South Dakota. The combined resources of the South Dakota Oral History Center make it one of the largest collections of oral histories and historical recordings on the northern Great Plains.
The schedule of events for the open house is as follows.
4-4:20 p.m. – Opening
Invocation by Sungmanity Oyate H’oka Introductions by Damon Leader Charge, director of tribal outreach, Sanford School of Medicine 4:20-4:50 p.m. – Tours and learning sessions
Archives & Special Collections tour Digital Humanities initiative information sessions Digital Imaging Lab, Digital Library and Photographs information session South Dakota Oral History Center listening stations 5:15-5:30 p.m. – Speakers
John Little, Ph.D., director of Native recruitment and alumni engagement Cheryl Maloney, master’s student 5:30-5:50 p.m. – Tours and learning sessions
Archives & Special Collections tour Digital Humanities initiative information sessions Digital Imaging Lab, Digital Library and Photographs information session South Dakota Oral History Center listening stations
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Celebrating 50 Years of Tiospayeis a pop up installation which grew out of several initiatives.
USD Native Services(NSS),USD Archives and Special Collections(A&SC), and Digital Imaging Lab, Digital Library and Photographs (DIL/DL/P) partnered together to locate, identify, and digitize images related to the Annual Wacipi held in the A&SC. The wacipi was and continues to be hosted by the Tiospaye Student Council, the Native American student group on campus, founded in 1957. The photographs range in date from 1966 to 1999 and also feature members of the Tiospaye Student Council, USD Native alumni, and various events held in collaboration with the Annual Wacipi.
Over the past year, this unique partnership included the identification of more than 700 negatives by Dr. John Little, Director of Native Recruitment & Alumni Engagement. Sarah Hanson-Pareek, head of the DIL/DL/P, and Library Technology Librarian Anne Hinseth imaged the negatives and efforts are now underway to have them entered in theDigital Library of South Dakotafor the 50thAnniversary Wacipi on April 6 and April 7 at the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. Amy Fill, director of the University Art Galleries, selected four images from the collection to place on view in the Day Gallery.
The wacipi project is part of a larger project by NSS focused on finding all photographs featuring Native content throughout USD’s history held in the A&SC. Research includes other formats and materials held both in the A&SC and the South Dakota Oral History Center. Of particular importance is an early wacipi recording at USD from 1971, AIRP 625, in which “participants describe costumes, music, and giveaways.” The recording is included in this exhibition.
Tiospaye Student Council Drum at the 20thAnnual USD Wacipi, Hosted and Organized by the Tiospaye Student Council,DakotaDome, 1992
Negative number: 13681.1.2, Series 10, Box 122
Drum Group at the 21stAnnual USD Wacipi, Hosted and Organized by the Tiospaye Student Council,DakotaDome, 1993
Negative number: 6370.31, Series 11
19thAnnual USD Wacipi, Hosted and Organized by the Tiospaye Student Council,DakotaDome, 1991
Negative number: 6034.19, Series 11
Institute of Indian Studies Monthly Wacipi, Hosted by Germaine and Adam Sitting Crow, Armory, March 1971
Starting in the 1970-1971 academic year, the Institute of Indian Studies in collaboration with the W. H. Over Museum started hosting monthly wacipis.
Negative number: 10624.9.2, Series 10, Box 89
Photographs from the USD Photograph Collection, USD Archives and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of South Dakota
AIRP 625 (recorded in 1970): Sound recording of a pow wow at the University of South Dakota. Participants describe costumes, the music, giveaways, and the reasons for holding pow wows.
Sound recording from the American Indian Research Project (AIRP), South Dakota Oral History Center, University Libraries, University of South Dakota
Originally posted at https://archivesandspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2024/03/20/celebrating-50-years-of-tiospaye/
In February, USD RED had 10186 full-text downloads and 2 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 1719. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 960 institutions across 138 countries.
Throughout the spring semester, USD Digital Humanities Librarian Lindsey Peterson has hosted several primary source workshops for K-12 students. She visited Flandreau High School to speak to history, government, and economics students about the importance of archival research to their studies and future careers. Working with six class sessions of students, they workshopped how to identify tertiary, secondary, and primary resources and locate primary sources in digital and physical archives, like USD’s Archives and Special Collections and the South Dakota Oral History Center. They also discussed how to evaluate the benefits and limitations of historical documents, place them in context, and identify perspectives found within sources.
In collaboration with Iowa’s National History Day program and the Iowa State Historical Society, Peterson also worked with middle school students from central Iowa schools to develop methods for critically analyzing primary sources and including them into their National History Day research. Using a sample thesis statement about the American Civil War as a turning point in history, students used the Emancipation Proclamation, Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the 1866 Cherokee Nation’s treaty with the U.S. government, and nine letters from the Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project to critique the limitations of their test thesis. Students incorporated a variety of perspectives and experiences—including letters authored by former slaveholding men and women, Mississippi Unionists, freedmen, and officials from Mississippi’s state penitentiary system—to craft a far richer, more complicated history about emancipation. The primary source evaluation and argument revision skills they practiced today will benefit them as they develop their projects on turning points in history for National History Day.
Finally, she delivered a guest lecture and ran a workshop in March with the New York Historical Society’s Student Historian Internship program. High school students transcribed CWRGM documents and discussed the importance and challenges of editing historical documents for born digital editions. Then Peterson introduced students to the workflows and components of scholarly digital editions like CWRGM, and they discussed importance of increasing digital access to cultural heritage materials, like nineteenth century governors’ records, and the challenges they can present.
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