Browsing by Author "Krahmer, Ana"

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    Creating Open Access to A Historic Newspaper from an International Port City
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-07-13) Edsall, Brooke; Martino Henry, Lauren; Krahmer, Ana
    In 2019, the Rosenberg Library of Galveston partnered with UNT to apply for an IMLS-funded Library Services & Technology Act TexTreasures grant through the Texas State Libraries and Archives Commission. This grant was intended to digitize Galveston’s Evening Tribune, from 1885 to 1900, on The Portal to Texas History, and it represented the beginning of a productive cross-institutional partnership that has resulted in open access to rich newspaper content for researchers worldwide. Galveston, Texas, known as the “Wall Street of the South” until the Great Hurricane of 1900, served as an international shipping and trade hub, particularly as the U.S.’s largest cotton port. Also a center of publishing, many newspapers were founded and dissolved in early Galveston to such an extent that it was dubbed the “newspaper graveyard.” The Evening Tribune began publication in 1880 under the name, The Print, and was one of the few newspapers to survive to long-term publication. Upon successful completion of the 2019-2020 grant round, the two libraries received two additional years of funding to make the Galveston Tribune collection available up to 1916. In addition, after the success of the Tribune partnership, the libraries have collaborated to build access to a set of labor union titles representing Galveston and Texas between 1901 and 1950. This paper will discuss the approach the institutions took to partner and will explore the grant project management process as a case study in collaborative workflows. It will explore the impact of building open access to this historic news content on educating researchers about a city that was rich in trade and was a hub of labor activism in the U.S. It will conclude with discussing the educational initiatives both institutions have undertaken to incorporate these newspapers into program planning in library outreach and instruction.
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    Digital News Resource Guide
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-01-18) Thomas, Deborah; Bauville, Alexia; Heidrich, Pia; Holub, Karolina; Irenoa, Kenneth; Krahmer, Ana; Reséndiz, Perla Olivia Rodríguez; Servizzi, Nina; Winsmann, Anke
    This guide is meant to be a first step toward exploring and understanding the kinds of digital resources available to information seekers through news publications. This is not intended to serve as a complete list of information sources available to researchers from journalistic materials, but rather as an overview, a place to help orient the information seeker and to provide some useful starting places.
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    Making News Usage Tangible: An Exploratory Analysis of Usage Patterns in the Texas Digital Newspaper Program
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-05-30) Phillips, Mark E.; Phillips, Kristy K.; Krahmer, Ana
    University of North Texas Libraries have been collecting, digitizing, and making accessible newspapers from around the State of Texas since 2009 and using them to build the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP). As the largest collection on The Portal to Texas History, these 980,000 newspaper issues comprise nearly half of the Portal's 2 million publicly-available items. This paper presents the outcome of an exploratory analysis of usage data for the TDNP collection, spanning 2009 to present and representing over 48 million total use events.
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    News Literacy Curriculum Toolkit 2024
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-01-01) Mutev, Viktor; Bauville, Alexia; Feeney, Mary; Irenoa, Kenneth; Knapp, Jeffrey; Krahmer, Ana; Servizzi, Nina
    Developed by members of the IFLA News Media section, this document is intended to serve as a modular lesson guide. Using this document, instructors planning news literacy topics for university students in courses such as Journalism, Rhetoric, Technical Communication, Information Science, could identify classroom activities or lessons for incorporating into their own teaching.
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    Using Digitized Historical Texas Newspapers to Engage Sociology Students in Local History
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2023-09-04) Krahmer, Ana; Scarborough, William; Fisher, Sarah Lynn
    In 2019, Dr. William Scarborough, Sociology professor at University of North Texas (UNT), developed and taught a Sociology course on intersectionality to undergraduate students. In this, he partnered with UNT Libraries to engage with primary sources, particularly newspaper collections, to conduct archival analysis related to the history of power, domination and resistance in Texas communities. Dr. Scarborough has offered this course a total of three times, and this has led to creating a digital collection of his students’ research projects on the Portal to Texas History. The U.S. South is infamous for its history of brutal slavery and Jim Crow racism. While the impact of these atrocities is observed through such contemporary inequalities as the racial wealth gap and residential racial segregation, few make the historical connection because local reports of past injustices are often forgotten or intentionally rendered invisible. Digital newspapers provide an important tool to correct these omissions. Reporting on a case study from a course at University of North Texas, this examines how students use digital newspapers to engage with primary sources and conduct archival analysis to unearth instances of racial violence, theft, and land dispossession in communities throughout Texas. In doing so, students become first-hand experts on how local histories are inherently connected to current social problems. This paper explores what has emerged from this partnership, offering examples of student work from these courses to show how the libraries have partnered with an academic department to preserve and build long-term access to this student research; demonstrating teaching strategies for conducting newspaper research; and closing with future plans for this collaboration. Keywords: Sociology, primary source research, digital repository, archival analysis.