Join New England Archivists to explore ethical and access considerations when digitizing yearbooks with April K. Anderson-Zorn, University Archivist of Illinois State University and Dallas Long, Dean of Milner Library at Illinois State University. A recent project to create digital collections out of yearbooks, particularly to serve as an alumni engagement tool, led Anderson-Zorn and Long to closely examine how this work can be done while respecting student privacy and legal restrictions. Attendees are invited to join in an open discussion of this topic, where they can hear more from Anderson-Zorn and Long, pose questions to the group, and even share about how they have encountered or tackled these same considerations in their own work.
The article can be downloaded for free at this link: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol8/iss1/14
April K. Anderson-Zorn is the university archivist for Illinois State University. Anderson-Zorn holds a master’s degree in History from the University of Central Florida, an MLIS from Florida State University, maintains a Digital Archives Specialist certificate through the Society of American Archivists, and is a certified archivist. Anderson-Zorn is active in SAA and the Midwest Archives Conference, presenting topics and authoring articles related to university archives outreach projects and tools.
Dallas Long is the dean of university libraries at Illinois State University. Long holds a PhD in education from Illinois State University and master's degrees in college student personnel and library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds memberships in SAA, ACRL, American Institute of Conservation, and American Alliance of Museums.
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