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Marketing + Outreach

Professionalism + Leadership at Every Level

Demonstrating Library Value Through Archival and Special Collections Exhibits

Sunday, July 21, 2024

3:15pm – 4:15pm CDT

Room: Regency Ballroom B (West Tower Gold Level)

Coordinator/Speaker(s)

Jaime Valenzuela (he/him/his)

Archivist & Scholarly Communications Lead
Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, United States

Slides (PDF)

Speaker(s)

Randi Flaherty (she/her/hers)

Head of Special Collections and Law School Historian
University of Virginia Law Library, Virginia, United States
Heather Kushnerick (she/her/hers)

Special Collections Librarian & College Archivist
Fred Parks Law Library, South Texas College of Law Houston
Houston, Texas, United States

Moderator(s)

Christine Anne George (she/her/hers)

Associate Director for Research & Scholarship
NYU Law Library

Wordly Closed Captioning: https://attend.wordly.ai/join/OSME-7073

Anniversaries and other institutional events are an ideal time to show the value of the library and create interdepartmental partnerships. Librarians and archivists pour over founding documentation, institutional histories, photographs, yearbooks, memorabilia, and video to create timelines, exhibitions, digital collections, marketing materials, and publications. These events happen at every library—academic, government, and corporate alike. Requests for programming often come on short notice with high expectations. Panelists will show and discuss examples of anniversary events they participated in, detail how they worked within a budget, share tips and tricks for smooth planning (or what to do when the unexpected occurs), and demonstrate how to best exhibit your material.

Target Audience:

Anyone working in the library who is interested in promoting library value through exhibition, especially in support of upcoming anniversary and high profile institutional events. Law librarians and archivists who work directly with archives and special collections and those responsible for exhibits. Librarians and law library directors looking to create interdepartmental partnerships. Any librarian who may be interested in adding some extra creativity to their existing duties and those interested in their own and/or others professional development.

This program is sponsored by the Legal History & Rare Books SIS (LHRB-SIS).

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to demonstrate effective ways to create and sustain interdepartmental partnerships that promote library value through anniversary commemoration work.
Participants will be able to plan how to best exhibit their anniversary material within their given space.
Participants will be able to identify tools for planning, displaying, and sharing anniversary programming, especially those that are budget friendly and/or open access.