University of Central Oklahoma: Recent submissions
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Unveiling Hidden Stories: Interactive Digital Humanities Resources Empower Research on Underrepresented Communities
(2024-06-13)In three case studies, we show how the transformation from a static bibliography to an interactive digital humanities resource connects student researchers to the cultural heritage of often overlooked communities, including ... -
Creating Occult Identities and Subjects, or, How New NACO and SACO Funnels will Improve Access to Occult Resources
(6/13/2024)Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and authorities for names, covens, groups, organizations, and especially practitioners of New Religious Movements are lacking. Many of the existing LCSH terms omit scope notes, ... -
Searching the Past, Finding the Present: Identifying Contemporary Tribal Communities in Gilcrease Museum's Rare Books Collection
(6/13/2024)Gilcrease Museum staff and scholars embarked on a multi-year project in 2023-2024 to research, identify, and catalog Native American Tribal affiliations within Gilcrease’s rare book collection. The Helmerich Center for ... -
Reparative Analysis of OOHRP's Oklahoma and OSU Diverse Sexuality and Gender Collections
(6/13/2024)This presentation will focus on two Oklahoma Oral History Research Program collections, the Oklahoma and OSU Diverse Sexuality and Gender collections. As the OOHRP Digital Curation GRA, I will discuss my process of using ... -
Multilingual Metadata: The Pan-American Authorities Initiative for Spanish Subject Headings
(6/13/2024)In 2020, a group of library information science specialists at the University of Florida Libraries (UF) formed the Pan-American Authorities (PANA) group, a bilingual (English/Spanish) metadata working group dedicated to ... -
The Limits of Repair: The Case for and Boundaries of Reparative Description
(6/13/2024)This presentation will discuss a group reparative description project undertaken on an assembled archival collection held by New York University Libraries Special Collections that consists of documents concerning enslavement ... -
Inclusive Metadata through bibliographic control
(6/13/2024)As the Metropolitan Library System was implementing Aspen, an open-source discovery system, we decided to complete our first authority and bibliographic control project. An RFP was written, and two vendors responded with ... -
Metadata Justice: Inclusive Description Through a Critical Lens
(6/13/2024)Treshani Perera gave the keynote for the 2024 Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium where she called for continual critical engagement in library work, both in assessing the language, systems, and ... -
Distributed labour: managing harmful language work in a Canadian library partnership
(6/13/2024)A major reason for the prevalence of harmful language in library catalogs is the hegemony of the Library of Congress. Recent threads in the AUTOCAT listserv show the resistance of catalogers to include their own voices, ... -
Apparitional Representations: Disability History, Reparative Descriptions, and Ethical Failings in a Special Research Collection
(6/13/2024)In this presentation, I discuss the process and outcomes of a reparative description project I undertook for my master’s thesis at the University of Oklahoma. My thesis focused on remediating disability-related descriptions ... -
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Deconstructing American laughter: the power of carnivalesque humor to empower the voices of the oppressed
(2024)Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalesque, as seen in his book Rabelais and His Word, highlights how laughter has the power to break through the restrictions and fear within oppressive, official cultures, giving power ... -
Analysis of the anti-cancer effects of Taraxacum officinale seed extract
(2024)Taraxacum officinale, known as dandelion, has been used in traditional medicines for centuries. In recent years, researchers have started to investigate the potential anti-cancer effects of dandelion extracts. The purpose ... -
Goddesses, dreamers, and witches: the politics of women in The Wild Hunt
(2024)The Wild Hunt is a folklore motif with variants including a group of beings traveling through the night air with a central figure leading them. When we consider the motif of those who were involved in, and specifically ... -
"[Corporate] needs to act like they give a f***": a qualitative study on perceived organizational support in the local news industry
(2024)Local news research has shown rampant turnover in the industry, with journalists pointing to factors such as pay, schedule, management, direction of the industry or content, increased workloads, and family. Over the past ... -
Sportswashing in the Cold War: 1950s American golf
(2024)The conclusion of the Second World War brought immense power to the United States of America. The Cold War was the ideological conflict between capitalism and communism; the United States versus the Union of Soviet Socialist ...