Ramona Holmes
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/11710
2024-03-28T22:30:51ZProject Selection List
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27980
Project Selection List
Holmes, Ramona
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZModifying a Project Memorandum of Understanding for Reuse
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/26937
Modifying a Project Memorandum of Understanding for Reuse
Rafia Mirza, Southern Methodist University
University of Texas Arlington Libraries developed a flexible template and workbook for the use of Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) in Libraries. The MOU team felt the time was right for development of the template and workbook due to the shift from transactional work to long term projects occurring in many libraries and the resulting need to document project plans, timelines and expectations for all involved parties. We have found the adoption and writing of a MOU between the Libraries and external partners helps to alleviate tensions and set reasonable expectations. By clarifying those expectations and timelines, the library is able to continue to provide exemplary service to all of our patrons and partners. As hoped, the MOU has been modified for reuse to fit particular project needs. The workbook is available through UTA’s Research Commons. The workbook collection includes a general MOU template, templates for particular projects, a workflow, and instructions for each. This poster will address the benefits, challenges and lessons learned in adapting this template for new uses/projects.
Poster presented at the 6th annual Digital Frontiers Conference | Exploring the Edges, Pushing the Boundaries, September 2017 at the University of North Texas
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZBorder land: the Struggle for Texas, 1821-1846
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/26338
Border land: the Struggle for Texas, 1821-1846
Haynes, Sam; Holmes, Ramona
This project maps sites of conflict between Native Americans and Euro-Americans in Texas from the creation of the First Mexican Republic to the outbreak of the U.S.-Mexico War (1821-1846). Texas during this period was the most diverse region of the North American continent. (http://library.uta.edu/borderland)
This presentation was part of the The College of Liberal Arts (CoLA) at University of Texas at Arlington Initiative for Digital Arts & Humanities (iDAH) program. Since January 2015, CoLA faculty have embarked upon ambitious projects that pair them with investigators from other disciplines as part of a new Digital Arts and Humanities Initiative. Eleven teams shared $100,000 in the inaugural round of awards and the initiative will make research globally available for scholars to analyze and extract information for their own investigations a part of this program.
2017-01-26T00:00:00ZFrom Primary Resources to a Foundation for Programming: Disability History at UTA Libraries
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/26318
From Primary Resources to a Foundation for Programming: Disability History at UTA Libraries
Holmes, Ramona; Visnak, Kelly
In 2013, the Special Collections Department of the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Libraries was asked to collect disability history materials. Review of the current collection revealed many materials relating to disabilities. There is even speculation that one of UTA’s maps, the 1493 Secunda etas mundi map, uses disability imagery to depict peoples at the edge of the known world. This was a digital project ripe for exposure and it became the foundation for a program that explored the experience of people with disabilities. From this initial collaboration, two grants were awarded: one from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to globally expose UTA’s disabilities primary resources, and the other a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) planning grant that invited researchers, librarians and archivists to a Disability History/Archives Conference, also the first of its kind. The HCRR grant outcome will be the creation of a portal to connect and reveal digitized primary materials that reside in university libraries, federal repositories, and nonprofits that concern disability history. Strong ties to the Disability Minor at UTA, the first such program in the southern United States (US), provided an opportunity to create a traveling exhibit with a supplementary digital exhibit that showcases UTA’s early adoption of adaptive sports, which lead in providing accessibility to students with disabilities on our campus during the 1970’s. A continued collaboration involves experiential learning for graduate students who are creating oral histories of prominent Texans with disabilities. See how a simple request to collect primary resources evolved into a program that includes national collaboration and collation of materials that chart disabilities history in the US, one of the largest minorities in the US and worldwide.
Texas Disability History project site: http://library.uta.edu/txdisabilityhistory/
Presentation at the Coalition for Networked Information Fall Membership Meeting, Dec 12-14, 2016 in Washington D.C.
2016-12-13T00:00:00Z