UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Volume 27, number 2 • Fall/Winter 2020 4 from the News Briefs University Librarian

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The Circle of Excellence winner in the award is from the State Library of North Carolina with funds from category of publishing improvement. the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The awards recognize superior accomplishments that have lasting The grant came as the NCDHC celebrated its tenth anniversary in impact, demonstrate the highest 2020 and as it closes in on working with organizations in all 100 level of professionalism and deliver of North Carolina’s counties. exceptional results.

Established as a partnership between the University Libraries The University Libraries publishes and the State Library of North Carolina, the NCDHC promotes Windows twice each year for learning by increasing open access to North Carolina’s historical Friends of the Library. The arrival of and cultural heritage. Special collections from a wide variety Elaine L. Westbrooks as associate of institutions are scanned and shared on DigitalNC.org, the provost for University Libraries and center’s website. University librarian in 2017 provided the impetus for re-envisioning the To date, the center has partnered with 277 libraries, museums, mission, content and presentation of alumni associations, archives and historic sites in 97 counties Windows. Today’s magazine strives to digitize materials from local and family history collections to provide a holistic view of the and make them freely accessible online. DigitalNC.org currently University Libraries, the advantage includes more than four million images and files. that it provides to the University and the ways that private giving A series of posts on the NCDHC website titled “10 for 10” shares advances Library reach and impact. reflections on the center’s first decade by partners, participants and users. Visit go.unc.edu/10for10 to read their perspectives. Photo by Madison Hoffmann Madison by Photo Join Friends of Library today and never miss an issue of Windows magazine: go.unc.edu/GiveLibrary.

GIS librarian recognized for service María Estorino in the Fearrington Reading Room, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill to undergraduates

Philip McDaniel, GIS librarian, is a recipient of the University’s Society of American Archivists honors Wilson Library leader 2020 Student Undergraduate Staff Award for contributions to the undergraduate experience at Carolina. McDaniel “has taught María R. Estorino, associate University librarian for special collections and director of the Wilson Special Collections me more about GIS than any other person in my undergraduate Library, has been honored with a 2020 Society of American Archivists Council resolution. experience,” wrote the student who nominated him. “Not only does he assist patrons to the best of his ability, but he displays The resolution recognizes Estorino and four other members of the SAA Diversity Committee’s Mosaic Program Task genuine interest in the success and happiness of the people he Force for their long-standing commitment to diversity in the archives and special collections profession, especially interacts with.” through the vision of expanding the Mosaic Scholarship and support of the Association of Research Libraries/SAA Mosaic Program. This is McDaniel’s second honor in two years recognizing his service to students. In April 2019, he was inducted into the Established in 2013, the Mosaic Program has produced 34 fellows and has increased the diversity of SAA leadership. Frank Porter Graham Honor Society, which recognizes significant contributions to graduate and professional education by faculty and staff. Front cover of Windows magazine, volume 26, number 1, spring/summer 2019

4 5 News Briefs Meet Tim Edelen, Well Read University Diversity Award goes to inclusive excellence leader assistant director for annual giving More than 600 viewers and donor relations tuned in to Well Read this Monica Figueroa, music cataloging librarian and interim librarian for inclusive summer. The new University excellence, is a recipient of the University’s 2020 Diversity Award. The award Story by Michele Lynn Libraries series brings recognizes significant contributions made by members of the University community authors with Tar Heel ties Growing up in southeast Raleigh, Tim toward advancing an inclusive climate for excellence in teaching, research, public directly to you online. service and academic endeavor. Edelen spent many hours in Wake County public libraries developing his love of books. Well Read 2020 programs Figueroa joined the University Libraries in 2016 as a music cataloging librarian He brings that passion to his role as assistant are now archived and and has taken a leadership role in steering equity and inclusion initiatives in the director for annual giving and donor relations available to you. Visit Library. Her achievements include transforming the work of the Library’s Inclusion, for the University Libraries, which he began go.unc.edu/WellRead to Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Council; bringing learning opportunities to the on August 31. Edelen focuses on the Library’s experience: Library; and presenting about descriptions of Indigenous populations in library annual fund, securing unrestricted dollars catalog records. that support areas of greatest need. Jill McCorkle ’80 “The annual fund is especially important in conversation with In nominating Figueroa, social sciences librarian Kristan Shawgo wrote, “Her during the pandemic when we need funding Daniel Wallace ’08 enthusiasm, advocacy and ambition are infectious and have moved the Library to bulk up the digital learning platforms, forward as we develop a more inclusive, diverse, equitable and accessible David Zucchino ’73 which are helping students during this time,” environment for all University affiliates and the community.” in conversation with says Edelen. “Donors provide the foundation William Sturkey for the annual fund which is the building block for development. I want to make sure Freddie Kiger ’74, ’77 that foundation is treated well.” organizational leadership. He is a graduate remembering Charles Kuralt “I speak for the University Libraries of North Carolina Central University where Four students receive 2020 appreciation awards development team when I say we are he received a master of public administration fortunate to have Tim join us,” says L. degree in 2019 and a bachelor of science in Four undergraduate students have received the University Libraries’ Student Employee Appreciation Awards for their Blue Dean, executive director of Library mass communications in 2017. You can hear about future exemplary work and contributions. development. “He jumped right in and Edelen became interested in Well Read talks and other great University Libraries brings excitement and enthusiasm to his work development work during a summer 2018 events by becoming a Each year, the University Libraries and the Student Library Advisory Board present the awards to recognize excellent and to our team.” internship with the Council for Advancement Friend of the Library today. customer service, leadership in the workplace, integrity, attitude, work ethic, initiative or passion. Nominees must be The pillars of the Library resonate and Support of Education (CASE), a currently enrolled undergraduate students and must have been working for the University Libraries for at least four With your gift, you will with Edelen, especially the tenet that the global non-profit association dedicated to semesters. Winners receive $500 from a SLAB endowment. Congratulations to: receive special invitations Library provides spaces and opportunities educational advancement. “As one of only to programs and exhibitions for teaching and learning, both in support of three Black men in that internship cohort, I and a complimentary and alongside the curriculum. “The Library am aware of how important representation subscription to Windows offers so many things that aren’t taught in the is,” says Edelen. magazine. We look forward classroom which are important for students “With the world right now facing issues to your friendship. to be successful,” he says. of social injustice and the pandemic, I think School success hits close to home for it’s important that we lean in towards each Learn more: Edelen, father to a first-grader. “I always other and reckon with some of the problems library.unc.edu/give or (919) 962-4207 emphasize to my son the importance of in our past. My generation is trying to reading and that learning is cool,” he says. make this a better world for my son and the “Having my son when I was a sophomore in generations who come after.” Joseph Holmes ’20 Hannah Lawrence ’20 Kim Nguyen ’21 Scarlett Vandyke ’20 college helped me get a new level of focus and “I’m happy to be at UNC and ready Sloane Art Library Music Library Preservation department Davis Library Circulation department gave me something else to work hard for.” to work hard,” he says. “I want donors and To that end, Edelen is pursuing a colleagues to know that I’m always listening doctoral degree in education, focusing on and available.” ▲

6 7 When the pandemic disrupted every aspect of campus and daily life, the University Libraries responded with innovation and ingenuity.

By Judy Panitch libraries, often hunting for sources right Carolina’s libraries normally welcome up until a project is due or settling down more than 2.6 million people each year. in the Undergraduate Library with a stack Picture Kenan Stadium filled 45 times of reserve reading. YES, over with caffeine-fueled students, world- Library staff went to work with class scholars and visitors from around the faculty to figure out what students state and the globe. would most need in order to complete What happens when some of the assignments, and then they integrated most bustling locations on campus meet those items into course websites. On the a pandemic? That’s easy. They stay open way out the door, staff scanned and added virtually, transforming nearly overnight hundreds of pages to electronic reserve the way they do business. readings. They also sought out e-books WE In 2020, COVID-19 upended every and streaming media to take the place aspect of campus operations, causing of items that would otherwise require an Carolina to send students home abruptly in-person visit. in March, resume on-campus teaching A parallel shift took place in library in August and then pivot almost entirely instruction. During a typical semester, back to remote instruction just days into librarians visit classes to teach research the semester. techniques—introductory overviews for In the face of so much disruption, the first-year students, and subject-specific ARE staff of the University Libraries responded deep dives for advanced classes and with innovation and ingenuity to help graduate students. Like almost everyone Tar Heels keep teaching, learning and else, librarians turned to Zoom, honing researching. techniques for online teaching and developing meaningful exercises for the Quick shifts virtual environment. “There has been a lot of acceptance Even before the campus went fully of virtual instruction,” says Llamas. In OPEN remote, the University Libraries was some cases, it has been even more effective preparing to meet the needs of students than in-person encounters. “For some and faculty who would soon be dispersed students who may be hesitant to talk around the world. to the librarian or to follow up, there’s “We started very quickly to think evidence that the virtual environment about how we would maintain access breaks down barriers. They will contact for students. How were we going to get the librarian more readily because they can them what they needed?” recalls Nerea do it virtually and have already interacted Llamas, associate University librarian for that way.” collections strategy and services. The digital sessions have been so The concern for students was acute successful, says Llamas, “that I don’t because of the way they tend to use the imagine we’ll ever fully go back to

8 9 “When times are hard, libraries get used a lot more.”

in-person instruction or consultations.” to come into the building. During the first months of the Increasing access to online resources In October, the Library took the pandemic, Tomberlin and his colleagues also helped faculty and research personnel additional step of offering a books-by-mail pointed people to the web, where they Photo by Jon Gardiner, University Communications University Gardiner, Jon by Photo with their ongoing work as the campus service to UNC-Chapel Hill students and could consult hundreds of thousands of closure wore on. faculty, along with community borrowers items that the University Libraries had During the spring, many publishers in the Triangle. digitized and shared online over more than temporarily lifted paywalls on e-books and “In the past, we provided a mail two decades. Still, this represents just a journals. The largest infusion of electronic service for distance ed students,” says Joe fraction of what is available to in-person content came from the HathiTrust Williams, director of public services. “This visitors. Digital Library, a shared repository to semester, virtually everybody is distance Since June, scanning staff have been which many libraries, including UNC- ed. We know what a difficult time this back at work, making copies of everything Chapel Hill, contribute books they have is. People haven’t wanted to be out and their equipment will allow in order to help digitized. The University Libraries opted about and sometimes they cannot be. researchers and support instructors who Students study in Davis Library, November 19, 2020. into Hathi’s Emergency Temporary Between the pickup service and the mail teach with special collections materials. Access Service. This step gave Carolina service, we are trying to make it as easy This includes “books, documents, Not everything translates to the has received throughout the pandemic to provide the library introductions students and faculty access to more than as possible for students and faculty to get photographs, negatives, maps, VHS tapes. digital environment, says Tomberlin. (see infographic, p. 14) as evidence of this and overviews that normally take place 1.1 million books from other member what they need.” Just about anything that we have in the libraries—the digital versions of books that building,” says Tomberlin. “Special collections are still very tactile. imperative. in-person dozens of times a semester. In the time ahead, she says, not were otherwise locked up in Chapel Hill’s Special collections Taylor de Klerk, Wilson Library’s What does that book look like? What “Liaison librarians can’t always be closed library buildings. research room manager, has helped to does it feel like? Looking at the book, only will many people remain dispersed, in the classroom to give that 5-minute superheroes but “we are going to have students who “We heard from a number of faculty organize the incoming requests and make examining it—it’s just hard to do online.” or 10-minute or 30-minute talk,” says are in an even more precarious situation who were thrilled to have the Hathi Connecting researchers with library sure that researchers get what they need. For de Klerk, it’s the personal than they were before. There are a lot of content available to them and have written materials has posed unique challenges for “We’ve been calling it a virtual element that is missing. “Just being able to students who are not going to be able to to us saying, ‘this is an amazing service,’” the staff at the Wilson Special Collections research room,” says de Klerk, “but we’ve see people and interact with them as they afford their books. We are going to be says Llamas. Library. Wilson Library, which is home had to reframe what it actually means for do their research, see them discover things a safety net for people” as they continue “The library building At the same time, the University to rare books and one-of-a-kind archival us to do reference work.” and have their questions answered, is really working and learning in a transformed Libraries has expanded its purchases of documents, closed its doors to the public Usually, says de Klerk, reading room rewarding,” she says. closed, but we environment. electronic books and streaming media, in March and reopened for staff only at staff largely retrieve and deliver requested “When times are hard, libraries adding several thousand titles over just a the end of June. items to people. “Now, it’s more hands- The future is “digital first” stayed open.” get used a lot more,” says Westbrooks. few months and subscribing to services “The library building closed, but we on,” she says. “Sometimes we need to do Even after the University returns to “Libraries become critical infrastructure such as OverDrive, which package many stayed open,” says Jason Tomberlin, head the research for people” by looking at how normal operations at some time in the for people to survive—not just thrive but e-books and audiobooks together for of research and instructional services at collections are described to see what the future, the pandemic has likely changed survive.” Associate University Librarian Llamas. libraries. Wilson Library. “We’re still responding researcher really wants, or paging through library services forever. It has also To prepare for this future, the “The pandemic has given them an For researchers and readers who need to hundreds of emails. We’re still doing folders for just the right document. “We illustrated their value. University Libraries has begun referring to opportunity to start experimenting with or prefer a physical book, the Library Zoom consultations.” have to put ourselves in their shoes a little “2020 was a rough year, and we an emerging “digital first” strategy—a way new ways of doing things and to see that stood up a no-contact pickup program. Despite the pandemic, Wilson more.” have a responsibility to become a stronger to deliver library resources and assistance they can be successful.” Library staff members pull books from the Library draws inquiries not only from Even when the staff cannot digitize organization,” says Vice Provost for to people efficiently and regardless of their Alongside the shift to virtual teaching, shelves and have them ready for pickup Carolina researchers, but from around everything a researcher needs, people are University Libraries and University location. the pandemic has accelerated the shift at Davis Library or the Health Sciences the country. “In the last week alone, grateful. “We’ve had people tell us it’s like Librarian Elaine Westbrooks. Tomberlin and his colleagues across away from print and toward the purchase Library, the two library facilities open to I’ve had inquiries from the University of Christmas morning when they get their Westbrooks points to the high levels the library system have been talking about of e-books and journals. Staff have also the public. Once a week, staff also deliver Wyoming, one from Yale and one from scans. Somebody called us superheroes,” of virtual use that the University Libraries creating videos or online teaching modules sped implementation of alternatives to books outside for readers who prefer not somewhere in Alabama,” says Tomberlin. says de Klerk.

10 11 owning materials, such as by purchasing Whatever the future may hold, and volunteered. They have dedicated Quick action created individual articles to send to researchers, one other lesson that will endure is themselves to transforming the way we rather than subscribing to entire journals. the knowledge that, when it mattered did things in March and then again as a remote University And print reserves, says Llamas, “are going most, employees stepped up to continue we reentered in July and August. I don’t Libraries workforce the way of the dinosaur.” providing services under the most think I’m surprised, but I will say that that broadened The ramifications will cascade. More challenging conditions. this experience has reaffirmed how very electronic content will require more Front-desk staff “have not for one dedicated and able our staff is.” ▲ access to collections specialists who can negotiate licenses and second hesitated to come into the building Pandemic stories continue on next page. during the pandemic. integrate digital publications into the and do the work that needs to be done,” HOME + WORK Library’s online environment. The shift to says Llamas. “They have given of their online teaching will call for new expertise time in a way that has never been asked of By Judy Panitch in digital pedagogy and peer-to-peer them.” the workplace or to their regular responsibilities. The projects training, as well as an intensified emphasis In fact, across the organization, says On March 5, as the University Libraries was preparing to grew again in the fall when Carolina’s Work-Study office sought on digitizing special collections materials. Llamas, employees “have stepped up send employees home for an unknown length of time, María placements for 50 students. The students would have lost their Estorino, associate University librarian for special collections, financial aid without a campus job, even though campus had wrote a quick message: “Julie, just so I don’t forget, I’m thinking largely closed. about metadata as a work-from-home project. Let’s discuss.” Rudder credits the project managers with creating a positive “Julie” was Julie Rudder, the Library’s head of repository experience by scoping the work, creating documentation and services. She, too, had been wondering whether a backlog of providing thorough training. The Library’s administration helped Health Sciences Library work in her unit—some of it involving metadata, or the text that by delivering temporary laptops and wi-fi hotspots to employees describes digital files—could be the key to keeping employees in need of technology. engaged and productive at a challenging time. “We moved fast. We moved really fast,” says Rudder, “and “We had so much work that would require people, but yet people are being successful on these projects. They are not we’ve never had the resources before to do it,” recalls Rudder. struggling, even though they have never done the work before.” Within a few weeks, the vague ideas had become six Lucas Darden, supervisor for general collections For example: During a pandemic, reliable health information projects, each with a dedicated manager. Any Library employee conservation, usually repairs damaged books in the Library’s is more important than ever. In 2020, the preservation lab. Since the spring, he has spent part of every • What are the Medicaid coding changes for who could not perform their regular duties from home could staff of the Health Sciences Library had many COVID-19? sign up. Some transcribed handwritten documents and audio work week determining the copyright status of items the Library opportunities to put their unique expertise to files from the Library’s vast digital collections or from the North had digitized—an important piece of information for both the work. • What is the CDC guidance for health care Carolina Digital Heritage Center, which it operates. Others Library and for researchers. professionals in high-exposure situations? added notes called alternative text to images so that users with Darden says that in his first days out of the office, “it was visual impairments would know what they depict. Enhancing hard for me to avoid feeling demotivated and guilty. It’s been For example, when the School of Medicine What are the guidelines for cleaning health care • a real consolation to have productive work where I can tell that developed a month-long COVID-19 curriculum in the facilities? metadata was another option, as was auditing the Library’s I’m making contributions toward a goal.” spring for more than 400 medical and physician subscription databases to see if they meet accessibility standards. assistant students who couldn’t report for clinical • What is the appropriate documentation for “Fundamentally, this was about making our collections He has found the work so engaging that he signed up for an telehealth appointments? duties, Sarah Wright stepped in. usable for a wider audience,” says Estorino. online class about copyright law. “I’m hoping it will give me the The University Libraries has been digitizing items it owns foundation to contribute to future projects at the intersection of • How effective are 3D-printed face shields? Wright, head of clinical and statewide engagement for nearly 25 years. During that time, she says, research has copyright law and library work,” he says. and School of Medicine liaison librarian, created a • What does the literature say about screening changed, especially in the humanities. Because the Library has millions of digital items that need 30-minute video module. It explained how to search COVID-19 patients for future complications? “We can no longer just present digital surrogates for people attention or enhancement, Rudder says the impact is hard to the rapidly evolving medical literature for up-to-date to read like they would in the reading room,” says Estorino. measure. “I joke that we could keep the whole Library employed information about the virus. Wright also helped Are there videos that show proper techniques for • Today’s researchers expect transcriptions that they can use for years and years, we have that much stuff. It’s not a huge dent students in a newly formed elective to conduct donning and doffing protective equipment? for text mining. They need informative metadata to explore . . . but it’s a great start.” research about the history of pandemics in society. • What is the impact of COVID-19 on the mental collections or to use with mapping and other analytic software. In many ways, the work remains exploratory. It offers a chance to find out what is successful and where to put resources, Meanwhile, HSL librarians created on online health of health care workers? Adding this kind of information also helps community says Estorino, as well as to help employees build skills for the guide to COVID-19 resources (guides.lib.unc.edu/ researchers—journalists, genealogists, amateur historians—who COVID19); it had received more than 23,000 views To learn more about the Health Sciences Library, which tend to search first online. future. Behind it all, she says, is the same guiding philosophy: by fall. They also fielded questions from around the celebrated 50 years in its current location in 2020, see the At their height, the projects kept more than 140 people who “We are preparing ourselves to meet the needs of our users now spring issue of Windows: go.unc.edu/HSL50. state and the country. could not fulfill their usual duties focused on the core mission and tomorrow with our digital and digitized collections.” ▲ of the Library. Many of these employees have since returned to Pandemic stories continue on page 16.

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Sarah Morris, humanities research librarian Access Policy. It now is home to of coronavirus expert and Carolina faculty As the world’s virologists more than 10,500 articles and 28,000 member Ralph Baric, she immediately Since the campus first closed, humanities research librarian Sarah Morris has been connecting with faculty race for answers to COVID- dissertations, theses and other scholarly focused the repository’s efforts on his work. coronavirus research. Now a search of the and students remotely. In May, campus publication The Well asked Morris about her transition to working at home 19, the Carolina Digital Anyone in the world can access the repository yields 109 results related to (go.unc.edu/MorrisProfile). We asked Morris for an update. Repository makes the articles for free, allowing researchers to coronavirus and 90 articles with references research of the University’s connect and collaborate on solving a to Baric. common problem, like coronavirus. After finding a list of Baric’s articles top coronavirus experts “I’m glad the University invested in on his online CV, Kati had to decide How has your work changed since the springtime? time I’m yammering on openly accessible online. this resource when they did,” says Anne which were eligible to post to the and maximize their critical Gilliland, scholarly communications repository. “Eligible” articles, Gilliland One of the things I love about my job is that it changes thinking. Our students are so smart officer at the University Libraries. “It’s not explains, are those authored by Carolina with the seasons. The pandemic hit in the second half of spring and are willing to engage if there’s space to do so. By Susan Hudson, University Communications like someone said in 2016, ‘This will be faculty after the University’s Open Access semester, so there was an immediate scramble for electronic really useful if we have a pandemic one Policy went into effect in 2016 and any resources, for translating assignments and research over to new Are people coming to you with different needs or Working remotely from their home day.’” previous articles no longer exclusive to the or digital mediums. Over the summer I was able to consult with different types of questions than in a typical year? offices, the University’s librarians are But, as the world is discovering, being original publisher. faculty more individually, planning assignments and resources helping the world’s virologists fight prepared for the worst is helpful when a Kati also contacted Baric by email for their courses and practicing new ways of teaching. Since fall I work with the humanities, so in a beautiful way, many coronavirus by making faculty research pandemic strikes. with her plans. “He replied right away and began it’s been a teaching and consultation marathon, which I questions are variants of the same ones people have been more accessible online through the was very positive,” Kati says. Right away, love most. A happy surprise is that this kind of seasonal workflow asking for a long time. Meaningfully, I’ve had more questions Carolina Digital Repository (cdr.lib.unc. Putting coronavirus first she found 63 eligible articles by Baric, translates over, even when working remotely. related to technology and our lives. I’ve worked with some edu). 30 of them related to coronavirus. All of health humanities students who are interested in the impact of Launched in 2009 to digitally curate The ability to share Carolina’s them, and more, are now available online. Have you developed new habits, practices or skills? COVID-19 on the arts, on balms to isolation and depression, specialty collections, the repository was pandemic-related research with the Kati expanded her search to include on the value and limitations of virtual reality. Some of my enhanced in 2016 to be able to share world so quickly is the latest result of articles by other epidemiologists at I’ve thought a lot more about accessibility than I used to— honors thesis students are interested in collective grief and virtual Carolina faculty members’ scholarly the University’s ongoing efforts to wrest Carolina, including Gillings School of the pandemic has shown us that we can’t assume that everyone mourning spaces for victims of racial violence. I watch the writing under the University’s Open control of its researchers’ work away from Global Public Health faculty members can access our materials in the same way! Some students may not questions people live melt into the questions of their classes, and the subscription scholarly journals who Lisa Gralinski, Rachel Graham and have consistent wi-fi, or may be in a different country, or may I get to help them think through these things that affect all of us. traditionally hold exclusive publishing Timothy Sheahan, as well as researchers need accommodations for web-based content. Thinking about rights and to push instead for open access. at the School of Medicine. Kati continues these things has impacted the kinds of resources I design, the Is there anything that you’ve learned or started doing (See “Scholarly Publishing at the Tipping to follow news stories in order to identify kinds of materials I purchase. during this time that you will continue post-pandemic? Point,” in the fall/winter 2019 issue of other Carolina scientists for her to-do list. With all that has happened, I am thinner-skinned and more Windows.) During the current pandemic, grateful for connection. So, in meetings with students I do try I will always make remote consultations an option! Students The coronavirus example shows just some subscription journals have lowered to connect with them personally, give them a little space to tell seem less intimidated to schedule a Zoom appointment than how valuable a reliable open access source paywalls temporarily to help researchers me about their day or their class or show me their cat. I’m more appear in my office, and we can do the same work this way. I can be for researchers. who are shut out of libraries, Gilliland open to a little meandering than I used to be, and I think it also try to take a midday walk every day and look forward to During the pandemic, “Researchers ▲ says. makes me a better librarian, certainly a happier one! doing that in the beautiful arboretum when it’s safe again. have identified and shared hundreds of “A lot of publishers right now are viral genome sequences. More than 200 making this research available,” Gilliland What is it like to teach a class by Zoom? clinical trials have been launched, bringing says. “But ours will still be in force beyond together hospitals and laboratories around the current crisis. We’ll be able to keep At first, I really didn’t like it; it felt like talking to a void You can help the University Libraries continue to meet the needs the globe,” according to an April 1 New that research open.” box of names. But my colleagues have shared some great tips and of students and faculty during this challenging time by becoming York Times article. a Friend of the Library. With your gift, you join other alumni I’ve come to really like it! I try to make a simultaneous notes- and friends whose generosity allows us to respond quickly to In March, Rebekah Kati, institutional A longer version of this article first appeared space that we can all write in at the same time, so that even if emerging priorities and critical needs as they arise. repository librarian, did her part to students aren’t talking, they can be interacting. I also use lots in The Well on April 13, 2020: go.unc.edu/ To learn more, please contact L. Blue Dean, executive director spread coronavirus research. After seeing CDRcoronavirus. 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16 17 Carrier’s short answer to his question of Iowa. The project continues thanks to teach the computer program to identify was no. The closest source would be a grant from the Association of Research additional laws on its own. Pauli Murray’s “States’ Laws on Race and Libraries. “In many of the laws, there’s no Color,” published in 1951. Project lead and co-principal question about the intent—the­ law Though volumes of public and investigator Amanda Henley, head of the segregating schools is clearly a Jim private North Carolina session laws have University Libraries’ Digital Research Crow law. Other laws might be up for been digitized, their pages exist as online Services, says projects such as On the interpretation. We were looking for pictures, with no way to analyze the text Books treat library collections as rich data anything that required racial segregation ALGORITHMS they contain. sources. It’s one way that libraries can lead or stratification in any way,” says Sturkey. “Helping teachers is a big part of in the emerging field of data science. The machine learning model what I do, and I try to do it as fast and “For the first phase, we were putting eventually uncovered more than 900 laws efficiently as possible. But downloading together the best corpus we could. This that could be classified as Jim Crow. Being OF RESISTANCE and searching through files to find race- took everyone,” says Henley. able to see and study them as a single based legislation was incredibly time body clarifies the extensive scope of Jim consuming. It wasn’t feasible,” explains Crow in the American South and can help reveal extent of North Carolina’s Carrier. people to understand the history of race in “I was taking a workshop to learn “These laws were America. Jim Crow laws more about text analysis,” she recalls, “and “This wasn’t just a couple of laws I brought this to Matt Jansen, our data pervasive, inconvenient from the 1860s,” says Sturkey. “These analysis librarian. Was this something we and unconstitutional, laws were pervasive, inconvenient and University Libraries project uses machine learning could do?” and they were the result unconstitutional, and they were the result to identify racist language in state laws With an interdisciplinary group of intricate, detailed planning to build the of librarians with expertise in special of intricate, detailed system of Jim Crow. These laws intended collections, data analysis, digital research planning to build the to maintain white supremacy, and they and data visualization, plus subject matter system of Jim Crow.” went on for decades and decades.” By Courtney Mitchell experts in African American history and Jansen, co-principal investigator and Two years ago, a high school social studies teacher in Caldwell African American studies, the answer to technical lead of the project, says that County, North Carolina, approached Sarah Carrier, North Carolina this question was yes. The result is On by publishing the team’s process and research and instruction librarian at the University Libraries, in search the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of scripts, they can help others tackle similar of a resource for teaching about the era of Jim Crow. Had anyone Resistance, a project that uses text mining “We had to collect all the images text analysis projects focusing on laws produced a comprehensive list of all the Jim Crow laws passed in the and machine learning to identify racist from more than 100 years of laws, elsewhere. state of North Carolina? language in legal documents. prepare them to be read, removing blank “Reading and understanding someone The first iteration of On the Books pages and marginalia on the page edges, else’s code or adapting someone else’s code (onthebooks.lib.unc.edu) went live in smoothing and brightening the images to can be harder than writing your own,” August 2020. Viewers can read or search get the best optical character recognition he says. “We have provided explanations through all the Jim Crow laws that the and dividing text into individual laws,” and examples to go along with our scripts project identified. The site also includes she explains. to make them as easy to understand as a downloadable text file of the laws; a An important step was engaging possible. We continue to improve the separate file of all North Carolina statutes with scholars to analyze the laws. William corpus and identify additional laws, as the from 1866 to 1967; the computer Sturkey, associate professor of history at project is funded into 2021. This makes programs written for the project; a white Carolina and an expert on the history of our outcomes better and helps support paper describing the project’s methods; race in the American South, and Kimber future users.” and resources for educators and researchers Thomas, CLIR postdoctoral fellow in data “The library is the lab for liberal arts that contextualize North Carolina curation for African American collections scholars,” Henley says. “We have unique segregation laws. at the University Libraries, provided the collections, and through this project The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation analysis that the project team relied on. we’ve gained the expertise to make them supported the first phase of On the Books Sturkey and Thomas went through a available for computational use. Now that through the Collections as Data—Part to large sample of laws and categorized them we have this corpus, what other kinds of Whole initiative, based at the University as “Jim Crow” or “not Jim Crow.” The research questions can be asked of it to dig of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University classified laws served as a training set to deeper?” ▲

18 19 peech a Races Praised Circa Carr egro Race ervice Wench Will Lynching Rights ooer nsurance Country ne ob Address orth White lavery Chapel Protection olderis Addresses C Durha Called Violence War Dedication orn Lady anind Love ill nd Used ooer trong Addresses onuents Capus vent Vote no orale Crie utrage riend tudents lave peech a Races Praised Circa Carr egro Race ervice Wench Will Lynching Rights ooer nsurance Country ne ob Address orth White lavery Chapel Protection olderis Addresses C Durha Called Violence War Dedication orn Lady anind Love ill nd Used ooer trong Addresses onuents Capus vent Vote no orale Crie utrage riend tudents lave riend tudents lave peech a Races Praised Circa Carr egro Race ervice Wench Will Lynching Rights ooer nsurance Country ne ob Address orth White lavery Chapel Protection olderis Addresses C Durha Calledegro Race ervice Wench Will Lynching Rights ooer nsurance Country ne ob Address orth White lavery Chapel Protection olderis Addresses C Durha Called Violence War Dedication orn Lady anind Love ill nd Used ooer trong Addresses onuents Capus vent Vote no orale Crie utrage riend tudents lave riend tudents lave peech a Races Praised Circa Carr egro Race ervice Wench Will Lynching Rights ooer nsurance Country ne ob Address orth White lavery Chapel Protection olderis Addresses C Durha Called Violence War Dedication orn Lady anind Love ill nd Used ooer trong Addresses onuents Capus vent Vote no orale Crie utrage riend tudents lave peech a Races Praised Circa Carr egro Race ervice Wench Will Lynching“Whose experiences are we privileging, what stories Rights ooer nsurance Country ne ob Address orth White lavery Chapel Protection olderis Addresses C are we elevating and what voices are we ignoring?” Durha Called Violence War Dedication orn Lady anind Love ill nd Used ooer trong Addresses onuents Capus vent Vote no orale Crie utrage riend tudents lave peech a Races Praised Circa Carr egro Race ervice Wench Will Lynching Rights ooer nsurance Country ne ob Address orth White

lavery Chapel Protection olderis Addresses C Durha Called Violence War Dedication orn Lady anind Lovewhen they are known and, in some cases, gender inequities also “We can no longer imagine that transcribing racial slurs ill nd Used ooer trongA Addresses CHO onuents Capus CE vent Vote no orale Crie utrage riend tudentsare addressed. or using the subject heading ‘illegal aliens’ are inclusive or María R. Estorino, associate University librarian for special responsible practices,” says Estorino. “Our goal is to be more lave riend tudents lave peech a Races Praised Circa Carr egro Race ervice Wench Will Lynching Rightscollections, says it is important to ask the questions, “Whose intentional about the words we use, more aware of their impact ooer nsurance Country ne ob Address orth White lavery Chapel Protection olderis Addresses C Durhaexperiences are we privileging, what stories are we elevating and and to become a more accessible and welcoming library as a what voices are we ignoring?” result.” Calledegro Race ervice Wench Will Lynching Rights ooer nsurance Country ne ob Address orth White Libraries and archives make choices in how they describe The archival staff started this process in 2017, joining TO EMPOWER the collections and published materials, she says: “So we are a trend in libraries nationwide. The cataloging staff is just lavery Chapel Protection olderis Addresses C Durha Called Violence War Dedication orn Lady anind Love using that agency to ensure that the language we use is respectful, beginning their work, researching standards set forth by the ill nd Used ooer trong Addresses onuents Capus vent Vote no orale Crie utrage riend tudentsmindful and empowering and does not disenfranchise or alienate American Library Association and the Library of Congress and lave riend tudents lave peech a Races Praised Circa Carr egro Race ervice Wench Will Lynching Rightsanyone in our communities of users.” discussing how to apply them to Wilson Library’s materials. Librarians and archivists are The new choices that Wilson Library staff are making take The librarians aren’t working in a vacuum. Staff of other ooer nsurance Country ne ob Address orth White lavery Chapel Protection olderis Addresses C Durhamany forms. library units can make a request for remediation. And last year, a updating the tools of their Called Violence War Dedication orn Lady anind Love ill nd Used ooer trong Addresses onuents Jackie Dean, head of archival processing, says that library-wide steering committee came together to guide the work. trade to give researchers a the descriptions of many antebellum papers recount the The original descriptions will be kept. “People do find value Capus vent Vote nomore orale accurate Crie utrage and inclusive riend tudents lave peech a Races Praised Circa Carr egroaccomplishments of white families at length without in looking at the old versions,” Dean said. They will be available Race ervice Wench Will Lynching Rights ooer nsurance Country ne ob Address orth White lavery Chapelacknowledging the enslaved people whose labor built their on request or as part of the collection. view of materials. wealth. Chaitra Powell, African American collections and outreach Protection olderis Addresses C Durha Called Violence War Dedication orn Lady anind Love ill nd UsedMuch of the language in the descriptions of those papers archivist, says that the work of her colleagues can have a real “softens the role that white Southerners played in the system of impact on researchers. ooer trong Addresses onuents Capus vent Vote no orale Crie utrage riend tudents lave peechracial oppression,” says Dean. “It is offensive to see enslaving “So many people of color are trying to access our a Races Praised Circa Carr egro Race ervice Wench Will Lynching Rights ooer nsurance Country ne obfamilies glorified in this way.” collections,” she says. “If they are able to talk to a librarian, Similarly, if someone was a white supremacist, “we’re trying they’ll learn techniques to navigate the collection and find Address orth White lavery Chapel Protection olderis Addresses C Durha Called Violence War Dedication ornto make sure that the description is not covering up or glossing information about people of color.” If they are at home or on Lady anind Love ill nd Used ooer trong Addresses onuents Capus vent Vote no orale Crieover their roles,” she says. One example is the papers of William their own, though, these researchers might assume that Wilson Laurence Saunders (1835-1891). The original description noted Library had nothing for them. utrage riend tudents lave riend tudents lave peech a Races Praised Circa Carr egro Race ervice Wenchhis role as a Confederate officer, attorney, editor and UNC “We can take this step now to give a better representation of By Laura J. Toler Will Lynching Rights ooer nsurance Country ne ob AddressBut two orthyears ago, WhiteWilson Library’s lavery processing Chapel archivists Protection olderisTrustee, but omitted that he was a North Carolina Ku Klux Klan these folks that have been marginalized in the collections for so Let’s say you wanted to research the papers of Julian added the following: leader and organizer—an addition that Dean’s team has made. long,” says Powell. “It feels like part of our responsibility.” ▲ Addresses CShakespeare Durha Carr Calledegro (1892-1923) in the Race Wilson ervice Special Collections Wench Will “InLynching keeping with Rights the white ooer supremacy nsurance movements in NorthCountry ne ob And while traditional descriptions identified race only for Address orthLibrary. White lavery Chapel Protection olderis AddressesCarolina at theC turn Durha of the twentieth Called century, Violence Carr defended War Dedication ornAfrican American or Indigenous individuals, Dean says the staff A search of the University Libraries’ website or on your the institution of slavery, claiming it had been beneficial to now seeks to identify everyone by race to avoid “othering” non- Lady anindfavorite Love search ill engine nd would Used lead you ooer to the Carr trong papers finding Addresses the onuentsenslaved, and argued Capus for denying vent full citizenship Vote rightsno to orale Criewhites or implying that white is the default. utrage riendaid, atudents description of lave the papers riend prepared tudents by Wilson Library lave peechAfrican-Americans.” a Races Praised Circa Carr egro Race ervice WenchDean’s staff aims to review and perhaps revise the more archivists to help guide researchers. The addition is part of an effort in Wilson Library to rework than 500 descriptions for collections of antebellum papers in the There, you would read in part that the papers document online descriptions for collections of papers, as well as catalog Library’s Southern Historical Collection. The effort will take Carr’s “financial interest in tobacco, textiles, and banking; records for published materials. This work seeks to replace racist years. So far, they have reworked about 40 descriptions. affiliations with the Methodist Church, the Democratic Party and derogatory language and to add information that presents Staff who prepare the catalog records for published materials in North Carolina, and organizations commemorating the more balanced accounts—for example, by indicating if someone in Wilson Library face not just books, but also periodicals, Confederacy; and philanthropic support of institutions of higher was an enslaver or by highlighting collection material about newspapers, CDs, maps, microfilms and sound recordings— education, particularly the University of North Carolina.” African Americans. Names of enslaved individuals are added some 680,000 items in all.

20 21 ENDnote Distinguished alumna Florence Fearrington donates rare book collection 1,900 rare books on the subject of natural history, valued at $6.2 million, will be part of the Wilson Special Collections Library Colleagues from other departments around the Adapted from a story by the Office of In 2016, she gave $5 million in Library have pitched in University Development support of the Wilson Special Collections so that Circulation can Florence Fearrington ’58, one of the Library, earmarking $1 million to help continue providing a high preeminent female rare book collectors update the grand reading room and level of service at this time. adjacent exhibition areas in Wilson of our time and a longtime supporter of People who come into the UNC-Chapel Hill, has donated nearly Library. The remaining $4 million created building or pick up their 4,000 books and objects valued at $6.2 the Fearrington Special Collections million to the University Libraries. They Library Fund. The University librarian books at curbside often will become part of the Wilson Special and the director of the Wilson Special give us a word of thanks. Collections Library. Collections Library use income from They say that using the this endowment to meet emerging needs “Florence Fearrington’s legacy of Library gives them a sense generosity and commitment to Carolina and pursue opportunities that benefit has been instrumental to our University Carolina students and enhance the work of normalcy in their lives. Libraries,” says Chancellor Kevin of researchers. In recognition of this Guskiewicz. “This collection of rare substantial gift, the grand reading room books, with the love and dedication that in Wilson Library was renamed the went into its curation, will enhance our Fearrington Reading Room. Joe Mitchem is the interim head special collections and will draw future Fearrington grew up in Winston- of circulation in Davis Library. generations of students, researchers and Florence Fearrington, who make that work Salem, North Carolina, and received a He and his teammates were experts from around the world. We are possible.” degree in mathematics from UNC-Chapel among the first people back in the grateful that Florence has trusted Carolina All of these books will be available to Hill in 1958. Unable to attend business building when campus reopened. as a home for her invaluable collection.” patrons—students, faculty, researchers and school at Carolina because the program In August, he spoke to campus The collection includes 1,900 rare the general public. Once cataloged, the did not yet admit women, she earned a publication The Well about coming books, most on the subject of natural collection will also be available online. certificate from the Harvard-Radcliffe back and starting up the new history, including beautifully illustrated Wilson Library is planning an Program in Business Administration in book delivery service. Read the books on malacology—the study of shells exhibition of the malacology books in the 1961. She moved to New York City, interview at go.unc.edu/Mitchem. and mollusks—and books, catalogs and future—but this won’t be the first time where she made her name in the male- prints on Wunderkammers, or “cabinets Carolina will see books and ephemera dominated world of finance, establishing Photo by Jon Gardiner, University Communications of curiosity.” The collection also includes from this intriguing collection. In 2012, Florence Fearrington Inc., a highly a number of pre-1915 children’s books, 13 Fearrington curated an exhibition, “Rooms successful money management firm. She color-plate costume books and thousands of Wonder: From Wunderkammer to sold the firm to U.S. Trust in 1997— of reference books that complement the Museum, 1599–1899,” mostly drawn around the time she started seriously subject matter of the rare books. from her collection of books about collecting rare books. “Florence has established a Wunderkammers, at the Grolier Club Fearrington was honored as a meaningful legacy based on her passion in New York City. A version of this distinguished alumna at University Day in for our natural world, the book arts exhibition was displayed at Wilson Library 2016 for her pioneering career in finance and Carolina’s libraries,” says Elaine in 2014. and achievements as a collector of rare Westbrooks, vice provost for University Fearrington’s previous contributions books. She currently lives in New Orleans, Libraries and University librarian. “I to Carolina include gifts to the University Louisiana. Her most recent gift counts firmly believe that an education at Libraries’ Rare Book Collection, and she toward the University’s most ambitious Carolina is qualitatively different thanks to established the Joseph Peyton Fearrington fundraising campaign in history, For the amazing collections that we build here and James Cornelius Pass Fearrington All Kind: the Campaign for Carolina, and the inspiring generosity of donors like Fund at the Health Sciences Library. launched in October 2017. ▲

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