{"id":6344,"date":"2014-04-24T12:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2014-04-24T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T16:28:02","slug":"clir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/clir\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University Library’s Daniel Johnson Recognized by CLIR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CLIR<\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel Johnson, Project Archivist for Special Collections at the\u00a0Brown University Library, was recognized by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for his work on the Library’s Hall-Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printing Propaganda.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

In an April 22, 2014 blog post titled “Un-Hidden Collections: CLIR\u2019s seven-year experiment in exposing scholarly resources and the question of digitization,”<\/a>\u00a0author\u00a0Christa Williford describes the character of the proposals received through\u00a0The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project,\u00a0Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives<\/em>. She writes:<\/p>\n

[W]e\u2019ve observed several trends affecting the cultural heritage institutions that have participated in Hidden Collections: the adoption of \u201cmore product\/less process\u201d attitudes about maximizing efficiency; the engagement of students, scholars or other non-professionals in the production and assessment of collection descriptions; an explosion in the creative use of social media; an increase in the sharing of tools, standards, and practices across institutions; and many other novel approaches to creating access.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She goes on to site four exemplary projects, including Dan’s work on data visualization for the Hall-Hoag Collection. The Library commends Dan on his innovative\u00a0work and congratulates him for receiving this well deserved recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel Johnson, Project Archivist for Special Collections at the\u00a0Brown University Library, was recognized by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for his work on the Library’s Hall-Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printing Propaganda.\u00a0 In an April 22, 2014 blog post titled “Un-Hidden Collections: CLIR\u2019s seven-year experiment in exposing scholarly resources and the … Brown University Library’s Daniel Johnson Recognized by CLIR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}