Annual Lightning Talks: Exploring Recent Collaborative Grant Projects in the Libraries

When: November 9, 2021 10am-12pm

Join your colleagues in the Libraries to learn about their awarded grant projects.

Presenters will have 5 minutes to introduce their project goals, to discuss their team's results so far, and to share a few things they learned while executing their project plans. You'll have a chance to ask questions and also learn about upcoming grant deadlines that may be of interest. Please consider attending to support your colleagues.

Here are examples of projects on the potential presentation list:

• ARL PD Bank Programming and Testing (Brian Keith)
• CAS Title VI - Center for African Studies (Dan Reboussin)
• Caribbean Voices: Connecting People and Sharing Stories (John Nemmers)
• Collection Enhancement in Indigenous Studies (Ginessa Mahar)
• Creating Capacity: Meeting Campus-wide Digital Resource Access Needs During Covid-19 (Laura Spears)
• Decolonizing the Children’s Literature Archives: Multicultural Picture Books (Brittany Kester)
• Digitization and Access to the Unknown: Opening the Eastern Mexico (Durant Fletcher) 
• Documenting History: Farmworkers in Florida during COVID-19 (Margarita Vargas-Betancourt)
• Domain of One’s Own: Building Infrastructure for Digital Scholarship (Perry Collins)
• Francophone Comics: Reimagining Contemporary Culture (Hélène Huet)
• Go Ahead, Bring a Pen: Virtual Classes in Special Collections (Neil Weijer)
• Immersive Mixed Reality Technology: Enhancing Student Learning Experiences through Content Interaction (Rachel Elrod)
• Making Florida Newspaper Collections Accessible (Chelsea Dinsmore)
• Redressing Native American Oral Histories: Revitalization, Repatriation, and Responsible Sharing of Digital Cultural Heritage (preliminary proposal) (Ginessa Mahar)
• SmartPath -- Grower-directed convergence of nanotechnology and smart decision analytics for irrigation water quality management related to pathogens (Plato Smith)
• US Caribbean and Ethnic Florida Newspaper Project (Melisa Jerome)