Browsing by Author "Alisauskas, Alexandra"

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    Actualizing the digital library with interactive student learning and engagement projects
    (2021-12-09) Murphy, James E; Stoeckle, Marc; Alisauskas, Alexandra
    University of Calgary Libraries has had success developing interactive library tools, including virtual 360 tours, virtual orientations, structured tours for English language learners, music collection showcases, and more. Many of these have been built using the ThingLink platform which the presenters have been using over the past 2 years to 'actualize' the digital in the Taylor Family Digital Library, the University's main library location. This eLearning showcase will highlight how the presenters have used this affordable tool, adapted it for a variety of library use cases, and how the digital creations have engaged with students, staff and faculty.
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    “It Feels Like a Life’s Work” : Recordkeeping as an Act of Love
    (2021-06-16) Douglas, Jennifer; Alisauskas, Alexandra
    By considering a set of in-depth interviews with eight bereaved mothers, this article seeks to explore ideas about what records are and what they do. Working to centre the voices and experiences of the bereaved mothers, the article first discusses some of the objects, events, places, and bodily traces they identified that function as records. It next considers the roles records and recordkeeping played for the parents interviewed, identifying four types of records work: proving life and love, parenting, continuing a relationship, and imagining. Records and recordkeeping are shown to be instrumental in the ongoing processing of traumatic loss as well as in the significant work of ensuring a life has meaning and is acknowledged. Finally, the interviews with parents also showed how deeply imbricated are love and grief as emotions and as motivations for recordkeeping, and the article ends by articulating a call for archivists to learn to “look with love.”
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    OER Workshop Series: Finding Open Educational Resources
    (2022-03) Alisauskas, Alexandra; Adams, Sarah
    Existing OERs are housed in many different locations, meaning that they can sometimes be difficult to find. In this session, we will provide an overview of how to begin a systematic search for an OER appropriate to your course needs, and outline supports available to instructors for finding and evaluating OER. By the end of this workshop, learners will be able to: Describe key aspects of an OER that should be assessed before use; Conduct a preliminary search for OER; Identify key search tools for finding OER, openly licensed media, and ancillary content. OER Workshop Series developed by Christie Hurrell, Sarah Adams, Alexandra Alisauskas, Rowena Johnson, and Kate Cawthorn.
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    OER Workshop Series: Open Educational Resources Handout
    (2022-03) Hurrell, Christie; Alisauskas, Alexandra; Cawthorn, Kate; Johnson, Rowena; Adams, Sarah
    Handout of resources developed for the Open Educational Resources (OER) Workshop Series. Includes resources related to the University of Calgary, copyright, Creative Commons open licensing, finding OER, OER adaptation and creation projects, and OER-enabled and open pedagogy.
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    “Treat Them with the Reverence of Archivists” : Records Work, Grief Work, and Relationship Work in the Archives
    (Association of Canadian Archivists, 2019-11) Douglas, Jennifer; Alisauskas, Alexandra; Mordell, Devon
    In this article, we take up Geoff Wexler and Linda Long’s call to explore the ways in which records and recordkeeping are “bound up” in experiences of loss and grieving. Drawing on theoretical and clinical literature on bereavement, we introduce the concept of grief work and investigate some ways in which grief work can be performed through the creation, use, organization, and preservation of records. We illustrate our study of records work as grief work with examples from the Hamilton Family Fonds at the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections, the Sylvia Plath collections at Smith College and Indiana University, and the Lara Gilbert Fonds at the University of Victoria Archives. Finally, we suggest some impacts – especially the ethical impacts – a grief work perspective might have on the ongoing development of archival theory and methodology. This article lays the conceptual groundwork for a larger, ongoing study on recordkeeping, grief work, and the concept of archival care.