Just Launched: #MeToo and the Women’s Rights Movement in China Web Archive

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I am pleased to announce the launch of the #MeToo and the Women’s Rights Movement in China Web Archive, comprised of captured website content from women’s organizations and individuals in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Curated by Chengzhi Wang, Chinese Studies Librarian at Columbia University, and Xiao-He Ma, Librarian for the Chinese Collection at Harvard University, the archive aims to systematically archive and preserve web content related to the #MeToo movement and women’s rights activities in the Greater China Region, so that scholars and students will be able to continuously be able to access these important, and potentially ephemeral, materials.

Web archives preserve vulnerable information that may disappear from the live web and capture the ways in which selected websites have evolved over time. The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation’s Web Resources Collecting Program is a collaborative collection development effort to build curated, thematic collections of freely available, but at-risk, web content in order to support research at participating Libraries. Learn more about the program and explore additional collections here.

The following is a Chinese-language translation of the announcement above.

我高兴地宣布启动“中国 MeToo（米兔）和女权运动网页归档保存项目”，项目内容包含所保存的中国大陆、香港和台湾的妇女团体组织和个人的网页。该项目由哥伦比亚大学和哈佛大学的中国研究馆员王成志和马小鹤发起和维护，旨在系统地归档保存中华地区米兔和女权运动有关的网页，以便学者和学生能永久使用这些重要但容易消失的资料。

网页归档保存可保留从实时网络中或易消失的信息，并保存选定的网站随时间而演变的方式。 Ivy Plus（常春藤加）图书馆联盟的网络资源馆藏建设项目是一项馆际合作工程，以建立让人免费使用但风险较高的网络内容的得到维护的主题馆藏，从而支持利用各参与图书馆的研究。 请在这里了解该计划更多信息并探索其他馆藏。

#MeToo and the Women’s Rights Movement in China Web Archive captures web content from women’s organizations and individuals throughout China.

Just Launched: Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union Web Archive

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I am pleased to announce the launch of the Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union Web Archive, comprised of captured website content from Eastern Europe and the territories of the Former Soviet Union. In recent years, this area of the world has produced a significant volume of websites likely to be of value to contemporary and future humanities, social science, and history projects, and the archive has been established as an attempt to identify, capture, and preserve this material. The thematic and generic scope of the archive is deliberately broad, and includes websites published by political parties, non-governmental organizations and activist groups, artists and cultural collectives, and historians, philosophers, and other intellectuals.

Web archives preserve vulnerable information that may disappear from the live web and capture the ways in which selected websites have evolved over time. The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation’s Web Collecting Program is a collaborative collection development effort to build curated, thematic collections of freely available, but at-risk, web content in order to support research. Learn more about the program or explore the collections here.

The Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union Web Archives represents an effort to preserve research-valuable web content from Eastern Europe and the territories of the former Soviet Union.

 

Just Launched: Journal of Clinical Education in Physical Therapy

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Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of the Journal of Clinical Education in Physical Therapy (JCEPT), a new peer-reviewed, open access publication. Bringing together clinicians and academic educators, JCEPT promotes advances in education and educational research to stimulate analysis and discussion of clinical education in our field.

Publishing multiple article types including original research, reviews, case reports, and more, JCEPT provides a variety of forms for authors to share their insight and experience. With an emphasis on building community and developing a new generation of clinical educators, JCEPT offers students, emerging scholars, and clinicians opportunities to publish and professionalize their skills as academic researchers and writers. For established scholars and newcomers alike, JCEPT is a venue for collegial conversation and the advancement of scholarship in education and educational research. The recurring feature, the “Inter-Professional Corner,” will be dedicated to clinical education scholarship from related health professions or collaborations with physical therapists, promoting an even wider scope to the journal’s scholarship and expanded community of practice.

As a publication of Columbia University Libraries, JCEPT is committed to an ethical, open, and diverse approach to publishing and will provide options for open peer review, support for non-native English speakers, and those new to academic writing. For more about JCEPT and its policies, or to submit a paper, visit jcept.columbia.edu and follow the journal on Twitter @jcept_columbia.

The Journal of Clinical Education in Physical Therapy is founded by editors-in-chief Christopher Kevin Wong, PT, PhD, and Jean Fitzpatrick Timmerberg, PT, PhD—both faculty of the Columbia University Physical Therapy Program. They are joined by a distinguished editorial board made up of clinical and academic educators from across the country that represent multiple clinical specialties, roles in academic and clinical physical therapy education, and areas of clinical research.

Columbia University Libraries’ journals publishing program supports the creation, discovery, and dissemination of quality open-access research. We seek collaborations with Columbia-affiliated faculty and students who want to ask new questions, play at the borders of currently canonized fields, open new pathways of inquiry, explore innovative methods, and bring new and traditionally underrepresented voices into conversation.

Just Launched: Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018) Web Archive

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The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018) Web Archive. Built by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, member libraries of the Latin America Libraries of the Northeast Group, and with significant contributions from members of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, the Archive comprises Brazilian government websites in the areas of human rights, the environment, LGBTQ issues, and culture, for the period following the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil on October 28, 2018, up to his inauguration on January 1, 2019. The collection targets web content considered to be vulnerable due to the anticipated consolidation or elimination in the aforementioned areas, and represents a snapshot of government content before Bolsonaro took office, with the aim of preserving these important, but potentially ephemeral, documents for researchers and scholars.

The Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018) Web Archive was built to preserve web content created by the Brazilian government related to culture, the environment, human rights, and LGBTQ issues that is predicted to be erased or consolidated under the administration of the newly-elected Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, pictured here at his inauguration in January 2019.

The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is a partnership between Brown University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, and Yale University. The Web Resources Collection Program is an initiative of the Confederation’s Collection Development Group, under the direction of the Web Advisory Committee and Samantha Abrams, the Web Resources Collection Librarian. Now in its second year, the Program has six additional public collections: the Collaborative Architecture, Urbanism, and Sustainability Web Archive; the Contemporary Composers Web Archive; the Global Webcomics Web Archive; the National Statistical Offices and Central Banks Web Archive; the Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive, and the State Elections Web Archive.

If you have questions about the Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018) Web Archive or the larger Web Collecting Program, please reach out to ivyplusweb@library.columbia.edu.

Just Launched: Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive

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The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive. Spearheaded by the Confederation’s Art & Architecture Librarians Group, the collection aims to preserve the personal and official websites belonging to notable contemporary Latin American and Caribbean artists in order to assure the continuing availability of the sites’ important content for researchers. The collection is an extension of an existing effort focused on collecting publications in all formats that document contemporary art and artists of Latin America and the Caribbean and defines contemporary art as it refers to ‘developments in the visual arts from 1975 to the present.’

An artist’s display in a Guatemalan market, also featured in the Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive.

The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is a partnership between Brown University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, and Yale University. The Web Resources Collection Program is an initiative of the Confederation’s Collection Development Group, under the direction of the Web Advisory Committee and Samantha Abrams, the Web Resources Collection Librarian. Now in its second year, the Program has five additional public collections: the Collaborative Architecture, Urbanism, and Sustainability Web Archive; the Contemporary Composers Web Archive; the Global Webcomics Web Archive; the National Statistical Offices and Central Banks Web Archive; and the State Elections Web Archive.

If you have questions about the Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive, or the larger Web Collecting Program, please reach out to ivyplusweb@library.columbia.edu.

Columbia Libraries Celebrates World Digital Preservation Day

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Columbia University Libraries joins the international digital preservation community today in celebrating World Digital Preservation Day to recognize the collections preserved, the access maintained and the understanding fostered by preserving digital materials. The commemorative day seeks “to create greater awareness of digital preservation that will translate into a wider understanding which permeates all aspects of society – business, policy making, personal good practice.”

Columbia Libraries holds many millions of digital items in over 300 computer file formats, content that includes digitized reproductions of papyri and clay tablets, manuscripts, archival photographs, historical publications, artworks, sound recordings, film, video, and three-dimensional objects, as well as archival material from statesmen, politicians, and philanthropic organizations such as the Ford and Carnegie foundations. Our digital collections are expanding rapidly as a result of new acquisitions of content originating in digital format, and our ongoing digitization of unique cultural heritage materials from new and existing archival and specialized collections continues. On our website, you can view a portion of our preserved digital collections that we have published for open use, such as the Columbia Spectator Archive, the papers of composer Ulysses Kay, and the holdings of sixteenth-century Italian architect and theoretician, Sebastiano Serlio.

Meet Janina Marquordt, Bibliographic Assistant at Diamond Law Library

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“My name is Janina Marquordt and I work in technical services, which includes a wide range of tasks and a whole lot of expertise in different areas in order to make materials available through the Libraries. I love being part of that extensive process. Also, as an immigrant, I love learning about different languages and cultures and the diverse backgrounds of other members of this community.”

Janina Marquordt