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The Lamont estate gift consists of over 1800 books, musical recordings, and journals. After gathering initial information and devising a project plan, the class split their efforts. Four students hosted an on-site weekend marathon in which they documented the basics of the materials. Using Libib, the information about each title was stored. The data was then accessed by our off-site catalogers.  These students worked with Ms. Sanders to determine the data points most needed by the archive, and then created a detailed spreadsheet to describe the items. Finally, the data was uploaded to the archive's system for access by patrons and archivists alike. A third group worked in the background, communicating progress reports and developing this website to promote our project.

Leadership for Diversity is a class which focuses on the vital need to understand and meaningfully engage with issues of diversity in LIS. As purveyors of knowledge and providers of community services, librarians have an obligation to confront, discuss, and work to improve prejudice and injustice so that resources are equally available to the wide variety of people we serve. This is one of the fundamental values of our profession.

The purpose of the class project was to provide real cataloging, organization, and archival experience to students, while supporting a valuable community institution. Best practices in project management are also necessarily tied to the execution of a medium scale project across a dozen people and three states.

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