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Mass. Memories Road Show heads to Hingham on Sunday, May 17

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Hingham Mass. Memories Road Show final flyerWhen: Sunday, May 17, 2015 –  10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Location: Hingham Town Hall, 210 Central Street, Hingham, Mass. Click here for directions.

Do you have a connection to Hingham, Massachusetts? Do you live or work in Hingham? Are your roots in Hingham? Share your memories and take your place in Massachusetts history at this free, public event.

Please bring 1-3 photos in their original format (digital or print photographs) and your stories to be recorded. We will scan unframed pictures and copy digital images and return the images back to you. All images will be added to the online collection at openarchives.umb.edu. Preserve your memories of this wonderful neighborhood! Read more about this event here.

The Mass. Memories Road Show is a statewide digital history project that documents people, places, and events in Massachusetts history through family photographs and stories.

The Mass. Memories Road Show is produced by the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMass Boston and is co-sponsored by the Patricia C. Flaherty ’81 Endowed Fund.

For more information call 781-741-1492 or visit the Hingham Mass. Memories Road Show planning committee’s website at www.hingham-ma.gov/events/MAMemories/index.html.

Download the flyer for the Hingham Mass. Memories Road Show here.

Barbara Maysles Kramer: Saturday Evening Girls papers – Now open for research

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"Barbara Maysles Kramer with Revere pottery made by Saturday Evening Girls." Boston Globe, May 12, 1991.

“Barbara Maysles Kramer with Revere pottery made by Saturday Evening Girls.” Boston Globe. May 12, 1991.

University Archives & Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMass Boston is pleased to announce that the Barbara Maysles Kramer: Saturday Evening Girls papers are now open and available for research. Spanning eight linear feet, this collection documents Barbara Maysles Kramer’s research, in collaboration with her husband, Dr. Bernard M. Kramer, on the Saturday Evening Girls (1899-1969) and the Paul Revere Pottery (1908-1942). Barbara Maysles Kramer was the daughter of Ethel Epstein Maysles, a long-standing member of the Saturday Evening Girls. The collection also documents the Kramers’ preparations for a book entitled Tales of the Paul Revere Pottery (unpublished).

Members of the Saturday Evening Girls at work in the Paul Revere Pottery. Circa 1915.

Members of the Saturday Evening Girls at work in the Paul Revere Pottery. Early 1900s.

The Saturday Evening Girls, or SEG, was a club established by BPL librarian Edith Guerrier for young immigrant women living in Boston’s North End. Members were involved in a variety of activities, including singing, theater, folk dancing, discussions of classic literature, lectures from prominent Bostonians, arts and crafts, and the publication of a newspaper, the SEG News. In 1908, Edith Guerrier and her partner, Edith Brown, established the Paul Revere Pottery with financial support from local philanthropist Helen Osborne Storrow. Members of the Saturday Evening Girls worked at the Paul Revere Pottery, creating colorful, often whimsically-themed pottery that was part of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Pieces of Paul Revere Pottery.

Pieces of Paul Revere Pottery.

The Barbara Kramer papers include issues of the SEG News, photographs of the SEG members and their activities, and response forms from a survey that Kramer conducted with surviving SEG members and their descendants. The collection also documents an exhibit held at UMass Boston’s original campus in Park Square in 1975, The Saturday Evening Girls: Opening a door to America. Also available in the Healey Library’s Special Collections is Barbara Maysles Kramer’s personal copy of An Independent Woman: The Autobiography of Edith Guerrier (call number: Z720.G89 A3 1992).

For questions about this collection or to schedule a research appointment, please contact library.archives@umb.edu or 617-287-5469.

View the finding aid for this collection.

Flyer for "The Saturday Evening Girls: Opening a door to America" exhibit. 1975.

Flyer for “The Saturday Evening Girls: Opening a door to America” exhibit. 1975.

 

University Archives & Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMass Boston collects materials related to the university’s history, as well as materials that reflect the institution’s urban mission and strong support of community service, notably in collections of records of urban planning, social welfare, social action, alternative movements, community organizations, and local history related to neighboring communities.

University Archives & Special Collections welcomes inquiries from individuals, organizations, and businesses interested in donating materials of an archival nature that that fit within our collecting policy. These include manuscripts, documents, organizational archives, collections of photographs, unique publications, and audio and video media. For more information about donating to University Archives & Special Collections, click here or email library.archives@umb.edu.

Special Issue on MOOCs: Latest issue of Current Issues in Emerging eLearning available on ScholarWorks

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coverThe most recent issue of Current Issues in Emerging eLearning, now available on ScholarWorks, explores theoretical perspectives and pedagogical applications of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and openness in education.

Current Issues in Emerging eLearning launched in 2014 and is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal of applied research and critical thought on eLearning practice and emerging pedagogical methods. The journal is published by the Center for Innovation and Excellence in eLearning, and sponsored by the College of Advancing and Professional Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Apart from an introductory note by editor Apostolos Koutropoulos, the contents of this special issue include:

To view the full issue, and to explore back issues of this publication, click here.

ScholarWorks is the University of Massachusetts Boston’s online institutional repository for scholarship and research. ScholarWorks serves as a publishing platform, a preservation service, and a showcase for the research and scholarly output of members of the UMass Boston community. ScholarWorks is a service of the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMass Boston.

Visualizing Historical Data with the MetroBoston DataCommon

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historic mapping

Late last year, the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Mass., offered a workshop titled “How to Do History with Online Mapping Tools” as part of a series related to the Museum and Library’s collection of historic maps. The workshop was sponsored by the Ruby W. and LaVon P. Linn Foundation.

In the workshop, participants learned how to use online tools to consult and create maps that chart Metro Boston area history. The presenters were Jessie Partridge from the MetroBoston DataCommon, a provider of free applications that make it possible to map data, and Joanne Riley, University Archivist and Curator of Special Collections in the Healey Library at UMass Boston.

Both presenters helped lay historians, data fans, and map enthusiasts discover how visualizations of data and space related to our region can help us understand our history.

Workshop materials: Joanne Riley’s presentation and handout; Jessie Partridge’s presentation.

One collaborative example from the workshop, using data from the records of the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters:


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University Archives & Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMass Boston collects materials related to the university’s history, as well as materials that reflect the institution’s urban mission and strong support of community service, notably in collections of records of urban planning, social welfare, social action, alternative movements, community organizations, and local history related to neighboring communities.

University Archives & Special Collections welcomes inquiries from individuals, organizations, and businesses interested in donating materials of an archival nature that that fit within our collecting policy. These include manuscripts, documents, organizational archives, collections of photographs, unique publications, and audio and video media. For more information about donating to University Archives & Special Collections, click here or email library.archives@umb.edu.

Archival collection documents 50 years of UMass Boston

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IMG_1068UMass Boston has come a long way since first opening its doors to students in 1965 — something we were thrilled to see highlighted in a recent Boston Globe article about the opening of the Integrated Sciences Complex.

But there’s so much more to the story of UMass Boston. To that end, University Archives & Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library is pleased to announce that the records of the Office of Institutional Research and Planning (1964-2012) are now open for research. The bulk of this collection contains long-range plans and five-year plans from 1964 to 1989 and enrollment reports from 1982 to 2000. Formats and document types range from photocopies and reports to correspondence and memoranda.

Though spanning only one linear foot, the contents of this collection document the founding objectives and activities of the university and are of particular significance as we look back on fifty years of UMass Boston. One highlight within the records includes the “Original UMB Plan 1964” from September 1964, which was prepared by the Office of the Director of Planning. The plan indicates the need to establish a new Boston-area campus to “meet the educational needs of the metropolitan area for the next fifty to sixty years” and “accommodate 10,000 to 20,000 college students within a decade or two.” This document outlines proposed curricula, evaluation of enrollment projection, a list of site locations for the new university, and space requirements for faculty and students. The plan also includes minutes of various committees and subcommittees. The original plan was for the university to be open for 1,000 students by September of 1965. The records within the folder entitled “Who Are Our Students? 2002-2012” indicate that by fall 2012,  15,874 students were enrolled, an amazing mark of progress for the university!

If you have any questions or if you would like to schedule a time to explore this or any of our collections, email library.archives@umb.edu or call 617-287-5469.

View the finding aid for this collection here.

University Archives & Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMass Boston collects materials related to the university’s history, as well as materials that reflect the institution’s urban mission and strong support of community service, notably in collections of records of urban planning, social welfare, social action, alternative movements, community organizations, and local history related to neighboring communities.

University Archives & Special Collections welcomes inquiries from individuals, organizations, and businesses interested in donating materials of an archival nature that that fit within our collecting policy. These include manuscripts, documents, organizational archives, collections of photographs, unique publications, and audio and video media. For more information about donating to University Archives & Special Collections, click here or email library.archives@umb.edu.