ID: 173

TODD – DIAZ, Ashley; GIVENS, Earl 

Curriculum

Education

MSIS, University at Albany, 2011

MA, English Literature New York University, 2011

BA, English, Sarah Lawrence College, 2007

Experience

Emporia State University, Emporia, KS

• National Faculty, School of Library and Information Management, 2013 –

• Assistant Professor, Curator of Special Collections and Archives, 2012 –

Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University, New York, NY

• Adjunct Cataloger, 2011 – 2012

Publications

O’Hare, S. & Todd-Diaz, A. (In press). “The devils you don’t know: The new lives of the finding aid.” S. Hastings (Ed.), Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI), 2012-13.

Todd-Diaz, A. & O’Hare, S. (In press). “If you build it, will they come? A review of digital collections user studies.” S. Hastings (Ed.), ARCHI, 2012-13.

Todd-Diaz, A. & Givens, E. (2013). “Breaking Free in the Special Collections and Archives: Shattering Conventions and Display Cases with Augmented Reality,” 2013 Brick and Click Proceedings.

 

Education

M.L.S. Masters of Library Science, Emporia State University, 2010

B.A. US. History, Second field of study Anthropology, Emporia State University, 2007

Library Work Experience

Emporia State University, Emporia, KS

Assistant Professor, Digital Resources Librarian 2011 - Present

Kansas State Library, Topeka, KS

Library Technology Consultant 2009 - 2011

Publications

Todd-Diaz, A. & Givens, E. (2013). “Breaking Free in the Special Collections and Archives: Shattering Conventions and Display Cases with Augmented Reality,” 2013 Brick and Click Proceedings.

Givens, E. (2013). Discovery: The Information Literate WorldCat, 2013 Kansas Library Association College & University Libraries Section Proceedings.

Title:

Watch your materials perform with augmented reality

Brief summary:

How often have you wished there was a better way to let delicate manuscripts and rare books perform for visitors, while staying mindful of preservation and security?

Emporia State University’s Special Collections and Archives has achieved this

goal by utilizing mobile, augmented reality technology to bring these items to life.

Content:

How often have you wished there was a better way to let delicate manuscripts and rare books perform for visitors, while still staying mindful of preservation and security? Emporia State University’s Special Collections and Archives and Technical Services department have joined forces to achieve this goal by utilizing mobile, augmented reality technology to bring these items to life.

Through free mobile software, ESU Special Collections and Archives has merged the boundary between the physical and virtual worlds, offering visitors the opportunity to go beyond walking through stationary exhibits of artifacts, to a full interactive experience. Imagine an easy way for a handwritten music score, diary, or piece of artwork to tell its story to visitors; a method that allows the score to break free of the display case in an explosion of audio, video and images.

Scientific contribution:

Augmented reality has the potential to change how patrons learn and interact with their environment by shattering traditional learning models, where they are receivers of information, to instead empower them to become gatherers of information who actively contribute to the creation of knowledge. Just as the ESU Special Collections and Archives enhanced patron interaction and learning through augmented reality, other archives and museums have the opportunity to easily implement new ways of learning and processing information mobile augmented reality apps.

Keywords:

augmented reality, mobile technology, user experience, archives, special collections