In 2015, UCLA Library launched the Los Angeles Aqueduct Digital Platform (LAADP), an online educational resource featuring an archives portal that allows users to search thousands of digitized primary sources across the holdings of seven institutions and a scholarship section, which showcases digital research projects created by UCLA undergraduate and graduate students. The project was strategically designed to inspire students to challenge traditional notions of academic work and realize new pathways for archival study and scholarship. And, as a result, UCLA Library Special Collections tested out new workflows and procedures for in-house digitization and metadata creation and established efficient methods for conducting copyright risk assessment for digitized primary sources. In this session, former LAADP Project Manager, Jasmine Jones, will share about the development of the platform–guiding student scholarship projects, digitization, copyright and ethics risk assessment, building infrastructure and partnerships, etc.–and sustainability of such projects and workflows over time.
Jasmine Jones is the Head of Collections Management for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Library Special Collections. In this role, she leads the development and implementation of holistic and user-driven policies, procedures, and workflows for the stewardship and discovery of archival collections, manuscripts, and rare books, from pre-custodial interventions and acquisition to access. She aims to build infrastructure that allows UCLA Library Special Collections to engage in collective, responsible stewardship and decision-making with its donors, users, and communities. Jasmine has an MLIS with a concentration in archives and an MA in history from Simmons College.
