Daniel Johnson, Project Archivist for Special Collections at the Brown University Library, was recognized by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for his work on the Library’s Hall-Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printing Propaganda.
In an April 22, 2014 blog post titled “Un-Hidden Collections: CLIR’s seven-year experiment in exposing scholarly resources and the question of digitization,” author Christa Williford describes the character of the proposals received through The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project, Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives. She writes:
[W]e’ve observed several trends affecting the cultural heritage institutions that have participated in Hidden Collections: the adoption of “more product/less process” attitudes about maximizing efficiency; the engagement of students, scholars or other non-professionals in the production and assessment of collection descriptions; an explosion in the creative use of social media; an increase in the sharing of tools, standards, and practices across institutions; and many other novel approaches to creating access.
She goes on to site four exemplary projects, including Dan’s work on data visualization for the Hall-Hoag Collection. The Library commends Dan on his innovative work and congratulates him for receiving this well deserved recognition.