Eddie Siebert, Library and Archives Assistant Work Study ePortfolio
During the Summer 2025 and Fall 2025 semester, Casper College English major Eddie Siebert worked as an archives assistant for Hanz Olson, taking on multiple projects that involved archiving, as well as research guide building for the Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library. Most of his work consisted of helping refurbish the Casper College School of Arts and Humanities Institutional Repository (IR) with Olson, where he initially started digitally archiving Casper College's literary and arts magazine, Expression.
Other projects include:
- Digitally archiving news about the arts and humanities at Casper College provided by the Chinook student newspaper.
- Creating a digital collection of former Casper College professor Norman Weis's manuscripts, as well as a collection of Weis's photographs that tie in with his book Ghost Towns of the Northwest: Known and Unknown.
- Creating a digital collection of Charles "Chuck" Morrison's WWII photographs and records.
- Creating a digital collection of booklets from Casper College's Social Science Seminar from 1969-1995.
- Moving Margaret Demorest's digitized annotated Shakespeare sonnets from Casper College's old system to Omeka.
- Helping with a research guide focused on research in American literature.
- Created the N.A.M.E.S research framework with Olson.
- Creating a research guide for English Literature I & II.
- Helped with multiple other arts and humanities research guides.
Expression Literary and Arts Magazine
Siebert and Olson created a digital repository for Casper College's literary magazine, Expression, which can be found on this page. Full issues were scanned and put into the arts and humanities IR for archival purposes. The page has been reconstructed to obey copyright, leaving a few pieces available to the public for the IR. Digital scans done by Siebert remain on a hard drive in the Western History Center.
Archiving Arts and Humanities News
Along with digitally archiving Expression, Siebert, under the direction of Olson, archived arts and humanities news provided by the Chinook student paper from 2019 to present day. All instances of arts and humanities news can be found on the same page of the archived Expression issue.
Norman Weis Manuscripts and Photos
Another tasked project was to scan and digitally archive former Casper College faculty Norman Weis's manuscripts for his four books Ghost Towns of the Northwest: Known and Unknown, The Starduster, Two-Story Outhouse, and Helldorados. All manuscripts, along with notes, were scanned and entered into Omeka by Siebert. The collection can be found here.
As part of the manuscripts, Norman Weis photographed ghost towns throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana for his book Ghost Towns of the Northwest: Known and Unknown. All photos in the Western History Center archives were scanned and entered into Omeka by Siebert. This collection contains 266 items, including maps of the areas photographed and inventories of the photos. The collection can be found here.
Charles "Chuck" Morrison's WWII Photography and Records
Siebert digitized some of the photographs in the Charles "Chuck" Morrison Photographs and Papers. The photographs digitally preserved and added as digital items in an online repository were of WWII. They had been selected as part of an archival exhibition for the 2025 Casper College GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) Exhibition. The selections for the exhibit consisted of 14 photos and 3 other records regarding his service. The collection can be seen at
Social Science Seminar Booklets
The Western History Center archived Casper College Social Science Seminar booklets from 1969 to 1995, which were recently digitized and added to the digital repository by Siebert. In this collection, 30 booklets have been archived.
Work in Arts and Humanities Research Guides
While working in the Western History Center, Siebert assisted Olson on many research guides, as well as making an English literature guide and an unpublished guide on American poetry. Research guides that have been worked on by Siebert are as follows:
- English Literature I & II: The English literature guide was built from scratch by Siebert using other guides as a template for the layout. The "welcome" page includes a gallery of books that can be found in the Casper College library, sections to aid students in finding books within specific subjects, and a section for collections and archives pertaining to English literature. Edits were done by Olson for more clarity.
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Art: Radius Books and Library Student Art Collection: Siebert assisted Olson on this research guide, adding books to the page for easy access for students, as well as researching and entering artists, photographers, and authors from Radius books to the page for students to explore. Under the direction of Olson, Siebert created infographics pertaining to digital storytelling and metaliterate learner roles. C.R.E.A.T.E (Conversation, Revision, Exploration, Authority, Thoughtful, Experiential) created by Amanda Meeks and her peers, was paired up with E.A.T (Evaluate, Add, Turn on) created by Siebert while learning about metaliteracy goals. Siebert created the infographic "C.R.E.A.T.E and Metaliterate Learner Goals" for the purpose of aiding students with creativity.
- Introduction to Art Education: For this research guide, Siebert was tasked to add lesson plan resources and lesson plan guidance to help future art educators with lesson plans.
- Research in American Literature: Like the Radius books guide, Siebert was tasked with creating infographics for a research framework titled N.A.M.E.S (Note, Analyze, Monitor, Enrich, Suspend) created by Olson and Siebert. The page was created to encourage students to pursue scholarly research and see scholarship as an ongoing conversation.