https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/2e724c5e4e18d76fe4335b0dcc0d460d.pdf 35dd5ca4d57cea9238521b35dbe86482 PDF Text Text 1 Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library Western History Center Fall 2025 Humanities Festival Traveling Exhibit Development Process Hanz Olson, Librarian and Archivist Overview and Credits: • • • • Location: Natrona County Public Library Proposed Date of Installation: Start install on September 17th and 18th Length of Exhibit after Install: September 27 through October 24 Client-partners: Casper College Humanities Festival and Natrona County Public Library Development Team • • • Curators: Hanz Olson (librarian and archivist) and Hannah Baldwin (CC Biology graduate and UW-C Biology archivist assistant) Project Manager: Hanz Olson Exhibit Developers: Hanz Olson and Hannah Baldwin o Exhibit Designers: Hanz Olson, Hannah Baldwin, and Eddie Siebert (Casper College English major and Arts and Humanities institutional repository assistant) Goals and Objectives: Launch a successful contribution to the 2025 Humanities Festival in the form of an engaging traveling exhibit that aligns and creates avenues for connecting with stakeholders and visitors. Interpretive Master Plan: • Stakeholders Casper College Humanities Festival Committee, the Goodstein Foundation Library and its Western History Center, the Natrona County Public Library, collection donors, and Casper and outside communities. �2 • Big Idea Provide a sampling or archival materials and ask thoughtful questions through the curatorial use of the Casper College Archives by showcasing efforts made at o Capturing Casper College o Archiving Faculty Interests and Pursuits o Connecting College Life and Wyoming Culture External Artifacts: o Question response forms Internal Stakeholders Model Casper College values through the work of developing the exhibit. o Integrity – Hard work, accountability, trust, open communication, and respect o People – Growth, support, personal development, and positive relationships o Diversity – Thought, culture, and experience o Forward Thinking – Intentional, innovative, and sustainable planning in the pursuit of excellence o Community – Partnership and service Internal Artifacts o Documentation of exhibit packages in Western History Center Materials Pulled for Request and Exhibits Log o Published Exhibit Development Process Document Smithsonian-based Anticipated Audience Preferences (IPOPs): The following IPOPs are applicable to the 2025 Humanities Festival traveling exhibit: • • • Ideas: “Visitors seeking conceptual and abstract thinking” o Archiving Faculty Interests and Pursuits People: “Visitors seeking emotional connections” o Archiving Faculty Interests and Pursuits o Capturing Casper College o Connecting College Life and Wyoming Culture Objects: “Visitors seeking visual language and aesthetics” o Archiving Faculty Interests and Pursuits �3 • o Capturing Casper College o Connecting College Life and Wyoming Culture Physical: “Visitors seeking multi-sensory experiences” o Connections to digital resources and learning experiences (in-person and/or remote digital) o Incorporation of selected leather, metal, technology, Thunderbird mascot, and wooden objects Interpretive Hierarchy: • • • • Title (label-poster with big ideas): Traveling Gallery Highlighting the Archiving of Casper College and Wyoming Culture Big Idea: Featuring a process of restoring what it means to archive an institution backward from a constantly revolving exhibit space at its doorstep. Key Messages: The archives of an institution start with but also incorporate broader communities. Interpretive Tools: o Objects o Thunderbird mascot trappings o Typewriter and gloves of Margert Demorest’s o Slide scanner o Old library cataloging equipment o Casper College mugs o Wyoming Mountaineers equipment o Images o Public Relations Department o Interactives o No audio or visual materials at this time but Digital and Institutional Repository QR codes and reflective question response forms will be included. Capturing Casper College ▪ Casper College Life ▪ Photographs of President Tilghman H. Aley ▪ Thunderbird Rodeo Archiving Faculty Interests and Pursuits • Norman Weiss Manuscripts • Margaret Demorest’s Annotated Shakespeare Sonnets �4 Connecting College Life and Wyoming Culture • College Life and Wyoming Culture digital page (more information on landing forthcoming) o Reflective question forms (see Assessment and Engagement below) o Text o Public Relations Department Publication(s) o Margaret Demorest Papers o Faculty Manuscripts and Publications Exhibit Launch Road Map: Put together the following “packages” for curation in the atrium-gallery of the NCPL: • • • • Assessment Package Digital Curation Package Engagement Package Physical Curation Package Assessment and Engagement: • • • Requests to research faculty papers sign-up Requests to research Public Relations Campus and Buildings and College Life record groups Responses to reflective questions embedded in the exhibit o Where do you find the most play in capturing Casper College? Possible responses: ▪ Athletics ▪ The classroom ▪ College life ▪ The theater o In your mind, what are the characteristics of a life project? Possible responses: ▪ Being in the moment ▪ Finding the key to self-actualization and life-long learning ▪ Creating a record of your beliefs, convictions, and values ▪ A combination of all of the above �5 • o Have you discovered a connection between Casper College Life and Wyoming Culture in this exhibit? If so, let us know what the connection is! Label with link to Museum/ Gallery Studies webpage in the last exhibit case Concept Design: The Concept Design included identifying the follow focus panels. Focus panels are the equivalent of the exhibits overarching and interwoven sections. The interpretive strategy of all panels is aligned with the incorporation of multiple interpretive tools as outlined by the Smithsonian. These are Objects, Images, Interactives, and Text. 1. Capturing Casper College Focus Panel • Interpretive tools: Objects, Images, Interactives, and Text • Reflective Question: Where do you find the most play in capturing Casper College? 2. Faculty Interests and Pursuits Focus Panel • Interpretive tools: Objects, Images, Interactives and Text • Reflective Question: o What is a life project based on to you? ▪ Being in the moment ▪ Finding the key to self-actualization and life-long learning ▪ Creating a record of my beliefs, convictions, and values ▪ A combination of all of the above • Exhibit Display Cases for Sonnet Writing o Looking at an example of a sonnet composed using words and images from the two Margaret Demorest and Humanities Festival display cases, viewers will have a chance to compose and send in a copy of their own sonnet using a line-by-line form. • Reading Room Faculty Papers Sign-up Form o Margaret Demorest o Norman Weiss 3. College Life and Wyoming Culture Focus Panel o Interpretive tools: Objects, Images, Interactives, and Text o Reflective Question �6 o Have you discovered a connection between Casper College Life and Wyoming Culture in this exhibit? If so, let us know what the connection was! Final Design Phase: o Final Packages o Exhibition Title Poster Label o Focus (section) Labels ▪ Capturing Casper College ▪ Showcasing Faculty Interests and Pursuits ▪ Discovering College Life and Wyoming Culture o Captions o Physical exhibit packages Measurements • • • • Front End o Western History Center Materials Pulled for Request and Exhibits Log Internal Formative Evaluation o Research request transactions (in-person or online) Internal Summative Assessment o Published Exhibit Development Process o Completed Western History Center Materials Pulled for Request and Exhibits Log Quantitative and Qualitative o Faculty Manuscripts and Publications Research Requests (Demorest and Weiss) o Responses to Reflective Questions • On-site or Digital Requests for Access • Responses to critical questions and exhibition via online forms: 1. Where do you find the most play in capturing Casper College? 2. In your mind, what are the characteristics of a life project? 3. Have you discovered a connection between Casper College Life and Wyoming Culture in this exhibit? If so, let us know what the connection is! �7 Question QR Codes: 1. 2. 3. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Casper College Western History Center Learning Resources Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2025-09-25 Description An account of the resource This digital collection contains the copies of the Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library Western History Center's exhibit development processes. These processes are adapted from those of the Smithsoneans. They are meant to improve the reach and impact of the exhibits the center does, which are usually a part of collaborations with other units at Casper College. Some of these collaborations have included the Humanities Festival, GLAM, and the Bruce Richards Lecture Series. The center is also working on an expended curation and arrangement and description project in the effort of highlighting connections between college life and Wyoming culture. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library Western History Center learning resource contributors include Hanz Olson. Language A language of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CCA 04.ii..h.i.2025.01 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Relation A related resource <a href="https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/exhibits/show/western-history--anchored-coll">Western History Center "Anchored Collection Series"</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fall 2025 Humanities Festival Traveling Exhibit Development Process Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2025-09-04 Description An account of the resource This document contains the exhibition development process made by the Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library Western History Center to guide its work on a traveling exhibit at the Natrona County Public Library during the fall 2025 Casper College Humanities Festival. The theme of the exhibit was archiving the institution. Sections include capturing Casper College, Faculty Interests and Pursuits, and Connecting College Life and Wyoming Culture. The exhibit was developed and designed and otherwise made possible by Hanz Olson, Hannah Baldwin, and Eddie Siebert. Engaging questions play on the theme of the year's festival. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hanz Olson Language A language of the resource ENG Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Casper College Western History Center Exhibition Development Processes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CCA 04.ii..h.i.2025.01_HumanitiesFestival-NCPL_EXDP Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF