GLAM Projects
Explore the six digital exhibits created in collaboration between University of Oregon Faculty, UO Libraries faculty and staff, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art curators and museum specialists, UO graduate students, and Mellon GLAM post-doctoral scholars, and the unique collections housed at the university.
Madness Outside In: Morningside Hospital, American Psychiatry, and the Evolving Nation
Madness Outside In: Morningside Hospital, American Psychiatry, and the Evolving Nation in the mid-20th Century tells the story of Morningside Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Portland, Oregon, that served not only the western US, but also the then-Alaska Territory in the early 20th century. The hospital’s history can best be understood in the context of the push for Alaskan statehood, major shifts in psychiatric medicine in the 1950s, and patients’ personal experiences of displacement and treatment. This research and teaching project resulted in two open-access syllabi, a podcast, and a website that will serve as companion to a book by the project leads.
Launched December 2020
Tekagami and Kyōgire
The Artful Fabric of Collecting
The Artful Fabric of Collecting traces the work of one woman–Gertrude Bass Warner– to bring a world-class collection of Chinese textiles to Oregon. Warner traveled and collected extensively in early 20th-century China, and her textiles, photographs, and letters are invaluable resources for studying not only textiles but also collecting practices. The digital exhibition includes over 500 high-resolution images of textiles, prints, photographs, and letters, along with essays illuminating Warner’s life and the history of silk production in China.
Launched July 2019
The March
The March tells the story of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom from the perspective of James Blue, a documentary filmmaker educated at the University of Oregon. Blue’s film was meant to record the event for international audiences, but it caused controversy reaching all the way to the White House. The digital exhibition presents the film along with commentary, interviews, items from James Blue’s personal papers, and other resources for understanding the film and the March in context.
Launched January 2019
United Collections: Open Resources for Teaching Special and Museum Collections
United Collections: Open Resources for Teaching Special and Museum Collections is an open curriculum for undergraduates, museum and library professionals, and others interested in how museums and libraries build, care for, and provide access to their collections. The project website offers four modules containing lecture slides, speaker notes, readings, and discussion questions based on case studies at the University of Oregon Libraries and Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, all free to download and use.
Launched December 2020
Technologies Used: WordPress, Divi
Yōkai Senjafuda
Yōkai Senjafuda is a digital exhibition of Japanese votive prints (senjafuda) and other objects representing ghosts and monsters (yōkai). Senjafuda were both used in religious practice and widely collected by hobbyists in 19th- and early 20th-century Japan, and they provide an intimate and entertaining look at supernatural themes in the popular imagination. The project website offers over 300 high-resolution images of prints and other objects along with commentary on the roles yōkai play in Japanese art, literature, and popular culture.
Launched June 2019
Technologies Used: Omeka S
Images Used (in Order of Appearance)
Morningside Hospital in Portland, Oregon [photograph].
A Mirror of Hands Album [ink on paper], Nara-Edo period (8th-17th century). Gertrude Bass Warner Memorial Library, Special Collections, and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries.
Daoist Priest’s Robe [Green silk satin embroidered with multicolored silk floss], Qing dynasty (1644-1912). Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Marchers [still from The March movie], by James Blue, 1964. Digital Exhibition the March.
Gertrude Bass Warner Photographs (1910/1929). University of Oregon Libraries.Special Collections and University Archives.
Votive slip folio 10 recto 2 [ink on paper], Taisho period (1912-1926). University of Oregon Libraries.Special Collections and University Archives.