Authors
Dyanna Bateman: Hello! My name is Dyanna Bateman. I am a Master’s student in Transcultural Studies at the University of Michigan. For this project, I helped to coordinate our conversation and discovery session with Juli McLoone, curator of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan Library. My group worked together to collect recipes from the collection; I reviewed “Let's Get Cookin!” (2011), “The Martha Cook Building 75th Jubilee Anniversary Cookbook” (1990), and “The University of Michigan Alumnae Blue Book of Cooking” (1941) and selected 72 recipes for possible inclusion in our archive. To add to the visual elements of our Omeka site, I collected free-use historical images of dining halls on campus from the Bentley Historical Library’s digital photography collection. To provide additional context to our viewers, I also researched, created, and designed a personalized kitchen glossary of culinary terminology as a contemporary and accessible resource supplemented with common terms from 20th century kitchens and cookbooks.
Michelle Karls: Hey, I’m Michelle Karls! I’m a one-year Master’s Student at the School of Information on the User Experience and Design track, having come here after graduating from the User Experience Bachelor’s Program from the same school. For this archive, I gathered and narrowed down recipes from "Culinary Arts of the University of Michigan Law Wives”. This is one of the recipe books we found in the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan. From this book, I chose 45 recipes (5 from each of the book’s sections). I was the first person to access the Omeka site, and made the initial pages so that the team could later add content to them. I also formatted and filled in the Menu Recommendations page and structured the navigation, adding interesting captions to each of the recipes to enhance the viewer’s experience.
Abby Lebovitz: Hello, I am Abby Lebovitz, a first-year graduate student at the University of Michigan studying information science as it relates to libraries and archives. In this course, Understanding Records and Archives: Principles and Practices, our group was assigned to complete an online archive about a subject of our choice. We chose to focus on Michigan’s history through the lens of food, as it is something that everyone here can connect to. For this project, I met with Juli Mcloone in the Hatcher Reading Room to learn more about the collection held by the Janice Bluestine Longone Culinary Archive. After gathering more information, as a group we all met to collect examples from the archive. I looked over The University of Michigan Library Staff Association cookbook : a collection of one hundred original recipes (1984) and from it took a sampling of recipes for inclusion in our project. For our Omeka website, I gathered insights from course readings, wrote the foundations of our Project Description page, and helped format the APA citations. A large consideration of mine throughout this project has been on how food relates to culture, and what part an archive can play in preserving culinary heritage.
Stephanie Vettese: Hello! My name is Stephanie Vettese. I am a Master's student within the School of Information at the University of Michigan, focusing on the Library and Archive pathway. For this project, I meet with Juli McLoone, curator of the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan Library, to get some pointers on what collections our group should be looking at and learn how to schedule appointments to come in to the Hatcher Reading Room to look at the resources. With my group, we were able to work together to look at various University of Michigan cookbooks and take pictures of potential recipes for our digital archive. I specifically looked at two cookbooks - "Maize and Bleu Cooking: A Collection of Recipes" and "The University of Michigan Alumnae Council presents the Michigan League cookbook : a collection of recipes from the kitchens of the Michigan League" and collected at total 64 recipes for possible inclusion in our archive. For the Omeka site, I have created the 48 recipe items for our archive, as well as created the digital items of the images Dyanna collected. I have also designed the layout on the Home, Browse Recipe, Kitchen Glossary, Project Description, Arthors, and Works Cited pages. Finally, I assisted Abby in writing what was included in the Project Description page, as well as writing the archive explanation on the Home page.
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