{"id":5468,"date":"2020-05-14T17:20:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T17:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/library\/2020\/05\/14\/leatherby-librarians-at-home-tiana-taliep\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:34:56","slug":"leatherby-librarians-at-home-tiana-taliep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/library\/2020\/05\/14\/leatherby-librarians-at-home-tiana-taliep\/","title":{"rendered":"Leatherby Librarians at Home: Tiana Taliep"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this week’s installment of the Leatherby Librarians at Home blog series, Archivist for the Oskar Schindler Archives Tiana Taliep<\/a> shares pointers on an excellent genealogy resource, and catches us up on her quarantine reading.<\/p>\n

1. What has been the most challenging aspect for you of working from home so far, and how did you overcome it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When we first started working from home, I could not find a comfortable workspace. I didn’t have a proper desk, and working from my couch or kitchen counter wasn’t helpful. It was about the second week that I brought in my patio bistro table and set it up in front of a large window. It’s been the perfect space to focus and watch the birds I’ve been feeding.<\/p>\n

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Tiana’s home workspace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2. What is your favorite remote resource for students and\/or faculty?
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Ancestry Library Edition<\/a> – it’s a helpful resource I often use when I don’t have information on the collection I’m processing. It has helped identify individuals and trace where Holocaust survivors have emigrated. In the Betty Sara Goetz collection<\/a>, there is an emigration form dated December 2, 1940. That is the only document in the collection, and I didn’t know any more information on Ms. Goetz. Using the Ancestry Library Edition, I found a Passenger List where she successfully emigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States. It’s also an excellent resource for genealogy. You can build your family tree while you’re isolating!<\/p>\n

3. What book(s) have you been reading recently? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I am currently researching for my final paper for my Readings in War and American Society class<\/a>. I’m writing a paper on Mexican-American women on the home front during the Second World War. The books I’m using are From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front<\/em><\/a> by Elizabeth R. Escobedo, The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II<\/em> <\/a>by Luis Alvarez, and Cannery Women, Cannery Lives:<\/em> Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950<\/em><\/a> by Vicki Ruiz. For leisure reading, I just received the new issue of Bon App\u00e9tit<\/em><\/a>, and I can’t wait to dive into that.<\/p>\n