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Conflicting Philosophies: Two University Librarians And A Presidential Bibliophile, Meg Miner
Conflicting Philosophies: Two University Librarians And A Presidential Bibliophile, Meg Miner
Meg Miner
Fall 2017 Report On "Portrait Of A Collector", Meg Miner
Fall 2017 Report On "Portrait Of A Collector", Meg Miner
Meg Miner
After The Interview, Jenna E. Nolt
Mapping The Oratory Of Frederick Douglass, Olivia Macisaac, Peter Harrah, David Lewis, Lynette Taylor, Leann West, Matthew Young
Mapping The Oratory Of Frederick Douglass, Olivia Macisaac, Peter Harrah, David Lewis, Lynette Taylor, Leann West, Matthew Young
Olivia MacIsaac
This project is a multidisciplinary study of Douglass’s speaking tours throughout his long public career as an abolitionist, human rights advocate, and politician. For this initial phase, our primary aim was data collection for which our research team sampled a single year from each of the six decades from the 1840s to the 1890s. This was the time period in which well-known runaway slave and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass toured the United States and Europe. The purpose of this study is to develop a spatial representation of the itinerary of Douglass’s speaking-related travels. This will not only enable us …
Collection Highlights-Ajl.Pptx, Geraldine Dickel
Collection Highlights-Ajl.Pptx, Geraldine Dickel
Jerry Anne Dickel
A Tale Of Two Chemists: Academic Journals And The Technology Of Science Communication, Shawn Martin
A Tale Of Two Chemists: Academic Journals And The Technology Of Science Communication, Shawn Martin
Shawn Martin
No abstract provided.
Crowdsourcing Digital Public History, Jason A. Heppler, Gabriel K. Wolfenstein
Crowdsourcing Digital Public History, Jason A. Heppler, Gabriel K. Wolfenstein
Jason Heppler
The generation of communal knowledge is not a new phenomenon. In the late nineteenth century, the Oxford English Dictionary solicited volunteers to submit words and their usage for inclusion in the dictionary ( 1 ). Carl Becker, writing in 1932 on what was already an old discussion in the historical profession, noted that "if the essence of history is the memory of things said and done, then it is obvious that every normal person, Mr. Everyman, knows some history" (2). The historian Jo Guldi's work on participatory mapping shows that urban planners in the middle of the twentieth century attempted …
A Call To Redefine Historical Scholarship In The Digital Turn, Jason A. Heppler, Douglas Seefeldt, Alex Galarza
A Call To Redefine Historical Scholarship In The Digital Turn, Jason A. Heppler, Douglas Seefeldt, Alex Galarza
Jason Heppler
This is a collaboratively-written call for the American Historical Association to appoint a task force to survey the profession as to the place of digital historical scholarship in promotion and tenure and graduate student training and to recommend standards and guidelines for the profession to follow. This document is a product of many of the exciting changes discussed below. It began at a session atTHATCamp AHA 2012 that included graduate students, tenured and non-tenured faculty, and librarians. These participants and others continued their conversations at the physical conference and afterwards on the web. Additional signatures and edits in the …
The Early History Of The Mill Valley Public Library, Rebecca Karberg
The Early History Of The Mill Valley Public Library, Rebecca Karberg
Rebecca Karberg
Questioning The Past And Possible Futures: Digital Historiography And Critical Librarianship, Heidi Jacobs, Calin Murgu
Questioning The Past And Possible Futures: Digital Historiography And Critical Librarianship, Heidi Jacobs, Calin Murgu
Heidi LM Jacobs
The role of history as a discipline is, as Burton and Sweeny claim, not only to transform our understanding of the past and the present but also to shape possible futures. Digital historical projects are transformative endeavors that attempt to negotiate and navigate the past and articulate these possible futures. Drawing on the foundational ideas of critical librarianship to “intervene in and disrupt” structural inequities and on examples from digital historiography, we argue for a more robust role for librarians within these transformative endeavors. In so doing, librarians can use conscious, deliberate, reflexive actions to work toward animating values central …
Shining A Light On A University Special Collection With Data Visualization, Lisa Deluca, Katie M. Wissel
Shining A Light On A University Special Collection With Data Visualization, Lisa Deluca, Katie M. Wissel
Kathryn Wissel, MBA, MI
The Politics Of Special Collections And Museum Exhibits: A Civil War Or The War Of Northern Aggression?, Christopher J. Anderson
The Politics Of Special Collections And Museum Exhibits: A Civil War Or The War Of Northern Aggression?, Christopher J. Anderson
Christopher Anderson
This essay examines the political nature of curating special collections and museum exhibits. Exhibits are designed to draw attention to historical or contemporary issues in order for viewers to reflect on the past and to ask questions in the present. The contents of an exhibit also echo the educational backgrounds, interests, and biases of both curator and curatorial team. As a result exhibits are framed ideologically, sociologically, and even theologically in order to give voice to the voiceless and to champion certain positions from history. This essay investigates the contested nature of exhibits by highlighting their basic and complicated spectrums …
Science Serving Industry: Documentary Authority And Industrial Influence In 19th Century American Chemistry, Shawn Martin
Science Serving Industry: Documentary Authority And Industrial Influence In 19th Century American Chemistry, Shawn Martin
Shawn Martin
No abstract provided.
Digital Libraries, Digital History, And The Use Of Omeka, Shawn Martin
Digital Libraries, Digital History, And The Use Of Omeka, Shawn Martin
Shawn Martin