I am discovering digital scholarship.
Come with me.
This summer, I became the first Digital Scholarship Librarian at a small, public, liberal arts college. Now, I need to define my role, navigate college faculty, and integrate myself into student’s workflow.
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Blog 4: Strengths and Weaknesses
Recently while writing for World History Commons (WHC), I have been striving toward a larger goal: a teaching packet source collection. So far, I have been reviewing sites that offer primary sources and teaching materials for use by primarily K-12 educators. While each review is a one-off project, it’s easy to see similar themes within…
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Blog 3: Skills
Before taking this internship, I had no experience writing for the educator, especially not K-12. My clients are mainly college students and their professors, so teasing out what information would be important to elementary, middle, and high school teachers was daunting. I don’t think I’ve necessarily developed any new “skills” to do this work effectively.…
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Blog 2: Discovery
I think the most enjoyable part of this experience is the research itself. This is for purely selfish reasons – I just like to research fun and interesting topics that I know little about. In the research phase of writing a review, there isn’t anything that I have to produce, and no one is evaluating…
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