The Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference, co-sponsored by Connecticut College, Trinity College, Wesleyan University, Yale University’s DH Lab, and the University of Connecticut, will take place on Saturday, February 29 from 8:00am-6:00pm at Trinity College. The conference kicks off with an open discussion and cocktails on Friday, Feburary 28 at 4:30 pm. The free, all-day event…
Category: Digital Scholarship
Announcing Spring 2020 Workshop Schedule
Happy New Year! We are excited to announce our spring 2020 Technologies for Teaching and Research workshop schedule. We are covering a wide range of topics, many of which came directly from faculty. Also included in this list are the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference, which includes several presentations by Connecticut College faculty and staff, and…
Visualization of Data Series Lunch Friday
Visualization of Data Series: Visualization of Space with Story Maps Friday, November 1 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Davis Classroom Have you ever wondered how scholars and organizations create interactive maps? Do you have an idea for map, but don’t know how to get started? Or maybe you’ve worked in Google Maps, but your ideas require…
Claim Your Domain on Digital Connecticut College and Create!
Join us on Thursday for Digital Connecticut College: Build Websites and Tools for Class Engagement. We’ll be in the Advanced Computer Lab from 9:00-10:00 am. Register or show up as your schedule allows. Coffee and breakfast treats will be served. Digital Connecticut College provides students, faculty, and staff with the opportunity to create a digital…
Test Drive Our New Overhead Book Scanner
Scan print publications quickly and easily with the library’s new 400dpi overhead book scanner. OCR the text to make it accessible for students. Export mp3 files that read the text aloud. The cropping feature enables you to select, crop and export images or text with the swipe of a finger. The new scanner should make…
CFP/Save the date: Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference, February 2020
We are partnering with Wesleyan University, Trinity College, Yale University’s DH Lab, and the University of Connecticut to co-host the first Connecticut Digital Humanities conference. The event will be held at Trinity College in Hartford on February 29, 2020, with a reception the evening before. If you are working on a digital project for your…
Workshop Tomorrow: Digital Connecticut College
Join us at 3 p.m. tomorrow, March 6, in the Advanced Technology Lab in Shain Library to learn how to make your own website using our new service, Digital Connecticut College. Digital Connecticut College provides students, faculty, and staff with the opportunity to register a domain name and create a digital presence through various mediums…
A Successful First Year and New Digital Scholarship Fellows Announced
The first year of the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program was celebrated with an all-day symposium on campus to highlight the project work of the 2018 Fellows (Phillip Barnes, Catherine Benoît, and Sufia Uddin) and Anthony Graesch (Kw’ets’tel Project, funded by Diane Y. Williams ’59), and to introduce more of the campus community to emerging practices…
Open Educational Resources and the Open Pedagogy Connection
We are making great progress toward expanding the use of open educational resources at Connecticut College. After years of advocating for OER on campus, Information Services is currently offering an OER grant for faculty to fund the exploration, adoption, and creation of open access materials. Faculty may receive up to $1,500 to explore and implement…
Welcome to the public domain, 1923!
On January 1, 2019, thousands of creative works published in 1923 were released into the public domain. This is the first time in 20 years that new material entered the public domain, including literary works, periodicals, dramatic works, movies, musical works, artistic works, and choreography. Now, every year on January 1st, a new batch of…