Working with the Wyles Family Western Reserve Collection of letters in Special Collections & Archives and the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, students in Kris Klein Hernández’s Borders, Empire, & Immigration History course this semester developed Beyond the Archives: Documenting Erasure, Survivance, and Dispossession from CT’s Western Reserve as a digital archive and scholarly website. Professor Hernández replaced his…
Category: Research Skills
Engage Students with Wikipedia Editing Projects
Looking for a new assignment idea that empowers your students to contribute to public scholarship while honing their research and writing skills? Join us to learn about leveraging open pedagogical practices through Wikipedia editing assignments. Professor Ariella Rotramel will share their scaffolding strategies and past experience using the support services offered through the Wiki Education…
8th Annual Library Research Prize for Students
We are receiving applications for the 8th Annual Library Research Prize for Students! All currently enrolled undergraduate students are eligible to apply through this Moodle Campus site. Submissions must include answers to some reflective application questions, a bibliography, the work completed by the student, and a faculty support form. The work must have been completed for…
Data as an Agent of Change
Love Data Week’s theme this year focuses on data as an agent of change, specifically bringing attention to how a community might use data to bring about meaningful change to policy or society. Data activism is a specific type of social activism that aims to make affirmative use of data and technology for advocacy and…
Just Added: Wikipedia Workshops
We’ve received a lot of interest in Wikipedia editing assignments. Wiki Edu, a non-profit organization, makes it easy for instructors to create and integrate Wikipedia assignments into classes. They are hosting free webinars for faculty. The first date offered is February 7 but additional dates are available; view additional dates by clicking on the registration…
Faculty Recipient of CT State OER Grant Publishes Asian Art & Architecture Image Database
In April 2021 Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies Di Luo was awarded a State of Connecticut Open Educational Resources (OER) Impact Grant for her proposal to publish a publicly-accessible image database in collaboration with her students across several courses in Asian art. Upon its launch in December 2021, Asian Art &…
Introduction to Web Scraping Tools
Building off our recent exploration of tools for scraping and analyzing Twitter data, and expanding into more general web scrapers, there are a range of tools that allow you to “scrape” or extract data from any website you want. Before you begin scraping, make sure that your target website allows it. You can do this…
5th Annual Library Research Prize for Students
All currently enrolled undergraduate students are eligible. The work must have been completed for a credit course (not an honors project) in spring 2019, fall 2019, or it can be a work in progress in spring 2020. The research in question can be a traditional paper, but it could also be some other kind of…
2019 Digital Scholarship Fellows Program: Call for Proposals
Have you ever wanted to create a digital companion for a book project? Do you have collections of research materials collecting dust or physically degrading in your office, or large datasets you’d like to develop into maps or visualizations to accompany your written scholarship? Would you like your students to actively engage with Special Collections…
Teaching with Wikipedia, the Fall 2017 Edition
This fall I am again working with Wikipedia in my Feminist Theory course (check out: Why You And Your Students Should Work To Improve Wikipedia, Feminist Praxis and Wikipedia in the Classroom, and Adding Voices to Scholarship: Wikipedia Editing). It’s the second time that I’m mixing the Wiki Education Foundation’s online dashboard with our Linda Lear Center’s…
