Integrating Digital Collections into the Liberal Arts Curriculum
Description
This poster showcases how the Five Colleges of Ohio intergrated digital collections into the liberal arts curriculum by engaging with students, faculty, and library staff. The goals of this project include"
- Enhancing undergraduate undestanding and engagement with digital collections
- Using librarian-faculty partnerships to shape projects that are relevant to the current curriculum and have long-term value
- Reorganizing library work and priorities among staff to include digital collections
Credits
Catalina Oyler (5 Colleges of Ohio), Jessica Clemons (College of Wooster), Joshua Finnell (Denison University)
Sections
Students
A Student's Narrative Reflection on Digitally Archiving
Episteme: Denison University's International Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy
Faculty
Helping Faculty Understand Digital Collections
Librarians work with faculty individually to create mini-grant applications. These mini-grants describe how the projects will be used in the curriculum, how students will contribute or benefit from the collection, and what types of technology will be needed to generate a successful collection.
Staff
Digital Collections and Liberal Arts Library Staff
The NGL project helped library staff recognize the importance of digital collections to the liberal arts college library, and add digitial workflows to current practices.