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    Engaging Students with Archival and Digital Resources
    Engaging Students with Archival and Digital Resources
    Engaging Students with Archival and Digital Resources
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    Engaging Students with Archival and Digital Resources

    By Justine Cotton and David Sharron

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    Aimed at professional librarians and archivists, this book explores connecting students and faculty with the archival and digital collections of the university’s library and archives. Academic research has been forever changed by the digitization of books, journals, and archival collections. As university libraries and archives move forward in the digital era, it is essential to assess the research needs of users and develop innovative methods to demonstrate the value of collections and services. This book provides librarians and archivists with the tools to develop a robust workshop program aimed at connecting students with archival and digital collections.
    • Provides practical guidelines and detailed lesson plans
    • Based on the collaboration between an experienced archivist and liaison librarian
    • Offers innovative ideas for connecting with faculty members
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateJun 14, 2011
    ISBN9781780632575
    Engaging Students with Archival and Digital Resources
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    Justine Cotton

    Justine Cotton is a Liaison Librarian at Brock University, with responsibilities for Communication, Popular Culture, Film, and English Literature. In addition, she is responsible for promoting library services and collections on campus. She has published and presented on library instruction and collection development.

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      Engaging Students with Archival and Digital Resources - Justine Cotton

      Chandos Information Professional Series

      Engaging Students with Archival and Digital Resources

      Justine Cotton

      David Sharron

      Table of Contents

      Cover image

      Title page

      Copyright

      List of figures

      About the authors

      Introduction: what is an archive?

      Defining archival records and processing

      Growing challenges with digital resources

      Chapter 1: Building the foundation: connections between archivists and library staff

      Abstract:

      Staff engagement and training

      Chapter 2: Faculty outreach

      Abstract:

      Challenges to connecting with faculty

      An opportunity for promotion and relationship building

      Strategies for success in launching the workshop series to faculty

      Building for the future

      Chapter 3: Introducing students to library and archival resources

      Abstract:

      Understanding today’s students

      Challenging student assumptions

      Chapter 4: Resources

      Abstract:

      Ad*Access and AdViews

      Adam Matthew Digital (subscription)

      Archives Canada (free)

      ARTstor Digital Library (subscription)

      The British Library: Turning the Pages™ (free)

      Canadiana.ca/Early Canadiana Online (ECO) (hybrid – free/subscription)

      Centre for Research Libraries (CRL) (subscription)

      Chronicling America – Historic American Newspapers (free)

      Documenting the American South (free)

      Early English Books Online (EEBO) (subscription)

      Google Books (free)

      Internet Archive (free)

      Mountain West Digital Library (free)

      New York Public Library Digital Gallery (free)

      Niels Bohr Library and Archives – Center for History of Physics (free)

      OAIster® (free)

      Project Muse (subscription)

      The Times Digital Archive (subscription)

      Chapter 5: Delivering the workshops

      Abstract:

      Lesson planning

      Team teaching

      Sharing enthusiasm

      Discovery learning

      Chapter 6: Developing relevant assignments

      Abstract:

      Chapter 7: Assessment and ongoing learning

      Abstract:

      Assessing instruction

      Ongoing learning

      Epilogue: making connections, building relationships

      Appendix A: sample letters

      Appendix B: lesson plans

      Appendix C: excerpt from Library News

      Appendix D: roster of potential survey questions

      Bibliography

      Index

      Copyright

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      First published 2011

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      © J. Cotton and D. Sharron 2011

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      List of figures

      I.1. An individual working at a secluded desk among a pile of books and records 2

      2.1. Students in a classroom setting using laptops during a workshop, Fall 2009 27

      3.1. A box of archival records 34

      3.2. The diverse materials you can find in archival fonds – letters, cards, photos, scraps of paper, certificates, programs and official documents 36

      3.3. Title page for the New Testament of the 1599 edition of the Geneva Bible 38

      4.1. Photograph of Alice Liddell as ‘The Beggar Maid’ by Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), English, circa 1859 from the ARTstor Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) initiative 50

      4.2. The Vigilance Committee in the East End of London 59

      5.1. Students looking at the letters of poetess Ethelwyn Wetherald 70

      6.1. Title page from Suzanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush, New York: Putnam, 1852 83

      6.2. Diary entry of Winnie Beam regarding the British victory at Pretoria in 1900. Winnie Beam Fonds, RG 95 86

      7.1. Screen capture of blog designed for a class on Canadian Literature to 1920 93

      E.1. Photo of Jody Barnett in Special Collections. Jody processed the Women’s Literary Club of St. Catharine’s Fonds and completed a Master’s thesis on the literary/social group afterwards 103

      E.2. Exhibit for the Terry O’Malley archival fonds, March 2009 104

      E.3. Image of the Banyan Tree from John Girard’s The Herball or Generali Historie of Plantes, 1597, p. 1331. This image was used by John Milton when writing Paradise Lost 106

      About the authors

      Justine Cotton is Communications and Liaison Librarian at Brock University, Canada. She holds a Master’s degree in both English Literature and Library and Information Science. Her research interests include innovative approaches to library instruction and marketing. Justine’s recent publications include a qualitative study on popular reading collections in academic libraries in The Journal of Academic Librarianship and an article exploring new techniques for library instruction in College and Undergraduate Libraries.

      David Sharron is the Head of Special Collections and Archives at Brock University. He holds a Master’s degree in History with an Archives Specialization and is a certified archivist. David has been working in the archival administration and library fields for over 12 years. He has had diverse experiences working with archival records commencing with a federal institution at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, before progressing to a municipal/community archives at the Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre in Southampton, Ontario, and is now based at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. An increasing awareness for, and providing access to, archival materials are fundamental topics for David.

      The authors may be contacted as follows:

      Justine Cotton,     James A. Gibson Library, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada. E-mail address: justine.cotton@brocku.ca

      David Sharron,     James A. Gibson Library, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada. E-mail address: dsharron@brocku.ca

      Introduction: what is an archive?

      Blok – an ageless creature, stooped and dusty, with a bunch of keys on his belt – led him into the depths of the building, then out into a dark, wet courtyard and across it and into what looked like a small fortress. Up the stairs to the second floor: a small room, a desk, a chair, a wood-block floor, barred windows….

      He had been expecting one file, maybe two. Instead, Blok threw open the door and wheeled in a steel trolley stacked with folders – twenty or thirty of them – some so old that when he lost control of the heavy contraption and collided with the wall, they sent up protesting clouds of dust….

      He couldn’t read them all. It would have taken him a month. He confined himself to untying the ribbon from each bundle, riffling through the torn and brittle pages to see if they contained anything of interest, then tying them up again. It was filthy work. His hands turned black. The spores invaded the membrane of his nose and made his head ache.¹

      Ask a person who is unfamiliar with archives or special collections to describe what they imagine one to be like and a typical answer would sound similar to the excerpt above – a room tucked away, almost as an afterthought, packed with aging papers layered in dust and guarded by an individual with no desire to connect with the outside world and seemingly as old as the records he or she protects (Figure I.1). The archives profession can thank decades of novels and movies for this image along with the thread of truth that archivists do deal with dust, have been placed in locations far off the beaten path from time to time and they do age like any other person. With such uninviting perceptions in mind, it is understandable that many university students may never venture into archives during the course of their studies. Often, it is only when a professor requires their students to utilize primary records in a project that they take their initial strides into an archival facility. The reactions of most of these neophytes to their first experience in an archive are, ‘I never knew this place existed’ or ‘I always pass by this room but never thought that I could go in.’ Curiously, while most librarians will know where the archives and special collections for their organizations are, few really know what goes on inside those walls and how these unique materials can enhance the resources that they make available to people every day. Like a student, unless there is a distinct reason, or a natural interest, for a librarian to visit archives, the likelihood of one working with records in such a repository is

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