Author: Jill Hallam-Miller
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Bridging the Gap Between University Archives and Diverse Publics with Digital Tools
Elise Chenier and Mary Corbett (Simon Fraser University) Both oral history and LGBTQ archives have, since the early 1970s, served as tools to empower grass-roots, marginalized communities. As such, they have traditionally been driven by community-based imperatives, as well as community labour. Today, however, in the United States and Canada there are more LGBTQ collections…
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Viewing the Global through a Local Lens. Student and Faculty Scholars Explore the Collections in Packwood House in Lewisburg, PA
Janice Mann, Rebecca Reeve, Nicole Adams, and Ariel Senackerib (Bucknell University) The Packwood House Museum in Lewisburg, PA houses the paintings and works of art collected by Edith Hedges Kelly Fetherston, an artistic women who fancied herself to be a less prominent version of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner. Born in Lewisburg, PA in 1885 but…
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Engaging Students in Global Issues through the Use of Media Tools
Kathe Lehman-Meyer, Cathy Whitlow, Mary Lynne Hill, Teresa Van Hoy, and Kathleen Gallagher (St. Mary’s University) This presentation will share how faculty have engaged students in social justice issues such as the global food shortage, immigration rights, natural disasters, and asylum while teaching them core competency skills like language (speaking/writing) as well as digital literacy…