Category: #BUDSC16
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Digital History in Iraq and the US: International Collaborative Student Research
Elizabeth Campbell (Daemen College) Much of the documentation for the history of Iraq and the Kurdish region lives in the homes of private collectors, inaccessible to scholars inside or outside of the country, and threatened by wars and instability. This project aims to create a digital archive of Iraqi and Kurdish sources as well as…
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ACRL Framework Poster Cross-Institutional Collaboration
Jill Hallam-Miller, Nancy Frazier, and Ben Hoover (Bucknell University) Research Services librarians at Bucknell University collaborated on a project to re-conceptualize the new Association of College & Research Libraries’ “Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education” to make the research concepts it represents accessible to students. We developed an open educational resource in the form…
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Student Writing as Digital Humanities Method
Mackenzie Brooks, Brandon Walsh, and Abdurrafey Khan (Washington and Lee University) Whether it is a blog post, a journal article, a Hypothes.is comment, or a README.md file, writing is a fundamental digital humanities and digital scholarship activity. We encourage undergraduates to pursue DH to improve their technology and research skills, but often neglect to include writing…