Category: Collaborating, Publishing, and Community Participation

Katherine Faull, Diane Jakacki, and Michael McGuire (Bucknell University) The Moravian Lives project aims to digitize, transcribe, and publish for analysis more than 60,000 manuscript and print memoirs, written by members of the Moravian Church between 1750-2012. These memoirs are housed in archives throughout the world, making it difficult for scholars to engage with them…

Neal Harmeyer, Tracy Grimm, and Lauren Haslem (Purdue University) Archivists from Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, embedded within honors courses, recently completed pilot phases of two projects aimed at online dissemination of student scholarly research. Project goals were to increase our own understanding of digital scholarship management, to provide students experience in the scholarly…