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Topic Development brought to you by Inspiration
“But more important, I am bothered because I think there is pedagogical value in getting lost in the stacks. When I was a student, the stacks filled me with fear but also with awe-they contained so much learning! Today we applaud students for not exploring the stacks but for being efficient, making research quick and…
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My College Years: a Snapshot of the Class of 1917 to Welcome the Class of 2017
This semester is one of those semesters where I literally cannot believe how fast time is passing. The summer and the start of the semester were extremely busy, but for wonderful reasons. Our merged IT/Library (LITS) overhauled our orientation programming considerably to ‘radically welcome’ new students to Mount Holyoke. A significant part of orientation was…
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Reflections on the Common Read
Summer is coming to a close. Target is filled with bedding, shelving, and everything else incoming students will need to make their dorm rooms theirs. The weather is turning cooler at night, and my calendar is filled with meetings to ready our library for incoming students. If you’ve been following Mount Holyoke College social media…
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#5CDH13: Building a Community of Practice
Digital Humanities is a team sport. As libraries/information technology units develop programs and initiatives to promote and partner with faculty in digital humanities, it’s clear that our community hungers for best practices and inspiration to create and sustain a community of practice. What’s a group of librarians, technologists, and digital humanists to do? In the…
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Dispatches from Intro to DH
In the Spring of 2013, I co-taught an introduction to digital humanities course at Hampshire College with Jim Wald. During that semester, I guest authored a series of posts for the website Eduhacker. I linked to the four posts below: happy reading! 30 January 2013 18 February 2013 19 April 2013 3 May 2013