Incorporating the Libraries into Your Courses: A Blueprint for Library Collaboration

Celia Caust-Ellenbogen
Archivist, Friends Historical Library

 

Lorin Jackson
Research and Instruction Librarian

 

August 13, 2020

Scaffolding

How to Connect with Help

Your Librarians

RIAs and Special Collections


Sourcing Materials

Research Guides

Moodle Content


Construction

Class Visits

Activity Menu

What's in Special Collections?

How can Special Collections support my teaching?

Breaking New Ground: Let's Brainstorm!

Scaffolding

Appointments for one-on-one research consultations

Chat sessions

Librarian@swarthmore.edu email exchanges

Research Information Associates (RIAs)

Connect with Help

Your Librarians

Andrea Baruzzi

science, math, engineering

Nabil Kashyap

English literature, film & media studies

Pam Harris

educational studies, modern languages & literature,

psychology

 

Roberto Vargas

Art & Art History, Classics, Latin American & Latino Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religion,  Spanish

 

Sarah Elichko

economics, gender & sexuality studies, Peace & conflict studies, political science, sociology & anthropology

 

Lorin Jackson

Black Studies

Donna Fournier

dance, music, theater

RIAs

Special
Collections

Celia Caust-Ellenbogen
Archivist, Friends Historical Library

Jordan Landes
Curator, Friends Historical Library

David Obermayer
Archivist, College Archives

Wendy Chmielewski
Curator, Peace Collection

Sourcing Materials

Preparing Sources

Moodle Content

Construction

Class Visits

Choosing topics

Developing research questions

Identifying keywords

Exploring research tools

Searching

Evaluating sources

Activity Menu 

Literacy

Critical Information Literacy: Change the Subject

Conducting close reading

News and Media Literacy

Text Analysis and Data Visualization: Coggle

 

 

Reference

Creating a bibliography or annotated bibliography

Literature Review

Organizing your Research: Zotero

 

Thinking Outside the Box

Everything but the paper

Class project blog

Exhibitions and/or pop-up's

Timeline

Researching a Controversy: Conflicting Truths: Exploring the Conspiracy Theories of Chernobyl

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  • Archival research project
    • Collecting documents from College Archives
    • Collecting documents from off-campus archives
  • Digital humanities projects
    • Timeline
    • Map
    • Playlist
    • Data visualization
  • Curation and interpretation throughout

Other example DH projects

Classes in Special Collections

hosted from:

  • Anthropology

  • Art History

  • Black Studies

  • English

  • History

  • Linguistics

  • Peace & Conflict Studies

  • Religion

  • Sociology

  • More!

What's in Special Collections?

Peace, nonviolence, pacifism, and conscientious objection

Quaker history and spirituality

Women’s history, including political rights and feminism

African-American history, including abolition and civil rights

Native American history

Prison reform

Environmental activism

Swarthmore College history

Swarthmore borough history

Friends Historical Library

Peace Collection

Artists' Books

College Archives & Rare Book Room

Internationalism

How can Special Collections support my teaching?

  • Instruction sessions​ in historical topics strongly represented in our collections
  • Primary source literacy ​tools: examples of numerous documentary genres, 1600s-present
  • Digital humanities​ project source material: digitized images, corpora of transcriptions, historical datasets, library metadata
  • Applied learning​ opportunities for students in projects such as document transcription, research, and creating physical or digital exhibits

Breaking New Ground

Let's Brainstorm!

What library services have you used in the past? What did you learn from those experiences?

 

What is one new activity you'd like to try in collaboration with the libraries?

 

Do you know which library staff member(s) you'd like to work with?

 

What is the next step you'll take after this meeting to work with the libraries?

Celia and Lorin

 

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Incorporating the Library into Your Courses

By Swarthmore Reference

Incorporating the Library into Your Courses

Faculty workshop on bringing library support into courses. Summer 2020.

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