Disciplinary Inquiry, Access, and Ethics

Sharon M. Leon | @sharonmleon

Collections as Data

in Producing Collections as Data

Novice in the Archive

"The combination of increased access with the development of powerful digital searching tools has the potential to transform the nature and the scale of students’ relationship to the material itself. For the first time perhaps it allows the novice learner to get into the archives and engage in the kinds of archival activities that only expert learners used to be able to do."

Randy Bass and Roy Rosenzweig, "Rewiring the Social Studies Classroom," (Dec. 1999).

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Scholar in the Archive

Research Practices of Historians

"In numerous cases, interviewees demonstrated their organization processes by showing the physical and digital “piles” of sources that made up a chapter. Many scholars had stacks of index cards, paper notes, and print-outs of sources organized by chapter. In one case, an interviewee showed the file boxes (representing chapters) with tabs (representing sections) containing individual index cards (representing notes or ideas) by which a book is being organized; another shared the bookshelf on which he kept his last book, with each chapter’s sources sorted neatly into piles and labeled."