Discovering Digital Scholarship

I am discovering digital scholarship.
Come with me.

This summer, I became the first Digital Scholarship Librarian at a small, public, liberal arts college. Now, I need to define my role, navigate college faculty, and integrate myself into student’s workflow.

Blog 3: Skills

Before taking this internship, I had no experience writing for the educator, especially not K-12. My clients are mainly college students and their professors, so teasing out what information would be important to elementary, middle, and high school teachers was daunting. I don’t think I’ve necessarily developed any new “skills” to do this work effectively.…
Blog 2: Discovery

I think the most enjoyable part of this experience is the research itself. This is for purely selfish reasons – I just like to research fun and interesting topics that I know little about. In the research phase of writing a review, there isn’t anything that I have to produce, and no one is evaluating…
Blog 1: Beginnings

For the next two semesters I am excited to intern with Nathan Sleeter creating content for World History Commons (WHC). I was unaware of this website before beginning this internship, but I very much wish it had been on my radar. The site aggregates reviews of websites dedicated to providing access to primary sources and…