Academic Libraries

This essay asks librarians of all kinds to search around their organization to bring together digital collections that may have grown up over time and are not necessarily a part of the main library collection. While this essay discusses the UCLA digital collections, it suggests that many sub-collections actually exist on campuses and that patrons would use them more if they were highlighted.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jj_iP4daczZGF__YRFXUHOjh-Og0WKKsgq7FQgrpUgA/edit

The Global Resources Programs are communities of interest that work with the Center for Research Libraries. Librarians, subject area experts, and scholars identify materials at risk of destruction or decay as well as other materials that are difficult to access in North America. These programs increase the accessibility of these materials though microfilming, digitization, and/or description. More Information

https://www.crl.edu/collaborations/global-resources-programs

Journalists and research scholars founded the National Security Archive in 1985 to support journalism, international research, and public access as well as to advocate for open government. The organization’s work has earned it national recognition, including a George Polk Special Award (1999), an Emmy Award (2005), a George Foster Peabody Award (1998). Given the relationship between US foreign intervention during the global cold war and the emergence of area studies, the Digital National Security Archive is an essential resource for students and scholars working in Asian, Latin America, and Middle Eastern Studies. More Information

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/digital-national-security-archive

This article discusses how to preserve newspapers that have historic value for a community. Even though this article was written in mind for librarians and historians, it gives good tips for just about anyone who wants to preserve a certain moment in time. Additionally, the article also offers conversation resources to contact for more information.

https://www.mnhs.org/preserve/conservation/reports/nytimes_preserving.pdf

Brown University's John Hay Library instituted a search to reorganize items that they collect and maintain in their archives and libraries. The six themes they decided to add to give users an overall standing of today's times are: Global Lavender Voices, Ideology and Power, Military and Society, Performance and Entertainment, Popular Literature, and the University and Beyond. They also included three research themes in the sciences that overlap well with those core focuses: Climate Change, Collections as Data, and Health and History.

JSTOR offers an open online skills course in academic research that can be used by both college and advanced middle and high school students. Unlike many college library LibGuides which are often specific to their database holdings, JSTOR's course offers a general introduction.

Research Basics: An Open Academic Research Skills Course.

Academic libraries might be missing the concept of outreach. They are available to assist in locating resources, but do they show they care about the students who come through their doors? This essay explores how academic libraries have a wide reach through being at the center of campuses. It shows how academic libraries have more to offer than books and databases and are ready to share knowledge about many different subjects.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cKuX2uzz70V1wpa0pSeLet1DQg7N8hfMRfPh8v7XJf0/edit?usp=sharing

Columbia University Libraries' Digital Collections "Comics in the Curriculum," is a narrative for guide instructors on incorporating graphic novels into their curricula. It discusses the merits of the format while considering several themes, such as heroes and anti-heroes and some graphic series that address the topics.

Comics in the Curriculum

The Creative Commons site has become the preeminent site for Open Educational Resources (OER) licensing. It explains each license type and allows users to display or embed a license on their site.

Creative Commons

There are a lot of Open Educational Resources (OER) available, but many of them are undiscoverable because of the wide array of platforms which house these resources. This essay explores tools available for patrons to search for OER.

Searching for Open Educational Resources (OER) Using Google