accessible sources: teaching with digital documents
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July 7th, 2011; CLAS Seminar - Unlocking the Cuban heritage Collection: Bringing Cuba Past and Present into the Classroom
Accessible Sources: Teaching with Digital Collections
Jameatris Johnson and Mei Méndez
Digital DocumentsAn Overview
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Beginnings
Concepts
Collections (Libraries, Archives and Museums)
Exhibits
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Document vs. Resource
Manuscripts
Personal papers (correspondence, diplomas, etc.)
Paper, paper, paper
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University of Miami Digital Collections
The Cuban Heritage Collection
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Using Contentdm
http://library.miami.edu/chc
Click on Collections, then Digital Collections
Browse individual collections or search through one or more collections.
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Contentdm Contin.
Add to Favorites and My Favorites:
compare images
view as a slideshow
remove from favorites
save as webpage
add whole documents to favorites, or specific pages within documents
Stable URLs facilitate finding the same document again.
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Research Tools
http://library.miami.edu/chc
Click on Research Tools
Bibliographies & Research Guides
Online Exhibits & Resources
Lesbia Varona, Esperanza B. de Varona, María Estorino
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Using Digital CollectionsCuban Specialists
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Sample Assignments
Compare Hemingway's description of the town of Cojímar in The Old Man and the Sea with actual images from the Cuban Photograph Collection.
Analyze anti-communist sentiment in Miami through the Truth About Cuba Committee, Inc. Records.
Talk about recorded history and remembered history through our Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project.
Use images from the Orichas Collection to analyze Cuban art, religion, slavery, etc.
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Using Digital DocumentsNon-Cuban Specialists
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Sample Assignments
Women’s Clubs
Political Posters
Virtual Exhibits
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Truth About Cuba Committee, Inc. Records (Cuban Heritage Collection - UM)
Africana Posters Collection(Africana Collection - Northwestern
University Library)
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Digital & Print Collections
Connection, Relationships and Origins
Digital = Print = Digital
Single Item emphasis
Item within context
Conditions for item conversion
Finding Aids
Additional Resources
World History Sources from George Mason University's Center for the History of New Media:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/whmunpacking.html
Digital History from the University of Nevada-Lincoln's History Department:
http://digitalhistory.unl.edu
University of Miami Libraries Libguides:
http://libguides.miami.edu/digitalresources
Thank You
Jameatris Johnson: [email protected]
Mei Méndez: [email protected]
http://libguides.miami.edu/digitalresources