Pedagogical tools
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Using The Saint John’s Bible in Primary Source Instruction
There’s a class of twelve history students in an upper-level capstone class visiting the library. Many of them have been in a special collection or archive before, so the experience…
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Speed dates and workshops with rare books at KU Leuven (Belgium)
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections gives yearly library sessions on manuscripts and rare books to dozens of students of KU Leuven and – at a lesser degree – of UCLouvain.…
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Meeting the Gutenberg Bible in a Virtual Reading Room
Virtual reading rooms (VRRs) started to become more common during closures due to Covid-19, as institutions increasingly created set-ups to allow for interactions with librarians who can facilitate live, responsive…
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Revamping Hobson-Jobson
The Dictionary Project Assignment is from my upper-division class “Novel in India.” One of the university’s few offerings on South Asia, the class attracts English, History, and Anthropology, and Political…
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Access, Books, and Digital Collections
On the things I’ve learnt from a few years teaching students how to ‘read’ a digital instantiation of a book is that without some knowledge of the wider context of…
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BookLab: Approaches to the Material Text
I am happy to share two syllabi prepared for the graduate level “BookLab” course I teach at the University of Maryland. BookLab itself is dedicated book arts studio and press,…
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So Now What? Lessons from a Year of Virtual Special Collections Visits
Like so many others, my introduction to remote teaching was an abrupt and rapid process of trial and error. I started as the curator of the University of Florida’s rare…
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Book Materiality Exploration Kits
This classroom activity was a collaboration between a special collections librarian and a library and archives conservator, testing a new approach to engaging students with books as material objects. The…