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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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Welcome to SHARP in the Classroom
Welcome to the next issue of SHARP in the Classroom! I am delighted to be joining the SHARP News team as the new editor of this section. In this introductory…
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A Muppet History of the Book
At the beginning of special collections instruction sessions, I sometimes ask students what books are meaningful to them and why. If there’s time, I might share The Monster at the End…
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I Made This For You: Reflections on Responding Materially, or Grading as Making
Since 2021, in my “Book History in Practice” class at the University of Toronto, I have given an assignment I call “material experiments.” The most basic articulation of the assignment…
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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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SHARP in the Classroom Returns!
I see this section as a space of professional generosity, as my experience with others teaching in book history is one of incredible excitement and enthusiasm to share both practical…
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Project-Based Teaching in Special Collections: Building Digital Cruikshank
In Fall 2022, students in my combined undergraduate and graduate English seminar at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County participated in a semester-long collaboration with our Special Collections Library. Head…
