accessible sources: teaching with digital documents

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: jyjohnso@miami.edu

Mei Méndez: meimendez@miami.edu

http://libguides.miami.edu/digitalresources