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Copyright © 2007 Kathi Kearney & Carolyn Kottmeyer

Giants in Cyberspace:

Online Resources in the History and Foundations of

Gifted Education


Digitization & the Democratization of Information

More digitization means:Greater access to everyoneAccess available to those often “left behind” in academic scholarship

Low-income individualsInternational scholarsScholars currently employed in other fieldsScholars without library accessGeneral public & the media


“The New York Public Library Research Libraries were struck by the convergence of Google's mission with their own. We see the digitization project as a transformational moment in the access to information and wanted not only to learn from it but also to influence it.”

books.google.com/googlebooks/partners.html


Types of Digitized Data

Classic books in the history of the fieldClassic articles & book chaptersDigitized archival collectionsClassic 19th & 20th century writings on the nature of intelligence


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Early tests of intelligenceHistorical resource compilations in the study of intelligence & giftednessGovernment & private organization reportsMaster’s theses & doctoral dissertations


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Archival collection inventoriesInformation & collections about specific well-known prodigiesContemporary articles about the history of gifted educationArchived newspapers and other mass media Archival collections for the study of creative individuals


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Audio & videoBooks & articles on other topics by early leaders in gifted education


Major SourcesPsychology & Education of the Gifted

Google Books books.google.com/advanced_book_searchHEARTH (Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, & History) (Cornell University) hearth.library.cornell.edu/Classics in the History of Psychology website (York University, Toronto) psychclassics.yorku.ca/index.htmPrivate websitesLibrary of Congress – American Memory Collection


Google Book Project

“[In 2002] A small group of Googlers officially launches the secret "books" project. They begin talking to experts about the challenges ahead, starting with a simple but crucial question: how long would it take to digitally scan every book in the world? It turns out, oddly enough, that no one knows. In typical Google fashion, Larry Page decides to experiment on his own. In the office one day, he and Marissa Mayer, one of our first product managers, use a metronome to keep rhythm as they methodically turn the pages of a 300-page volume. It takes a full 40 minutes to reach the end.”books.google.com/googlebooks/newsviews/history.html


Google Book Project…

“. . .Larry Page reaches out to the University of Michigan, his alma mater and a pioneer in library digitization efforts including JSTOR and Making of America. When he learns that the current estimate for scanning the university library's seven million volumes is 1,000 years, he tells university president Mary Sue Coleman he believes Google can help make it happen in six.”

http://books.google.com/googlebooks/newsviews/history.html


Google Books Library Partners

Bavarian State LibraryCommittee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)Cornell University LibraryHarvard UniversityGhent University LibraryKeio University LibraryThe National Library of CataloniaThe New York Public LibraryOxford UniversityPrinceton UniversityStanford UniversityUniversity of CaliforniaUniversity Complutense of MadridUniversity Library of LausanneUniversity of MichiganUniversity of Texas at AustinUniversity of VirginiaUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison


Using Digitized Materials for Scholarship in the History & Foundations of Gifted Education

Searches for materialsDownloading and storageSearch functions within materialsViewingCitations


Pros & Cons of Digitized Materials

PROSWorldwide accessProtection of older or rare paper copiesPreservation of knowledgeSearch functions

CONSDigitization projects are still in their infancyEssential materials in traditional paper formats may be overlookedSearch functions


What Digitization Means for the Field of Gifted Education

Democratization of scholarshipAccessibility Access not dependent on availability of paper volumes or cost of booksPreservation of rare volumes


What Digitization Means…

Storage takes much less spaceSophisticated search options within volumesFewer interlibrary loans & associated feesPreservation of rare archival collections of data; digitization means those papers don’t have to be physically “handled” to be used


What Digitization Means for the Media & General Public

The field’s historical “dirty laundry” is out to air foreverScholarship is no longer limited to those with university accessMedia is free to do accurate historical research rather than repeating tales and myths


Dangers of Digital Scholarship in the Field

Loss of or change to fee-based access at some point in the futureDependence solely on digital sources


Examples of Digitized Material

Archival Collection InventoriesArchival Collections for the Study of Creative Individuals Classic BooksMedia ArchivesReportsMaterial on ProdigiesVideoOther


Archival Collection Inventories

Guide to the Lewis Madison Terman Papers (Stanford University Special Collections):content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3489n6f7/


Archival Collections for the Study of Creative Individuals

Wright Brothers PapersAmerican Memory Collection, Library of Congress

memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/wrighthome.html


Classic Books

Hollingworth, L. S. (1923). Special talents and defects: Their significance for education. New York: The MacMillan Company. hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?type=boolean;c=hearth;cc=hearth;sid=38c93cc3550317269deea05c2616151b;rgn=pages;q1=leta;op2=and;q2=hollingworth;op3=and;view=toc;subview=detail;sort=occur;start=1;size=25;idno=4221282


Classic Books

Whipple, G. M. (1919). Classes for gifted children: An experimental study of methods of selection and instruction. Bloomington, IL: Public School Publishing Company.books.google.com/books?id=3VkWAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=gifted+children&num=100&as_brr=1


Media Archives

The New York Times Archiveswww.nytimes.com


Reports

Berry, C. S., Chairman. (1931). Special education, the handicapped and the gifted: Report of the Committee on special classes. White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. (1931). New York: Century Company.

Section on the gifted: pp. 537–550.hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?type=simple;c=hearth;cc=hearth; sid=a579a766b897a9e33733795477a062bf;rgn=full%20text;q1=hollingworth;view=toc;subview=detail;sort=occur;start=1;size=25;idno=4305450


Material on Prodigies

Sidis, B. (1911) Philistine and Genius. Boston: Richard G. Badger. books.google.com/books?id=yPP5eSG23Q8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:boris+inauthor:sidis&num=100&as_brr=1#PPP1,M1


Video

Education for Excellence (Internet Archive)

Gifted program documentary, filmed in NYC public schools in the 1960's

www.archive.org/details/education_for_excellence_1


Other…

Lippman-Terman Debate:historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5172 historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4960


Wikipedia

Fiction? Fact? Popular!


Dirty Laundry

Eugenics Record Office Records (American Philosophical Society):www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/e/ero.htm


A New Era for Historical Scholarship in Gifted Education

Allows collection of disparate & previously difficult to find pieces of informationDemocratization of accessNew possibilities for historical analysis & interpretationPromise & perils of digitizationStorage issues


Technology of Today & Tomorrow Brings the Past to

Life


To Submit Links for Future Inclusion in Our Database

E-mail us:Carolyn: [email protected]: [email protected]

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History & Foundations Page

First of 1000+ pages uniquely for scholars…www.hoagiesgifted.org/history_foundations.htm

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Documents

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nature of intelligence

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