Category Archives: Amy Hildreth Chen

Hashtag Project: First Three Months

Posted on March 2, 2015 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Ashley Bond | Leave a comment

By: Amy Hildreth Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Back in December 2014, Cool@Hoole discussed its newly-launched initiative: the hashtag project. The hashtag project, managed by SLIS student Ashley Bond (@LibraryAshB), brings subscribers to either our Facebook page or our Twitter feed … Continue reading →

The Acquisition History of the papers of Confederate Brigadier General Johnston

Posted on February 20, 2015 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Civil War, Manuscript Collections, Mary Bess Paluzzi, Tuscaloosa, UA Buildings, UA History | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen and Mary Bess Paluzzi Did you read our earlier post on Confederate Brigadier General Johnston’s career? If you haven’t yet, be sure to check it out to learn more about the history this collection represents.  The George … Continue reading →

Have you booked your session this spring?

Posted on February 2, 2015 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Pedagogy Series | Tagged | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow We’re one month into the spring semester, but requests are still coming in for sessions in the Division of Special Collections. The information below is no longer accurate, so links to reference documents and … Continue reading →

Remembering MLK

Posted on January 19, 2015 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen | Tagged , | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Last year, on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Cool@Hoole profiled a signed first edition of Dr. King’s book, Strength to Love (1963). As Strength to Love is from the Williams Collection in the … Continue reading →

Support Tide For Tusks

Posted on January 6, 2015 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Blog News, UA Athletics, UA History, University Archives | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow The University of Alabama recently created the organization Tide for Tusks to “raise awareness of the threat of extinction for the African Elephant due to ivory poachers.” You can support their campaign by donating, … Continue reading →

2014 Cool@Hoole Year in Review

Posted on December 29, 2014 by | Posted in: A.S. Williams III Collection, Allyson Holliday, Amy Hildreth Chen, Annemarie Lisko, April Burnett, Christa Vogelius, Donnelly Walton, Emily Tarvin, Isabela Morales, Kevin Ray, Laci Thompson, Lauren Cardon, Martha Bace, Mary Haney, Samm Banks, Stacy Morgan | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow 2014 was the first calendar year I edited Cool@Hoole! Take a moment to revisit my favorite post from each month this year if you haven’t been following us for very long or if you’d like … Continue reading →

New hashtag initiative on Facebook and Twitter

Posted on December 15, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Ashley Bond, UA Athletics | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow If you follow Cool@Hoole’s Facebook and Twitter feeds, you may have noticed a new flurry of activity. Ashley Bond, a graduate student from the School of Library and Information Studies currently working in outreach within the … Continue reading →

Pedagogy Series 4.5: Photographs from the Reception

Posted on December 8, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Exhibitions, Lauren Cardon, Pedagogy Series | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow This is the final post of a five-part series on Dr. Cardon’s English 103 classes and their project using Special Collections materials to create a physical display for exhibition in the W.S. Hoole Library Lobby. Read … Continue reading →

Pedagogy Series 2: “In the Archives” themed Honors First Year Writing, Part II

Posted on November 11, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Kate Matheny, Pedagogy Series | Tagged | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, and Kate Matheny, IT Technical Specialist I On Monday, we discussed the collaboration between Amy and Brooke that led to this fall’s “In the Archive” themed Honors First-Year Writing classes. Today, we’re covering what Brooke … Continue reading →

Pedagogy Series 2: “In the Archives” themed Honors First Year Writing, Part I

Posted on November 10, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Kate Matheny, Pedagogy Series | Tagged | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, and Kate Matheny, IT Technical Specialist I The Division of Special Collections and Digital Services collaborated to provide Honors First-Year Writing classes (English 103) with information pertaining to how best to search and discover … Continue reading →