Category Archives: Outreach

“Go Local! Using Digital Archives as Alternative Textbooks in First Year Writing”

Posted on April 8, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections, Industrial, Outreach, Southern History | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Sara Whitver (First Year Experience Librarian), Kate Matheny (Digitization Outreach Coordinator), and Jennie Vaughn (Graduate Student Administrator, First Year Writing Program) will be presenting on this great topic at the Association of College & Research Libraries 2013 annual meeting in … Continue reading →

Free Digital Preservation Webinars!

Posted on March 14, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Digital Preservation, Outreach | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

After a series of very successful ASERL webinars on introductory digital preservation in the spring of 2012, a survey of librarians and archivists indicated that the most important topics for successive webinars centered on metadata selection, extraction, creation and storage … Continue reading →

“Go Local” — and work together!

Posted on December 14, 2012 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Outreach | Leave a comment

This semester, I’ve been collaborating with a librarian from Gorgas Information Services and an instructor in the English Department to create a composition course built around some of our most interesting digital collections. We’re pretty excited about it! The instructor … Continue reading →