October 23, 2008
Etc.: Campus news & notes
DIGITAL HISTORY: The recently developed Civil Rights Digital Library (www.civilrightslibrary.org) features two collections from the UW Libraries Digital Collections. The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative represents one of the most ambitious and comprehensive efforts to date to deliver educational content on the civil rights movement via the Web.
The UW collections featured are King County Snapshots: A Photographic Heritage of Seattle and Surrounding Communities, which includes 19th and 20th century images portraying the people, places and events in King County’s urban, suburban and rural communities; and the Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection, which includes leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the UW campus during the 1960s and 1970s that reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle. A direct link to those collections is at http://crdl.usg.edu/voci/go/crdl/contributingInstitutions/viewColl/6162.
The Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative has three principal components: 1) a digital video archive of historical news film allowing learners to be nearly eyewitnesses to key events of the civil rights movement, 2) a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the movement by connecting related digital collections on a national scale, and 3) a learning objects component delivering secondary Web-based resources — such as contextual stories, encyclopedia articles, lesson plans and activities — to facilitate the use of the video content in the learning process.
ACE AUTHOR: Malcolm Parks, professor of communication, received the 2008 Gerald R. Miller Book Award from the National Communication Association for his recent book, Personal Relationships and Personal Networks. The book advances a theory regarding how social relationships develop within the context of individuals’ broader networks, how social networks influence the development and deterioration of social relationships, and how people actively manage their social networks.
LEADING LIBRARIAN: Amanda Hornby, media and technology studies librarian at the UW Bothell & Cascadia Community College Library, has been selected to participate in the 2009 American Library Association Emerging Leaders program. The Emerging Leaders program, which is in its third year, will enable more than 100 librarians from across the country to participate in project planning workgroups; network with peers; gain an inside look into ALA structure; and have an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity.
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