Start Date
11-11-2016 10:30 AM
End Date
11-11-2016 11:15 AM
Description
Higher education’s scholars utilize online catalogs and library finding aids with ease. However, for the larger community, accessing scholars’ Selected Works and online galleries with topical themes is a helpful intermediary step. Non-scholars often explore and produce scholarship, seek out obscure online sources and gladly volunteer to document cultural resources.Every day historically valuable ephemera is thrown away due to an ignorance of its value to research. Special Collections Librarians partnering with Scholarly Communication Specialists utilize social media to create a gateway and make certain that taxpaying interested parties do not miss the wealth of primary sources compiled over centuries by librarians and archivists. We hope this ease of access to information will encourage casual researchers to support our academic efforts. It may also result in donations of unique letters, photographs, diaries, ephemera and inaccessible publications. The Special Collections galleries allow exhibits of unique photographs, ephemera, oral histories and manuscripts. Scholars create personal selected works sites to showcase individual research projects and collections. University faculty, teachers, adults, and amateur historians can use these accessible resources to gather information and create items to motivate, entertain or educate others. Technology created the door to Libraries via KenCat and TopScholar. Now the galleries and Selected Works throw open wide resources for all.
Included in
Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Information Literacy Commons, Scholarly Communication Commons
Bridging the Gap: Selected Works and TopScholar Galleries
Higher education’s scholars utilize online catalogs and library finding aids with ease. However, for the larger community, accessing scholars’ Selected Works and online galleries with topical themes is a helpful intermediary step. Non-scholars often explore and produce scholarship, seek out obscure online sources and gladly volunteer to document cultural resources.Every day historically valuable ephemera is thrown away due to an ignorance of its value to research. Special Collections Librarians partnering with Scholarly Communication Specialists utilize social media to create a gateway and make certain that taxpaying interested parties do not miss the wealth of primary sources compiled over centuries by librarians and archivists. We hope this ease of access to information will encourage casual researchers to support our academic efforts. It may also result in donations of unique letters, photographs, diaries, ephemera and inaccessible publications. The Special Collections galleries allow exhibits of unique photographs, ephemera, oral histories and manuscripts. Scholars create personal selected works sites to showcase individual research projects and collections. University faculty, teachers, adults, and amateur historians can use these accessible resources to gather information and create items to motivate, entertain or educate others. Technology created the door to Libraries via KenCat and TopScholar. Now the galleries and Selected Works throw open wide resources for all.