Current Issue: Spring 2020
Research Article
Fall 2019
The Positive Side of Eliciting Negative Emotions: Survey Results of Visitor Responses to a Library Exhibit
Frost, Towne-Anderson, and Ferguson
Eliciting emotions, particularly uncomfortable emotions, through exhibition design can have a positive impact on the patrons’ reception of the exhibition. In this study, patrons visiting an exhibition designed to create a dark ...
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Research Article • Spring 2020
Toward Inclusive Outreach: What Special Collections Can Learn from Disability Studies
O’Sullivan and Alexander
Recent statistics suggest that nearly 1 in 5 undergraduate students in the United States report having a disability. Educators and special collections practitioners are thus confronted with a difficult question: What can be done to ensure that these students receive the accessible educational experience they deserve—and that is legally mandated—within our institutions? ...
Research Article • Spring 2020
Early Book Collections and Modern Audiences: Harnessing the Identity/ies of Book Collections as Collective Resources
Tether and Campbell
This article summarizes and contextualizes the discussions of a workshop held at Durham University in November 2018. In this workshop, participants (including academics, students, independent scholars, special and rare books librarians, and archivists) discussed the notion of the collection ...
Research Article • Fall 2019
Teaching Creative Writing in Special Collections
Alison Fraser
While enrollments are in a downward trend in humanities departments across the board and in English departments in particular, creative writing has emerged as an area of explosive growth: creative writing enrollments and majors are up, and undergraduate and graduate student demand is high. ...
Research Article • Fall 2019
An Independent Study Course by an Academic Library Department: Teaching with the Gems of Special Collections
Silva and McIntosh
Special collections in academic libraries provide rich learning environments for student engagement. This article describes the introduction of an independent study course by an academic library department as a high-impact educational practice supporting undergraduate research. ...