Comments on: THATCamp session/topic ideas: librarian-faculty collaboration

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By: Dick Brown

Dick Brown — Fri, 20 May 2011 23:42:29 +0000

I have a particular interest in collaborative research with undergraduates at my SLAC. I have done some of this both within and outside of the classroom in my field (computer science), often on problems involving other disciplines. Although those other disciplines have generally resided in the natural and social sciences up to now, I can’t see why that kind of collaboration couldn’t also take place in humanities fields. Would it broaden the theme proposed for this panel too much to include computer science as well as library science as a collaborating field?

I should clarify that my approach would lend itself more to designing new computations for supporting particular research investigations than to using either standard software systems or various forms of media.

By: Michelle Kassorla

Michelle Kassorla — Mon, 16 May 2011 09:42:55 +0000

B”H

Wow, Sally! It sounds a lot like Gerald Graff’s wonderful philosophy of “teaching the conflict.” I always thought this was a wonderful way to pull some seriously critical thought from my students.

And, Barabara–what is this wonderful tool you speak of?. . . CommentPress? I think I am going to see if I can find it and check it out! Thanks!!

By: Sally Stamper

Sally Stamper — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:54:03 +0000

I’m ready to jump into working with digitized primary sources, as my own research to date has been fully supported by traditional stacks…. In the classroom, I’d like to start out with collaborative research that students and I pursue together – gives me the experience, as well as them, and facilitates the faculty-student research I’m hoping to initiate. I’m a theologian, working a good bit on popular culture, which makes online primary source work a natural.

Any other religious studies folks coming to THATCamp, btw?

By: barbarafister

barbarafister — Mon, 09 May 2011 02:28:19 +0000

I’m in! I think this is a great topic. I also want to think through not just how to find sources but how to really work with them given that students start out with so little scaffolding to make sense of what they are looking at.

I sometimes think using CommentPress to annotate a primary source would be interesting – or perhaps some other way that an entire class could contribute notes, links, and commentary. (Chances are there are some great reference books in the library that provide context at a level higher than Wikipedia but less overwhelming than research articles.)

Oh, and gumption-ometer, yeah, I want one of those, too.

By: Michelle Kassorla

Michelle Kassorla — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:49:42 +0000

B”H

#2 is very interesting to me because I teach English in a cross-curricular program with History, and I have also noticed a trend toward primary source analysis–which is not always successful. Most of the students, despite all of our teaching, still think research=Wikipedia.

The greatest thing these students lack (besides gumption) is context, and context is exactly what they need in order to do primary artifact analysis. I think it would be important to look at some of the technological support available for historical research that is a bit more user friendly than slogging through JSTOR.