Category: Old Records, New Questions, New Collaborations
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Analog Library Books and Digital Scholarly Collaboration
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Kyle Roberts and Evan Thompson (Loyola U of Chicago) Historic library books have proven a fruitful site for digital scholarly collaboration at Loyola University Chicago. The Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project (http://jesuitlibrariesprovenanceproject.com/) was launched in March 2014 to bring together students, curators, and faculty to uncover the history of the acquisition and use of Loyola’s original…
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Old Records, New Questions, New Collaborations: The Easton Library Company Database at Lafayette College
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Chris Phillips, Eric Luhrs and Alena Principato (Lafayette) In 2010 Phillips and Luhrs began work on a database of borrowing records from the Easton Library Company, which operated from 1811 to 1862. With fifty years of records to transcribe and analyze, and little collective experience developing such a library history project, they planned the database…