Bryant & Stratton College, Cleveland and Solon News

Joseph Dudley (Bryant & Stratton College, Cleveland and Solon) presented “Creating eBook Collections at Bryant & Stratton College” at the Teaching, Colleges, and Community (TCC) Online Conference, April 14, 2020.

–Joseph Dudley, Bryant & Stratton College, Cleveland and Solon

Case Western Reserve University News

The Kelvin Smith Library was selected for the ALA IRRT-ICC 2020 Best Practices from World Libraries Photo Gallery.  The “Best Practices from World Libraries” photo gallery presents a selection of photographs from around the world, which feature library projects and programs that best demonstrate this year’s ALA theme: the Value of Libraries in Promoting Social Justice and Inclusion. This collection of photographs has been curated by the International Relations Round Table (IRRT) International Connections Committee. See the full photo gallery at https://sites.google.com/view/icc-programs/2020-photo-gallery. See the Kelvin Smith Library’s “Voices A Century Apart” entry at https://sites.google.com/view/icc-programs/2020-photo-gallery#h.p_dwGgRQpkkBDm. The project at Kelvin Smith Library represents the century separating (and uniting) two men fighting for civil and human rights as outlined in both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. This modernized conversation between Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr., portrayed by actors, serves to deliver historical impact through their speeches examining the city’s racial issues.

From the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship:

• Stephanie Becker presented “Using an Assessment Rubric to Evaluate & Set Digitization Priorities” on March 10 at the Ohio Digitization Interest Group meeting.
• Ben Gorham presented a paper at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) in Boston in (March 2020). The paper titled Ph{D}H: Digital humanities as escape hatch, goal, or compromise?, was co-authored with Charlie Harper.
• Ben Gorham and Charlie Harper are participating in CWRU COVID-19 Working Groups, which involves collaborating with others around campus to identify risk and impact factors of COVID-19.
• Charlie Harper oversaw the 2020 Freedman Fellow Faculty application process, which closed on 5/15.  A faculty committee will review the applications and make decisions about new fellowships before the end of May.  https://case.edu/library/research/digital-scholarship/freedman-fellows-program
• Amanda Koziura co-facilitated an ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Professional Development webinar focused on Digital Scholarship Pedagogy models on April 15th.
• Ben Gorham and Charlie Harper were included on an NSF/DoD grant submission, Derogation of Human Rights and Covid, initiated by Brian Gran, Sociology.
• Jared Bendis gave a talk on April 17th for the Office of Admissions titled “Bridging the New and Old: High Tech Scholarship for the Next Generation”
• Stephanie Becker and Amanda Koziura worked with 2019 Freedman Fellow Heather Hurwitz (Sociology) on the Occupy Archive Scalar Digital Exhibit: https://scalar.case.edu/occupy-archive-digital-exhibits/index?path=grievances-of-the-99
• Naomi Langer presented on April 29th, Image Analysis for Cultural Heritage Digitization, during the #PresTC2020 Twitter conference:  https://twitter.com/naomi_langer/status/1255547517103726593?s=20

–Brian Gray, Case Western Reserve University