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Cindy Boeke, Southern Methodist University
Since 2008, Southern Methodist University's Central University Libraries (CUL) have digitized, cataloged
and made available on the CUL Digital Collections web site some 30,000 image, text, video, and audio
files from the holdings of its rich special collections. CUL uses a variety of methods to track who is using
our 36 digital collections, so we can better prioritize future digitization projects and ensure our scarce
resources are used more effectively. Google Analytics, for example, provides a vast array of data that
can be mined and analyzed to determine trends and popular topics on a local, national, and
international basis. Additional methods, however, are needed to discover outcomes that result from
usage of the online collections. To better understand outcomes from our digital collections, CUL has
developed a user survey that is sent to researchers, so we can determine how digitized items are being
used to present new insights into fields of study.
The results, which are often surprising, help us uncover how CUL Digital Collections are changing not
only research, but people's lives. This presentation will provide examples of innovative ways people and
communities around the world are using CUL's digitized special collections, information that has opened
our eyes to unanticipated topics of interest to scholars as well as the public, and tools that are helping
us build new audiences for digital resources.
Robin Henry, Clovis Community College
Paul Nagy, Clovis Community College
As online teaching becomes more widespread, it behooves us to look at best practices in teaching
digitally. The Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences Division at Clovis Community College, New Mexico,
has recently begun developing an introductory online course in the Humanities. Paul Nagy, Division
Chair, and Robin Henry, Humanities instructor, would like to lead a discussion about the development of
online Humanities courses, including instructional goals, best practices as found in the professional
literature, administrative requirements, content management and curation, and online interaction with
students. Teaching online necessarily involves using online resources such as digital museum and library
collections, content management software, and other digital materials to make the courses robust and
engaging. We will discuss the development of an online introductory Humanities course as well as a
Literature course in The Novel. We will have student survey data and examples of student work from
the course pilots. The goal of this discussion will be to share ideas for improvement and future
directions for online teaching and learning.
Stacy Chen, University of Texas at Dallas
The role of the Internet in gathering and organizing individuals with similar interests and goals into
virtual communities has exponentially increased with access to technology, growth of social media sites,
and multiple channels for activism via media outlets. Because politics can be a touchy issue for many,
debates and discussions are often under the areas of political science, economics, or government. As
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Digital Frontiers 2013 Conference and THAT Camp: Abstracts and Participant Biographies, pamphlet, September 2013; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc185790/m1/12/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Digital Scholarship Cooperative (DiSCo).