Emory opens digital tool chest for HBCU librarians
By Leslie King | Emory Report | June 25, 2014
More than 20 librarians from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance spent the week of June 16-20 at Emory learning about digital tools for blogging, compiling online exhibits and creating mobile tours.
The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and Woodruff Library sponsored and hosted the institute, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded to support digital scholarship and new directions in library professionalization.
"ECDS was interested in how we might collaborate in a digital training project with some other organization that was not Emory-based, but that would extend our work across the metro Atlanta region, or beyond," said Allen Tullos, co-director of ECDS.
The librarians spent the week learning how to use Omeka, a free web application for creating online digital collections; WordPress, a blogging platform; and how to create a tour for mobile devices, similar to the one the ECDS used in creating its newly debuted Battle of Atlanta mobile tour.
"Relevant activities and tools were chosen based on the project interest gathered during the application process," Emory Librarian Yolanda Cooper said.
More: http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/06/er_H...
More than 20 librarians from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance spent the week of June 16-20 at Emory learning about digital tools for blogging, compiling online exhibits and creating mobile tours.
The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and Woodruff Library sponsored and hosted the institute, supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded to support digital scholarship and new directions in library professionalization.
"ECDS was interested in how we might collaborate in a digital training project with some other organization that was not Emory-based, but that would extend our work across the metro Atlanta region, or beyond," said Allen Tullos, co-director of ECDS.
The librarians spent the week learning how to use Omeka, a free web application for creating online digital collections; WordPress, a blogging platform; and how to create a tour for mobile devices, similar to the one the ECDS used in creating its newly debuted Battle of Atlanta mobile tour.
"Relevant activities and tools were chosen based on the project interest gathered during the application process," Emory Librarian Yolanda Cooper said.
More: http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/06/er_H...
