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The Atlanta University Center (AUC) GLAM Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning partnered with the AUC Early College Program in Art History and Curatorial Studies and the High Museum of Art to offer students the opportunity to curate digital exhibits on the GLAM omeka portal. Through this digital humanities project the 2020 cohort of rising high…

On November 25th, the GLAM Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning held the last faculty development workshop of the semester at the Spelman College Archives. The primary mission of the archives is to collect, preserve, organize and make accessible historically significant documents and other materials reflective of the College’s origins and development as well as the activities of…

On September 18th, the GLAM Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning held the second faculty development workshop of the semester. Cliff Landis, Digital Initiative Librarian, led a training session on how to search and discover archival collections, institutional scholarship, along with theses and dissertations using  the library’s new institutional repository, RADAR (Repository of AUC Digital…

Gayle Schechter, AUC GLAM Exhibition Coordinator, was featured in the this summer’s Society of American Archivists’ Newsletter, Description Section! She wrote on the library’s efforts to to improve description on the digital portals in order to make digital images more accessible to a wider range of users. “In order to make sure that content is accessible…

It’s the beginning of a new school year at the Atlanta University Center, which means that the Robert W. Woodruff Library’s GLAM Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning is back in session. We kicked off the year with our first faculty development workshop of the fall semester, “Incorporating Podcasts into Classroom Assignments.” Led by Justin…

This year, the U.S. National Archives is celebrating the passage of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote with a new exhibit, Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote. To correspond their exhibit which “highlights the relentless struggle of diverse activists throughout U.S. history to secure voting rights for all American women,” they…

Read more about the Leadership Alliance internship program here. Camille Barnes discusses the items she found in her research Camille Barnes: My experience conducting archival research has been such an awarding experience. At the beginning of this journey I did not know a thing about research or how to even conduct research the proper way. Being…