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Curating Black Health and Wellness 2560 1920 GLAMdev2020

Curating Black Health and Wellness

By Darshai Hollie, Spelman College CO’ 2022 My name is Darshai Hollie and I am a graduating senior, majoring in History with a minor in Curatorial Studies from Spelman College.  My time at Spelman has deepened my interest and knowledge in curation and archives. Through this project I wanted to learn the behind the scenes…

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GLAM Collaboration with RWWL Archives Research Center and Spelman College Professor 2560 1920 GLAMdev2020

GLAM Collaboration with RWWL Archives Research Center and Spelman College Professor

By Chad Dawson, Spelman College Professor of Art History & Curatorial Studies I have found the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library’s (RWWL) Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning as well as the Research Center invaluable resources for my classes. In addition to offering class visits and digital…

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Student curated Archival Exhibition: Health and Wellness within the Atlanta University Center 1920 2560 GLAMdev2020

Student curated Archival Exhibition: Health and Wellness within the Atlanta University Center

During the Fall 2021 Semester, Martina Dodd, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library’s (RWWL) Program Director of Curation and Object Based Learning, and Tiffany Atwater Lee, RWWL Assistant Head of the Archives Research Center (ARC) partnered with Chad Dawson, Spelman College Professor of Art History & Curatorial Studies, to formulate a Directed Studies project…

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AUC GLAM Center featured in ITHAKA S+R Research Report 1000 1000 GLAMdev2020

AUC GLAM Center featured in ITHAKA S+R Research Report

Structuring Collaborations: The Opportunities and Challenges of Building Relationships Between Academic Museums and Libraries Liam Sweeney “In 2016, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Kress Foundation co-sponsored a summit at University of Miami with the intention of exploring the topic of academic library and museum collaboration, and invited the directors of museums and libraries to…

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Students curate digital exhibitions on Civil Rights Movement 649 729 GLAMdev2020

Students curate digital exhibitions on Civil Rights Movement

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…

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Voting Rights Interview with Dr. Brandon Crowley 1147 1067 GLAMdev2020

Voting Rights Interview with Dr. Brandon Crowley

Voting Rights: Then and Now is an interview series with dynamic leaders from across the country on the subject of voting, and in particular, voting on Tuesday, Nov. 3rd in the 2020 United States presidential election. We at the AUC Woodruff Library want to encourage everyone to vote, but we also want to inform people…

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Voting Rights Interview with Genny Castillo

Voting Rights: Then and Now is an interview series with dynamic leaders from across the country on the subject of voting, and in particular, voting on Tuesday, Nov. 3rd in the 2020 United States presidential election. We at the AUC Woodruff Library want to encourage everyone to vote, but we also want to inform people…

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“Connecting and Collaborating with the Spelman College Archives” Workshop Recap 640 480 aucwoodruff

“Connecting and Collaborating with the Spelman College Archives” Workshop Recap

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…

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“Introducation to RADAR” workshop Recap 600 500 aucwoodruff

“Introducation to RADAR” workshop Recap

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…

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Increasing Digital Accessibility at the Robert W. Woodruff Library Center 635 650 aucwoodruff

Increasing Digital Accessibility at the Robert W. Woodruff Library Center

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…

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