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The GLAM Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning aims to simulate teaching and learning across multiple disciplines through innovative engagement with archival material and artifacts. This month’s spotlight features Morehouse Professor Aaron Carter-Ényì, PhD and his MUS 351/352 Advanced Theory of Music students. Dr. Carter-Ényì students developed original musical compositions based on poetry written by…

On May 8th, the GLAM Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning held our final faculty development workshop of the spring semester. Representatives from Artstor were on hand to provide an overview of this excellent resource available at the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library. Artstor is a digital library with millions of interdisciplinary images from the…

Graduation season is upon us and the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library’s GLAM Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning is taking the month of May to celebrate our #AUCgrads past and present! Spelman Commencement 1979, image courtesy of Spelman College Archives This month’s featured collection on the GLAM portal highlights images from AUC…

On April 24th, the GLAM Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning hosted its penultimate faculty development workshop of the spring semester at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.  Presented by the Archives Research Center’s Public Services Archivist, Tiffany Atwater Lee, “Incorporating Archives Into the Curriculum: Dos and Don’ts of Planning and Scheduling Archival…

On April 4th, The GLAM Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning hosted a faculty development workshop at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.  Anne Collins Smith, Curator of Collections, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, led a gallery tour of her exhibition Presence: Mediations on the Spelman College Collection, a selection of the Spelman College’s…

On April 10th, we held our latest GLAM Faculty Development workshop, “Incorporating Oral Histories into Curriculum” with the Atlanta University Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library’s Archives Research Center Processing Archivist, Brittany Newberry. During this workshop Newberry provided an overview of the basics of oral histories as a scholarly resource, their limitations and challenges, and the…

The second GLAM Faculty Development workshop of the year, “Teaching with Exhibitions,” occurred last month at the AUC Woodruff Library’s Archives Research Center. During this workshop Martina Dodd, GLAM Museum Education Curator, gave a guided tour of both the Archives Research Center’s exhibition entitled, Black Interiors: Envisioning A Place of Our Own, and its accompanying…

On February 28th, GLAM, in partnership with the Atlanta University Center Collective for the Study of Art History and Curatorial Studies, held its first faculty training workshop of the spring semester: Teaching With Objects Across Disciplines. Following a viewing of current exhibitions at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Lowery Stokes Sims, Ph.D., former…

The GLAM Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning’s Faculty Fellows program aims to provide AUC faculty with training in object-based pedagogy and techniques. This month’s spotlight features GLAM Faculty Fellow, Dr. Charmayne E. Patterson. Dr. Patterson is a Clark Atlanta University professor in the department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies, and History. Last…

Last week we held our final GLAM Faculty Development workshop of the fall semester, “Creating Curriculum Inspired Online Exhibitions.” Led by GLAM’s Museum Education Curator, Martina Dodd, and Digital Exhibitions Coordinator, Gayle Schechter, this workshop provided AUC faculty and Robert W. Woodruff Library staff with an overview of the resources available on the GLAM Center’s…