seminar description
- how are texts designed, and how are they built? this inquiry seminar will focus on archival materials, enabling students to consider the textual details of manuscripts,
rare books, and other holdings in the special collections department at wpi, in local archives such as the american antiquarian society in worcester,
in regional archives housed at various colleges and universities throughout new england, and in digital collections featuring manuscripts and other materials
drawn from websites affiliated with archives across the country and around the world. readings may include relevant works of history, literature, literary criticism,
and theory. project options may include creative writing portfolios, digital humanities pursuits, interpretative essays, and research reports.
seminar objectives
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to learn how to access digital and physical archives including manuscripts and rare books
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to learn how to ask questions of these archives and their holdings
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to design and build arguments or resources pertaining to these archives and their holdings
archives within shouting distance of wpi include:
area archives in and around worcester and throughout the greater boston area that you might wish to explore include:
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archives and collections, harvard university, cambridge, ma
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boston college university libraries, boston college, chestnut hill, ma
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howard gotlieb archival research center, boston university, boston, ma
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margaret clapp library, special collections, wellesley college, wellesley, ma
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northeastern university libraries archives and special collections, northeastern university, boston, ma
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robert d. farber university archives and special collections department, brandeis university, waltham, ma
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robert h. goddard library archives and special collections, clark university, worcester, ma
other regional archives in new england that you might wish to explore include:
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beinecke rare book and manuscript library, yale university, new haven, ct
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brown university library manuscript collections, brown university, providence, ri
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five colleges archives and special collections (amherst, hampshire, mount holyoke, smith, u. of massachusetts-amherst), hampshire county, ma
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milne special collections, university of new hampshire, durham, nh
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rauner special collections library, dartmouth college, hanover, nh
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special collections and archives, wesleyan university, middletown, ct
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thomas j. dodd research center, university of connecticut, storrs, ct
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williams college archives and special collections, williams college, williamstown, ma
digital archives that you might wish to explore include:
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bancroft library, university of california-berkeley, berkeley, ca
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beinecke rare book and manuscript library, yale university, new haven, ct
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cornell library: windows on the past, ithaca, ny
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library of congress, washington, dc
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manuscripts, archives, and rare book library, emory u., atlanta, ga
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new york public library, new york, ny
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northwestern digital collections, evanston, il
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ucla library digital collections, los angeles, ca
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highlighted digital collections, university of virginia library, charlottesville, va
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digital collections at the university of washington, seattle, wa
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university of wisconsin digital collections, madison, wi
last modified : jim cocola : 2013.02.05 15.15
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