Part 2 of an ongoing occasional series about using datasets as primary sources.
Category: Education and Training
LC Labs Letter: February 2022
The February 2022 newsletter from the LC Labs team.
Datasets as Primary Sources: An Archaeological Dig into Our Collective Brains, Part 1
In this guest post, Educator Fellow Peter DeCraene reflects on how teachers can make use of data sets in the classroom.
Annotation as Aesthetic: A Closing Interview with Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan
2021 Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan created Speculative Annotation, an experimental browser-based application that encourages students and teachers to have conversations with historic Library of Congress items through annotation and mark-making. McClellan is a research-based artist who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. With a subject focus on speech and civic engagement, McClellan works in a range […]
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a…derivative dataset!
This post describes a collaboration between LC Labs member Eileen J. Manchester and Peter DeCraene, the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow to answer the question: “what would it mean to treat a dataset as a primary source?”
LC Labs Letter August 2021
The monthly newsletter from the LC Labs team for August.
Sparking the Datamagination: 2021 Digital Strategy Summer Intern Design Sprint part II
This is an interview with Maria Capecchi, Abigail Tick, and Joshua Ortiz Baco, three of the seven students that joined our team during the summer of 2021. As a small group, they worked together to better understand the Newspaper Navigator data set with the needs of undergraduate students in mind.
Next Slide Please: 2021 Digital Strategy Summer Intern Design Sprint part I
This is an interview with Emily Zerrenner, Jodanna Domond, Luke Borland, and Darshni Patel, four of the seven students that joined our team during the summer of 2021. As a small group, they worked together to better understand the Library’s Web Archives with the needs of researchers and data visualization artists in mind.
LC Labs Letter: July 2021
The July newsletter from the LC Labs team.
LC Labs Letter: April 2021
The monthly LC Labs newsletter for April 2021.