Fellows' Projects and Publications

Select projects to which current and former postdoctoral fellows have contributed

Online archives and exhibitions

Cartographic Perspectives: From the New World to Your World (Lauren Coats, Lehigh University, 2007-2008)

Civil War Washington: Studies in Transformation (Wesley Raabe, University of Nebraska, 2006-2008)

Early Advertising Collection (Christa Williford, Bryn Mawr College, 2004-2006)

Hart Crane: Fragments of "The Broken Tower" (Amanda Watson, University of Virginia, 2004-2005)

The Firebird and the Factory: Modern Russian Children's Books (Kelly Miller, University of Virginia, 2005-2007)

I Remain – A Digital Archive of Letters, Manuscripts, and Ephemera (Meg Norcia, Lehigh University, 2004-2005)

The Katrina Thomas Ethnic Wedding Photograph Collection (Tracie Wilson, Bryn Mawr College, 2007-2008)

NC SLAAP: The North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project (Amanda French, North Carolina State University, 2004-2006)

Portraits of Actors, 1720-1920 (Dawn Schmitz, University of Illinois, 2004-2007)

The Roman de la Rose Digital Library (Tim Stinson, Johns Hopkins University, 2006-2008)

Theater Photography from the Theresa Helburn Collection (Christa Williford, Bryn Mawr College, 2004-2006)

The Vault at Pfaff's – An Archive of Art and Literature by New York's Nineteenth-Century Bohemians (Meg Norcia, Lehigh University, 2004-2005)

Yet Another One! H. L. Mencken, [Brochure for Mencken exhibit at the George Peabody Library], (Gabrielle Dean, The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, 2008-2009)

Online finding aids

Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892 (Michelle Morton, University of California-Berkeley, 2005-2006)

Zdenka and Stanley B. Winters Czech and Slovak Poster Collection, 1920-1991 (Patricia Hswe, University of Illinois, 2004-2006)

Online teaching and learning resources

Global News Village: Virtual Information Literacy Learning and Growing Environment (Dawn Schmitz, University of Illinois, 2004-2007)

Web resource inventories, research guides, and online reference tools

The Encyclopedia of Egyptology (Elizabeth Waraksa, UCLA, 2007-2009)

Inventory of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Digital Projects (Patricia Hswe, University of Illinois, 2004-2006)

Latin Americana: Mexican and Central American Collections (Michelle Morton, University of California-Berkeley, 2005-2006)

Portals and Wikis

EthicShare Community (Cecily Marcus, University of Minnesota, 2005-2008)

Select publications by current or former fellows

Hswe, Patricia. "Digitizing the Zdenka and Stanley B. Winters Czech and Slovak Poster Collection, 1920-1991," Access to East European and Eurasian Culture: Publishing, Acquisitions, Digitization, Metadata/Slavic & East European Information Resources, vol. 8, nos.2/3 (2008): 127-136.

Miller, Kelly. "The Slavist in the Digital World: Creating Scholarly Resources in Partnership with Librarians at the University of Virginia." Slavic and East European Information Resources 9: 1 (2008): 43-52.

--- and Nafpaktitis, M. The Firebird and the Factory: Modern Russian Children's Books. Exhibition catalog. University of Virginia Library. 2007.

Norcia, Megan A. "Out of the Ivory Tower Endlessly Rocking: Collaborating across Disciplines and Professions to Promote Student Learning in the Digital Archive." Pedagogy 2008 8(1):91-114.

Rentfrow, Daphnée. "The CLIR Fellowship and Academic Librarianship, or Frodo Meets Google." In Advances in Librarianship vol. 30, Danuta A. Nitecki and Eileen G. Abels, eds., 2006.

---. "The Content of Collaboration." EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 3 (May/June 2007): 8–9.

---. "Groundskeepers, Gatekeepers, and Guides: How to Change Faculty Perceptions of Librarians and Ensure the Future of the Research Library." In No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century. Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008.

Schmitz, Dawn. The Seamless Cyberinfrastructure: The Challenges of Studying Users of Mass Digitization. and Institutional Repositories. Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008.