Archival literacy provides students with the skills to locate, evaluate, and effectively use archives, manuscripts, and other rare and unique materials in physical or digital formats.
Archival literacy also entails an understanding of the contexts surrounding archival collections. In addition to learning strategies for locating and evaluating resources, students should engage with critical questions about the shaping of our collective memory through the inclusion or exclusion of materials in archives. Active interaction with physical and digital collections is crucial.
Archives and Special Collections welcomes faculty and students to work with our collections in support of their teaching and learning. We can engage with classes in a variety of ways:
Digital scholarship, broadly defined, uses digital content and tools to pursue research and interpretation with the goal of furthering knowledge. While this work can take many forms, one common strand is that it makes use of the powers of computing to do things that may not have been possible otherwise.
- The Library of Congress
The Loyola Notre Dame Library supports digital scholarship by partnering with faculty and students to integrate technology into their teaching and research. We explore and document new tools and support their application in ways that enhance learning and promote accessible, innovative scholarship. We aim to expand the community of digital scholarship practitioners at Loyola and Notre Dame through education, collaboration, and exploration.
Digital tools used in recent LNDL-supported Digital Scholarship projects include: