Although recent archival scholarship promotes the use of primary sources for developing students' analytical research skills, few studies focus on standards or protocols for teaching or assessing archival instruction. Librarians have designed and tested standards and learning assessment strategies for library instruction, and archivists would do well to collaborate with and learn from their experience. This study examines lessons learned from one such collaboration between an instructional services librarian and archivist to evaluate and enhance archival instruction in the University Archives' Student Life and Culture Archival Program
Digital Humanities are a hot topic in disciplines as varied as literature, history, and cultural studies, but at present theology and religious studies departments seem to be lagging behind. Th is essay will off er a critical review of one Digital Humanities project that is relevant to theological libraries and Biblical Studies: the Qumran Visualization Project. Th e essay discusses why theological libraries should begin considering the Digital Humanities, and it off ers some strategies for how libraries can support, promote or otherwise engage with this type of project.
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