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Program Title:

Digital Scholarship Summer Fellowship

Year Program Created:

2016

Short Description:

Musselman Library’s Digital Scholarship Summer Fellowship is a paid, 8-week, library-led initiative open to rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors from any major or discipline. Fellows learn Digital Humanities tools and methods during a structured curriculum and apply them to a public-facing, academic, digital project. Fellows propose a research question to explore, and may be matched with existing library collections as appropriate. Fellows participate in a Digital Humanities community of practice and share their learning experiences throughout the duration of the fellowship.

Program Dates:

June 4 - July 27, 2018

Number of Students Involved:

5 (2018 cohort)

Units/Divisions Involved:

  • Musselman Library (primary)
  • Educational Technology
  • Johnson Center for Creative Teaching and Learning

Primary Goals:

  • Develop research question(s) and apply research skills in order to interpret, analyze, and synthesize information.
  • Create a project management plan that outlines goals, deadlines, and products in order to build a public-facing digital project.
  • Distinguish among and employ Digital Humanities tools and methods in order to support the identified research question(s) and project goals.
  • Actively participate in the Digital Humanities community of practice in order to situate digital scholarship at Gettysburg College within the larger DH community.
  • Communicate personal experience as a Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow in order to demonstrate the value of undergraduate Digital Humanities research.

Program Directors:

Library Digital Scholarship Committee: LibraryDS@gettysburg.edu