Faculty Library and Technology Workshop - Developing Infused Courses
January 22, 2003
DIGITAL "TEXTS": RESOURCES AND FINDING TOOLS
Supporting the Development of Infused Courses
Finding tools and databases
Specialized finding tools and databases
Resources
Pedagogy: resources and finding tools
Finding Tools & Databases
INFOMINE (Scholarly Internet Resource Collections) -- a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level; librarian built. http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Sample searches for
Data/Statistics: SUBJECT United States -- population - statistics or KEYWORDS statistics and ethnicity and AIDS
Images: e.g., KEYWORDS: images and southeast asia or SUBJECT BROWSE or do a KEYWORD search within Cultural and Ethnic Groups and KEYWORD images
Personal Narratives: e.g., SUBJECT BROWSE Cultural and Ethnic Groups - oral history
Official Documents (government, historical, international): e.g., KEYWORDS - government documents and affirmative action or select Government Information from main menu and search affirmative action as keyword.
DVD, Video, Audio: KEYWORD speech and king and audio
Librarians Index to the Internet -- a searchable and annotated subject directory used as a reliable and efficient guide evaluated Internet resources. Some overlap with INFOMINE. http://lii.org/
SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) - includes the SOSIG Internet Catalogue (high quality Internet sites) and the Social Science Search Engine (larger, unvetted).http://sosig.ac.uk/advanced.html
Suggested Resource Type limits: Educational Materials, Resource Guides, Datasets, Documents, etc.
WorldCat - an online catalog of information in thousands of libraries around the world. Books, periodical titles, audiovisual material, special collections, selected Internet sites, and interactive multimedia are all catalogued in WorldCat. Search by author, title, keywords, or subject heading among other options at Advanced Search and LIMIT by Document Type: Internet Resources. (Try our Help Guide.) Always check ELIZA before you order an item via Interlibrary Loan. Available via a "quick link" from the Library Home Page Electronic Resources link.
Sample searches for:
Data/Statistics: SUBJECT Refugees - Statistics; SUBJECT United States -- Population - Statistics and KEYWORD race; SUBJECT Statistics and KEYWORD minorit* and KEYWORD business
Images: e.g., KEYWORD images and KEYWORD jim crow
Personal Narratives: SUBJECT oral history or SUBJECT personal narratives and SUBJECT African Americans
Official Documents (governmental, historical, international):
DVD, Video, Audio: e.g., KEYWORD civil rights and KEYWORD united states; limit type to SOUND RECORDINGS (or VISUAL MATERIALS).
Maps: e.g., KEYWORD map or SUBJECT maps and KEYWORD Pakistan
OAIster -- a Mellon-funded project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services whose goal is to create a wide-ranging collection of free, useful, previously difficult-to-access digital resources that are easily searchable. (an exciting project under development - something to watch - patience required) http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu
Specialized Finding Tools & Databases
Data/Statistics
Data on the Net (Univ. of Calif. San Diego) - search or browse a list of over 700 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, etc.http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/
University of Michigan Documents Center: Statistical Resources on the Web -- a searchable and browsable gateway to statistics from a multiplicity of sources.http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
Digital Images
alltheweb.com http://alltheweb.com Select "Pictures" from toolbar; search by subject
Picsearch -- a search engine for pictures and images http://www.picsearch.com Don't be deceived by front page. This is an excellent source. Select "Advanced Search" Select "Only images" and "color or black & white" Enter "Jim Crow"
DVD/Video/Audio
See Suggested Media Resources for Immersion Collection Development handout.
Official Documents (government, historical, international, NGO, etc.)
University of Michigan Documents Center http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/
Maps
Odden's Bookmarks -- The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping - browse maps and mapping, "new, old, electronic, online creating..." http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.html
Select 'Search' Use drop-menu to select country.
Resources
We've selected a few of the interesting Internet resources you can discover when you use the finding tools above.
Digital Images
Image Gate Provides free and open online access to thousands of digital images from the collections of NYPL's four research libraries -- dynamic site that will continue to evolve as further collections are added to the database. http://digital.nypl.org/imagegate/newgate/index.cfm
Southeast Asian Images and Text Project http://xirs.library.wisc.edu/etext/seait/
DVD, Video, Audio
The South Asian Literary Recordings Project -- originally conceived by the New Delhi office of the Library of Congress as a way to celebrate the Library's Bicentennial overseas. Aimed at recording the voices of prominent authors from the region reading excerpts from their works. http://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/
British Library National Sound Archive Collections - includes sound samples from the following collections: oral history, international, accents and dialects, jazz, popular music, etc. http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/nsacollections.html
Personal narratives (oral histories, diaries, interviews, etc.)
Documenting the American South (DAS) - an electronic collection sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Voice Vision: Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories Sidney M Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, has interviewed over 150 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews and is making them available online. http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/
Official Documents (government, historical)
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School; Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy (searchable collection) http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Women's Human Rights Resources (Search the Women's Human Rights Resources Database for documents, articles, bibliographies, links) http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/
Maps
United Nations Cartographic Section: Maps and Geographic Information Resources http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/
nationalatlas.gov Delivers easy to use, map-like views of America's natural and sociocultural landscapes. Includes interactive map browser. http://www.nationalatlas.gov/
Data/Statistics
CensusScope -- user-friendly tool http://www.censusscope.org/index.html
FedStats -- the gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies; browsable by topic; searchable. http://www.fedstats.gov/
Notable Miscellany
American Memory; Historical Collections for the National Digital Library - Serves as a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
The MIT Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine - funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Center seeks to "address the lack of historical studies and analyses of the contributions by racial/ethnic minorities to science, medicine, and technology and the impact of diversity on the practice and theory of science, medicine, and technology." http://web.mit.edu/csd/index.html
Global Gateway; World Cultures and Resources -- information on virtually every country, region, national, ethnic, and religious group, from the International Collection of the Library of Congress.http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html
Academic Info African American History Digital Library -- contains links to documents, narratives, music, digital archives, etc. http://academicinfo.net/africanamlibrary.html
Women of Color Web - this site provides access writings by and about women of color in the U.S. in order to "broaden the discussions of gender, rights, and reproduction". http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/WoC/index.html
INCORE: Conflict Data Service Country Guides These Guides provide information about Internet resources on conflict and ethnicity specific to particular countries and regions. http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/index.html
PEDAGOGY: RESOURCES AND FINDING TOOLS
Supporting the Development of Infused Courses
Bibliography of books in the Wallace Library
Adams, Maurianne, Lee Anne Belle and Pat Griffin, eds. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Stacks LC 196.5 .U6 T43 1997
Tips on curricular design and pedagogy for introducing social justice questions in the classroom.
Gaff, Jerry G. and James L.Ratcliff eds. Handbook of the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Comprehensive Guide to Purposes, Structures, Practices, and Change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997.
Stacks 2361.5 .H35 1997
Essays from numerous contributors on various issues in the undergraduate curriculum, including diversity, international questions, and teaching across the disciplines.
Harding, Sandra G. Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998.
Stacks Q 175.5 .H39 1998
A history of science and scientific discoveries in the light of the gender, racial and cultural beliefs of the times.
Jackson, John Jr., ed. Science, Race and Ethnicity: Readings from Isis and Osiris. Chicago: U Chicago Pr., 2002.
Stacks GN 269 .S394 2002
A collection of essays which originally appeared in Isis and Osiris on historical scientific views and studies of racial differences.
Tusmith, Bonnie and Maureen Reddy, eds. Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2002.
Stacks 212.42 .R53 2002
Readings on the effects of race and racial topics on the college classroom and teaching.
Wlodkowski, Raymond J. and Marjery B. Ginsberg, Diversity and Motivation: Culturally Responsive Teaching. San Fransisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995.
Stacks LC 1099.3 .W56 1995
Studies of pedagogical methods to deal with racial and ethnic differences in the classroom.
Internet Resources (examples)
History Matters. Sponsored by the Amer. Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the Graduate Center of CUNY and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason Univ. with funding from NEH and the Kellogg Foundation. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
American Studies Crossroads Project -- a project of the American Studies Association and Georgetown University intended to assist teachers and students in making use of technology and in promoting international collaboration in the study of American history and culture. http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/
History of Race in Science Includes syllabi and useful links. http://www.racesci.org/
Women of Color Web - links to "Teaching Tools" and "Discussions" http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/WoC/index.html
Finding Tools (Library Databases)
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) -- the key source for education information, contains abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice; one of the Ovid databases; 1966 - present.
Additional Databases -- consider using discipline specific library databases.
Sample searches: in MLA International Bibliography search KEYWORDS: teaching and race; in PsycINFO search SUBJECTS explode Teaching Methods and College Students and (KEYWORD race or multicultural or ethnicity, etc.)
WorldCat - an online catalog of information in thousands of libraries around the world. Books, periodical titles, audiovisual material, special collections, selected Internet sites, and interactive multimedia are all catalogued in WorldCat. Search by author, title, keywords, or subject heading among other options at Advanced Search.
Sample searches: 1) SUBJECT education (higher) or SUBJECT college teaching and SUBJECT multicultural education or 2) SUBJECT college teaching and SUBJECT multicultural education and KEYWORD mathematics (or economics or biolog* or ...)
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