Prof. of Hispanic Studies, Ana Cara, and student researcher, Robin Su, discuss their work in organizing and exhibiting an archive of materials related to Jorge Luis Borges’ May, 1983 visit to Oberlin College.
The Five Colleges of Ohio Digital Projects Portal
Promoting the outcomes of The Five Colleges of Ohio's Next Steps in the Next Generation Library: Integrating Digital Collections into the Liberal Arts Curriculum grant project.
Denison University Herbarium
Denison University Herbarium aims to catalog and digitize all of the specimens in our collection. The earliest specimens in our herbarium date from the mid to late 1800s. The first phase of this project has digitized and cataloged our specimens from the state of Ohio. Our future projects include the digitization of the Cathcart Fern Collection, a large and important work assembled by Wallace H. Cathcart during his travels in Asia in the 1900s. We hope that the digital herbarium is useful to the botanical community and other curious parties.
OWU Digitizing and Documenting the Production and Testing of FILTRON Clay Water Filters for the Potters For Peace Initiative
Potters for Peace is a non-profit, US-based organization that includes potters, educators, and volunteers who work together to craft clay filters to purify water that is safe for human consumption. The initiative to introduce the Potters for Peace organization to the OWU community began in 2009 with a project workshop given by Peter Chartrand, Potters for Peace Brigade Director, and co-sponsored by the Fine Arts Department and the Chaplain’s Office. Since Chartrand’s visit, Professor Kristina Bogdanov and her students have crafted filters using various formulae, and Dr. Laura Tuhela-Reuning and her students have tested the filtered water for coliforms and enterococci. Materials that document their work are available online.
Denison Virtual Earth Material Gallery
This virtual gallery is a sampling of specimens from the Denison Geosciences Earth materials collection previously only cataloged in a manuscript book (Figure 1.a and b) started by Prof. Clarence L. Herrick (Figure 1.c) in the 1890s. The items in the collection are varied, from representative mineral samples (Figure 1.d – Galena, quartz, rhodochrosite), to rocks from important geologic locations.
GIS Photographic Archive
This georeferenced database of archived photographs collected during field studies chronicles environmental change in the Wooster, Ohio region, helping to answer questions such as: Why are streams dramatically cutting into the stream beds and banks? How fast do boulders move down a stream? These photos are available online at the GIS Photographic Archive.
Festive Collectarium of Abbot Sigismund
The Festive Collectarium Of Abbot Sigismund de Fulchini(s) of the Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria Vallis Serena, diocese of Parma, Italy. Written by Genesius de Pezannis in the 2nd half of the 15th century. 61ff. 21 X 14 cm. Student exhibit created by Amanda Holt, OWU Class of 2012.
Denison Virtual Earth Material Gallery
Denison Virtual Earth Material Gallery. This virtual gallery is a sampling of the upward of 9,000 specimens from the Denison Geosciences Earth materials collection previously only cataloged in a manuscript book (Figure 1.a and b) started by Prof. Clarence L. Herrick (Figure 1.c) in the 1890s. The items in the collection are varied, from representative mineral samples (Figure 1.d – Galena, quartz, rhodochrosite), to rocks from important geologic locations.
Digitizing and Documenting the Production and Testing of FILTRON Clay Water Filters for the Potters For Peace Initiative
Potters for Peace is a non-profit, US-based organization that includes potters, educators, and volunteers who work together to craft clay filters to purify water that is safe for human consumption. The initiative to introduce the Potters for Peace organization to the OWU community began in 2009 with a project workshop co-sponsored by the Fine Arts Department and the Chaplain’s Office. During the workshop, Peter Chartrand, Potters for Peace Brigade Director, shared his knowledge and field experience of numerous years in service as a Potter For Peace. In addition, he presented OWU students with the organization’s mission statement, goals, and objectives and encouraged OWU to begin making and testing filters out of various formulae of Red Art, the most common red clay in North America.
Krempley Gender Project
Gender as a concept is subjective and thus open to various interpretations. In response to this, the purpose of The Krempley Gender Project is to reveal to students in Dr. Sokolsky’s HMCL 226 “Gender and Identity” course, through the medium of photographs, subjects that can be interpreted under the concept of gender. Students will be introduced to a series of photographs, which will depict gender interrelations, objects, and actions. There will be very little information given about the photographs themselves so as to let the student explore without any bias the subjects presented within the photos. However, photographs can be sorted into three main subject categories, Gender Interrelations, Gender Objects, and Gender Actions.
Collecting and Digitizing Farmer Interviews in Wayne County, Ohio
For this documentary project led by Matt Mariola, Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies and Jessica Clemons, Science Librarian, students in a course entitled Innovations in Agroecology planned and recorded oral interviews of local farmers, gaining first-hand knowledge of their farm operations and their lives in farming. These oral histories are available online at the Digital Collection Farmer Oral Histories.
History of Fashion Collection- Denison
The History of Fashion is a teaching and learning tool that provides access to over 350 garments and accessories from 1830 through the 20th Century. Students in Costume Design and History of Fashion courses will provide additional descriptive information to these items over time.