Venn Diagrams: When Special Collections Meets Information Literacy

CONUL T&L Seminar | 10 November 2015Elaine Harrington | Special Collections Librarian

University College Cork

What Did I Value Most

Finding information on catalogue

Using information

found in item in dissertation

How can I physically use the item?

Which learning outcome is the one thing that students would retain from this course after leaving?

Could I honestly say that I spent the most amount of time in the course teaching to the goal I valued most?

Randy Bass

“Unique and distinctive” collections of rare books, and many other media, including born-digital and digitised documents (Cullingford).

What is Special Collections?

Uses Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences to discuss understanding objects and care of collections.

PowerPoint Has Its Uses…

Some items too fragile.

Some items not in Ireland – burned books in Leuven.

Reprographics Required?

55cm

Tightly bound

Manuscripts

Structure of A Book

Early printed books

Provenance

Leave the gun. Take the canoli.

Book Supports: Remember Goldilocks

Why Is This Special?

November 2015: Version 3

Feedback & Other Possibilities

Wider variety of examples: use for History of Science or History of Medicine.

Incorporate other senses:Examine books while blindfolded.

Special Collections

Information Literacy

ObjectAwareness

When Special Collections Meets Information Literacy

Object-based learning particularly well suited for different kinds of learners.

Bibliography

Slide 4Bass, Randy. “The Scholarship of Teaching: What’s the Problem?” Creative Thinking About Learning & Teaching February 1999 1.1

Slide 5Cullingford, Alison. “About.” Unique and Distinctive Collections: A Research Libraries UK Project. http://rlukuniqueanddistinctive.wordpress.com/about/

Slide 7Aquinas, Thomas. Incipiu[n]t preclarissima opuscula diui Thome aquinatis sacri ordinis p[re]dicato[rum] in quibus o[mn]is ph[ilosophi]e [&] diuina[rum] scriptura[rum] theoremata est co[m]plexus. [Venice: Hermann Lichtenstein, 1497].   

Slide 8An Claidheamh Soluis. 1901.

Slide 10Illustrations of the Most Interesting of the Sculptured Crosses of Ancient Ireland. Drawn to scale and lithographed by Henry O'Neill. London: Henry O'Neill, 1857. Slide 11Brown, Michelle. The Luttrell Psalter: A Facsimile. London: The British Library, 2006.

Beatha Finnchua. Ms. 90 UCC. Transcribed by Seosamh Ó Longáin.

Bibliography (2)

Slide 12“Principal Parts of a Book and its Binding.” http://www.bl.uk/blpac/pdf/bookbindings.pdf In PJM Marks. The British Library Guide to Bookbinding: History and Techniques. London: British Library, 1998.

Slide 13Aquinas, Thomas. Incipiu[n]t preclarissima opuscula diui Thome aquinatis sacri ordinis p[re]dicato[rum] in quibus o[mn]is ph[ilosophi]e [&] diuina[rum] scriptura[rum] theoremata est co[m]plexus. [Venice: Hermann Lichtenstein, 1497].   

Bruni, Leonardo. Historia del Popolo Fiorentino. [Vinegia (Venice): Iacomo de Rossi, 1476].

Slide 14Porter, Katherine Anne. The Never-ending Wrong. London: Secker & Warburg, 1977. Goldberg 303.48 PORT  

Sleath, Eleanor. The Orphan of the Rhine: A Romance in Two Volumes. Dublin: Printed for G. Burnet [etc.], 1802.

Slide 17Handel, George. A New Edition of Six Concertos for the Harpsicord or Organ. London: Wright & Wilkinson, [approximately 1784].