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Announcing the call for Digital Seed Grant Awards The Digital Seed Grant competition for 2019-2020 is now open. Walker Library Digital Scholarship Initiatives invites proposals for seed grants to support individual or collaborative digital scholarship projects in research, teaching, or public outreach from any discipline or area at MTSU. The call for proposals (CFP) is…

During summer 2019, the Journal for Economic Educators (JFEE) migrated publishing platforms. It’s new online home is the journal hosting service provided at MTSU Walker Library, which uses the Open Journal Systems (OJS) open access platform. Visit JFEE at https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/jfee. Vol 19 No 1 (2019)  is now available online, as well as its full issue…

Historic Clothing Collection Since the inception of the Historic Clothing Collection, the primary method of locating or researching items has been a physical search utilizing hard copy descriptions of items, in three ring binders.  The 2017-2018 Digital Seed Grant (and library expertise) enabled the collection’s digital development through photography, garment metadata, digital inventory and a…

During MT Engage Week, be sure to visit the library on Wednesday, September 26th to play LibGO! Snacks and prizes are available to the first 100 participants that play LibGO in room LIB 264A from 10:30am to 1:30pm on Wednesday! A Quick and Fun Introduction to Walker Library with LibGO!   Co-sponored by MT Engage…

The Spring 2019 Digital Workshops Series schedule is now available. Mark your calendar for the following topics. *All workshops are in LIB 264A or LIB 272. Register to get a reminder email before the workshop and to help with program planning* Workshop Schedules below: Scholarly Publishing Workshop Part 1: Intro to the Open Access Movement,…

Scholarly Publishing Workshop Part 1: Intro to the Open Access Movement Monday, February 18, 2019, 11:30am-12:30pm This session will provide an overview of the scholarly publishing model with an emphasis on its evolution to the open access movement. Discussion will emphasize the pros and cons of the open access movement as it pertains to authors…

Scholarly Publishing Workshop Part 2: Jump Start Your Scholarly Writing Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 11:30am-12:30pm Building on the concepts introduced in Part 1, the Part 2 session will help graduate students and early-career faculty produce an individualized, multistep action plan for turning one’s research into a submitted article. Participants will review library resources they can…

Exploring Wikipedia Workshop • Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 11:30am-12:30pm Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia is part of the fabric of our digital life. It is used worldwide, by millions of people daily. Join this workshop to learn more about it, as well as, how to use your knowledge and research skills to make it better. The…

Project Update: The scholarly digital research collection, Trials, Triumphs, and Transformations, was awarded Honorable Mention for the Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities at the American Studies Association Conference in November 2018.   Collection available at dsi.mtsu.edu/trials This project was produced by the James E. Walker Library, in partnership with the Center for Historic Preservation and…

Trials, Triumphs, and Transformations: Tennesseans’ Search for Citizenship, Community, and Opportunity Tennessee’s history between the end of the American Civil War (1865) and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act often gets ignored. This historic period offers insights into the transformations that took place, including challenges and achievements, as…