History: For History Faculty

See also the Teaching with Primary Sources Bibliography, a project developed jointly by members of the Society for American Archivists (SAA) and the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

"Ithaka S+R has released Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians, the first in a series of studies that reveal the needs of today's scholars and offer guidance for how research support providers can better serve them."

"This study, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a snapshot of a field in transition, and professionals supporting the work of historians will come away from it with a new or more nuanced understanding of historians' needs. The report also includes a list of actionable recommendations for how to make the work of historians easier or more effective."

I developed the Scholarly Credentials Toolkit to assist Humanities faculty in particular evaluate their academic productivity. The toolkit looks at:

• article impact
• journal impact
• book impact

Junior faculty especially can use the toolkit to demonstrate the impact of their work in the disciplines. I am available for meetings or group presentations to facilitate use of the databases and other tools described in the toolkit.

Information Literacy (IL), a concept centered on outcomes-based learning, has become a pillar of undergraduate education on campuses across the country. The Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education offers the library profession's official guidance on IL. Links below lead to information that can help TCNJ instructors fold IL into their courses.

Art

English

History

Philosophy

Religion

Additional suggestions:

Open Educational Resources for the Digital Arts & Humanities

Perspectives (search #DigHist)

Historians and the Technologies of Research by Robert B. Townsend (2017)

State of the Field: Digital History by Romein et al. (2020)

A few suggestions for keeping up-to-date with the journal literature:

• RSS Feeds (use an RSS reader to subscribe to tables of contents of your favorite library-licensed journals)
• Database Alerts (ProQuest, Ebsco, and other TCNJ Library database allow researchers to create alerts across entire databases of content)
• Google Alerts ("monitor the web for interesting new content")