<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Oberlin College Libraries Department of Special Collections is hosting a 1.5 day symposium on March 13th and March 14th 2020. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">For registration and a preliminary schedule see here: <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://advance.oberlin.edu/events/2020/03/13/teaching-and-learning-with-objects-for-colleges-symposium" target="_blank">https://advance.oberlin.edu/events/2020/03/13/teaching-and-learning-with-objects-for-colleges-symposium</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The
theme of the symposium will focus on building and teaching with
material collections of objects, and will rely primarily on the
holdings and spaces of our own Special Collections and College
Archives. Our intended audience is
targeted at those who support small liberal arts and special mission
colleges with limited financial and collections resources. We seek to convene librarians, curators, and archivists
from around the region and the country with an interest in exploring and
enhancing
objects-based pedagogy on their campuses. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">In
the last decade Oberlin College Libraries have invested heavily in
building collections of textual and visual media that allow students to
interact kinetically with crafts such as papermaking, calligraphy and
manuscript decoration, printing, binding, and pre-cinematic visual
media. We supplement the Class interactions take the form of
demonstrations, labs, creative work, and January intensives. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The
underlying question many of us have been more quietly asking concerns
the changing nature of Special Collections Departments and staff in the
liberal arts setting. Our feedback from faculty and students at Oberlin has been
very encouraging, so we're offering to reach out to others to network, and help us
share ideas and stories.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Feel
free to use your own personal networks to share this message with
colleagues who you think might be interested in joining us. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">For more
information about the symposium, or just to share thoughts, please
contact me personally at: <a href="mailto:ed.vermue@oberlin.edu" target="_blank">ed.vermue@oberlin.edu</a></div></div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ed Vermue<br>Special Collections and Preservation Librarian<br>Oberlin College Terrell Main Library<br>415 Mudd Center<br>148 West College St.<br>Oberlin, OH 44074-1545<br>Ph: (440) 775-5043<br>Fax: (440) 775-8739<br><a href="mailto:ed.vermue@oberlin.edu" target="_blank">ed.vermue@oberlin.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.oberlin.edu/library/special/" target="_blank">www.oberlin.edu/library/special/</a><br><br>tolle lege</div></div></div></div>