A reception hosted by the
University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center will highlight four undergraduate students' Learning Lab
internship projects from 3 to 5 p.m., Thursday, April 15, in the Great Hall of
the Margaret I. King Library Building. The free public exhibit will showcase
items from collections processed by the interns. The interns will also give presentations on their work.
The
Learning Lab internship program, now in its third year, is an experiential
learning program that introduces undergraduate students to archival processing
and theory using rare and unique resources in the UK Libraries Special
Collections Research Center.
Learning
Lab intern Ann Baillie, a sophomore English major from the greater Chicago
area, processed The Cakes and Ale Club records belonging to library advocate
and lawyer Samuel M. Wilson. Baillie's scholarly project is an
article to be published in the journal The Reading Room, published
by the University of Buffalo. Publication is expected for Summer 2015.
Faith
VanMeter, a junior majoring in psychology and piano from Greensburg, Kentucky,
created a digital humanities rendering of the history of Lexington's Narcotics
Farm, which closed in 1974. VanMeter's project dovetails with STEM research she
has done as a Chellgren Fellow, studying correlations between substance abuse,
socioeconomic status, and child abuse. VanMeter's scholarly project will be a
poster presentation at the 2015 Kentucky Library Association conference in
Louisville. The conference is in September, 2015.
Lauren
Farmer, a graduating history and secondary social studies education major from
Lexington, and Kristen Thornsberry, a junior history major from Richmond, Kentucky,
processed the Faulconer, Johnstone, Shelby, Tevis and Potter papers. The papers
deal with the Kentucky-related topics of the hemp industry, Southern economics,
slavery, and genealogy. Their scholarly project is a digital humanities
research tool integrating GIS and primary source documents from the collection
to explore various aspects of Kentucky and broader Southern history.
The
Learning Lab projects will be available online by April 20, 2015. Learning Lab
Manager Stacie Williams supervised
all projects.
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