[This page provides an archive of the short blogging assignments the students completed during the first half of the semester. You can read the assignments and associated tutorials and also follow the links to the students’ work on each topic. To get the full effect of the student posts,\u00a0click on the post titles to be sent to the students’ individual blogs.]<\/p>\n
Assignment #1: Getting to know your University’s Archives\/Special Collections<\/span><\/p>\n To prepare for this first blog post, you should make an appointment with your university’s archivist or special collections librarian\u2014you’ll need at least a half hour of their time, and perhaps more, so be sure to plan ahead.<\/p>\n After your meeting, write up what you’ve learned about your local collections.<\/p>\n Continue reading\u00a0the prompt for this assignment<\/a><\/p>\n Student posts\u00a0for this assignment<\/a><\/p>\n For Thursday, we’d like you to spend some time examining an old book from your university’s collection\u2014preferably a book from the “hand-press era” (i.e., before about 1820)\u2014with an eye towards perceiving the kinds of details that can give us some insight into the book’s manufacture. You might revisit the oldest book in the collection that you identified last week, or turn to a different one that catches your\u00a0fancy.<\/p>\n
\nAssignment #2: Bibliographical inspection of an old book<\/h2>\n