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Blog Tag: Primary sources

January 29, 2025

Grant opportunities for libraries to digitize, describe, and preserve collections in 2025

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
Highlighting key 2025 grant opportunities for libraries to digitize, preserve, and describe collections, including funding for audiovisual materials and community archives. Deadlines and award amounts vary, offering multiple pathways for support.

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January 21, 2025

Open access collections on JSTOR:
Advancing scholarship and visual literacy in 2025

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
Accessible knowledge opens the door to education. In 2025, explore JSTOR’s open access collections, featuring art, photographs, and cultural archives that empower visual literacy and interdisciplinary discovery.

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September 19, 2024

Artstor on JSTOR is for everyone

By Rumika Suzuki Hillyer, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
Discover how educators across various disciplines are creatively using Artstor on JSTOR to enrich their teaching. From ESL to Dance studies, explore 15 inspiring ways high-quality images and media are being integrated into lessons, helping students engage with visual resources in new and innovative ways.

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September 3, 2024

Reveal Digital: Bringing marginalized histories to light through crowdfunding

By Peggy Glahn, Associate Director, Reveal Digital
Amplifying marginalized voices through crowdfunding and crowdsourcing in digital archives and libraries. Learn how Reveal Digital's initiative uncovers underrepresented histories with open access collections hosted on JSTOR.

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March 12, 2024

Uncovering hidden gems: Exploring open access primary source collections with Peggy Glahn of Reveal Digital

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
Reveal Digital develops open access primary source collections from underrepresented 20th-century voices of dissent, crowdfunded by libraries. In a session during ER&L’s annual conference, Peggy Glahn, Associate Director of Reveal Digital, discussed the six collections that are currently accessible, and talked about the shift they represent in Open Educational Resources (OERs). 

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