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From vaults to virtual classes, library archives enrich teaching


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Julia Gardner, head of research services for the library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, uses an overhead document camera to show a 15th-century book of sermons, originally attached to a lectern by a chain.
From vaults to virtual classes, library archives enrich teaching
January 21, 2021
In the spring of 2020, Denise Green thought she had the fall 2020 semester all figured out.
An associate professor of fiber science and apparel design in the College of Human Ecology, Green had been awarded a Society for the Humanities fellowship to teach a class on curating fashion exhibitions. Her students would do hands-on research in the archival collections of Cornell University Library, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and the Cornell Fashion and Textile Collection, which she directs. ....

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