Virtual teaching with Special Collections: 'Language to Be Looked At'
Emily Judd, Princeton Univeristy Library March 15, 2021 12:07 p.m. Students in the fall 2020 course “Language to Be Looked At” examined modernist and avant-garde experiments in word and image, including engaging with Princeton University Library (PUL)'s Special Collections. For the final assignment, students were asked to identify gaps in PUL's "concrete poetry" collections — particularly works by women, gender nonconforming, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian artists — and make acquisition recommendations. After the course ended, PUL acquired all the recommendations that were avail...