Archivist's note: We have been privileged to be participating in a brand-new initiative at the Mount, a Weekend Format course in Digital Humanities. These master's degree candidates have been working with the Frank H. Spearman Collection in the College Archives under the direction of Dr. Jennifer Tran Smith. We're happy to present the first in a series of guest blogs by the team's social media manager, Breanna Bello.
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| Dr. Jennifer Tran Smith, right, and class break for lunch on the Brady Hall patio during a day in the Archives. |
One may ask, why a western novel? Mount St.
Mary’s College holds a collection which consists of published articles by or about Frank Hamilton Spearman published from 1899 – 1937. The documents are
made accessible to Digital Humanities students by Victoria McCargar, Mount
St. Mary’s College Archivist.
The course, HUM 249E, is called "Digital Humanities: Finding, Manipulating and Creating Electronic Texts." The creation of new a website will be the result of 100% collaboration of the students. This class setting is a
requirement for the subject matter, and it has never been undertaken before
at the Mount. Throughout the the project, each student is
accountable for several critical components. In order to create an
internet resource, students have engaged in responsibilities such as transcribing, editing, managing, annotating, describing and creating research resources for future scholars on Whispering Smith, Spearman's most successful novel.
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| Guest Blogger Breanna Bello works with the Spearman Collection photos in the Archives. |