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As part of my government information librarian role, I’m incapable of shutting up about the decennial census. And when I wanted to turn around an exhibit in the height of 1410 season, I turned to the census for inspiration. Drawing from Rob Lopresti’s When Women Didn’t Count and Measuring America, I put together a carousel exhibit on census undercounts focusing on women. This carousel pulled double duty as my presentation for the March 2021 meeting of the Cheyenne Mountain Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution where I was doing the monthly programming block. In the future, I want to do an exhibit that really gets into how enumerators are given their instructions, but that may have to wait until 2030… If you want to flip through the exhibit, click here:
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One thing I wanted to be able to bring back in Spring Semester for ENGL 1410 (First Year Rhetoric and Writing) was my citation mapping exercise. This had been on hold because it had previously been a very in-person activity. I would group students in pairs in the classroom, give them an article, and task them with developing a handful of keywords that they thought would apply based on reading the abstract. They would then put the articles up on the whiteboard and we would connect them based on shared authors, shared themes, and if any of them linked up via their references. I like this exercise because it speaks to the “scholarship as conversation” frame and allows me to talk about the fact that not only are students putting their sources in conversation in their writing but also entering the scholarly conversation themselves.
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