CBL Experience w/ODY Library
Community Mentor: Gabriella Whittier
Agency and Placement Location: On-campus
Mission: According to its website: As the main St. Lawrence campus library, Owen D. Young Library--known as ODY on campus--provides you with the resources and services for research and study in the humanities and social sciences.
With seating for over 900 students in a variety of individual and group study spaces, including seminar rooms, two computer labs, a digital scholarship lab, several classrooms, and a 24-hour study room, you’ll have plenty of innovative spaces to choose from.
ODY is home to:
- Center for Teaching and Learning
- Information Technology
- Digital Scholarship Team
- Special Collections and Archives
- WORD Studio
Projects: "...to digitize several dozen historical photographs and stereoscopes of New York State’s Adirondack Mountains. The project will ask the students to familiarize themselves with the Adirondack Collection (Manuscript Collection 32), and from this create an exhibition based on the photographs and stereoscopes by Seneca Ray Stoddard and the photographs by Edward Bierstadt. Both Stoddard and Beirstadt play a significant role in shaping popular perceptions of the Adirondacks in the late nineteenth century, and St. Lawrence University’s collections of their photographs are singularly important within the context of the Adirondack holdings."
- Museum standard digital scanning and image file enhancement;
- Cataloguing images using traditional research methods and generative AI ;
- Writing interpretive text panels;
- Selecting photographs and stereoscopes to curate an exhibition for the Library or Art Gallery; and
- Publicizing the exhibition on social media.