Advancing Humanities at Ohio Wesleyan University’s Libraries in the Face of Adversity

FAIN: AH-275847-20

Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, OH 43015-2333)
Deanne Peterson (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2025)

The retention of a public services librarian for 6.5 months.

Our teaching Libraries actively promote OWU’s curriculum, student and faculty research, co-curricular activities and lifelong learning. The pandemic has interrupted some of the Libraries’ most valuable mission-driven contributions to innovative content creation and advancement of the humanities. NEH funding will allow a furloughed public services librarian with the highest percentage of liaison responsibilities in the humanities to return for 6.5 months to continue to: co-plan a for-credit information literacy course; take Blackboard training to better assist faculty with coursework and identify new ways to incorporate library teaching into the system; help launch a digital scholarship summer institute as a member of OWU’s Comparative Literature project team; assist 11 liaison areas; coordinate library instruction activities for English 105 and UC 160 courses; and support an online interdisciplinary course serving over 1,000 students of all ages. Project dates are 6/15 -12/31/2020.