Every year, Douglass Day is held on February 14th by the Colored Conventions Project to celebrate the life of Fredrick Douglass. By collectively transcribing online collections of historical documents, attendees will make Black history and culture more accessible to the public. This year’s Douglass Day celebration will be focused on the life of Mary Ann […]
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Digital Scholarship Project Assistant position Built Environment Oral Histories Project LITS is seeking to hire a student researcher who is interested in oral history and historic preservation issues in Philadelphia to work on a Digital Bryn Mawr Grant project directed by Professor Min Kyung Lee (Growth and Structure of Cities) in collaboration with the Career […]
So many things are happening at and around Bryn Mawr in the next week! Here’s a selection of digital-scholarship-related events and news items: Associate Professor Seung-Youn Oh (Political Science) and Assistant Professor Lauren Restrepo (Cities) will be presenting their research at a Faculty Works In Progress Lunch at 12:45-2:00 PM on Thursday, October 20. Both […]
Curious about Digital Scholarship? Have an idea for a digital research project? Want to build a website but don’t know where to start? Swing by the Carpenter Library Digital Media & Collaboration Lab for Digital Scholarship Drop-In Hours every Thursday 12:00 – 2:00 pm to learn more about digital tools and methods such as web […]

I owe a summer (and beyond) of growth to the Daily Digest. Yes, the Daily Digest, Bryn Mawr’s e-newsletter that arrives in our Outlook inboxes shortly after midnight and seems too long to read through. As an anxious first year in the fall of 2020, I found the amount of information in each newsletter to […]
WordPress Website Week 2022
Do you want to create your own website, but don’t know where to start? Are you looking to boost your web publishing skills? Join Digital Scholarship and LITS for WordPress Website Week, a celebration of website making powered by WordPress– A tool and resource for web publishing available to the Bryn Mawr community for free through Domain […]
On Friday, February 14, 2022, thousands of people will celebrate Douglass Day, an annual event held to celebrate the birthday of Frederick Douglass. LITS will be hosting a viewing of the Douglass Day events both in Dalton 20 and also remotely over Zoom from 12:00 – 3:00 PM. This hybrid event will be a combination […]

On February 12 and 14, 2021, thousands of people will celebrate Douglass Day. The event marks the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass by inviting members of the public to join an online crowdsourcing project. It’s a way to celebrate Black History Month with a digital twist! This year’s project focuses on the papers of Mary […]
Practical Geographic Information Systems (GIS): A Workshop Series Instructor: Zachary Silvia Date & Time: February 20, 2021; March 6, 2021; March 20, 2021; April 3, 2021; 12:00 – 2:30 pm Location: Zoom This workshop is the first in a series of four sessions aimed towards promoting the use of Geographic Imaging Systems (GIS) in the […]
Join us next week on Tuesday, Feb 2nd & Wed, Feb 3rd for our annual Tri-Co Hackathon! Please register here by Sunday, Jan 31st if you’d like to attend. About the TriCo Hackathon THE EVENT The Tri-Co Hackathon aims to bring teams of students from Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr together in collaborative learning through […]