15:35:15 Greetings my name is Jason to come.
15:35:18 >>JASON: This is my light and talk for ArcGIS StoryMaps.
15:35:34 I was recently PhD doing some sessional teaching at Brock University.
15:35:35 One of my colleagues join me for dinner and we started chatting about some of the research.
15:35:35 He shared with me that he was planning on applying for a fellowship at the Center for Renaissance and Reformation studies in Toronto.
15:35:47 Located in Victoria University and the University of Toronto, the CRS is a research and to teaching center that has its own library with materials devoted to the early modern period.
15:35:47 My interest had been Pete.
15:36:02 Although I had in funding for my doctoral studies Canada social sciences and humanities research Council, the interior graduate scholarship, and the department at the University of Toronto where the my doctoral studies, I was unaware that libraries offered money to work with her collections.
15:36:20 That night I buckled down in my study to do some research on library fellowships and roughly a year later I was a fellow of the John Carter Brown library.
15:36:20 I share this story because libraries are often only seen as storehouses books and other materials.
15:36:28 Graduate students focus much of their attention on the sources they need libraries without taking the time to consider the funding libraries can offer.
15:36:29 Not only this, but library fellowships are not always broadly advertised on campus.
15:36:40 Beyond perhaps a few specialized list desserts.
15:36:48 When I became a teaching and learning librarian at Western libraries, the wanted to make sure the graduate students in the arts and humanities did not find about library fellowships like me after they had defended and received their degrees.
15:36:59 For this reason, I put together a story map on library fellowships using ArcGIS software.
15:37:06 StoryMaps is a story altering web-based application that allows one to share maps, text, images and videos in a narrative fashion.
15:37:10 Each story Malpass and autoplay function.
15:37:15 It can easily be converted to a PDF file and printed, and it has its own URL for sharing.
15:37:25 My story map is entitled library fellowships, a brief introduction.
15:37:29 And I designed it as a teaching tool that I can use in specialized workshops on research strategies for graduate students.
15:37:31 It is divided into 4 parts.
15:37:40 The first being a description of what library fellowships are and their eligibility requirements.
15:37:49 Beyond simply explaining how to obtain stipends for research, this section offers an overview of the intellectual and social benefits of being a library fellow.
15:38:03 Researchers, doctoral AEDs to tenured faculty can make connections in their field of research, and form part of the academic life of their host institution.
15:38:13 Put in other words, library fellowships build communities of scholars in a in an interdisciplinary and international context.
15:38:34 And this story map offers graduate students a brief overview of how they conform part of these communities.
15:38:35 The second section looks at the application process which is very similar to other awards, grants and funding.
15:38:46 But with library fellowships, applicants must understand that their proposals need to make concrete links between the projects and the specific items in the collection they hope to work with.
15:38:51 The story map once again points to the community of scholars for inspiration by offering simple links to lists of current and former fellows.
15:39:04 It also offers a visual reminder of the need to pay attention to specific additions of works instead of only concentrating on the content.
15:39:18 The copy of Sir Edward Coates with the institutes of the laws of English of 1633, which is currently housed in the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University, as field annotations that other copies of this book do not have.
15:39:32 Applicants need to stress this level of knowledge in their proposals to demonstrate the need to physically work with the collections they are applying to do research and.
15:39:42 The third section charts library fellowships around the world with an interactive map featuring 73 libraries from five continents and 12 countries.
15:39:54 One can use the legend, which is organized alphabetically by continent in the bottom left-hand corner of the map to locate individual libraries.
15:40:03 It is also possible to search for libraries and by name or location using the search box.
15:40:13 By clicking on individual points, it is possible to obtain the address of the library and a link to its page on fellowship information.
15:40:28 There are several things that graduate students learn from this interactive map as they search for fellowship opportunities.
15:40:34 As they explore the various options for funding, they are exposed to arrange the potential libraries for the researcher beyond their own institution.
15:40:50 Among the lovers offering fellowships are public, private, national and university libraries, specifically special collections, museums housing special libraries and research centers, institutes and associations with their own collections.
15:41:04 The map also visually charts information privilege, financial influence, and the archival legacy of colonialism, most lovers offer fellowships are in the global North with 52 from North America and 12 from Europe.
15:41:12 The final section offers various ways in which graduate students can obtain, help from Western libraries.
15:41:20 This story map a library fellowships is a work in progress.
15:41:36 As I continue to search for other libraries offering funding to researchers while there are databases devoted to fellowships like Pro fellow that include library fellowships, they are not listed as a separate category for the purposes of discovery.
15:41:41 Not only this, but there is also nonessential database devoted to library fellowships and a global perspective.
15:41:51 Libraries have always been more than physical spaces for storing books and other materials.
15:41:54 They are spaces of personal transformation that are enhanced by communities of people seeking after knowledge.
15:41:59 Library fellowships make this possible.
15:42:02 StoryMaps allows us to visualize it.