Case studies
Projects, customer stories, and examples for integrating primary source collections into your teaching or research.
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Curated image exhibition
This activity was developed initially for an undergraduate course on Shakespeare. A primary aim was to engage students, who included majors and non-majors in English, in the generation of knowledge about the multiple and changing significations ascribed to Shakespeare’s plays.
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Empire Online at the University of Southampton
Dr Christopher Prior, an Associate Professor in Colonial and Postcolonial History at the University of Southampton, has integrated AM’s Empire Online into a third-year special subject module taken by History students in their final year.
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University of Toronto: The Erindalian Campus newspapers
Mary Atkinson, Digital Assets Management Technician, and Shelley Hawrychuk, Chief Librarian, both at the University of Toronto Mississauga Library (UTML), share their experiences partnering with the AM Quartex team.
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Texas Wesleyan University: Uniting institutional archives and special collections
Based in Fort Worth, TX, the Eunice and James L. West Library at Texas Wesleyan University chose Quartex to unite its institutional holdings and special collections, creating a single, user-friendly repository for its user community. The resulting digital collections site is “everything we hoped it would be, and more”, according to Elizabeth A. M. Howard, Library Director, and Caitlin Rookey, Digital Initiatives Librarian.
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Harris County Public Library: Creating personal connections between community and collections
Harris County Public Library system (HCPL), Texas, the US’s 10th largest, launched its digital archive in Quartex in early 2021, its centennial year, telling its story through more than 30 digital exhibits.
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Towson University: Transforming digital learning
As Ashley Todd-Diaz, Assistant University Librarian, explains, Quartex helped Towson University’s Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) to transform its learning provision for students using archival resources.
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Sonoma County Library: Making digital collections available to all
Geoffrey Skinner, Cataloging and Metadata Supervising Librarian, and Edy Dawson, Web Programmer Analyst, both from Sonoma County Library, a public library system located in California, talked to us about the importance of providing digital access to their collections with Quartex, in the light of specific human and natural challenges.
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Des Plaines Public Library: Digital storytelling of a community’s past, present, and future
In 2021, the late Steven Giese, then Digital Projects Librarian at Des Plaines Public Library, talked us through the Library’s migration to Quartex and how his small team worked remotely to build and launch a new digital collections site that serves and engages their local community.
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Baylor University Libraries: Finding and implementing a flexible, futureproof digital collections platform
Darryl Stuhr, Director for Digitization and Digital Preservation Services in the Library and Academic Technology Services Group at Baylor University, discusses the process of migrating from CONTENTdm to Quartex.
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Gender: Identity and Social Change in PhD research at Queen's University
At the time of this case study, Emma McTavish was a PhD candidate at Queen’s University, Ontario, with a specialism in Victorian literature, life writing, gender and sexuality.