The following is a guest post by Zach Coble, Systems and Emerging Technologies Librarian at Gettysburg College.
When I began this job a year ago, one of the first things our director told me was that the library had just purchased two blogs on the Civil War and she wanted me to figure out how they could be used most effectively for teaching and learning. From the start I wasn’t sure exactly what I was supposed to do. “What do you mean we purchased two blogs? Why?”
A little bit of context first.
Many students are drawn to Gettysburg College for its curricular offerings an