Learning by building digital libraries
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
From Wikipedia to the classroom: exploring online publication and learning
ICLS '06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Learning sciences
Information behavior of small groups: implications for design of digital libraries
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Wikis in education: is public better?
Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Wikis
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Helping students with information fragmentation, assimilation and notetaking
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Mapping life events: temporal and geographic context for biographical information
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Using university collections in digital library education
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
When students speak, who listens?: constructing audience in classroom argumentation
ICLS '10 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - Volume 1
Facilitating content creation and content research in building the city of lit digital library
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
Comparative appraisal: systematic assessment of expressive qualities
Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
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In 2008, Iowa City was designated as one of only five"Cities of Literature worldwide by UNESCO. To take advantage of our rich local literary history, an interdisciplinary research team from the University of Iowa collaborated to develop a digital library featuring Iowa City authors and locations. The UNESCO City of Literature digital library (referred to internally as "City of Lit") consists of a mobile application for the general public to access the database and a set of web-based interfaces for researcher and content creators to contribute to the database. Members of the research team have developed undergraduate literature courses to study the feasibility of using young scholars for digital content creation, and the pedagogical effect of including digital research in traditional literary courses. Students in the courses were trained to conduct scholarly research and generate a variety of digital resources to be included in the digital collection. This paper reports our experience building the City of Lit digital library and the results from evaluations and studies of the students in the courses. We also outline the implementation and development of the digital library, its framework, and the client-side mobile application.