Amanda Clay Powers, Dean
Faculty:
Associate Professor: Hillary Richardson
Assistant Professors: Rachael Damms, Jasdeep Kaur, Anita Pintado, Jared Quist
Instructor: Russell Brandon
Purpose:
Fant Memorial Library provides quality classroom instruction, practical learning experiences, research resources and services, and academic and cultural enrichment opportunities that will lead to successful student learning. The library is committed to incorporating inclusion, diversity, equity, and access through the Digital Studies Minor, information literacy instruction, and other co-curricular programming. Fant Library provides students with opportunities to navigate complex online and physical environments in an inclusive context that will prepare them for graduate, professional schools, or employment. The Library provides students with services, resources, spaces, and tools to facilitate continued personal, civic, and intellectual growth after graduation.
Digital Studies:
Fant Memorial Library offers an interdisciplinary minor in Digital Studies, focusing on skills and theory related to Digital Humanities, Science, Medicine, and Social Sciences. In the 21st century, the value of communicating information and data is a high priority for almost every profession. The Digital Studies minor focuses on these skills by giving students from any major an opportunity to tell their own story, solve a problem they’ve identified, or ask a unique question using digital resources. The minor allows students from any discipline to use the coursework for their major to learn about representing objects, people, and content in a digital environment; create a project related to their major and share it with potential employers or graduate schools; and gain hands-on experience with digital tools that manipulate, visualize, translate data and digital artifacts. This minor does not require any prior experience with coding or computer science.
