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CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY | January/February 2019
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Bringing Primary Source Materials to Life With AR
At Washington College, students become curators, using augmented reality to create museum exhibits of materials that otherwise require restricted physical access.
Category: Education Futurists Institution: Washington College Project: Augmented Archives
Project leads: Heather Calloway, archivist and special collections librarian, and Raven Bishop, instructional technologist
Tech lineup: Apple, Aurasma (now HP Reveal), Blabberize, CamScanner, Microsoft, Pro Cyc, YouTube
ONE OF THE biggest challenges for an archivist is to find ways of making the rare, fragile and valuable materials in special collections more accessible to researchers and library patrons — not just stuffed away in boxes for preservation. At Washington College (MD), a collaboration that brings together faculty and staff from Archives and Special Collections with Academic Technology staff is addressing this issue by engaging students in “investigative curation” — all through the college’s Augmented Archives initiative.4
An Augmented Archives Sandbox showcased AR-enhanced student exhibits in the campus art gallery.
