Ken Middleton
Digital Initiatives Librarian
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Areas of Expertise
Digital Humanities, African American history, and women's history
Publications
Middleton, Ken, and Amy York, “Collaborative Publishing in Digital History.” OCLC Systems and Services 30, no. 3 (2014): 192-202.
Middleton, Ken, and Mayo Taylor. “Collaborative Digitization Goes Local.” In Digitization in the Real World. Edited by Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma. New York: Metropolitan New York Library Council, 2010.
Conner, Tiffani, Ken Middleton, Andy Carter, and Melanie Feltner-Reichert. “Volunteer Voices: Tennes...
Read More »Middleton, Ken, and Amy York, “Collaborative Publishing in Digital History.” OCLC Systems and Services 30, no. 3 (2014): 192-202.
Middleton, Ken, and Mayo Taylor. “Collaborative Digitization Goes Local.” In Digitization in the Real World. Edited by Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma. New York: Metropolitan New York Library Council, 2010.
Conner, Tiffani, Ken Middleton, Andy Carter, and Melanie Feltner-Reichert. “Volunteer Voices: Tennessee’s Collaborative Digitization Program.” Collaborative Librarianship 1, no. 4 (2009): 122-132. Available at: http://collaborativelibrarianship.org/index.php/jocl/article/view/38/26.
Middleton, Ken. “Collaborative Digitization Programs: A Multifaceted Approach to Sustainability.” Library Hi Tech, 23, on. 2 (June 2005): 145-150.
Presentations
Mapping Tennessee's African American Communities: A Digital Prototype, with Susan Knowles and Zada Law, Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture, February 10, 2023.
Zada Law, Susan Knowles and Ken Middleton. "The Archaeology of Citizenship: African American School Sites in Post-emancipation Tennessee." Society for American Archaeology Conference, April 17, 2021.
Establishing Community: Post-Civil War Placemaking in Rural Tennessee," with Susan Knowles....
Read More »Mapping Tennessee's African American Communities: A Digital Prototype, with Susan Knowles and Zada Law, Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture, February 10, 2023.
Zada Law, Susan Knowles and Ken Middleton. "The Archaeology of Citizenship: African American School Sites in Post-emancipation Tennessee." Society for American Archaeology Conference, April 17, 2021.
Establishing Community: Post-Civil War Placemaking in Rural Tennessee," with Susan Knowles. Tennessee Library Association Conference, Chattanooga, April 25, 2019.
"Establishing Community: Post-Civil War Place-Making in Rural Tennessee," with Susan Knowles, Zada Law, and Jo Ann McClellan. Slave Dwelling Project Conference, Oct. 26, 2018.
“Triangulation: Joining Scholarship, Primary Sources, and Spatial Visualization to Map the African American Landscape of the Civil War,” with Susan Knowles, Zada Law, Genny Carter, and Lydia Simpson, National Council on Public History Conference.
“Digital History: Documenting and Mapping Tennessee’s African American Schools,”Triangle African American History Colloquium, UNC-Chapel Hill, March 1, 2014.
“Women’s Stories / Southern Places,” Women’s History in the Digital World Conference, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, March 23, 2013.
Volunteer Voices: From Grant Project to Digitization Program,” Collaborative Digitization Discussion Group, ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, July 11, 2009.
“Collaborative Digitization Programs: Digital Collections for College Teaching,” with Amy Rudersdorf, MERLOT International Conference, Nashville, July 27, 2005.
Awards
ABC-CLIO Online History Award, 2009
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women’s Studies Section (WSS) Award for Significant Achievement in Woman’s Studies Librarianship, 2009
Special Projects
Selected Collaborative Digital Projects: