{"id":9467,"date":"2025-09-08T16:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/?page_id=9467"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:58:30","slug":"kaimowitz-institute-for-learning-with-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/watkinson\/opportunities\/kaimowitz-institute-for-learning-with-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaimowitz Institute for Learning with Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/09\/Kaimowitz-Institute-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1098\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/09\/Kaimowitz-Institute-Logo.png 1098w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/09\/Kaimowitz-Institute-Logo-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/09\/Kaimowitz-Institute-Logo-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/09\/Kaimowitz-Institute-Logo-768x256.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1098px) 100vw, 1098px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Kaimowitz Institute (formerly named the Watkinson Library Institute), is a two-and-a-half-day teaching workshop that focuses on pedagogical best-practices that undergird <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">successful student learning engagements with special collections and archival materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">The goals of the Institute are as follows:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(1) To provide faculty with greater familiarity with current pedagogical approaches to teaching with special collections and archives<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(2) To build knowledge of print and nonprint resources related to pedagogy, as well as organizational supports for course and assignment design<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(3) To build greater awareness of some of the common challenges that instructors and students face when working with special collections and archives<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(4) To enhance awareness of the importance of consultation, collaboration, and partnership with archivists and librarians at any and\/or all points (from planning to delivery to assessment)<\/p>\n<p>(5) To develop practical experience in designing a lesson plan\/worksheet\/assignment that incorporates the pedagogical principles introduced in the workshop<\/p>\n<p>The Kaimowitz Institute for Learning with Special Collections is supported through the generous funding of the Watkinson Library and its Board.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8037\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8037\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/IMG_0028-scaled-e1757363650681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watkinson Library Institute Workshop (January 2024)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Faculty at Kaimowitz Institute (for 2025)<\/h3>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1717 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/ejd-formal-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Johnson-Debaufre\" width=\"130\" height=\"156\" \/>Eric Johnson-DeBaufre<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, PhD (English, Boston University, 2012), Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian, Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library (Hartford, CT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Eric Johnson-DeBaufre joined the Watkinson Library staff in 2019 after working as the librarian for the Robbins Library of Philosophy at Harvard University for six years. Prior to his career as a librarian, he taught English literature, specializing in 16th and 17th century British literature, at several small liberal arts colleges. Eric has a background in early modern manuscript and print culture. Eric has received a Mellon Fellowship for the study of English Paleography at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and has taken several courses at Rare Book School, including <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Descriptive Bibliography<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> with David Whitesell. Most recently, he attended the Rare Books Workshop at Texas A&amp;M where he practiced paper making, casting and setting type, and printing on a reproduction 18th century press. As the Rare Books and Special Collections librarian for Watkinson, his work engages four overlapping interests: making Watkinson\u2019s rare and unique materials publicly accessible, supporting their educational use, promoting broader engagement with them, and preserving them for future generations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1656 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/10\/Stoykovich.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Stoykovich\" width=\"130\" height=\"156\" \/>Eric Stoykovich<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, PhD (History, University of Virginia, 2009), Manuscript Librarian and College Archivist, Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library (Hartford, CT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Eric Stoykovich joined the Watkinson Library staff in 2019 after working for the University of Maryland\u2019s Special Collections for three years. Prior to coming to Trinity College, he digitized multi-format cultural resources at the Library of Congress and military records housed at the U.S. National Archives for Fold3\/Ancestry. His dissertation in American history from the University of Virginia focused on the intellectual history of agricultural improvers and cattle breeders in the early American republic, looking at how their arguments, mainly in print and in agricultural periodicals, were created and adapted for political purposes. Stoykovich earned a B.A. in history from Brown University and an M.L.S. from the University of Maryland. While earning a Lang Fellowship from the Rare Book School in 2022-2024, he has taken two Rare Books School courses in 2022: <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820\u20131940<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. In 2023, he took the Rare Book School course <em>The Bible and Histories of Reading<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9651 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/lits\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2025\/08\/Casey-ID-130x156px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"156\" \/>Casey Machenheimer<\/strong>, MLS (Indiana University Bloomington, 2023), Special Collections and Archives Librarian for Public Services, Research, and Outreach, Watkinson Library, Trinity College (Hartford, CT)<\/p>\n<p>Casey Machenheimer joined the Watkinson Library in January 2024. She received her B.A. in English from Ohio University in 2019 and her M.L.S. with a specialization in Rare Books and Manuscripts from Indiana University in 2023. Prior to coming to the Watkinson, she has worked in both special collections libraries and public libraries. In her current role, her focus is facilitating user access to materials, working directly with students, and finding new ways to promote opportunities and services in the Watkinson Library.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaimowitz Institute (formerly named the Watkinson Library Institute), is a two-and-a-half-day teaching workshop that focuses on pedagogical best-practices that undergird successful student learning engagements with special collections and archival materials. 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