{"id":4975,"date":"2012-09-07T08:46:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T12:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2012-09-07T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T12:46:04","slug":"prof-gelbmans-research-prefers-paper-to-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2012\/09\/07\/prof-gelbmans-research-prefers-paper-to-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Gelbman&#039;s research prefers paper to digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article\u00a0at <em>The Peoria Journal Star.com<\/em> described <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2012\/09\/Gelbman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4976\" title=\"Gelbman\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2012\/09\/Gelbman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>how research has changed at the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center in Pekin, IL, home of documents and artifacts of former Illinois Senator Everett M. Dirksen.\u00a0 The center has digitized most of its documents, which allows easier and far-reaching access for researchers around the world.\u00a0 However, there are many items which can\u2019t be digitized\u00a0or beg to be visited by researchers in person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asst. Prof. of Political Science Dr. Shamira Gelbman<\/strong> used the Dirksen Center just last month for research for a potential book related to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.\u00a0 During her one-day visit to the center, she uncovered some documents which had not yet been digitized or were not deemed as relevant for online access.\u00a0 The <em>PJStar<\/em> quotes Prof. Gelbman, \u201c&#8221;It really paid to go there in person. There&#8217;s something to be said for holding original documents rather than just seeing scans of them.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjstar.com\/news\/x326766304\/Digging-Dirksen?zc_p=0\">Click here<\/a> to read the article in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to Wabash as a Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of Political Science, Dr. Gelbman was an assistant professor at Illinois State University where she taught American Politics.\u00a0 She received her B.A. from Hunter College and M.A. and Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, where she was also an American Political Development fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article\u00a0at The Peoria Journal Star.com described how research has changed at the Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center in Pekin, IL, home of documents and artifacts of former Illinois [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}