Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Participating institutions/Rollins College

  Wikipedia Visiting Scholars  

About Rollins College

View of Rollins College from Lake Virginia

Rollins College is a coeducational liberal arts college in historic and scenic Winter Park, Florida, on the shores of Lake Virginia. Founded in 1885, it is the state's oldest college. It is the Princeton Review's Most Beautiful College Campus and consistently ranks as one of Florida's best schools. U.S. News & World Report named Rollins the top regional university in the South for 10 of the past 11 years.

About the Department of Archives and Special Collections

At Rollins, The Department of Archives and Special Collections works to acquire, preserve, and make accessible unique and rare materials documenting the history of Rollins College and Central Florida.

Overview of library resources

The Rollins College Olin Library provides access to well over 100 academic databases and tens of thousands of ebooks. Its Archives and Special Collections holdings (both physical and digital) include a sizable rare book collection dedicated to a popular "History of the Book Course" still taught at Rollins; a substantial collection of historic photos illustrating late 19th and early 20th century Central Florida settlement, tourism, agriculture, and development; and a substantial literary collection dedicated to many Florida authors including Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston. In addition, one of its notable literary-oriented special collections is funded by an endowment dedicated to actively acquiring scholarly publications and artifacts about the lives and literature of Walt Whitman and his friend William Sloane Kennedy. For more information see the Collections Overview.

Past Visiting Scholars

M2545

M2545 (talk · contribs) was a Visiting Scholar at Rollins College in 2016-17, focusing on urbanization in Florida and the southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and on Cuba-Florida connections.

Highlights

• Created or improved dozens of timeline articles about cities in Cuba and the southern United States.
• Created 116 articles and improved about 100 others in the focus topic areas.
• Uploaded almost 600 relevant images to Wikimedia Commons.

Media

• Rollins College chooses Wikipedia Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog (8 June 2016)
• Timelines of a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog (30 August 2017)

Position announcements

Rollins College is not currently accepting applications. Please see Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Apply for other options.