Background
My name is Tyler Candelora, and I am a native of the central Pennsylvania anthracite coal region, Shamokin, PA. I am an undergraduate student at Bucknell University and expected to graduate in May 2019 with a B.A. degree in Comparative Humanities and Spanish, including minors in Translation Studies and French.

During the summer of 2017, I was selected as a 2017 Digital Scholarship Summer Research Fellow at Bertrand Library, Bucknell University. I am honored to have been a research fellow and to have had the many wonderful interactions with my colleagues.

This program allowed for a special type of collaboration between the summer research fellows and the Bertrand Library information/technology and digital pedagogy staff. Although there were only eight weeks, I have learned a lot about the processes of conducting research, my research topic, and about Digital Scholarship tools and methods.

I believe that digital methods lend a researcher to find new and intriguing information from their area of study that usually is not discovered when doing traditional scholarship.

Acknowledgements
I would like to especially thank the program facilitators, Courtney Paddick and Carrie Pirmann, for their incredible support, teaching, and help during the eight weeks. They were a guiding force with teaching digital tools, archiving materials, and motivation. I’d like to thank all the Bucknell’s Bertrand Library and IT staff for also demonstrating different platforms and methods.

A special thanks to:

Nancy Frazier, Research Services, who provided me with many different avenues to begin my research and helped archive various materials.

Dr. Diane Jakacki, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, who introduced me to this new program and gave invaluable feedback and insight on my project.

Dr. Emily Sherwood, Assistant Director of Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship, who helped me on numerous accounts with HTML/CSS coding on Scalar.

Additionally, I would like to thank Dr. Katherine Faull, Ph.D, Professor of Comparative Humanities, as my project mentor during my summer 2016 research on Shamokin's monuments that helped inform this research. Also, I would like to thank Dr. Shaunna Barnhart, Director of the Place Studies Program at Bucknell's Center for Sustainability and the Environment, including Janine Gather, specialist for GIS, Kate Feske-Kirby, Carrie Pirmann and Dr. Diane Jakacki for conducting research on the PA coal anthracite region over the spring of 2017 that helped inform this research.

Special Notes
Timeline: The Trevorton monument is not included until additional data can be found.

Digital Curation: Check for updated metadata on the Forest City and Trevorton monuments, and the addition of more newspaper articles.

Future Research
I will be studying in Santiago, Chile in the Spring of 2018 before my senior year. While I am there, I would like to visit coal mining towns and record information of public representations in chile through monuments and memorials. Then, as I begin to think about my Honors Senior Thesis project, I would like to continue analyzing representations of coal miners, but internationally. I would like to include other artistic mediums such as: photographs, murals, film, poems, etc too. Thus, I see this project as the genesis of a larger digital database or curation of representations of coal miners.

Contact Info
Tyler Candelora: tdc008@bucknell.edu

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