This project is an effort to expand the use of real-world scenarios and tasks in humanities teaching. The pedagogical aim for the Fall 2018 fieldwork course is to give students a powerful learning experience that stimulates their curiosity about human sociality and culture as revealed through ethnography. The context for their study will be the planning that is underway for the renovation of Alderman Library. This will give students a grounded perspective for comparing different modes of scientific and humanistic understanding and introduce them to Cultural Anthropology through an intense engagement with collecting, analyzing, and interpreting holistic, qualitative real-world data. They will also host a symposium at the end of the course where they share their research findings with librarians from UVA.