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Thunder and rain and lightning and lakes

Rain was too irresistible tonight. (Or far more fun to explore than work on this lingering paper.) Here is the file: MayStorm

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Note to self: On building a database of Little Magazines

Technical issues, community-building-of-enthusiast issues, bibliographic issues. Good project design, leadership, and charging forward required.

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Introduction to Omeka Google Doc

Developing this Introduction to Omeka Google Doc to share for a one-shot session teaching Omeka as a digital tool. I chose to do this through a Google Doc rather than a PowerPoint presentation for easy access to links, public access,

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Reading recommendations from my graduate coursework

For some reason I am chomping at the bit to read Dr. Wayne Wiegand’s new book on U.S. libraries in the late 19th through early-to-mid-20th century. I still feel fairly new to the scholarship on libraries, but Dr. Wiegand’s reputation

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What’s keeping me busy these days

I have had a full and gratifying month this October and haven’t been as free to contribute thoughtfully to my own blog. I have posted a couple of essays to my HASTAC blog, and thought it’d be worth noting here

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First HASTAC blog entry up!

Earlier today I drafted and published my first blog post as a HASTAC Scholar. Our sponsors suggested that we use our first post to introduce ourselves to the community, and, well, my introduction had to get all thinky and turned

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Yet another Twitter essay

I published this essay on Twitter events in our local Iowa City rag. I’m a month late on adding this so I’m back-dating this post for my records.

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