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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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Social Media for Professionals, Revised July 2011

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. –Dante Inspired by the recent HackLibSchool post on the work/life balance on Twitter, I decided I had participated in the library

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