Technical issues, community-building-of-enthusiast issues, bibliographic issues. Good project design, leadership, and charging forward required.
Technical issues, community-building-of-enthusiast issues, bibliographic issues. Good project design, leadership, and charging forward required.
Goal: Clarity! Changes to the first draft: Made some headway into the methodology and was able to add what approach I’m taking. (But I still consider it a work in progress.) Expanded scope to include disciplines outside the humanities, casting…
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,…
I’ve been working on this research idea since early January, writing about it for my last HASTAC blog post. This morning I submitted the abstract to the Jakobsen Conference, a conference for University of Iowa graduate students, and wanted to…
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…
Very happy to have been a part of this crowdsourced video panel put together by Neal Stimler for the Museum Computer Network’s 2011 conference. The conversation made me fall back in love with museums and see digital archives in a…
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…
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…
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.
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…