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…
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…
Last Friday I finished up a freelance project that lead me to daydream about Iowa’s mid-19th century railroad schemes. I followed up on an ad circulated through our department’s listserv to make contact with an independent researcher out of Missouri.…
Last night I finished Siva Vaidhyanathan’s Googlization of Everything, and rather than being scared away from customized search after reading the book, I find I am more drawn to it, especially when thinking about how to improve search for academic libraries.
Second semester of my LIS program is well under way, and with two weeks to go until midterms, I feel like I’ve finally got a plate full enough to feast off of. For the past month, I’ve only been working…