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In which my iPad saves the day at work (again)
I am in the throws of digitization which right now means putting TIFF files into folders within directories that will be ingested into CONTENTdm. Once in CDM, these files can be made discoverable to...
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Victory is Mine!
Above, my victory lap. I started processing three collections on 1 September 2009, a total of 348 linear feet.They were not minimally processed; this was old-school, maximal processing. I finished...
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memory work
“If archivists are no longer commonly depicted as antiquarians stopped over old ledgers in dusty basements, they are not generally acknowledged as people consciously construction social memory to meet...
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Image Break!
“Oh heyy, I’m a man-chicken, I part the waters with my man hands and dance on the grass with my chicken feet.” (Source: http://shuddhi.tumblr.com/post/9794143511)
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I Found it in the Archives!
“The Good Old Days” revived at Bill’s Gay Nineties-ad from ca. 1940 via the Menden Collection, the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College. The title of this post brazenly repurposed from Smith...
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They Can Teach, Too: Archivists Take Over
Where is the academic library going? Barbara Rockenbach, Director of the History and Humanities Library at Columbia University suggests that Digital Humanities is a new service model for libraries,...
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The Gender of “The Stuff”
In June, I attended the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Preconference in San Diego, California. It was fantastic few days filled with informative sessions, an engaging back channel on Twitter, and...
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Another Response to the Ithaka Report on Historians
I – and what felt like everyone and their mother – have read the Ithaka S & R Report about historians. After reading it, I had some back and forth with librarians and archivists on Twitter as well...
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Slow Reference
Let me tell you a story, internetz: way back in the day before computers and the tubes that made you, librarchivists answered questions by MAIL, with PAPER and PEN EVEN. I answered one such question...
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