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She/her. #History #librarian at #Mississippi State University. Fangirl, feminist, humanist, aunt. Researching the Black men who served as legislators in Mississippi during and just after #Reconstruction: https://much-ado.net/legislators/

#DigitalHumanities #Genealogy #Library #Histodons

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People like to joke about colons in academic titles, but the formula is pretty clearly "Title I Love: Title that Indexes this Content to its Readership." Let us have this one thing so that we can have a tiny crumb of cake and eat it too. 😅
How Humanists Should Use Mastodon

I’m brand new to Mastodon. Many of us are. This might suggest that we shouldn’t have opinions. But I think the opposite is true. If Mastodon is truly a decentralized platform, if it&#82…

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Have just realised that #academics can use @ORCID_Org to
#verify themselves.

Just include your full mastodon link (like this: https://mas.to/@marekmcgann) in the "Websites and Social Links" section in ORCID, then include link to your ORCID record in your Mastodon profile.

Hurray for distributed digital identities!

5-7 interests that aren't in my profile:

#JaneAusten
#sloths
#cats (my 4 are shown below)
#pasta
#fanfiction
#graving (see #FindAGrave and #BillionGraves)

Help newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as hashtags. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.

#CulturalIdentities
#Cats
#Travel
#FoodCultures
#MediaRepresentations
#EntertainmentIndustries

I just can't refer to posts as "toots." Makes me feel like a southern grandma who won't say "fart."

Ages ago I gave a keynote on invisible labor but never wrote it up (it's available as a recording but...yikes).

So I'm delighted to see this article, in which the authors draw on many of the same concepts to examine survey data from academic librarians!

My only quibble is that making work more *visible* is not a great solution because the problem is actually exploitation.

Invisible Labor, Invisible Value: Unpacking Traditional Assessment of Academic Library Value https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/25683/33594

Invisible Labor, Invisible Value: Unpacking Traditional Assessment of Academic Library Value | Clarke | College & Research Libraries

Invisible Labor, Invisible Value: Unpacking Traditional Assessment of Academic Library Value

My current research is about Black women who attended Columbia U before 1954 including women such as May Edward Chinn (L) and Lucy Diggs Slowe (R):

I gave this talk on October 28 for the Society of #Mississippi #Archivists about the Mississippi Governor's School class I taught in June, introducing gifted high school students to our state's first Black legislators. It shows, I hope, how #library and #DigitalHumanities work can lead to unexpected opportunities. #Education #BlackHistory #Reconstruction #histodons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMU8WMmSrDQ

Introducing High School Students to Mississippi's First Black Legislators

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After one day, there's now over 160 people on the Mastodon #DigitalHumanities list! There's also now a DH group anyone can join, here: https://a.gup.pe/u/dh. Following @dh gets you updates; mentioning it adds that post as an update.
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