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here are some takeaways:
🌼 open access without open infrastructure cannot meet the goals of equity, quality, usability, and sustainability. Regardless of who owns them, decisions about our platforms must be transparent and community driven.
🌼 it is hard to move people away from closed infrastructure like social media platforms because we expect these platforms to be free and easy to use.
Listening to Alan Liu talk today:
How do we show that the humanities can scale between individual experiences and global or national events?
I have a new article!
It’s about photostats, the copying technology that transformed how libraries circulate information and set the stage for microfilm, photocopy, and digitization. I ask how librarians came to define a good copy - and what that means for copies today.
DM for a copy.
Thanks to amazing editors @wynkenhimself and Jesse Erickson 📚
The kids have been working on plans with their dad for autodidact afterschool.
9-year-old: I want to study that thing where you can see the future, like, where things are going to be?
Me:... Clairvoyance? 🤔
9-year-old: No it's not that... What's the word... #Calculus!
I’m so pleased that this amazing collection of essays about teaching with digital archival materials is now online and open access. It was stewarded by two brilliant editors and even has an essay by me :)
Featuring perspectives from educators, archivists (both community- and institutionally-affiliated), and undergraduates involved in efforts to deconstruct and transform the institutional authority of the archive, the volume details new roles for archives in undergraduate pedagogy and new roles for undergraduates in archives. With contributions from: Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Andi Gustavson, Gianluca De Fazio, Myranda Fuentes, Samantha Koreman, Mary A. Armstrong, Charlotte Nunes, Jennifer Wellnitz, Michele Hardesty, Alana Kumbier, Nora Claire Miller, Christopher Jones, Elizabeth Rodrigues, Rachel Schnepper, Temitayo Wolff, Elon Lang, Elise Nacca, aems emswiler, Marco Robinson, Phyllis Earles, Daren White, Jane Field Andi Gustavson is the Head of Fellowship and Instructional Services at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. She teaches primary source literacy with the collections and has published on ethics, archives, and pedagogy, most recently in Teaching Undergraduates with Archives, ed. Nancy Bartlett, Elizabeth Gadelha, and Cinda Nofziger (Maize Books, 2020). Charlotte Nunes is the dean of Lafayette College Libraries. She is interested in the role academic libraries can play facilitating undergraduate research opportunities that center on archives, oral history, and community partnerships. In her previous role as director of digital scholarship services at Lafayette College Libraries, she played contributor and project manager roles in such digital archives initiatives as the Queer Archives Project, the Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium Digital Archive, and the Modernist Archives Publishing Project. Her work has appeared in the New Review of Academic Librarianship, the Oral History Review Portal: Libraries and the Academy, Literature & History, and Archive Journal, among other venues.
Erica Watson
Hourly Otters (old)
Quinn Dombrowski
John McChesney-Young