Kayla Abner 🌈🔮

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Part librarian, part swamp witch. Digital scholarship/humanities. #BlackLivesMatter Libraries are not neutral. she/her #DigitalHumanities #DigitalScholarship
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0774-6775
Personal Sitehttps://kaylaabner.github.io/

I'm so excited about the launch event for my first grant project! Please share with anyone interested in Black entrepreneurship, the Civil War era, mapping, or datasets derived from 1800s "phonebooks" 📞🗺

https://udel.libcal.com/event/12928503

Mapping Black Entrepreneurship in Civil War Wilmington: Pilot Project Findings

What did Black entrepreneurship in Wilmington look like, as slavery died and emancipation took root? Black entrepreneurs during the Civil War era in Wilmington worked as...

Library, Museums and Press
Excited for my first #DLF Forum presentation! I'll be presenting with grad student Brit Henry on our pilot Collections as Data project, using the correspondence of 20th century activist and author Alice Dunbar-Nelson to create network data. Hope to see you there! Registration and schedule: www.forum2023.diglib.org
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Thx ACRL 2023 folks who came to our poster session DH
DECODED: DESIGNING A DIGITAL HUMANITIES TRAINING FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS & RESEARCHERS about our "Nuts & Bolts of DH Project Development" workshop. Consider taking the workshop at #dreamlab2023 June 5-8, Philly
https://web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab
Happy #LoveDataWeek! My first time doing an event at my library and it's been a lot of fun so far! Grateful for such fabulous colleagues.