Category Archives: Information Science

The Purpose of Project Management in Archives Processing

Project management is about reducing the amount of actual work invested, from all sides. Continue reading

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Accessibility is Easy

The paradigm has shifted for accessibility issues in text, although it is pretty clear that publishers have not figured this out yet… Continue reading

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Project Management in Archives Processing…thoughts

With that in mind I’m going to kick off a series of posts about project management, and how/why to apply it to collections processing. Continue reading

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Book Lover

I went to library school because I love books. Continue reading

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Archives: A Holistic Perspective +Poems

The archivist should be the first stop in understanding a collection, not the last stop after the finding aid. Continue reading

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Accessibility: the cutting edge of text

Where does text begin and end with such a tool? Continue reading

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What is in a document?

Our current terminology for what a book is happens to be based on a very old technology… Continue reading

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The Perfection of Nazis

It was an eye-opening moment to go through those papers and hold the propaganda and photographs in my hand. Continue reading

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Chi Rho to .GIF: icon as text

However, when I scroll down my columns of twitter lists, what I scan for is the icons of the users I know. Continue reading

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Pirates, media, and academic scholars

Today I had the pleasure of linking the needs of archives-using scholars to Avengers fans in Japan in a serious discussion about archives digitization. Continue reading

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