Category: Museums
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2023 Collaborative Book Review: Interview with Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis, authors of ‘The New College Classroom’ (2022)
This year, HASTAC Scholars Nanditha Krishna, Britt Munro, Sidney A. Turner, Waleska Solorzano, and Matthew Taitano interviewed HASTAC Co-Founder Cathy Davidson and Christina Katopodis of the CUNY Graduate Center, authors of The New College Classroom. Britt Munro: I love the down-to-earth way you approach the realities of college teaching, and in particular your approach to ‘failure’- when things don’t go as planned- as potentially generative […]
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Marbles Kids Museum
Marbles Kids Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina For the past several months, I have worked with Marbles Kids Museum – a children’s museum that prioritizes learning and holistic development through play. Below is the museum’s mission statement: Marbles sparks imagination, discovery and learning through play. Marbles has 5 core initiatives: Ready Set Learn. Play builds intellectual, social […]
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Creating Space within Constraints: A Reflection on Conference Planning in a Pandemic
Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash. There is nothing like a pandemic to make one question what an academic conference is for. Especially if you are one of the conference organizers. When CUNY went remote a year ago, I was in the final stretch of planning Graduate Education at Work in the World, as part […]
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New book explores the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit
Facet Publishing announce the publication of Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future, edited by Paul Gooding and Melissa Terras Legal deposit libraries, the national and academic institutions who systematically preserve our written cultural record, have recently been mandated with expanding their collection practices to include digitised and born-digital materials. Although […]
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New book presents mapping as a tool for developing information literacy
Facet Publishing announces the publication of Mapping Information Landscapes: New Methods for Exploring the Development and Teaching of Information Literacy by Andrew Whitworth. Written by a leading researcher in the field, this book investigates how teachers and learners can use mapping in developing their ability to make informed judgements about information, in specific places and […]
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Reach your constituents at home: join online Wikidata courses via Zoom
Good afternoon and happy Thursday, At Wiki Education we’re continuing to serve our community during the COVID-19 pandemic. We know you’re likely adjusting to a new routine of working from home and may be looking for virtual projects and networking opportunities, especially after upcoming conferences may have been cancelled. With our tried and tested online […]
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New book delivers firm understanding of XML for those working in modern information discovery services
Facet Publishing have announced the release of Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloguing and Metadata: Practical applications of XSD, XSLT, and XQuery by Timothy W. Cole, Myung-Ja (MJ) K. Han and Christine Schwartz. XML and its ancillary technologies XSD, XSLT and XQuery enables librarians to take advantage of powerful, XML-aware applications, facilitates the interoperability […]
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Entry-level guidance for managing born-digital content
Facet Publishing have announced the release of Heather Ryan and Walker Sampson’s The No-nonsense Guide to Born-digital Content. Libraries and archives of all sizes are collecting and managing an increasing proportion of digital content. Within this body of digital content is a growing pool of ‘born-digital’ content: content that has been created and has often […]
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Introducing Public Work, a Public Humanities Podcast
Public Work is a new podcast based out of Brown University’s John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. The Center’s mission is to create education, research, and public engagement initiatives that connect individuals and communities to art, history and culture. Produced by Center members Amelia Golcheski and Jim McGrath, Public Work builds on this […]
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A Legacy of Engagement with Zora Neale Hurston and Eatonville
The 29th Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities began Saturday, January 20th with the opening of an exhibition entitled Retrospective—The Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community: The Early Years, 1987 – 1997 curated by Dr. Scot French and Gramond McPherson from the University of Central Florida (UCF), Department of History. (Images from exhibit […]