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Cutting through the complexity of electronic resources management
Facet Publishing have announced the release of Alana Verminski and Kelly Marie Blanchat’s Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Management. Electronic and digital resources are dynamic and ever-changing and there is an increasing demand for competent professionals to manage them. Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Management cuts through the complexity and serves as an invaluable introduction to those entering the field […]
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Proposal for a University Department for ‘The Study Of Time’
Proposal for a University Department for ‘The Study Of Time’ by Rick Doble INTRODUCTION Today circular repeating time (right) is being replaced with linear time as the digital clock on the left shows. Time is the most used noun in the English language according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. This is […]
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Tressie McMillan Cottom Kills It on on Daily Show
If you missed HASTAC Steering Committee member Tressie McMillan Cottom being interviewed by Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, you will have at least two more chances to hear her talk about her stunning book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. Prof Cottom is not only a sociologist […]
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Project Reflection
The goal of our team project is to create a timeline-based database that holds analyses of the past 10 Dartmouth keynote commencement speeches. In creating this database and forming these analyses, we hope to uncover insights into what the social justice implications are of keynote speeches, and how these implications are related to the personal […]
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Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education
Monday, March 6 | 2 PM to 4 PM EST | GC Room 9100 (Skylight Room) | RSVP Twitter Chat: @FuturesED #fight4edu Live stream: http://bit.ly/fight4edu-live Join the Futures Initiative on Monday, March 6, 2017 from 2-4pm for a roundtable discussion on Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education, in which we will share strategies across the globe and highlight […]
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Voyant and Commencement Speeches
In light of the fact that my final project proposal is a to topic model recent Dartmouth commencement speeches, I decided to compare the 2007 and 2008 addresses to Dartmouth grads given by Henry M. Paulson Jr. ’68, Secretary of the Treasury, and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia, respectively. The Cirrus features immediately informed […]
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A Review of the Nelson Mandela Foundation: The Prison Years Gallery
The Nelson Mandela Center of Memory: The Prison Years is one of thirteen online galleries developed to promote Nelson Mandela’s life’s work and use his past to catalyze future social change. The website can be found at: http://archives.nelsonmandela.org/exhibit/nelson-mandela-prison-years/gR… . The website is created by the Nelson Mandela Organization, which was founded by the organization’s namesake […]
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Talking through NCPH 2017: Community Engagement in a Digital World
As a participant in the NCPH 2017 Working Group “Meeting in the Middle: Community Engagement in a Digital World,” ten public history practitioners and I are talking through the successes and struggles of web 2.0 projects. Seeing digital projects as places of shared authority, silence and exclusion, as well as part of the broader definition of […]
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“So what do we do now?” Lessons from the AAC&U 2017 Annual Meeting
At whose expense are service learning and diversity courses effective? Can U.S. education policy stop telling poor students what to do (and instead provide them with resources and opportunities)? How can we avoid reproducing oppressions in our social justice work in education? These are just some of the difficult and important questions addressed at this […]
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Crowdsourcing Tags
The crowdsourcing project I contributed to was Metadata games (http://www.metadatagames.org/), a self-described free and open source (FOSS) crowdsourcing game platform. Basically, the platform partners with 11 institutions and over 45 of their collections to crowdsource help in collecting metadata in the form of tags. These institutions are libraries, museums, and universities in the […]