North Carolina Digital Collections Collaboratory

I’ve been meaning to write about my experience with Flickr for some time, but in some ways it’s better that this is following Brian’s excellent post. My best guess, I’ll plainly state, is that in the wake of Google’s mass digitization of published works (books, magazines, journals), major research libraries will only be distinguishable by [...]

In Elizabeth’s response to Amy’s post last week, she wrote, “You often hear that special collections are largely what distinguishes one academic library from another, and digital projects are a big way to show off/provide access to special collections.” The first half of this comment is something I’ve been thinking about for some time now. [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about my job and whether I’ll have it a year from now. I think I’m a good employee – efficient, take charge, responsible, etc. But, with all the talk of job cuts at all strata of society – even Duke University has mentioned job cuts (and the fact that they [...]