In our Community Relations & Advocacy class, George posed an interesting question: “Is there a way to capture…instances where a library or librarian has made a real difference and corral that into evidence of value that would compel others to use and support the library?” I have a couple thoughts on ways that libraries can make [...]
Posts Tagged ‘information’
Marketing & Advocacy: Lessons from the Nonprofit Sector
Posted in Graduate Assistantship, tagged advocacy, domestic violence, freedom, information, literacy, marketing, nonprofit on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Farming in the Digital Age
Posted in digital collections, tagged digital collections, information, preservation, technology on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a digital collection for EveryMan: a place of preservation and dissemination of the images, stories and humor of rural farm life in Ohio. The digitial divide still exists, but the point of crossing over–where analog culture first embraces the digital–is a facinating place.
Aspirations: Check! Perspiration: Check!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged career, children, grad school, grant writing, information, library, library & information studies, reader's advisory on March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Whew! This semester has been like being tied by the ankle to a runaway llama so far… Which is why I’m so woefully behind on updating this blog. So here’s an essay I wrote about my aspirations for the profession: My long-term career goal is to serve as a public librarian, specifically in the areas [...]
Digital Collections
Posted in digital collections, tagged digital collections, grad school, information, library, media on September 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This represents my first post for my Digital Collections class, discussing examples of interesting digital collections. All posts for this class will be categorized under the term “digital collections.” ibiblio is a “collection of collections,” including art, history, literature, music, science, software, and cultural studies. Some collections within ibiblio are in non-English languages, such as Spanish [...]
The Information Underground
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged communication, domestic violence, gender, hobos, information on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Okay, I’ve neglected this thing for too long. In class two weeks ago, we talked about Tulsa’s information infrastructures: the arrival of railroads, churches, radio, television, the Internet, etc. I’m always drawn to things outside the mainstream, and I started thinking about alternative information infrastructures, information subcultures, the information underground. Those information infrastructures that aren’t [...]
