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Optional Module: Bias in Data Description
This optional module hits close to home. As an archivist, I find myself in the lineage of a long line of data brokers and record…
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Digital Storytelling
Our small group on Monday discussed what makes storytelling digital versus other methods. Pete pointed out that a board definition would include things like Ken…
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Nope…Not For Me!
I will admit at the outset that perceptions of this week’s material were colored (or de-saturated) by my struggle with insomnia. I’ll start with the…
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Privateers, Pirates, and Buccaneers…Oh my!
Made available courtesy of piracy In Jim Hension’s Muppet Treasure Island, the late legendary actor, Tim Curry, gave a rousing defense of piracy in the…
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The Project of Managing Projects
The head librarian summoned the department heads to a conference room in early June of 2024. She informed us that the board of trustees had…
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A Digital Reading Room?
As an archivist, I am no stranger to digitization. In 2009, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Society of American Archivists…
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What Is Digital History?
Adam Crymble argues that it is difficult to define digital history and that the field would be better served by historiographical studies rather than arguing…
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Introduction
Denton Waits is the head archivist at Virginia Theological Seminary, where they manage extensive institutional and manuscript collections, including the African American Episcopal Historical Collection.…
