#library science

[mydirtyvalentine]

pretty normal podcast listening experience i think,

[polarite-symbolique]

I love fall semester

[studyrkive]

3.26.26- today was my last library work session before spring break and it was finally warm enough to work outside before sunset! looking forward to doing this again in april✨

i may start a productivity challenge for myself when class starts back up until the end of the semester? we'll see if i remember this when its time lol

[jstor]

In a very Shelleyan twist of fate, a manuscript has been brought back to life–not in a lab, but in a library. 🕯️

At Drew University, librarians and students used JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to catalog and share the unfinished Mary Shelley biography and research notes of Dr. Betty T. Bennett.

“To me, it was kind of giving her work a second life, which is very Frankenstein. Very Shelley.” – Candace Reilly, manager of Special Collections

Alongside Bennett’s archive, a selection of the Byron Society's realia was also made digital. These items include portraits, busts, Staffordshire pottery, and more, all connected to Lord Byron’s myth and memory. The material came in many forms, and Drew’s Special Collections team used JSTOR’s structured tools to catalog it all.

Now, students are getting hands-on experience in digital humanities through two new courses at Drew. One curates articles on social change from The Drew Acorn (the campus newspaper), and the other rescues deteriorating 19th-century pamphlets.

It’s preservation, it’s participation, and it’s a bit poetic, too. Full case study below!

Animating the archive: How Drew University uses JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to expand access to scholarship and increase student enga

Drew University brings rare archives to life with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, cataloguing the Betty T. Bennett Papers and the Byron

[nerd-brarian]

A nice librarian gave me this and I really like it.

[teasoph]

digitizing memories. if there is something that i do enjoy a lot when travelling is collecting entrances, tickets, maps and little guides. as soon as i arrive home i organise them in can boxes that i have for each type (one for postcards, another one for entrances, and folios for maps!). this can as well work as a way of information preservation.

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

Oh

Now that's a milestone worth celebrating!

There is no dedicated 123.4 classification, but it falls under 123 (determinism and indeterminism), between 123.3 (chance) and 123.5 (free will).

Feel free to send me any non-fiction topics to classify, or give me a number between 000.000 and 999.999 and I'll tell you what it's assigned to (most are unassigned, but I'll tell you which category is closest)

[echobrainrots]

support your public libraries you cunts