Inside ZSR
On Monday, January 26, 2015, most of the Safety and Security Team attended the workshop entitled “Jumpstart Your Preparedness” held at the High Point Museum. In addition to the attendees from ZSR, which included James Harper, Thomas Dowling, Meghan Webb, Craig Fansler and Mary Beth Lock, the workshop was attended by representatives from 20 other... more ›
Last week, Tanya and I travelled to Chapel Hill for CurateGear 2015: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections. After reading Tanya’s acoount of her experience, I thought I would fill in some of my favorite bits of the day. Susan Malsbury – The GMHC Hotline Database: Capturing a snapshot of AIDS service providers in NYC... more ›
Rebecca and I again had the opportunity to attend UNC’s CurateGear last week, and the presentations were excellent. CurateGear provides an overview and technical demos of selected digital curation tools, but this year seems to be focused on broader issues and I found it much more useful. Erika Farr reported on Emory’s use of Redbooth... more ›
On Friday Jan 9th, the TLC offered a series of 5 workshops on how to create an inclusive classroom. Hu, Amanda and Mary attended most of them and we’ve created a joint blog post. Session 1. Teaching Inclusively: a Pedagogical Exploration The first session of the day was “Teaching Inclusively: a Pedagogical Exploration” which Hu... more ›
An Introduction for Craig’s Folio Review by Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Director of Special Collections & Archives When I first arrived at ZSR, the first thing which caught my attention was the mismatch of storage space with our SCA collections, in particular the rare book collection. This collection, numbering over 50,000 volumes, is currently stored in five... more ›