At 6am, Susan, Mary Beth, Roz and I loaded up the ZSR minivan and headed to Philadelphia. Now we are just north of Raleigh near Butner. We are using my iPhone 4 as a mobile hotspot to allow my ThinkPad and Susan’s MacBook Air to connect to the Internet. AT&T now allows iPhone users to... more ›
Last week, I attended the 2011 ILLiad Conference in Virginia Beach, VA, from Wednesday, March 23rd, through Friday, March 25th. This was my first experience at an ILLiad conference, and I wanted to share a few things, including updated information about the release of ILLiad 8.1 on April 12, 2011. ILLiad 8.1 will not be... more ›
On March 18, I attended the opening day keynote address for the Humanities Institute Spring Launch. Dr. Edward Ayers, currently president of the University of Richmond, was the speaker. His is a familiar face to me since for many years he served as Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History and Dean of the College of... more ›
On Saturday March 19, 2011, I attended the closing session of the WFU Humanities Institute’s inaugural symposium. The session was titled “Are the humanities good for humanity? The aims and place of the humanities in liberal education.” Our guest speaker was Stanley Fish, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University.... more ›
On Friday March 18, I attended a symposium marking the launching of WFU’s new Humanities Institute. Because students are the reason we’re all here, the organizers made a deliberate and significant decision to open the symposium with a student panel discussion, on the topic “Perspectives on the future of the humanities at Wake Forest.” The... more ›
On Thursday, I attended the 2011 NC Serials Conference, along with Chris, Linda Z. and Bradley. They’ll probably talk about other sessions, but I thought I’d give a brief re-cap of a presentation called “The Future of the Catalog,” by Tim Bucknall of UNC-Greensboro and Margaretta Yarborough of UNC-Chapel Hill, since that’s right in my... more ›
On Thursday, March 10, Audra and Craig presented to the Forsyth County United Way Executive Council at the Red Cross on Colosseum Road. The United Way Executive Council is composed of over 20 local organizations and they are interested in both preservation and digitization. Our presentation was an abbreviated version of the talks we gave... more ›
On Monday, I went to the LAUNC-CH Conference at the lovely Friday Center on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. Lauren discussed Lee Rainie’s keynote address, “Networked Individuals, Networked Libraries,” but I’d like to hit the things I found interesting in his presentation. I found it very interesting that smart cell phones are the most commonly... more ›
Last week I attended the 2011 Electronic Resources & Libraries conference in Austin, TX. I can’t say I learned anything really earth-shaking; one Twitter comment said the presentations were long on “descript-o’-problem” but short on solutions. But there was lots going on; Monday & Tuesday each had 4 sets of concurrent sessions in the afternoon... more ›
Speaking of conferences that have a lasting impact: I had the good fortune to attend THATCamp over the weekend. THATCamp stands for The Humanities and Technology Camp which essentially means the topics focus on digital humanities. The event is an unconference. The unconference is a really neat format if you’re comfortable with ambiguity. Participants had... more ›