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This is me, DJing
By dogpossum On 23rd May, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In curating and collecting, djing, wimminz, Women in History 2011
Fritzi Scheff demonstrating Magnavox for Fifth Liberty Loan in New York City, 1895, originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum Collection.
digitising public collections – a long talk
By dogpossum On 16th October, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In curating and collecting, ideas, learning, research, webbing
This post is going to be a bit of a mishmash of thinking I’ve done in my classes this semester (I’m looking at digital archiving and organising information digitally), my previous work during my PhD (I was interested in how communities of users employ a range of digital tools to complement their face to face [...]
More interesting uses of archives, etc over at discontents where @wragge is talking about getting funding for a project which is utterly FASCINATING.
Pinky articulates my latest… persistent problem with my course.
Can has critical reflection?
An interesting article about governance and the importance of independence for archivists and librarians.
And one about Australian indigenous knowledge and libraries.
It’s bits of research like this that give me the strength to continue my course, despite the terribly poor scholarship of some of the assigned readings. Information management is [...]
dictionary of sydney
By dogpossum On 1st May, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In academia, curating and collecting, learning, research
The Dictionary of Sydney is a pretty good resource, if you can navigate it. I remember seeing a job going with them a while ago – either as a research position through its host uni, or through the tool itself as an information management person.
It could be really awesome. I’ll use it [...]
Executive Council of NSW, 1856 / photographed by Freeman Brothers
Originally uploaded by State Library of New South Wales collection
Early parliamentarians. Nice tablecloth, chaps.
