We propose a session devoted to conversation between librarians, technologists, and digital humanists. For digital humanists, what support could librarians and technologists provide that would help you in your research and teaching? For librarians and technologists, what can grad students and faculty do that would help you help them with digital projects?
– Chris J. and Julia B., Grinnell College
About joneschr
I graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a French degree in 2001 and a MLS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. I was lucky enough to work the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at UIUC as an assistant to the curator of special collections for several years, during which I spearheaded a project to organize and rehouse their Carl Sandburg collection. Part of that project included digitizing most of the photographs and parts of the audio and textual aspects of the collection.
After leaving special collections at UIUC, I worked for the Internet Archive as the head of the scanning center at Illinois, and we wound up scanning a lot of material for the rare book library, among other things. I worked there for three and a half years before being hired at Grinnell College as the library assistant in special collections and archives, where we field two or three digitization requests per week.
This sounds great! A good chance to continue and broaden the conversation from Friday afternoon’s workshop…