Two weeks ago, I reported that we reached a significant milestone by scanning the final JFA catalog for the Shared Shelf Project. There’s still much to be done, so this week we’ll look at the work of creating metadata: or the stuff that makes your digital images discoverable.
Monthly Archives: June 2016
The First Female Graduate
The Provost asked me to find a photograph of the first female graduate from IC to set right a cluster of photos in her office featuring prominent white men. Illinois College first admitted women in the fall of 1903 when it merged with the Jacksonville Female Academy. Legend had it that Antoinette Pires graduated in 1904Continue reading “The First Female Graduate”
Emerging Experts
American Athena reached two important milestones today. First, at 1:30pm, Christian Flores ’18, finished digitizing the final artifact from the JFA collection for Shared Shelf. After months of setbacks and technical issues, we’ve digitized 72 original documents, consisting of more than 1,600 pages as part of our project with the Council of Independent Colleges’ Consortium on Digital Resources for TeachingContinue reading “Emerging Experts”
The Case for Local History
Academic historians need to reclaim “Local History,” and negate the unspoken understanding that we must never, ever identify our work as such. We somehow believe that doing so compromises our professional status and undermines our marketability with publishers. That’s not to say academic historians don’t do local history – they simply rebrand it as caseContinue reading “The Case for Local History”
