We on the Development Team (Meredith, Sarah, Bob, and Nick) have been learning how to use the command line to connect to GitHub, install Omeka, and become developers-in-training. It has been a challenging and exciting time as we are all entering a world that is pretty foreign to us. We...

This Sunday, I took the first of what will probably be many tours of the Riverside Church. I’ve been trying to think about what my three exhibits will be and it has been difficult to decide what to focus on since so many aspects of the church’s history are rich...

This week we’ve scheduled two “Open Labs” in the Studio@Butler, the library’s collaboratory. Because of the modular furniture in the Studio we’re able to work individually or break into smaller groups to discuss shared research interests and resources. Since we are all struggling to find time to research our individual...

The Development Team met yesterday to reinforce our understanding of how to use GitHub to share our code and to try implementing some of the recommendations we received from the Design team with regard to our site. We established a list of rules for using Git that we are all...

This week marks Fair Use Week in the library world. Fair Use affects all of us as librarians and scholars, but especially in the context of this project, as we are delving into researching various landmarks and buildings in Morningside Heights. Some of us are fortunate in that the published...