The Developing Librarian Project began in the spring of 2012 with the notion of “re-skilling” or training librarians in the Columbia University Libraries Humanities & History team, most of whom have spent their careers as subject liaisons, with the specific knowledge and skills necessary to support digital scholarship. Two recent...
When thinking about our Morningside project, I find this Omeka site from the Champaign-Urbana community inspiring, eBlackCU. The eBlackCU is a collaborative portal on African-American history and culture in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois where the University of Illinois is located. The site has been built collaboratively with the community to create a local archive...
I am interested in using the archives at Barnard to learn more about the early relationship between Barnard and Columbia, especially as the Morningside Heights neighborhood was changing in the late 19th Century. As an object of study, I have chosen Milbank Hall because it is the oldest building on...
Following each of our training sessions we have individually submitted a list of four things we learned during the session. The reason we do this is because each training session has a list of learning objectives that we hope will be achieved. By compiling a list things we learned and...
Robbie Blitz, Digital Projects Librarian and Melanie Wacker, Metadata Coordinator, joined us today to discuss Columbia’s Omeka workflow and metadata procedures. As we move into the nuts and bolts of building our Omeka site, we wanted a lesson in how the organization builds exhibitions for the public. CUL has 29...
At one of our last Morningside training sessions Kenny Crews discussed his recent presentations on copyright and DH. We explained our Developing Librarian Project and together we came up with a series of helpful recommendations concerning copyright and DH projects. Any discussion of copyright will be filled with nuances and “what ifs,”...
Today we reviewed our Requirements Gathering session from last fall. It is easy to have scope-creep on a project that spans several years. We were reminded that we agreed to do the following: Each member of the team will choose a site, organization, or monument in Morningside Heights to help...
Git is not easy! I learned the following four things today: 1) the difference between Git and Github 2) the file structure for projects in Github and on our local computers 3) committing often is important for roll back 4) best practices for Git when collaborating with others, i.e. describing...
Our second Git session clarified many things for me: 1) the difference between Git and Github 2) how to create a repository 3) how to push changes from Git to Github
Things that inspire and guide our work: Bamboo DiRT
During our Developing Librarian session today we formed teams to move the project forward. We have been preparing for this since the project started. After 18 months of training sessions we are all ready to choose the team we are best suited for. We have four teams: Design - typography,...
As part of the Design team, I am struggling with learning Illustrator. We have been charged with creating a logo for the Developing Librarian Project and the paper and pencil phase was fun. As a team, we agreed on several designs we would like to realize in Illustrator. Now for...