Y'all ever think about how there are people in this world who hear about millions going hungry and their response is 'we should be careful about helping, what if it discourages work?' 🙃
I've got to stop reading op-eds, I simply do not vibe with those who've surgically removed their humanity
I always thought catalogers were a different breed the way they lock into their work and now I'm an hour into tidying up metadata for a long-term ETD project and it turns out...it me. I was the different breed all along.
(What am I supposed to do though, just let messy data breed dupes freely???)
I must say, the front desk to our first library building was a distinguished looking fellow. I would share the archival photograph but u kno. That would move me further out of the zone of semi-anonymity I maintain this account within. This lady librarian is attached to her air of mystery.
A potential answer! Our first (Carnegie) library opened its doors in 1908. Perhaps the lack of a library building went hand in hand with a lack of a library? Where does one deposit a thesis when those who would curate your collections have not been hired?
Also one of the students involved in that project is a former library school colleague! The world is incredibly small space. Perhaps one day I shall ask him to speak on his memory of the halcyon days of 2011.
Sidebar! Once upon a decade ago the Internet speaks of a digital exhibit dedicated to the 50 year anniversary of MPOW! It has disappeared into the Internet either. The ephemerality of digital scholarship remains tragique. 🥲
a) theses were simply not a thing at MPOW in 1895! It took them a lil bit to figure out how they wanted to tackle this graduate degree business! b) the library was not ensuring they received copies of theses in 1895! it took them a lil bit to figure out this archiving business!
This message brought to you by me noticing that the first of the theses we have catalogued at MPOW dates to 1905 but our university awarded its first graduate degree in 1895. What happened in that intervening decade?
Today we are enlightening ourselves as to the history of the thesis (and/or dissertation). Specifically, when did it become standard practice to require a thesis in order to be awarded a graduate degree?
I downloaded >200K peer review reports and author responses for >30K articles in four BMC journals (Cancer, Gastroenterology, Medical Genomics and Medicine). These archives are now publicly available on Zenodo. Go nuts!
Intriguing...Booth Library sharing out how they directly promote the IR as a way to preserve student org memories online...something to consider at MPOW?
What IS enough need to justify purchasing a data repository platform? 🤔 We've been using our IR and finding workarounds at my institution but at three dozen datasets garnered with minimal active promotion I'm curious what takes us to the point of saying we fr fr need a dedicated platform.
datascience.nih.gov/data-ecosyst... awwww figshare my beloved...who's offering 20GB of free storage like you...literally no one and that's why you're my go to referral for our faculty 😘
Reminded once again that I work 10 - 6:30 because I am NOT a morning gal! It's fine tho, through the power of chocolate, caffeine, and the occasional walk I WILL stay on for these morning sessions! 💪🫠
9 years in the states and my grasp of geographic regions remains weak...I hear Chicago and I think Midwest but it turns out Illinois is sneaky and doubles as Great Lakes region representation? 🕵️♀️
The Digital Commons dashboard came out of a DC user group you say? The discipline wheel too? Streaming capability? Loving the lore drops at today's Digital Conference workshop sessions. 👂
