Today is Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day in Canada, a fitting day to launch my latest project, WWII Army Post Office (APO) Locations. If you have letters from WWII with APO numbers in the address, whether to or from a member of the US Army, you can […]
On September 17th, 2019, I had the opportunity to tag along with two of the founders of Historic Rural Churches of Georgia as they headed to visit a church down in Pike County. The day would turn into an adventure unlike any I’ve had before. In 2012, after an unexpected […]
I don’t usually write about this topic, but I think this is important for friends and family in my hometown of Sarnia. The front page of The Sarnia Observer today has an article in which the Lambton County medical officer of health, Dr. Sudit Ranade, questions a research study finding […]
In the tradition of posting job talks for digital scholarship positions, here is the Google Slide version of the talk I gave for Pitts Theology Library and Candler School of Theology at Emory University in 2018.
When exploring an archive to answer one question, you sometimes come across information that raises new questions. In some cases, those questions are bizarre. I was searching the Georgia State University Digital Collections for images of the Ivy Street Garage in downtown Atlanta. Built in 1925, the garage was later […]
During the spring semester, I acquired a clay whisky jug from the Phoenix Lab, which contains artifacts recovered from the excavation of MARTA lines in the 1970s. Dr. Robin Wharton has worked with students in her multimodel composition course to scan and model objects from the collection, and discussed the […]
Somehow, in the past three weeks, I managed to attend four different conferences. Thankfully, three of them were located here in Atlanta, which reduced travel time and kept costs low. Each conference or symposium had a unique flavor and set of themes, so this post will describe each and I’ll […]
Intro In November 2016, I started as the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Georgia State University Library. During my interview for the position, I presented a job talk related to the topic of opportunities and challenges involved in digital scholarship. In preparation for my talk, I consulted the job talks posted […]
Photogrammetry, for the purpose of our work at Georgia State, refers to the use of software to combine, convert, and render 2D images into a 3D object. There are numerous methods for this practice, ranging from a single camera operated by a moving human to complex arrangements with multiple cameras […]
On March 4th, 1809, James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, delivered his first inaugural address to the House Chamber in the U.S. Capitol Building. In our present time of turmoil, and considering the tone and content of information from the current executive branch, it’s worth spending a […]
