My friend Kevin Deegan-Krause at Wayne State University just alerted me to a blog that is truly a treasure trove of information, opinion, and analysis on Facebook. Unit Structures, written by Fred Stutzman, a PhD student and teaching fellow at UNC’s School of Library and Information Science, offers much more than the more general reflections…
Tag: Collecting History
World’s Largest Photo Archive?
If flickr.com is not the world’s largest photo archive, I’d like to know what is. On November 10, 2007, the two billionth image was uploaded to the flickr website. As vast as the holdings of the various national archives around the world are, I would be amazed to learn that any of them held more…
Sworn Virgins in the Classroom
Sworn virgins? What could this post be about? Last night I was incredibly fortunate to be able to host the Albanian author and documentary filmmaker Elvira Dones who screened her new documentary Sworn Virgins for our students and then led a discussion of the film. The film was really a perfect teaching tool. Because it…
Thanks Roy
What more fitting memorial to Roy Rosenzweig could there be than a digital archive? Roy was one of the main forces behind digital archiving, especially open digital archives, and so it is only right that there be a Roy Rosenzweig digital archive. Thanksroy.org is the place to go, deposit your memories of Roy, his life,…