Last Monday, Brittany Williams and I met with Midwestern State’s special collections librarian, who gave us access to all of Nolan Moore’s collection information. She opened a filing cabinet stuffed with manilla folders containing information for each item in the collection. She then handed us a binder with a list of the items. From this […]
Social Networking With Kumu
This assignment brought a whole new meaning to the process of “trial and error.” While I struggled immensely with the intricate process of data scraping, the final product gave me a special appreciation for Kumu. This data mapping site brings a special awareness to the relationships between different elements. In this case, we see the […]
The Nurse, a Poem
I love this tool. I still have no idea how this happened, but I love it. After doing a search through the English Short Title Catalogue of The Nurse, a Poem by William Roscoe, I managed to create this map of all three of its publication sites(overacheiving at its finest). Considering I have struggled immensely […]
Shakespeare’s First Folio Investigation
This assignment set the standard for the rest of the semester! After searching through ridiculously expensive books in Midwestern State University’s rare books room I decided to turn back to the Moore collection. I found a first edition of Shakespeare’s First Folio in a display case that had a significant amount of wispy, ink writing […]
Bibliography Research
For this assignment I decided to turn back to the Nuremberg Chronicles, originally written in Latin by Hartmann Schedele and printed by Anton Koberger in 1493. This work to me was the most interesting from a bibliographical stand point because it is actually a block book. Block books are pages of text and […]
Kicking Off the Semester
On January 11, 2017, Brittany Williams and I met with Midwestern State University’s archivist. We soon realized we had this entire assignment handed to us in a single collection. With MSU being a smaller university, the entirety of our rare books section is comprised of a single collection created and owned by Nolan Moore. He […]