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 […]
Book Culture
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 […]