I’ve always liked to think of myself as a reasonably technologically capable person. I know the very basics of html, and have managed to poke at some pre-written page codes when I didn’t quite like them and come out with a result that pleased me. Data scraping, unfortunately, did not give that same experience. When… Continue reading battling technology: data scraping and kumu
This week we’ve done some fun website trickery, with lots of gizmos and gadgets that I’ve never heard of before, let alone knew how to use. After some trouble with getting my numbers displayed, I finally wrangled the electronic beast and managed to put some coordinates on a map. As for the book I used,… Continue reading the bouncing baby book
When fellow student and researcher Savannah Willard and I went back to the archives to begin this week’s project, we had initially set our sights on a particular copy of Don Quixote that Carey (the school’s archivist) had shown us during one of our earlier visits. The little book was full of marginalia that came with… Continue reading a book’s lineage
On Wednesday, January 25th, Savannah Willard and I paid another visit to the archives of the University of Montevallo. During the bulk of today’s meeting, Mr. Carey Heatherly was in a meeting, so I got to go in and pull the books for Savannah and I to observe and interact with for this assignment.
I, along with fellow Montevallo student Savannah Willard, met with the school archivist to discuss the questions posed to us by Dr. Pauley and Dr. Bankhurst. Despite the fact that I have been interning in our school’s archives for the past semester, many of these questions were not things I’d gotten to explore yet, and… Continue reading the first murmurs