Last week was a short week for me. I only had Monday and Tuesday to fit in work for not only my on-campus classes and internship, but also to get something done for the project site, as I was out of state for a academic convention from Wednesday to Saturday. However, I’d like to think […]
sociallifeofbooks
Final Project’s First Steps: Poste’s Gifts
It’s finally time to develop the final project for the Social Life of Books course, and I couldn’t be more excited to dig in! Although it wasn’t easy and took a lot of considering and reconsidering, I finally came up with the topic that I want to focus on for this project: Dr. Leslie Poste’s […]
Coding for Connections: Dissenting Academies Online and Kumu Course Exercise
Just when I thought we were out of the worst of the complex digital thicket I discussed last week, this week’s assignment resolved to convince me otherwise. I’ll be the first to admit that this was an arduous task; I found myself almost affectionately missing last week’s mapping activity (almost). However, as was the case […]
Mapping Mr. Gray
This assignment had us mapping the various locations in which a particular book was published. We used the English Short Title Catalogue to find publications of the book of our choice, which ideally had to be published sometime in the 18th century. While we could have used any 18th century book that the ESTC could find […]
Constructing a Book’s History
Habent sua fata libelli. [Books have their own fate.] -Maurus Now that we’ve tackled understanding and recognizing the physical production of books in this course – something that is relatively regulated and widespread – we’ve come to a more personalized, if not rather intimate, study of bibliography. This past week we’ve been tasked with […]
Old Book Examination
This week, we were tasked with the physical examination of a book of our choosing from the special collections. I ultimately decided on a book from 1792 that was a bit different than the other books I’ve looked at to this point. This book has a beautiful brown and black speckled cover, with a small leather […]
Special Collections at SUNY Geneseo
This assignment asked us to explore our local collections with the help of an archivist or special collections librarian, which was very exciting to me as someone who has been working on transcribing microfilm for this library’s special collections since last semester. Finally, an opportunity to access the special collections with a more in-depth purpose! […]