Best class at SCSU hands down

I am overjoyed to finally be able to do hands-on work in my studies here; I am more of a do-er than a reader when it comes to librarianship. I remember my time in the Catalog department at Yale very vividly when I am entering metadata into Omeka; it is kind of relaxing

I cannot imagine how the people at VOICES do their work every day, I find myself thinking about our subject and feeling sadness on behalf of those who loved him. Their pain is very real and I just don’t know how people (like Cathy!) do it every day. I supposed the dignity and purpose of this project is enough to leap that hurdle.

Omeka is pretty neat; however I find its organization a tad unwieldy. I have already recommended it to my former boss at the small library I used to work at part-time; she has a room full of 19th and early 20th century books that once belonged to the patriarch of her organization, and it would be a great PR move as well as a fun project to digitize those books (almost all certainly out of copyright) and present them in a digital collection online. Coupled with the DIY book scanning web site http://diybookscanner.org/ I think I can definitely help her get that project started with no money at all.