I’m finally finished with my master’s paper! The title ended up being “‘Finding What, You Know?’: A Content Analysis of the Websites of Archival Repositories for Markers of Archival Intelligence.” Here’s the abstract if anyone wants to read it; it will be available online from the SILS website sometime over the summer. I’ll link to […]
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Master's paper 2.0
So, for a variety of reasons, I’ve decided to go in a new direction with my master’s paper. The reasons include the fact that my IRB application was pretty terrible and the second version of it wouldn’t be done until too late; the class I was going to experiment on didn’t have to use the […]
Archival anxiety
Another master’s paper update! My advisor and I have finally scoped my master’s paper ideas well enough so that I have an actual research questions/problem to define and solve. The question, as it stands now, is “Will increasing archival intelligence reduce archival anxiety?” There has been a lot of work done in the field of […]
Refocusing
Unsurprisingly, I’m going to refocus this blog on archival issues. I’ve just been named an intern for the Reference, Access, and Outreach Section of the Society of American Archivists, and my primary job is to blog for them. I only have to write two blog posts for the entire year, but that would be kind […]
First step for my master's paper
So I’m starting the grand push towards creating/writing my master’s paper. What I want to do is to create a web tutorial for how to use the new finding aids in Wilson Library. Davis Library, the main academic library on campus, has a set of ShowMe Tutorials. They seem to be a combination of a […]
Possible masters paper topic
I’m thinking of writing my master’s paper about Web 2.0 technologies and archives. I don’t really have it narrowed down any further than that yet, although by the middle to end of the summer I’m going to need to. I’m taking research methods in the fall, and so it is recommended that I have my […]