was happy to write an old coworker a letter of reference for an internship with a Smithsonian collection. Marion Mecklenburg sounds like one rad dude: For nearly forty years, conservator, scientist, and engineer Marion Mecklenburg studied the mechanical behavior of art materials, with resulting discoveries that had—and continue to have—a direct impact on the preventive … [Read more…]
It’s a DDOT Library reunion this Friday at the Bridging the Spectrum Symposium (our annual department conference). I worked with Samantha Smith (now the head librarian at the National Science Foundation) and Katie Crabb (who took over as DDOT head librarian when Samantha moved on) in our little transportation/engineering library for about 8 months. Working at … [Read more…]
Inspired by a thread on ALATT, I’m working on a list of “freelance” opportunities for librarians. I can almost guarantee that none of these will provide stable, full-time income but they are viable side hustles to make a couple of hundred extra bucks. 1) Independent archival researcher – the National Archives maintains a list of available researchers: http://www.archives.gov/research/hire-help/ … [Read more…]
At the urging of two friends in particular, I’ve been reflecting a lot on the Big Questions of what I want to do with my life, and here is the answer: write about cycling*. So, if I’m going to get free stuff to play with like The Lovely Bicycle does, I need to make a … [Read more…]
I got “called out” for advocating subject based groupings of archival materials in my MARAC presentation this weekend. Fortunately, a young historian made me aware that arranging by subject has “social justice implications.” So, I’m just going to say that at parties from now on since apparently talking about the “social justice implications” of our … [Read more…]
My boyfriend and I visited a friend on the Eastern Shore over Memorial Day. We had a really terrific time eating crabs, hanging out by the pool, and canoeing on the Choptank River. A few years ago my parents did some bike touring around Oxford, Maryland, so I decided to look into doing some myself. I want … [Read more…]
if your girlfriend goads you into reorganizing your dresser according to this schema and she has never worked at Victoria’s Secret pro tip for all you mark-ass loons: this is how you organize some #shirts pic.twitter.com/UNwX9QQ7bY — Aaron (@Malgs) May 4, 2014
I stumbled on the May 2013 Elle profile of Kim Gordon via Jezebel’s post about Thurston accusing them of “gender facism” (LOLOL). Here’s what stood out to me: “We have all these books, records, and art and are getting it all assessed; that’s what is taking so long,” [Gordon] says after ordering a glass of … [Read more…]