Book Chapter: “Our Marathon: The Role of Graduate Student and Library Labor in Making the Boston Bombing Digital Archive” (Preprint Version)
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Title
Our Marathon: The Role of Graduate Student and Library Labor in Making The Boston Bombing Digital Archive
Authors
Jim McGrath
Brown University
Alicia Peaker
Bryn Mawr College
Source
via Humanities Commons (Preprint Version)
Published in: Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community. Eds. Robin Kear and Kate Joranson. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2018.
Published Version: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780081020234
Abstract
This chapter uses Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive to consider the ways that collaborative, public-facing digital humanities initiatives can conflict with institutional conventions and methods of evaluating academic labor. Collaborative work creates challenges as well as opportunities for its organizers and laborers. The particular institutional space of the English department is discussed in relation to digital projects, and it is brought into conversation with the role of collaborators from libraries and local communities.
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17 pages; PDF.
See Also: Direct to Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive
Filed under: Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, EBSCO, Libraries, News, Publishing
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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