In my role as Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar in Library-Museum Collaboration, I sometimes feel like a translator. Museum professionals have their own special vocabulary for the concepts they use every day. So do librarians. Folks working in the digital humanities have… Continue Reading
As you may have heard, UO Libraries recently decided to use Omeka S for faculty-initiated digital exhibitions. Omeka S is an open-source digital exhibition platform created by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.… Continue Reading
These days I spend a lot of time on “hands-on development of faculty research projects,” in the words of my job description, or what I would call coaching. I’m working with three Mellon Faculty Fellows (whom you can read about… Continue Reading
As I meet new people around UO and tell them my title–Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar in Library-Museum Collaboration—I get a lot of questions. “What department do you belong to?” “Where’s your office?” And most importantly, “What do you DO?” The answer:… Continue Reading
Welcome to Mellon @ UO, a blog documenting the day-to-day life of a grant initiative focused on fostering collaboration between the University of Oregon Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The full name of the UO Mellon initiative… Continue Reading