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Endrina Tay

  • Associate Foundation Librarian for Technical Services
  • Monticello - Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  • Website: qrazycat.wordpress.com
  • Twitter: etay

As the Associate Foundation Librarian for Technical Services at the Jefferson Library at Monticello - The Home of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Virginia, I see my primary role at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation as creating and enhancing access to research and information on all things Jefferson. I'm responsible for: managing library technical services, cataloging and classification, enhancing search and retrieval activities, adapting technology and collaborative solutions to facilitate historical research and scholarship, and simply being a technology evangelist among historians at the Foundation. Topics that get my attention these days include digital scholarship, visualization techniques for historical data, enduser tools for the study and teaching of history, single search solutions across historical databases, subject taxonomies and ontologies, mashups and crowdsourcing methodologies. When I'm not thinking about my day job, I pretend I'm a gourmet chef, hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains when the weather is fine, and hang out with international students at the University of Virginia. I had the privilege to be a THATCamper in 2008, and can't wait to return this year!

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More on Libraries of Early America

Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | Endrina Tay

So I didn’t have time to ask the two questions I had for everyone during my Dork Shorts session on the Libraries of Early America, so here they are …

1. I’m very keen to hear what folks think about how this sort of data might be used by scholars and for teaching?

2. What kinds of visualizations would folks be interested in experimenting with by using such bibliographical data, e.g. date/place of publication, publishers, content, etc.

The links again:

Thomas Jefferson’s library on LibraryThing

Subject tag cloud | Author tag cloud

Examples of interesting overlaps:

Books shared with John Adams

Books shared with George Washington

The list of Collections in the pipeline is here. This is a subset of the larger Legacy Libraries or “I See Dead People’s Books” project.

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