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Miriam Posner wrote a new post, Session proposal: No More Plan B?, on the site THATCamp American Historical Association 2012

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:01:35 +0000

You may have seen “No More Plan B,” in which AHA president Anthony Grafton and executive director Jim Grossman argue that it’s time to devote serious attention to preparing history grad students for jobs outside […]

Miriam Posner commented on the post, Session proposal: So, You Want to Start a Journal!, on the site THATCamp Publishing 2011

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:00:54 +0000

Oh, man, could I use this workshop. Like you, we in the Emory Library receive many inquiries from faculty — and grad students, too — who want to start ejournals. Unfortunately, while we’re equipped to get them […]

Miriam Posner wrote a new post, #alt-ac with a research agenda: what that means, what we want, how to get it, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2011

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:38:24 +0000

As Kimon pointed out, a lot of us DH-ers are “alternate academics”: we’re trained as academics and are still in the orbit of the academy, but we’re not in conventional tenure-track roles. Our hires were […]

Miriam Posner wrote a new post, Envisioning Librarian/Scholar Collaborations, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:51 +0000

Group-edited notes here. And here’s one attempt to summarize. Please comment, amend, and contribute your own summaries!

Miriam Posner commented on the post, Multimedia ebooks, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:14:54 +0000

I don’t know, Brian. I see what you’re saying about a place for publishers in the library (and that does sound intriguing). But what I’m hearing is interest not in a “published” book (i.e., professionally […]

Miriam Posner commented on the post, Subject guides, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:50:39 +0000

I think this is a really good idea. Speaking from the point of view of a researcher, I’ve often thought that there might be better ways to arrange subject guides. In a former life, I worked on this research guide […]

Miriam Posner commented on the post, Hacking the Dissertation, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:52:49 +0000

This is great, Michael! In regard to your question about digital dissertations, I’ve been hearing similar desires and questions voiced by the grad students in Emory’s Visual Scholarship Initiative […]

Miriam Posner commented on the post, Multimedia ebooks, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:48:38 +0000

Michael, I think you’re right! I’d totally be into combining our session ideas, since it sounds as though we’re thinking along the same lines.

Miriam Posner wrote a new post, Multimedia ebooks, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:54:21 +0000

As part of my job, I speak to a lot of grad students about what tech projects they’d like to see happen. Increasingly, students are describing something like this: “I work with a text that I know better than […]

Miriam Posner wrote a new post, Now available: the official THATCamp SE poster!, on the site THATCamp Southeast 2011

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:00:57 +0000

Start spreading the news: THATCamp SE applications are now open! To help you get the word out, here’s the hot-off-the-presses THATCamp SE poster (PDF), which we hope you’ll plaster all over the […]