Author Archives: Mary Collins

Revisiting the dataset – Roosevelt Store Ledger

As I continue to work with the Roosevelt store ledger, that I wrote about here, it seems that this object provides a number of avenues for research. The people listed in it, the famous and the unknown, nearly 1,000 in number, could each be investigated. Even a brief look into details of their lives, brings […]

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Final Project – Leisler Papers grant proposal

For my final project, I have attempted to write a grant proposal, for a NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations grant, for the Jacob Leisler Papers Project. Briefly: “If approved, funding for the Jacob Leisler Papers Project, would allow for the digital publication, in the form of a website, of the collected translated and transcribed documents […]

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Editor at Large

From November 14 to 20, I acted as an editor-at-large for DHNow. It was a strange week and I was probably not up for the task as much as I would like. But I did enjoy the experience, and tried to do a good job. I found that checking in several times a day, for […]

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Dataset: The Roosevelt Store Ledger

In the first years of the American Republic, James J. Roosevelt started a business that would eventually, under his son, became the largest importer of plate glass in the country. At first, it was just a store, and the merchandise was general in nature though certainly related to building construction and decoration. Two related items, […]

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Zotero Workshop

Last week, I attended a workshop provided by the Mina Rees Library. Two librarians, from the excellent library staff, walked participants through the installation and basic use of the citation management program, Zotero. It was an incredibly helpful session, and I am excited about the ways this new tool might assist in my research. There […]

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Reflections on MOMA online collections, with Blevins and Robertson, in mind.

In the past week, the Museum of Modern Art unveiled expanded offerings on its website, transforming online collections beyond a selection of items to include information and materials from all of its past exhibitions. The recent additions are part of the institutional archive of the museum, including some behind the scenes materials, like lists of […]

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    Encouraging students think about the impact advancements in digital technology have on the future of scholarship from the moment they enter the Graduate Center, the Digital Praxis Seminar is a year-long sequence of two three-credit courses that familiarize students with a variety of digital tools and methods through lectures offered by high-profile scholars and technologists, hands-on workshops, and collaborative projects. Students enrolled in the two-course sequence will complete their first year at the GC having been introduced to a broad range of ways to critically evaluate and incorporate digital technologies in their academic research and teaching. In addition, they will have explored a particular area of digital scholarship and/or pedagogy of interest to them, produced a digital project in collaboration with fellow students, and established a digital portfolio that can be used to display their work. The two connected three-credit courses will be offered during the Fall and Spring semesters as MALS classes for master’s students and Interdisciplinary Studies courses for doctoral students.

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