In fall 2009 I was a member of Candy Schwartz’s Digital Libraries class, a project-based class that involved hands-on creation of digital images, metadata, and a website.  The source of our content was a scrapbook kept by a Simmons student, Daisie Miller Helyar, in the early 20th century.  I was a member of the Digital Continue reading

I created this blog to supplement an ongoing series of events for Fellows & Staff at Dumbarton Oaks.  Librarians use it to post images to pique interest in upcoming events and, we hope, to create a lively visual record of our interdisciplinary institution. It is also an opportunity to share images of our special collections Continue reading

Take a look at our online exhibits, some built in Omeka, others in Plone, available here. Continue reading

In 2009 and 2010 I conducted research for the Weissman Preservation Center on the history of library preservation at Harvard, a project which covered the earliest days of the university to some of the most recent developments in collections care.  I created a chronology of events in library preservation at Harvard, as well as an Continue reading

In 2008-2009 I assisted on this digitization initiative at Houghton Library.  Thanks to my background in medieval art history, I was able to create descriptive metadata for books of hours such as this one.  These digital facsimiles have been useful for classes studying the psalms and prayers used in different manuscripts (i.e. comparing the Use Continue reading

While working as a Library & Archives Assistant for the Harvard University Botany Libraries I was fortunate to conduct some research on that collection’s extraordinary rare books.  Because the “libraries” once existed independently there are often multiple copies and editions of the same work, making it possible to compare the different histories of similar books.  Continue reading

In 2006-2007, while working for the Research Forum of the Courtauld Institute of Art, I processed the archival records of Thomas Gambier Parry, a Victorian collector and artist.  I read journals and analyzed receipts in order to understand how his taste evolved over his decades of collecting.  I wrote at the time, Gambier Parry had Continue reading