![]() I tried looking for other continuing education services like Simmons, but could not really find any. We are encouraged to take at least one a year. #TUMBLR DIRECT URL HOMEPAGE PROFESSIONAL#Other than that, this is my professional development course for the fiscal year that is about to end. We also are going to try to meet with the librarian at the hospital’s patient education library to discuss how are services can complement each other. My supervisor and I have made it a goal for the next year. ![]() I also am aspiring to contribute in some way, whether it is with a paper or a poster. In the past year, I would say that participating has done a lot to make me feel less “alone” in my job.īack in May, I had the opportunity to go to MLA ’13 for a day, and this year I have even more money for conference attendance, so I’m looking forward to finding one. If you join tumblr, check out the “tumblarians” tag (as well as “libraries” and “librarians”) to find and interact with the community. ![]() We are all pretty good about posting interesting and informative stuff about librarianship. Twitter isn’t really my thing, but I do follow some great librarians on tumblr. Larry Cooperman, in Managing the One-Person Library, 2015 Amanda Tarbet, reference librarian, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA The expansive space allows curators to post extensive narratives on featured collections as visible on the Miami University Special Collection’s Tumblr site, which has links to other social networking sites such as Twitter, Flickr, and Pinterest. The support for social tags allows archivists and librarians to reinforce the ontological relationships between site(s) and the collections they curate, which allows researchers to locate research material with subject terms added to blog postings. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections’ Tumblr site (2014) presents more links to related Tumblr, Pinterest, and other social networking sites and digital collections. On the right-side navigation bar, the site receives feed from Twitter with more real-time conversations among a wider audience. The Special Collections & Archives, University of Iowa uses Tumblr (2014) to curate special collections, announce events, and allow visitors to post comments. Like most other sites, Tumblr readily supports cross-curation. Each blog posting presents readers subject term and opportunity to comment and share the postings on other social networking sites. The facsimiles of historic letters can serve as primary sources while skeptical researchers will want to examine documents at the archives. ![]() National Archives) maintains a Tumblr site, Congress in the Archives (n.d.), with video clips on such timely topics as the 1963 march on Washington, DC, commemorating Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech and presenting the pamphlet distributed at the event. The Center for Legislative Archives (a part of the U.S. Like StumbleUpon, Tumblr also supports social, textual, and ontological relationships, and serves as suitable platform for the curation of archival and special collections. ![]() It uses a method similar to Pinterest,, and Stumble, which allows users to click on the button in a menu bar in order to harvest the content of the site into those services. It allows members to post images, links, quotations, video, and text. Started by David Karp in 2007 ( “ Tumblr,” 2014), Tumblr combines microblogging and other forms of social networking. Arjun Sabharwal, in Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities, 2015 Tumblr ![]()
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