David Gwynn

So the project we’ve been working on for a year and a half made the local news last night. That’s always fun…

The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) for best adaptive reuse ever of a former McDonald’s location.

Great collection of articles on various digitization projects at Duke covers the history of the program, collections management, and interface design among other topics.

Historic Pittsburgh has added 2000 new images to the online collection.  This project is near and dear to my heart because it’s one of the ones that inspired me to go to library school, and also because I live in Pittsburgh part time and am fascinated by the history of the place.

This is such a cool collection. I like the way they’ve made the entire collection “subscribable” via iTunes as well.

I’ll post a link to the larger project later, but here’s something I’ve been working on at work this week. Mind you, I’m wrking on a much cooler and more complicated set-up for Groceteria when I get a second here and there. More on that later, too.

View Civil Rights Greensboro Location Map in a larger map

Evidently, I was born under the Sign of Marilyn in the Life Magazine Zodiac.

Think what you may about Google Books, but this new project is kind of cool, and will make a great time waster at some point in the future when I have actual time to waste.

Great article on some of the difficulties and other concerns surrounding the digitization of those hand made photocopied zines from the 1980s and 1990s.

Having worked for a Kinko’s branch in San Francisco during the heyday of the zine, I’m very familair with them, and was a fan of several titles myself. It’s not something I’d really even thought about, frankly, but the copyright concerns are a pretty big issue.

Interesting post, if you’re interested in this sort of thing.

Posts have been few and far between lately, which should indicate that I’ve been rather busy over the past two months or so.

So what’s been going on?

Driving, mostly. I’ve been spending a  lot of time in my car, not just going back and forth to Pittsburgh dealing with the new house, but also to Greensboro, where I’ve been working and interning up a storm. I’m putting in one day a week at UNCG, working on a big digitization project to which I’ll introduce you shortly. I’m also working three days a week at a local museum processing an archival collection centered around a major local historical figure. The latter gig is a grant-funded named internship, which makes it more impressive, right? Either way, I’m enjoying it. It’s a good internship — one where I’m actually learning things rather than just occupying space, making coffee, or otherwise providing slave labor.

What scares me, though, is that I’m starting to think nothing of a daily commute that’s thirty miles each way. Unfortunately, Winston-Salem is not the cultural heritage epicenter of the Piedmont Triad. Given that and all the nasty budget cuts about now, my optimism about local job prospects upon graduation is somewhat lacking.

I assume Borders and Barnes & Noble will be going belly-up soon, though. Maybe my education will at least qualify me for a job at one of their liquidation sales.