Author Archives: Nancy Foasberg

Confessions of a Digital Packrat: ALCTS President’s Program with Erin McKean

This is a continuation of my series of  the sessions I attended at ALA 2013.  Erin McKean is the former Oxford University Press editor-in-chief for dictionaries and currently the founder of Wordnik.com, a site which collects multiple definitions for words. … Continue reading

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Library Texts and the Library in the Digital Age: New Collaborations for European and American Studies

As the title suggests, there was a lot going on in this session.  The three speakers included a library dean (Paula Kaufman), a digital humanities director (Laura Mandell), and a digital humanities librarian (Glen Worthey).  Although, as Glen Worthey pointed … Continue reading

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