Author: Laurie

Please see the full call here: https://www.hastac.org/opportunities/seeking-digital-humanities-resource-new-open-education-resource-textbook and copied below for ease: Monday, July 19, 2021 – 5:00pm We are seeking assistance with a new open educational resource project. My colleague Ellen Moll and I are recipients of an MSU Library OER Award to develop a textbook that we hope will have use for faculty teaching about digital humanities… Continue reading Call: Seeking Digital Humanities Resource for a new Open Education Resource Textbook, Julian Chambliss and Ellen Moll

See the most recent items: https://dloc.com/new  For this month, newly loaded items include: Pan Caribbean Sankofa Interviews: https://dloc.com/results/?t=pan%20caribbean%20sankofa  Pan Caribbean Sankofa is an outreach, research, education, and advisory group to organizations and individuals interested in the history, culture, and diaspora of Caribbean people and their descendants in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States… Continue reading Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), new items this month

About the LibraryPress@UF The LibraryPress@UF publishes scholarly, educational, and creative works, with an emphasis on promoting public access to scholarship and ethical practices in scholarly publishing. The Libraries’ publishing initiatives complement the work of the University of Florida Press (UF Press) to collectively contribute to the shared missions of the Libraries, Press, and UF. Note… Continue reading Webinar on “My Scrapbook of My Illness with Polio”

In the Libraries at UF, we are working to mature our project and project portfolio management processes. One critical part of this is to have a Definition of Done, or the acceptance criteria for how each project/sprint will be evaluated for completion. Having a Definition of Done ensures mutual understanding and agreement for what project… Continue reading Definition of Ready (DoR) – when an idea becomes actionable

I’m working on explaining and getting people to feel/understand MVP as minimum viable product. We need this because the UF Digital Collections include components that are on older technologies, so old that UF will cease support in 2023. That means we have to move before 2023. With a firm deadline, we cannot be flexible on… Continue reading Explaining MVP and Inflexible Deadlines, for the UF Digital Collections

In the Libraries at UF, we’re getting ready to move from local SAN folders for people’s person file spaces to OneDrive. This will provide the exact same functionality (looks like a mapped network drive, secure for user files) plus a whole lot more: can access with any web connection (no need for VPN+remote desktop or… Continue reading The Metaphor Doesn’t Work Anymore: Desktop Metaphor to Cloud Storage

I try to remember to share terms/concepts that I find helpful in illuminating and understanding the world. Two that I apparently haven’t shared and need to share are: Triangle of satisfaction Contributive justice The triangle of satisfaction is simply a way to explain how we get to satisfaction for something, acknowledging that it includes 3… Continue reading Triangle of Satisfaction and Contributive Justice

I wrote the text below as a summary in support of another project. Posting here for my ease in case useful in the future. Communities of Practice (CoP) Benefit Sustainability A community of practice (CoP) is a group of active practitioners working in a shared domain as a community. CoP differ from project teams, which… Continue reading Communities of Practice and Sustainability

I’ve been thinking about discovery contracts, used in software when implementing/integrating software for others. This site succinctly explains them as “charging for a quote”. It’s also useful to communicate these as related to “demolition and discovery agreements” from construction, where the contract covers enough demolition work to figure out what’s really there: on an old… Continue reading (Demolition and) Discovery Contracts

Above the ==== is new text on March 31. After more reading and reflecting, we are treating skip-level meetings as managing by walking around (MBWA), so no questions, just twice a year scheduled drop-bys, like we would have done when everyone was onsite. We could start by saying “knock-knock” to remind that thsi is an… Continue reading Skip-level Meeting Questions