This year I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Peggy Spitzer Christoff, lecturer in Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University. She shared with me how she’s using the Library of Congress’ Viewshare tool to engage her students in an introduction to Asia Studies course. Peg talked about using digital platforms as a way to improve writing, […]
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New Season, New Viewshare
The following is a guest post by NDIIPP summer intern Elizabeth Tobey. Liz is a graduate student in the Masters of Library Science program at the University of Maryland. Along with the fall weather, food, activities and the new layer of clothes that are now necessary, this season also brings us a new and improved Viewshare. […]
Welcoming the Newest Member of the Viewshare Team to the Library
The following is a guest post by Patrick Rourke, an Information Technology Specialist and the newest member of the Library’s Viewshare team. I made my first forays into computing on days when it was too cold, wet or snowy to walk in the woods behind our house, in a room filled with novels, atlases and […]
New Workflow for Viewshare
In previous posts Trevor Owens and I showcased changes that are coming to the Viewshare platform. You can test out these changes over the next couple of months at http://beta.viewshare.org (your current login credentials will work). In addition to improved functionality and usability of the views, the workflow to load and build views has also been […]
New look and feel for Viewshare
Earlier this month Trevor Owens announced that a new version of Viewshare is open for user testing and comment. Following this public beta, our plan is to move all users over to the new platform in the next few months. When this happens your Viewshare account, data and views will all transition seamlessly. You will, however, notice […]
A New Viewshare in the Works: Public Beta for Existing Users
The Viewshare team has been hard at work on an extensive revision of the Viewshare platform. Almost every part of the workflow and interface is being tweaked and revised; so much so that we didn’t just want to foist the whole thing on all the existing users at once. So, we have set up a […]
Viewshare for Verdi Scores
Following is a guest blog post from Lisa Shiota, a student at Drexel University School of Information and Library Science and a staff member in the Music Division at the Library of Congress. She explains how she utilized Viewshare in a digital library technologies class. I am currently finishing classes towards a post-graduate certificate in […]
Mapping the Movement of Books Using Viewshare: An Interview with Mitch Fraas
Mitch Fraas, Scholar in Residence at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania and Acting Director, Penn Digital Humanities Forum, writes about using Viewshare for mapping library book markings. We’re always excited to see the clever and interesting ways our tools are used to expose digital collections, and Mitch was gracious enough to […]
Using Viewshare to Visualize Conference Tweets
This is a guest post from Camille Salas, the former Viewshare outreach librarian extraordinaire. Camille completed her internship and temporary assignment with the Library of Congress recently, we hope to again feature her outstanding work as a guest author on this blog once she’s landed a new gig. Best of luck, Camille! Following is an […]
Bringing Hidden Collections to Light with Viewshare: An Interview with Julie Miller, Historian at the Library of Congress
The following is a guest post from Camille Salas of the Library of Congress. On June 11th, I had the opportunity to conduct a Viewshare presentation at the Library of Congress. In addition to a demonstration of how Viewshare works, I shared a few examples of how staff members at the Library of Congress are using […]