Summer at the Library

What’s up? This blog is getting dusty, and that’s because the slowness of summer is the excuse we use here at Billington Library to start getting more done.  Some things end up getting skipped over: you’re looking at one of them.

DSC_0001That right there is a gaggle of dress forms. I’m not comfortable with them hanging out so bare, so they’ve been covered for the time being.  The reason they’re around is because we have this fashion collection out here at JCCC, and we’re ready to digitize it all.   We’ll be throwing dresses on these and hammering our photographs for the rest of summer, and then fall… it is likely a year or two year project. And it is time consuming. Eek.

Meanwhile, we’re still getting quite a bit of new books, and still doing instruction for classes throughout summer.

Coming up soon is SIDLIT, the summer conference for distance learning. JCCC’s ScholarSpace is the new home for digitally archiving the conferences proceedings, and we’re super-psyched to be attending and collecting presentations.  We’ll probably be following it at our Twitter account, on SIDLIT’s Twitter account, or collectively at #sidlit, starting when the conference goes down: July 30th – 31st.

Also, supposedly in the next two weeks, we’ll have the Campus Ledger in our posession: digitally.  From creation to 2007, the only gap being one year that seems to have left this earth in its entirety.  Exciting? Yes. I hold my breath, though, in anticipation of its arrival.

And yet, there’s more.  I’ll talk about it when it is more solidified.