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Personal Digital Archiving for Clergy

Andy Meyer — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:33:22 +0000

Managing digital assets is now a critical part of our society. I wanted to put together some notes for a presentation on personal digital archiving that I’ve proposed for the Covenant’ MidWinter gathering of pastors. If this proposal is accepted, this post will be a first, rough draft of the content I hope to cover there. …

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The Pietist Ethos and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

Andy Meyer — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:44:24 +0000

I just wrote and submitted a piece to the North Park website. It reflects on a recent campus lecture about Pietism and while it’s not exactly about libraries, it is about transformation and does capture some early thoughts that might be related to my “pietism and libraries” project. So here it goes! The Pietist Ethos …

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Working with Chicago Data (part 1)

Andy Meyer — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:58:41 +0000

We are still talking a lot of data at North Park – in particular Chicago data. So I’m going to start getting my hands dirty working with this data to build capacity for future partnerships with faculty and students. So here is the first in what I hope to be many installments of the “Working …

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Sending Article Level Metadata from OJS to DOAJ

Andy Meyer — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:06:37 +0000

That’s a pretty scary sounding title…but the process was actually super simple. I just want to document it here for my own future reference and to share with others looking to do the same thing. Background In my role as Technical Advisor for the Covenant Quarterly, I oversaw the application process for our journal into …

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Google Scholar Tutorial

Andy Meyer — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 14:45:02 +0000

As a way to document and share my work, I wanted to post this short online tutorial I made about using Google Scholar and the Brandel Library. I manage the data feeds (from SFX and now from EBSCO) that make these library links possible but I also feel like I needed to do more to …

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Personal Reflections on Pietism

Andy Meyer — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:22:17 +0000

Through my role on the Commission on Covenant History, I was able to bring Dr. Chris Gehrz to campus for a lecture and a faculty discussion. It was a wonderful set of events and has re-invigorated by exploration of pietism and libraries. Perhaps it would be more fair to say this lecture reinvigorated an exploration …

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Digitizing Wire Recordings

Andy Meyer — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:32:11 +0000

An interesting side project that I thought I could write about here. A neighbor asked me about digitizing some “Wire Recordings” that her grandfather had made of her family. I had never heard of this media format so I took to twitter to ask around: @mediarchaeology any chance you have resources on digitizing recordings made …

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Tools for Data Analysis

Andy Meyer — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:29:35 +0000

In addition to providing the raw data to our campus community, I think the library can take a leadership role in providing the tools and expertise to mine this data into something usable and useful. However, many of the tools that are used to transform data are highly specialized and have a pretty steep learning …

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Chicago Data for Undergraduate Research

Andy Meyer — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:07:09 +0000

We are talking a lot about data, data literacy, and how North Park University can use Chicago data in the classroom. There are already a lot of courses using data in instruction and research so part of my work is figuring out what is already happening. But I think the library can have a unique …

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