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Communications Circuits, YouTube, and Flying Sloths
By Derek Attig on Feb 7th, 2012
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This semester, I'm teaching an undergraduate research capstone course called "Information in Motion." The course looks at public libraries and at...
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Papers, Layers, and Pastry: Massachusetts Historical Society Fellowships
By Derek Attig on Dec 28th, 2011
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Recipe Cards, Tactile Memory, and "Paper Communities" (Also Matzoh Balls)
By Derek Attig on Dec 12th, 2011
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A year ago, I posted a sort of thought experiment here on HASTAC, using the debate about matzoh ball soup (fluffly or dense?!*) to speculate about...
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On the Occupy Wall Street Library
By Derek Attig on Dec 6th, 2011
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Over the past month or so, over on bookmobility, I've had a series of posts trying to work out the meaning of various moments in the brief...
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Charlotte Brontë's Zines
By Derek Attig on Oct 26th, 2011
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Charlotte Brontë made zines.
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Exploration & Collaboration: Profiling Kevin Franklin
By Derek Attig on Oct 20th, 2011
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Kevin Franklin, an expert on distributed knowledge systems and virtual collaboration, is one of the co-founders of HASTAC. Since 2007, he has...
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Get Communism Off Mankind's Back; or, When Animals Attack
By Derek Attig on Oct 20th, 2011
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For the past week, I've been doing research for my dissertation in the U.S. National Archives. Specifically, I've been looking at records and...
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CFP: Indecency (11/1/2011; 3/1-3/2012)
By Derek Attig on Sep 11th, 2011
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Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's & Gender History Presents:

INDECENCY

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
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Card Catalog Concerto: The Surprising Afterlives of Information Technology
By Derek Attig on Sep 7th, 2011
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This video is an intriguing—and surprisingly beautiful—example of one possible afterlife of information technology. From the YouTube page:
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A Shipping Container Isn't a Library Book
By Derek Attig on Aug 30th, 2011
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USA Today reports that the Pentagon has paid $720 million in late fees for rented shipping containers since 2001. Seven-hundred-and-twenty million...
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About Derek Attig
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Derek Attig is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation project examines the roles bookmobiles played--as carriers of an ostensibly collective culture which moved through public space--in imagining, forming, and contesting communities in the twentieth-century United States. Using this research as springboard, Derek is interested in situating the digital humanities within a larger (and longer) story of attempts to broaden access to public cultures. Visit http://bookmobility.tumblr.com/ for images, videos, links, and random thoughts about information on the move. You can also download Derek's CV at http://www.history.illinois.edu/people/dattig2 .

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