Library and Information Science Portfolio
Here are links to some of my Indiana University student projects:
- www.lakewebster.net
- I designed this website for the Webster Lake Conservation Association (WLCA) in 2012 for an Information Architecture class.
- The site has been in active use by the WLCA for the past two years and I have continued to update it periodically.
- I have prepared detailed documentation for the WLCA on the website's hosting and domain registration details, so that they can begin updating the website themselves.
- Very pleased with my work, the WLCA has written me a strong endorsement letter.
- Charles S. Peirce, Philosophical Writings
- I created this Omeka-based digital archive in 2012 for a Digital Libraries class.
- The archive features early published writings of Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914), a logician, scientist, and philosopher known today as the founder of the intellectual movement that came to be known as American Pragmatism. William James and John Dewey were two other influential pragmatists.
- I encoded one of Peirce's essays, "Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man" in TEI using the TEI Boilerplate framework developed by IU Professor John Walsh.
- LibGuide for P100 - Introduction to Philosophy
- I chose this topic for my first LibGuide because, oddly enough, there were no Philosophy LibGuides on the IU Bloomington library website, like there were for most other subjects.
- My goal was to provide resources that both students who have never taken a Philosophy class before and their instructors might find useful.
- LibGuide for Learning Ancient Greek and Latin
- My goal for this, my second LibGuide, was to provide resources for beginning- and intermediate-level students of ancient Greek and Latin languages.
- Most of the other LibGuides I looked at on this topic were very incomplete and poorly maintained (broken hyperlinks, etc.). I set out to do better. It turns out that there are a lot more resources on ancient Greek and Latin than I had initially realized.
- Web Accessibility Analysis of Epicurious.com
- I prepared this extensive 12-page analysis in 2013 for a Web Accessibility workshop.
- Using a wide variety of accessibility tools, I analyze three representative pages from the epicurious.com website in accordance with the WCAG 2.0 guidelines and make recommendations for how to bring the pages up to current accessibility standards.
- Research Guide on Fatalism
- I prepared this research guide in 2013 for a Humanities Information class using the Twitter Bootstrap platform.
- Focusing on a topic on which I have considerable expertise, I sought to prepare a guide that could introduce someone who knows nothing about the topic to its historical and philosophical importance, provide guidelines on how to search effectively for research on the topic, and highlight the most important currently available resources on the topic.
- I provide an annotated bibliography charting the development of thinking about fatalism from classical Greco-Roman sources (Aristotle, Stoicism, etc.) through the Middle Ages (Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, etc.) up to the modern era.