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Hidden Pictures are Dynamite!

Posted on August 5, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Cool Collections, Ephemera | Leave a comment

I found this unusual bit of advertising while scanning a box from our Perkins collection. The advertisement is promoting the purchase of dynamite for the use of subsoiling. I’m not sure if using a toy-like device with hidden folk-tale pictures … Continue reading →

Audio Digitization: a look at the Rohlig process

Posted on June 4, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Audio, Cool Collections, Digitization, Music, Software, Work Flow | 2 Comments

Audio Digitization is a completely different type of mole hill than Image Digitization. There are different concerns, such as playback speeds, distortion, clipping, etc. There are also different types of technical metadata needed, such as track begin and end times. … Continue reading →

A Civil War Perspective: Benjamin Gaston

Posted on April 8, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Civil War, Cool Collections, Newly Online, Small Collections, War | Leave a comment

Benjamin J. Gaston served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry.  He wrote several letters to his parents, and sometimes his brothers and sisters, between 1859 and … Continue reading →

The Other Black Art

Posted on February 12, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Software, Work Flow | Tagged | Leave a comment

Since we are two days away from Valentine’s Day, you’re probably expecting a blog about love and romance. Close, this blog is about the automation of repetitive tasks through the use of a scripting language, and who doesn’t love that? Perhaps you … Continue reading →

Advanced Acumen Searching

Posted on January 15, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Acumen, Delivery Methodology, Usability | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Acumen is big. Very big. And it’s getting bigger.  I’m pointing this out because when databases like Acumen get big, they become impossible to search through manually. Generally speaking, one can’t just browse casually through thousands and thousands of folder directories and … Continue reading →