Kat: Week 3

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive serves as an online repository for almost a century of performance history. As America’s longest-running dance festival, Jacob’s Pillow has been a foundation of modern and cultural dance since its beginnings in the 1930s. This digital archive not only preserves dance performances but also strives to make these videos accessible to …

Week 2: Kat

Reflecting on the readings and our class discussion from last week, I have come to reexamine some of my prior beliefs about access and openness in relation to cultural heritage materials in digital contexts. A key question that now stands out is: for whom does this access serve? Does the ideal of openness align with …

Week 1: Kat

Hello! I’m Katherine Frisch, and I’m excited to introduce myself as the new Mississippi Digital Humanities Hub Manager at the University of Southern Mississippi. My journey to this role has been shaped by nearly a decade of public librarianship, where I worked for the Lamar County Library System, focusing on representation in collection development and …