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Apr. 10th, 2009 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaI am doing office hours in the Classics department - every Friday, 9:30-10:30 - and this coupled with my other outreach efforts to Classics have reawakened my long-dormant academic interests. If there are no students (or faculty) looking for help - today has been the most quiet I've seen it - I spend my time poking around the Classics and archaeology blogs and web resources, trying to update myself on where things have gone in the 8 years since I've been aware of things. I mean, last time I was actively doing archaeology, blogs barely existed, and the main classical archaeology web site was a collection of links maintained starting in about 1994 by Sebastian Heath at Michigan.
Turns out there are some interesting people - some of whom I know or have met, like Sebs and Charles Watkinson, others of whom I am one degree from, like Chuck Jones - who are thinking about the intersections of classical archaeology, publishing, libraries, and technology (Sebs is a technologist, Charles is a publisher, and Chuck is a librarian). It's very interesting, and it makes me say to myself, hey, this is an area I could have something to contribute to! So. Need to keep reading, and get up to date, and then think about a) sticking my nose out there in the conversation and b) connecting with the archaeologists I know here and elsewhere and bringing these ideas to them.
Turns out there are some interesting people - some of whom I know or have met, like Sebs and Charles Watkinson, others of whom I am one degree from, like Chuck Jones - who are thinking about the intersections of classical archaeology, publishing, libraries, and technology (Sebs is a technologist, Charles is a publisher, and Chuck is a librarian). It's very interesting, and it makes me say to myself, hey, this is an area I could have something to contribute to! So. Need to keep reading, and get up to date, and then think about a) sticking my nose out there in the conversation and b) connecting with the archaeologists I know here and elsewhere and bringing these ideas to them.
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