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How Goodreads Helped Me Find My Memories

By Elle Klock @elleklock

November 4, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How Goodreads Helped Me Find My Memories

My “2019” shelf sat, neatly and chronologically ordered for me to peruse. Month by month, the books I had slogged through and the books that shone brilliantly awakened in my memory, but something else happened too. I began to remember other parts of my life in those months.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: Archives, books, browsing, connections, digital, forgotten, goodreads, history, linear time, lists, loss, memory, network, Online, past, Reading, remember, Social Media, time loss

Through the Eyes of an Archivist

By Mary Williams

March 4, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Through the Eyes of an Archivist

The process of publishing a book has many moving parts. The marketing team needs to be studying their audience while the copyeditors and fact-checkers are working on the manuscript. The design team is creating the perfect cover while the author is trying not to have their third mental breakdown. There’s a lot going on. Things are constantly moving, going, working. But when you’re looking at it as an archivist, when the work is done, everything is still.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: archival work, Archives, Authors, books, collections, communication, different point of view, drafts, publishing

The Unglamorous Truth of Being a Publisher’s Assistant

By Frances Kane and Melina Hughes @kfrancesstella

January 30, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

The Unglamorous Truth of Being a Publisher’s Assistant

With the help of the project managers, we are working to ensure that no important work is lost going forward. And like Nancy Drew, we will investigate the whereabouts of those old missing files.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan, Manager Monday, Publishing Tagged With: Archives, grad students, Nancy Drew, ooligan press, projects, publisher's assistant

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