Iā€™m very excited to say that I am going to be joining the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities to work as their Lead Developer. Apart from the super impressive folks at MITH that I will be joining, I am really looking forward to helping them continue to explore how digital media can be used in interdisciplinary scholarship and learningā€¦and to build and sustain tools that make and remake the work of digital humanities research. MITHā€™s role in the digital humanities field, and its connections on campus and to institutions and projects around the world were just too good of an opportunity to pass up.

Iā€™m extremely grateful to my colleagues at the Library of Congress who have made working over the last 8 years such a transformative experience. Itā€™s a bit of a cliche that there are challenges to working in the .gov space. But at the end of the day, I am so proud to have been part of the mission to ā€œfurther the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American peopleā€. Itā€™s a tall order, that took me in a few directions that ended up bearing fruit, and some others that didnā€™t. But thatā€™s always the way of things right? Thanks to all of you (you know who you are) that made it so rewardingā€¦and so much fun.

When I wrote recently about the importance of broken world thinking I had no idea I would be leaving LC to join MITH in a few weeks. I feel incredibly lucky to be able to continue to work in the still evolving space of digital curation and preservation, with a renewed focus on putting data to use, and helping make the world a better place.

Oh, and I still plan on writing here ā€¦ so, till the next episode.