Author: Alex Austin
This LibGuide explores the world of zines and reports on where to find them, how to make them, and how to teach with them.
A how-to LibGuide designed to help librarians easily customize LibGuides using CSS. By copying + pasting CSS code from this guide, users can get to work making custom adjustments that improve the accessibility, design, and story-telling power of their own guides.
A selection of curiosities from special collections located in libraries across the world, this digital exhibit brings together items whose stories center around the theme of dissection. For the course INFO 689 Rare Books and Special Collections, I curated this exhibit and built the website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Introduction Descriptive Imagery in Visualization The imagery that is presented in information visualizations has a significant impact on our understanding of the subject matter, and thus the creators…
Through this paper/presentation, I identify the risks to artists that unorganized, non-archival studio practices pose, I describe the basic principles and practices of archiving and of personal archiving, and I argue that through applying archival principles to their studio practices, artists can improve the searchability and longevity of their work. I contend that a purposeful implementation of archival practices is worth the artist’s time and interest. Concluding with an examination of the ways in which the archival impulse enters the conceptual realm of artmaking, I round out a comprehensive examination of the impact that a knowledge of archival principles and theory can have on an artist’s practice.
“Alex’s Art Book Blog” is a website that allows users to explore the contents of my bookshelves by clicking on shelves and reading the titles and publication information inside. This website is a result of a class assignment designed to teach students how to create a website from scratch using HTML and CSS.