Emily Nedell Tuck

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Published November 7, 2018 at 2600 × 1463 in An Aesthetic Philosophy of Librarianship

For Work and For Pleasure.

Projects

Library Website in WordPress (2016) This is just a prototype of a library website in WordPress which I enjoyed creating.

EverythingAutism.org (2014) Everything Autism is a resource guide for the autism community in Clear Lake, created by me in WordPress in 2014.

MFAH TMS Data Standards Manual (2011). Implemented standards for cataloging objects accessioned into the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. This project was funded by a grant from the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services). These data standards are specifically for cataloging into a museum registration system called "TMS."

Articles & Letters

"Putting the Wagon Before the Horse: Implementing CCO in Gallery System's TMS"(2011). Concerning the implementation of descriptive cataloging standards for art museums, namely CCO,including a critical appraisal of the CCO as a metadata standard along with its controlled vocabulary, the Getty’s Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT).

"CCO as a Metadata Standard for the Retrieval of Museum Cataloging Records: A Critical Review" (2011). Review of a descriptive cataloging standard for museums, with consideration being given to what extent such a descriptive standard, common to libraries, can be adapted to the workflows and systems used by art museums to achieve record sharing and data aggregation for large digital repositories.

"Religion in the Academy," First Things, 1994, is an excerpted letter to Dr. George Marsden, Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, written while I was a graduate student at Indiana University. He submitted the letter for publication to First Things, where after I was interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education. In 1997, this letter and my experience was discussed in the book, Religious Advocacy and American History.

Art (Coming Soon)

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