I became a librarian for many reasons, with many influences. One of them is Julia Mickenberg’s work on children’s literature and the Left. She spoke at UF in 2004, and I’m sharing a few brief notes here because it’s time to lend away my copy of the book. These notes are for my reference, and a nice way to remember sharing an important book. Julia L. Mickenberg. Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Page 5:  “Some people did turn to children’s literature because other avenues were closed to them; FastRead More →

I wish. Earlier today, this is how my phone corrected when I typed UWI. My phone has successfully typed UWI on many occasions, so it should not have had trouble. Changing UWI to I wish; I’m thankful for this auspicious error. I wish, my wish, my dreams are of collaboration and building community to work ever more strongly together, and I most often work and make this possible by leveraging technology.  But, no technologies are simply technical, and people are always the most challenging, exciting, and meaningful. From here, in the lovely UWI Inn on the UWI St. Augustine campus, on my last trip, I’m reflecting onRead More →

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago Department of Literary Cultural and Communication Studies Faculty of Humanities and Education 36th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature Call for Papers AFFECT & ETHICAL ENGAGEMENT Wednesday 4th to Saturday 7th October 2017 UWI, St Augustine The Caribbean literary project is counterdiscursive both in essence and in practice. It is how we compose and articulate ourselves. With it, we imagine the tasks of nation-building, interrogate traumatic histories, and navigate the myriad rhetorics of identity, politics, and space. A focus on affect enables fruitful enquiry within the field—and well beyond it. In response to literature’sRead More →

I’m here at the amazing University of the West Indies, St. Augustine meeting with folks on digital humanities and libraries. Yesterday, I learned that the Special Collections of the Alma Jordan Library, UWI, St. Augustine, runs a seminar format that has faculty address the question: “how could one do research with this particular collection?” This is a new idea (to me, at least) and it’s a fantastic format! The format for this includes one seminar a semester for two hours, with two faculty members each presenting for 30 minutes, and then for an hour of shared discussion. The faculty presenting each get to learn from the other one,Read More →

Thanks to Kelly Baker Josephs, Editor, sx salon: a small axe literary platform, for sharing this! sx salon 24 is now available online. Please see our table of contents below. In this issue we publish an edited version of a roundtable on digital publishing at the West Indian Literature Conference last October in which five editors of Caribbean digital platforms—Evelyn O’Callaghan, Kaiama L. Glover, Laurie N. Taylor, Patricia J. Saunders, and myself, Kelly Baker Josephs—discuss managing the potentials and pitfalls of digital platforms. In Reviews, we cover new publications in the field: Rachel L. Mordecai reviews Rosario Ferré’s Memoir, translated by Suzanne Hintz and Benigno Trigo;Read More →

Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age is a webinar series showcasing digital and/as public research and teaching in Caribbean Studies. The series provides a collaborative space for professionals to share on projects and experiences to foster communication and support our shared constellations of communities of practice. Please join us for an upcoming event featuring innovative digital work with Colony in Crisis, April 11, 2017, at 11am (Miami Time). Presenter: Nathan Dize and Abby Broughton (Vanderbilt University) Click here to participate in the online event: http://ufsmathers.adobeconnect.com/Caribbean About the Presentation: A digital project created in 2014 through the collaboration of two graduate students and a librarian, ARead More →

Thanks to Gayle Williams at FIU for sharing a new LibGuide sharing resources celebrating today, which marks the centennial of  the United States Virgin Islands Transfer Day, transferring St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John from Denmark to the United States. Also, please note that the University of the Virgin Islands was a founding partner in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC, www.dLOC.com), and that dLOC, UVI, the USVI Territorial Archives, and the Statsbibliotek (National Library) of Denmark have all collaborated to share more materials from USVI through dLOC, including The Herald newspaper from St. Croix, with thanks, too, to funding from LARRP-CRL!Read More →

Information to share about the Fulbright Program! The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program. This year there are over 50 awards available in the Western Hemisphere: Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada. These opportunities allow faculty and professionals, at all stages of their career, to teach and/or conduct research in their discipline. They will be hosting a webinar on Wednesday, April 5, at 2pm EDT to review these opportunities, and encourage registrants to submit questions in advance. Opportunities that may be of interest include: North America: Fulbright –Read More →

This is a collaborative submission for HASTAC 2017. If folks from institutions in the Southeast that are not represented are interested in joining, please contact us. We’re currently requesting two sessions for the roundtable discussion with so many participants. The goal of this is to foster discussion with the speakers, attendees, and the wider community, so please contact us to connect! Title: Roundtable Proposal: Southeastern Academic Community for the Digital Humanities Submission for HASTAC 2017, Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities (http://hastac2017.org/index.php/cfp/) Abstract: In imagining the possible worlds of Digital Humanities, and recognizing the need to create a future that is more interdisciplinary and inclusive, weRead More →

I’m doing readings and re-readings for several reports and papers. I find taking long quote notes helpful  in remembering/understanding the longer scope/impact of works, and it eases the weaving together of sources. I like to have my sources online for my own ease of searching, and it’s always nice to share references and quotes from great works. I hope others might find this useful, too. Angela Y. Davis. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2016. Page 49:  “I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, evenRead More →
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