MLA Commons | TM Libraries and Research | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/ Activity feed for the group, TM Libraries and Research. Sun, 20 Oct 2019 06:38:57 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.3 en-US 30 hourly 2 d3246df9813c760faf497898a544fb24 Carrie Johnston deposited Being Human in Digital Humanities Project Management- MLA 2020 panel abstract in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663869/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 03:55:04 +0000 This panel will consider the changing landscape of research support for digitally-inflected scholarship in higher education through the lens of digital humanities project management. Digital humanists acting as project managers must continually adapt their practices in response to shifting institutional priorities and concomitant changes in the…[Read more]

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b5915dae33a318e37c8cf258a1658655 Bonnie Mak deposited Period, Theme, Event: Locating Information History in History in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1658292/ Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:30:12 +0000 Explores ‘information history’, or the study of information and its practices, as a way to arrange investigations of past and present. An invited contribution for the volume, “Information and Power in History: Towards a Global Approach,” edited by Ida Nijenhuis, Marijke van Faassen, Joris Gijsenbergh, Wim de Jong, and Ronald Sluijter (London:…[Read more]

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b24646a81a73e23772cd1e5869a6b4c2 Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Universities should be working for the greater good in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1638112/ Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:48:07 +0000 This is the submission (unedited) version of the article published in Times Higher Education on April 11, 2019, which argues that the market-based competition that fuels so much of academic life is doing us all far more harm than good.

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6f62677ecedfed595c39d47bf91134e2 Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2020-scholarly-communication-voices-from-the-global-south/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 02:38:35 +0000 Roundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South

Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]

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6f62677ecedfed595c39d47bf91134e2 Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2020-scholarly-communication-voices-from-the-global-south/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 02:38:35 +0000 Roundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South

Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]

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27cd5f34c62cec652554bf3bcf6c554f Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2020-scholarly-communication-voices-from-the-global-south/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 02:38:35 +0000 Roundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South

Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]

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8e8bcd69e2fa7911bd78629862beb63e Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2020-scholarly-communication-voices-from-the-global-south/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 02:38:35 +0000 <h1>Roundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South</h1>
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]

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17845a270ee393f47a36351bd93f2a74 Paige Morgan deposited Delivering on the Deliverables in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1632639/ Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:30:24 +0000 Many digital humanists in centers or libraries—interdisciplinary positions that cater to multiple departments—are expected to demonstrate the products of their digital labor to high-ranking administrators and stakeholders on a consistent basis. As such, they often are on tight and over-extended timelines to produce high-quality digital sch…[Read more]

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4e73e8c55853d72be1d2dc350813cd0f Patrick Williams deposited The Machine Stops: Critical Orientations to Our Information Apparatus in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631832/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:32:34 +0000 This chapter details a credit-based orientation & information literacy course taught with local archival and special collections materials.

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74e2e2fd3c586ed5324916bb72ba7d4f Hannah Alpert-Abrams deposited ‘Irreversible’: The Role of Digitization to Repurpose State Records of Repression in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631113/ Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:25:22 +0000 Since mid-2005, archivist–activists at the Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala have been digitizing a century’s worth of previously suppressed police
records so as to protect, mobilize and provide access to them – 23 million pages to date. We find that digitization amplified the staff’s repurposing of the archive to serve v…[Read more]

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f694d1f2b16a26f60cb2d157aa24f046 Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628766/ Sat, 12 Jan 2019 03:49:21 +0000 Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more]

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a6fbfbbc7aff509273970d6212f4c7d2 Marlene Manoff deposited Archive and Library in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628335/ Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:26:09 +0000 Archives and libraries operate within a complex web of social, political and economic forces. Digital technologies, globalization, the corporatization of the academy, and increasing commercial control of the scholarly record are just some of the myriad forces shaping their evolution. Libraries and archives in turn have shaped the production of…[Read more]

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b4b39703c9ee331c3eae5b41e4d3c151 Spencer Keralis deposited Disrupting Labor in the Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628277/ Tue, 08 Jan 2019 03:52:31 +0000 Digital humanists have a labor problem, but it’s not what you might think. In this chapter, I describe the problem of student labor in digital humanities as I see it, and examine some of the structural issues that drive the use of student labor. I place the labor economy of digital humanities projects within the broader context of the innovation e…[Read more]

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7c0a1a962e53efe44364e86e77002e0b Amanda L. Watson deposited Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628156/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 03:49:18 +0000 Slides from MLA 2019 session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” an open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum.

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9effa1ed08dcefc752fde3f7e96af6d0 Paige Morgan deposited This Talk Doesn't Have A Name in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1625813/ Sat, 15 Dec 2018 03:53:32 +0000 This talk discusses various aspects of working with data: the choices that we make when we create data, when we analyze data, and some of the social implications of those choices.

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2ac099930a95b9648a0aa595d34526a7 Christopher Warren deposited Historiography’s Two Voices: Data Infrastructure and History at Scale in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1624955/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:26:26 +0000 Behind the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a deep substrate that includes a vast data management system, highly detailed SGML markup conventions, extensive international labor, and the enormous cultural weight of the Victorian-era DNB. In this article, I argue that it is only by investigating components of our historiographical…[Read more]

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ddb7c26c9b1efea4b24d0fc5fb43ba46 David Squires deposited Open Access and the Theological Imagination in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615311/ Sun, 12 Aug 2018 03:54:57 +0000 The past twenty years have witnessed a mounting crisis in academic publishing. Companies such as Reed-Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, and Taylor and Francis have earned unprecedented profits by controlling more and more scholarly output while increasing subscription rates to academic journals. Thus publishers have consolidated their influence despite…[Read more]

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30c29a5491679306cb17ac1c46819dd8 Paige Morgan deposited The consequences of framing digital humanities tools as easy to use in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615218/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:47:32 +0000 This article examines the recurring ways in which some of the most popular DH tools are presented as easy to use. It argues that attempts to couch powerful tools in what is often false familiarity, directly undermines the goal of encouraging scholarly innovation and risk taking. The consequences of framing digital tools as either easy or more…[Read more]

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60b0c58f6573ab46dd8812ab3fd827c5 Jonathan Senchyne deposited Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615106/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:12:48 +0000 I look to the ways material text studies might be prompted by, and improve upon, thinking in new materialism. The result is that paper could be read for how histories and narratives seep into the paper record and require accounts of agentic materiality lest they be lost or muted. In what follows, I use stories about rag paper as points of…[Read more]

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40be0e9d23dc629a1d97ee9ce5d8d1c0 Rebecca Kennison deposited Altmetrics in Humanities and Social Sciences in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615055/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:56:22 +0000 The spread of open digital forms of scholarly communication, combined with increasing institutional pressure to track research “impact,” has encouraged scholars and administrators in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) to turn their attention to metrics that promise to help in the assessment of research outputs. As a result of the lim…[Read more]

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d8d8e08791581fbebd155ef5c9449cc3 Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/mla19-session-374-open-meeting-of-the-libraries-and-research-forum-2/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:02:55 +0000 The Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on Friday, January 4, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The…[Read more]

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6fe3533be9c651e918fcdf01f5070ffa Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/mla19-session-374-open-meeting-of-the-libraries-and-research-forum-2/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:02:55 +0000 The Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]

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696ab6196eeaa6d71db8dd97839b683c Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/mla19-session-374-open-meeting-of-the-libraries-and-research-forum-2/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:02:55 +0000 The Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]

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8d082cfdd22552e36f9ba44108383072 Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/mla19-session-374-open-meeting-of-the-libraries-and-research-forum-2/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:02:55 +0000 The Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]

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ea7f98d7260154ecb668b0e5c4676a46 Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/mla19-session-374-open-meeting-of-the-libraries-and-research-forum-2/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:02:55 +0000 The Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. A longer…[Read more]

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d14410320e2dcc7354dced153bbf6595 Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/mla19-session-374-open-meeting-of-the-libraries-and-research-forum/ Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:57:33 +0000 The Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago, on Friday, January 5, 2019 from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. Session 374, Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape, will feature a discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. A longer agenda with discussion…[Read more]

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ad351ca71272f7b4cafe255a802abf30 Téa Rokolj deposited Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610425/ Sun, 10 Jun 2018 04:20:28 +0000 A widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political c…[Read more]

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43d31838e06464b441d0db0010d16b96 Tea Rokolj started the topic European Studies Research Forum @ ALA Annual 2018 in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/european-studies-research-forum-ala-annual-2018/ Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:21:36 +0000 Join us for the ACRL European Studies Research Forum at ALA Annual in New Orleans!

Sunday, June 24th, 8:30-10:00 a.m. Sheraton New Orleans, Bayside B

 

Brief welcome and introduction to the presenters

 

Presentations

 

The Nazi Conspiracy: German Fantasies and Jewish Power between Weimar and the Third Reich — Brendan Fay (Emporia State…[Read more]

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bc572b8de548f6f25edd7c9667790a23 Tea Rokolj started the topic European Studies Research Forum @ ALA Annual 2018 in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/european-studies-research-forum-ala-annual-2018/ Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:21:36 +0000 Join us for the ACRL European Studies Research Forum at ALA Annual in New Orleans!

Sunday, June 24th, 8:30-10:00 a.m. Sheraton New Orleans, Bayside B

 

Brief welcome and introduction to the presenters

 

Presentations

 

The Nazi Conspiracy: German Fantasies and Jewish Power between Weimar and the Third Reich — Brendan Fay (Emporia State…[Read more]

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bc3adf454c25404056238738148d5a9c Amanda L. Watson started the topic CfP for MLA 2019 in Chicago: Literary/Historical Research Partnerships in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2019-in-chicago-literary-historical-research-partnerships/ Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:56:19 +0000 In honor of the MLA Convention’s co-location with the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in 2019, this panel will feature short presentations by pairs or teams of literature scholars and historians who have worked collaboratively on research projects. We seek presentations of no longer than 15 minutes that address the challenges, met…[Read more]

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5bfbf6712b5bc3e1f532827cb0477a21 Tea Rokolj started the topic CFP: European Studies Research Forum #alaac18 in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/cfp-european-studies-research-forum-alaac18/ Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:25:50 +0000 CFP: European Studies Research Forum
American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 21-26, 2018

The ACRL European Studies Section will host its annual European Studies Research Forum at the ALA annual conference in New Orleans on Sunday, June 24th, from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.

The ESS Research and Planning Committee invites…[Read more]

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11420a96900c20a2da2cc7ad7c014d5a Sarah G. Wenzel posted an update in the group TM Libraries and Research: University of Chicago Library - Robert L. Platzman Memorial […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596348/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:01:06 +0000 University of Chicago Library – Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowships – Summer 2018

The University of Chicago Library invites applications for the Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowships for the summer of 2018.

Any visiting researcher, writer, or artist residing more than 100 miles from Chicago, and whose project requires on-site…[Read more]

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d51f9e4907e5ba2a6be21005873e5b00 Harriett Green started the topic MLA 2018 panel announcement: Partnerships beyond the Stacks in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/mla-2018-panel-announcement-partnerships-beyond-the-stacks/ Thu, 14 Dec 2017 23:09:02 +0000 The Libraries and Research Forum is sponsoring the following program at MLA 2018:

#352: Partnerships beyond the Stacks: Collaborations between Scholars and Librarians in Research and Teaching

Friday, January 05, 2018

1:45 PM – 03:00 PM

Hilton – Clinton

 

Description:
New types of partnerships emerging between faculty members, students,…[Read more]

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45b8810ecf97e541acce8ab3f536291b Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591618/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 05:58:49 +0000 This article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more]

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f85308bb9c7d807e72dc4f17fcbebf99 Laura R. Braunstein deposited “And There Was a Large Number of People”: The Occom Circle Project at the Dartmouth College Library in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588608/ Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:46:41 +0000 The Dartmouth College Library’s Occom Circle Project produced a scholarly digital edition of the papers of Samson Occom (1723–1792), a Mohegan Indian and the most widely published Native American writer of the 18th century. This chapter describes the development of the Dartmouth College Library’s project management process. The Library at the t…[Read more]

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92555203dec7f3e95a92b36d6bd69eb9 Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1586450/ Fri, 03 Nov 2017 01:04:55 +0000 How might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries? The author discusses the Modern Language Association’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the…[Read more]

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0ebe79722d3eaa31d2e13f2a3a4450e5 Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1586447/ Fri, 03 Nov 2017 01:04:52 +0000 How might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries? The author discusses the Modern Language Association’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the…[Read more]

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4bfafbd41ca7e29a1f407184c813e261 Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1586438/ Fri, 03 Nov 2017 01:04:37 +0000 How might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries? The author discusses the Modern Language Association’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the…[Read more]

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fd78fb7d538f60ddd0e06708392c9791 Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1583550/ Tue, 03 Oct 2017 01:13:52 +0000 This presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]

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89bdded01967e2b7e89b5f5a02382526 Rebecca Kennison deposited HuMetricsHSS: Exploring the Potential for Altmetrics as Value-Based Indicators in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1583177/ Thu, 28 Sep 2017 01:12:42 +0000 This presentation introduces the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences [HSS]) initiative (http://humetricshss.org/), which aims to develop and support values-based research indicators in HSS disciplines.

Because researchers’ practices are closely linked with the evaluation metrics by which they are judged, H…[Read more]

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b52c9a9215b7f43dfe097bfbc546fef5 Farrah Lehman Den deposited History of Scholarship Project (MLA International Bibliography Teaching Tools) in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1582503/ Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:10:02 +0000 Objective: Using the MLA International Bibliography, students will develop a presentation that demonstrates their understanding of how scholarship on a single work of literature changes over time.

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728b8f734bc8f63c19e43a298427b261 David Squires deposited Pornography in the Library in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1580156/ Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:23:07 +0000 In a book review of Story of O, part of which appeared on the cover of early paperback editions, Eliot Fremont-Smith wrote that its publication in 1965 marked “the end of any coherent restrictive application of the concept of pornography to books.” This essay explores the implications of that significant shift in censorship policy for lib…[Read more]

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9da0b17be3e9cf3c07021735a9df323a Brian Vetruba posted an update in the group TM Libraries and Research: More info about travel stipends for New Directions for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1574646/ Thu, 22 Jun 2017 18:10:54 +0000 More info about travel stipends for New Directions for Libraries, Scholars, and Partnerships” being held on October 13, 2017 at the German National Library in Frankfurt, Germany is available at https://www.crl.edu/news/travel-stipends-frankfurt-symposium

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999c876fa50e3c76ed58ba62023e2b00 Brian Vetruba posted an update in the group TM Libraries and Research: Registration has opened for the symposium "New Directions […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1574645/ Thu, 22 Jun 2017 18:06:51 +0000 Registration has opened for the symposium “New Directions for Libraries, Scholars, and Partnerships” being held on October 13, 2017 at the German National Library in Frankfurt, Germany. The symposium website is http://www.crl.edu/events/frankfurt2017symposium. Additional travel stipends are available for LIS professionals.

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f770e108ca35661b537a19e3bc6c4943 Tea Rokolj replied to the topic ACRL WESS Research Forum at ALA Annual Conference in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/acrl-wess-research-forum-at-ala-annual-conference/#post-1014490 Fri, 16 Jun 2017 03:46:19 +0000 European Studies Research Forum at ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.

Saturday, June 24<sup>th</sup>, 4:30-5:30pm

Chicago Hilton, Stevens Center, Salon A-5

 

Sponsored by the WESS Research and Planning Committee (Nickoal Eichmann, David Lincove, Tea Rokolj).

 

PRESENTATIONS:

 

Gordon B. Anderson (University of Minnesota)

Books under S…[Read more]

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a8a708e669fd0b6fcf665ec12683267a Marlene Manoff deposited Archival Silence in the Age of Trump in the group TM Libraries and Research https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1566101/ Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:18:32 +0000 The Trump presidency has fueled growing apprehension about a media landscape rife with lies, bogus news, and conspiracy theories. These concerns can be situated within a discourse of archival silence which questions the ways in which knowledge may be concealed, misappropriated and exploited in the service of governments, corporations and…[Read more]

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f8e226946f91f960f31692ba3e683a21 Nicky Agate started the topic Practicing Freedom for the Post-Truth Era— a presentation by Barbara Fister in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/practicing-freedom-for-the-post-truth-era-a-presentation-by-barbara-fister/ Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:29:58 +0000 Hello!

I thought members of this group might be interested to know that Barbara Fister has shared the text of her Marjorie Whetstone Ashton Annual Lecture, “Practicing Freedom for the Post-truth Era,” with the Library and Information Science group. You can find the text in CORE at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6H35Q. Here’s the abstract:

Why do we…

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6e4e8419997d22ed39cb28408dabf70c Kathleen Fitzpatrick started the topic Literary Research Guide in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/literary-research-guide/ Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:56:48 +0000 Hi, all. The office of scholarly communication is thinking about the future of the Literary Research Guide, and we would benefit from your input.

Simply put, we’d like to know more about how you, your faculty members, and/or your students use the LRG. Anything you’d be willing to share, either here or via direct message to me, would be e…[Read more]

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5f8b9cdd8f5b9dc93717d8542e11a466 Brian Vetruba started the topic CFP New Directions for Libraries, Scholars, & Partnerships: 10/13/17, Frankfurt in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/cfp-new-directions-for-libraries-scholars-partnerships-101317-frankfurt/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:38:01 +0000 The Center for Research Libraries and its Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) and German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP) international programs, together with French and German partners, invite proposals for papers, presentations, and posters to be presented at an international symposium.  New Directions…[Read more]

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1da504f320799ecc614d4776c843e39b Robert H. Kieft replied to the topic Session at Philly convention and doc for review in the discussion Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/libraries-and-research/forum/topic/session-at-philly-convention-and-doc-for-review/#post-1012873 Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:20:08 +0000 Colleagues, I’m sending this reminder as you pack your bags to travel to Philly. My task force colleagues and I look forward to seeing you to discuss this document.

Thanks.

Bob

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