The latest issue of The American Historical Review (115:632633, April 2010) reviews R. Burr Litchfield’s Florence Ducal Capital, 15301630, published in 2008 as an ACLS Humanities EBook. The book is accompanied by a digital map of Florence that situates its arguments geographically, and was developed in 2006 by STG. From the review, which considers this … Digital History Book Reviewed
From The Scout Report, April 23, 2010, Volume 16, Number 16: The Lincoln Collection at Brown University has a rather interesting story, and it all started back in the fall of 1855. John Milton Hay arrived in September of that year to start his education at Brown, and he would go on to a distinguished … Lincolniana at Brown featured by Scout Report
The CDS has just completed work on the digital archive for the Pembroke Record. From 1922 to 1970, the Pembroke Record documented and commented upon life at Pembroke College in Brown University. Although the Pembroke Record ceased publishing decades ago, it has remained a valuable archival resource and an irreplaceable part of the history of … Pembroke Record
The talk that Steve Ramsay gave at Brown on Friday, April 16 (“The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around”) is posted here. As there were no slides or other demos, the only thing missing is Steve’s inimitable delivery!
John Price Wilkin will speak Friday, April 23 at 9:00 AM in the Lownes Room, about how the impending Google Book Settlement and HaithiTrust will allow/force libraries to rethink traditional collection development assumptions. John Wilkin is the Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology (LIT) at the University of Michigan and is the Executive Director … John Price Wilkin: The 2010 Brendel Lecture
4:00 PM Wednesday, April 21 Lownes Room, John Hay Library Recentering the Humanities: Digital Humanities Centers, Academic Disciplines, and Cyberinfrastructure
3:30 PM Friday, April 16 Lownes Room, John Hay library The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around Humanities scholarship, by all accounts, now finds itself in what one prominent center of activity calls “An Age of Abundance.” Prominent scholars are asking “What do we do with a million books?” and suggesting “far reading,” “distant reading,” and even … CHUG Talk: Steve Ramsay on “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around”
Podcasts are now available of the Interview and Lecture by Julia Flanders from the Digital Humanities Speaker’s Series, Future Knowledge: Prospects for a Digital Era. University of South Carolina. March 25, 2010. Julia is the Director of the Women Writers Project and Associate Director for Textbase Development here at the Center for Digital Scholarship.
What else is there to say about a month that hosts both Tax Day and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? Drop by the lobby of the John Hay Library to find out. The exhibit features Lincolniana from the Hay Library’s McLellan Lincoln Collection, and constitutes a final farewell to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. “April is … “April is the Cruelest Month…”
