….“Close reading” is not a method per se. Rather, it’s an attitude, I think, where “close” actually means “closely,” implying an extra degree of care, attention to detail, expertise, etc. When we ask someone “to pay close attention” to something, we’re not asking them to invade our personal space; we use it as an intensifier, […]
Yesterday, my colleagues and I at RRCHNM launched a great new public history site, Histories of the National Mall, mallhistory.org. It is built in Omeka with a beautiful responsive design that displays on a phone, tablet, or laptop. (Read full announcement on the RRCHNM blog.) We have been thrilled with the positive response we have […]
Washington and Lee University invites applications for a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellowship for recent Ph.D.s in history who intend to pursue careers as teacher-scholars in a liberal arts college setting. See the full job ad here.
Why is this space called a “Mall?” Did cattle ever roam the Mall? How have protests changed over time? Visitors will find answers to those questions, and more, in the new website, Histories of the National Mall mallhistory.org, developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media with funding from the National Endowment of […]
The British Library has acquired an exceptional manuscript of a medieval drama, made for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467). Duke Philip’s copy is one of the finest surviving illuminated manuscripts of any medieval theatrical text, and is now in two volumes: it includes 20 large miniatures painted by Loyset Liédet (d. 1479), illustrating […]
I’ve been playing with https://www.mashape.com/, a freemium (credit card required but some free services) no-coding-required data mining analysis tool. I’m pressed for time, and have literally spent less than 5 minutes with it, but like the possibilities. Once you’ve got an account set up, including credit card details, you can produce an introductory ‘Data Mining’ tutorial very […]
A call for proposals sponsored by the Libraries and Research discussion group and the Bibliography and Textual Studies discussion group of the Modern Language Association (MLA) has been issued on “Bibliography for the 21st Century.” Abstracts are due March 15, 2014. See the full announcement here.
Welcome to the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections, a freely accessible online archive of digitized newspaper content from the University of Illinois Library. This collection contains 45 newspaper titles, 78,494 issues comprising 978,921 pages and 6,648,636 articles. See the full resource here.
“It’s not just about studying and learning,” says Pitzer College student Susanna Ferrell. “It’s also about activism,” adds fellow student Jade Ulrich, both of whom were beta testers for a Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) about “Dialogues on Feminism and Technology” that started with Pitzer, University of California, San Diego, and Bowling Green State University […]
We invite you to join us on March 11, 2014, at 1:00 PM (EST), for a free webinar on the Ithaka S+R 2013 US Library Survey. SAGE, one of the sponsors of the survey, is hosting the 60-minute webinar, which will feature Elisabeth Leonard, Sage’s Market Research Analyst, discussing the survey findings with Roger Schonfeld, Ithaka S + […]
