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Nicky Agate deposited The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
The current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited HuMetricsHSS Code of Conduct in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoHuMetricsHSS strives to cultivate an academy that’s inclusive, open, collaborative, collegial, and generous. A scholarly life well-lived does not allow harassment in any form. This code of conduct governs the environment of our meetings, workshops, interactions, and communications, and exists to remind us of our values as we interact with others.
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Nicky Agate deposited HuMetricsHSS Code of Conduct in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoHuMetricsHSS strives to cultivate an academy that’s inclusive, open, collaborative, collegial, and generous. A scholarly life well-lived does not allow harassment in any form. This code of conduct governs the environment of our meetings, workshops, interactions, and communications, and exists to remind us of our values as we interact with others.
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Nicky Agate deposited HuMetricsHSS Code of Conduct in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoHuMetricsHSS strives to cultivate an academy that’s inclusive, open, collaborative, collegial, and generous. A scholarly life well-lived does not allow harassment in any form. This code of conduct governs the environment of our meetings, workshops, interactions, and communications, and exists to remind us of our values as we interact with others.
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HuMetricsHSS strives to cultivate an academy that’s inclusive, open, collaborative, collegial, and generous. A scholarly life well-lived does not allow harassment in any form. This code of conduct governs the environment of our meetings, workshops, interactions, and communications, and exists to remind us of our values as we interact with others.
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In a hapless attempt to explain how a man living on unemployment who reportedly has no cell
phone, computer or clue could have received a clear majority win in the race for the Democratic
Party’s U.S. Senate nomination, Democratic state Sen. Robert Ford opined that perhaps a
disproportionate number of the black electorate voted for Alvin G…[Read more] -
Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited The Free Travels of William Grimes from 1814 until 1825 in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis GIF chronicles the movements of a a formerly enslaved man in New England until the publication of his first memoir in 1825. William Grimes was forced to resettle and wander through Connecticut and Rhode Island because of poverty and insecurity. He is most associated with Litchfield, CT and New Haven CT where he spent the most time and which…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited The Free Travels of William Grimes from 1814 until 1825 on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
This GIF chronicles the movements of a runaway slave New England through the publication of his first memoir. He was forced to resettle and wander through Connecticut and Rhode Island because of poverty and security. He is most associated with Litchfield, CT and New Haven CT where he spent the most time and which figure most prominently in his…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited Authorial Affiliations or , The Clubbing and Collaborating of Brander Matthews on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
Both the friends and enemies of Brander Matthews attested to his sociability. Clayton Hamilton wrote in 1929 that Matthews had a “genius in the gentle art of friendship.” (86). Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, observed that “Matthews knew everybody and everybody knew him” and Mark Twain even jokingly inscribed one of his…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited Why Should a Library Invest in You? or, How to Succeed with Short-Term Library and Archival Fellowship Grants on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
SHORT-TERM
library fellowships are quite likely the single most common kind of national research grant given out to scholars in the humanities. The Massachusetts
Historical Society alone gives out twenty short-term library fellowships. Almost every major private university and scholarly library (including the Huntington, Newberry, Yale’s B…[Read more] - Load More
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