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Patricia M. Hswe started the topic Libraries and Research Forum's Open Meeting at 2016 Convention in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoFor the 2016 Convention in Austin, TX, the Libraries and Research Forum has decided to hold an open meeting. The theme: “What Was, Is, and Shall Be an Academic Library – and Who Will Work There?”
The session is scheduled for Saturday, January 9, at 3:30 PM. Bill Thompson (Western Illinois U. Libraries) and Amanda Watson (NYU Libraries) will be…[Read more]
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Alexander Gil deposited Migrant Textuality: On the fields of Aimé Césaire's Et les chiens se taisaient in the group
Bibliography and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoWith the discovery of the earliest known manuscript version of Et les chiens se taisaient, we learn that Césaire had started thinking about the theater earlier than had been assumed, and most important, that he had originally envisioned this work as a historical drama based on the Haitian Revolution. “Migrant Textuality” explores the several vers…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher started the topic CFP: MLA 2016 Austin: Word Books and Material Culture in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoWord Books and Material Culture
Sponsored by the new Theory and Method forum Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography (formerly known as the Lexicography Discussion Group).
ABCs, dictionaries, spellers, synonymies, thesauruses: what is the life of a word book? What stories do word books tell? Please submit 250 word abstracts by the deadline.…[Read more]
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Lexicography on MLA Commons 11 years agoAbstracts for MLA2015, session 356: Teaching with the OED
Friday, 9 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 111, VCC West
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Lexicography
Presiding: Lisa Berglund, Buffalo State Coll., State Univ. of New York
Speakers: Kate Levin, Barnard Coll.; Elizabeth Dyrud Lyman, Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville; J. Lawrence M…[Read more] -
Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic Read & Comment on Draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education in the forum
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoIn 2000 the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly revise the standards in order to…[Read more]
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TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2015: Bibliography for the twenty-first century.
A collaborative session proposal by the discussion groups for Bibliography and Textual Studies and Libraries and Research.
Seeking discussions of projects, research, issues, controversies, trends, and other topics. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2014 to Dawn Childress (dawn@psu.edu) and…[Read more]-
Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher started the topic MLA 2015 Discussion Group CFP: Teaching with the Oxford English Dictionary in the forum
Lexicography on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoTeaching with the Oxford English Dictionary: A Roundtable
We invite proposals for 8-10 minute presentations (which will be followed by a general discussion). Topics include: teaching students to use the OED; descriptions of successful assignments; negotiating the OED Online; and broader reflections on dictionaries in the classroom.
Please send…[Read more]
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Dawn Childress posted an update in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2015: Bibliography for the twenty-first century — How are scholars adapting the study and documentation of material texts in the twenty-first century? What affordances, opportunities, challenges, or obstacles are offered to bibliography by digital transmission, transformation, and augmentation? For more information, visit:…[Read more]
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Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Dawn Childress posted an update in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for MLA 2015: Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory — How do libraries and archives function as sites for preserving and constructing public memory? For more information, visit http://mlalibraries.mla.hcommons-staging.org/?p=181
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Dawn Childress posted an update in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoRequest for Proposals: Prototyping Projects for the HathiTrust Research Center
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Dawn Childress posted an update in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 12 years, 10 months agoThe Libraries and Research in Languages and Literature blog has relocated to MLA Commons! You can visit the blog by clicking the “Blog” option in the left-hand menu or visiting http://mlalibraries.mla.hcommons-staging.org/.
