Robert H. Kieft
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Tea Rokolj started the topic European Studies Research Forum @ ALA Annual 2018 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoJoin 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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Tea Rokolj started the topic European Studies Research Forum @ ALA Annual 2018 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoJoin 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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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 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoIn 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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Tea Rokolj started the topic CFP: European Studies Research Forum #alaac18 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: European Studies Research Forum
American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 21-26, 2018The 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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Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoGood Morning!
In the fall you’ll see my name on the ballot. I am a candidate to represent the TM Forum on Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography. I am thrilled to join the executive committee and to help to raise the profile of this group in its recently reconfigured form. Thus, I am writing to ask you for your support as well as i…[Read more] -
Michael Hancher posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoImaging wood blocks: manipulable 3-D digital representations of three 19th-c. wood engravings, including a “Bewick” and one for Dickens. https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mh/home/miscellany/imaging-wood-blocks
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Eleanor F. Shevlin posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP 2019 TM Book, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Title: Cut, Copy, Paste, TrackHow do we study the expansion, contraction, and development of material texts and corpora? Papers sought that explore erasure, cancellation, deletion, supplementation, and textual change. 350-word proposals cvs by 10 March 2018; Eleanor F. Shevlin (eshevlin@wcupa.edu)…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]
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André G. Wenzel posted an update in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 8 years agoUniversity 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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Kate Ozment deposited Expanding Access: Feminist Scholarship and the Women in Book History Bibliography in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoInspired by my work on the Women in Book History Bibliography, this presentation takes a different angle on discussions of women’s texts in digital archives. The WBHB collects secondary sources on women’s writing and labor over a broad range of languages, subjects, geographic locations, and time periods. Because we collect secondary sources, we…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell deposited “Q i-jtb the Raven”: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these various parts require sustained bibliographic analysis and description. To adequately theorize any research conducted in large-scale text archives—including r…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell deposited “Q i-jtb the Raven”: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these various parts require sustained bibliographic analysis and description. To adequately theorize any research conducted in large-scale text archives—including r…[Read more]
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Harriett Green started the topic MLA 2018 panel announcement: Partnerships beyond the Stacks in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe 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
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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 on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis 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] -
Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis 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] -
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 on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe 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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Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoHow 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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Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoHow 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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Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoHow 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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Megan Peiser posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHello, All,
I wanted to introduce myself, as you’ll see my name on your ballot for our forum’s executive committee elections this Fall. I encourage you to wander over to my profile and check out more details there, or follow me on Twitter at @MeganPeiser.I am a digital bibliographer and book historian focused on eighteenth-century literature,…[Read more]
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