New database: Internet Shakespeare Editions.
Designed specifically for the digital medium, ISE is an open access resource to scholarship that explores Shakespeare’s plays, poems, the context in which he was writing, his life, the stage for which he wrote, the intellectual and literary life of the Renaissance, and a large record of current and historical performances, costume design and artifacts and more.
Posted in databases, digital collections, literature
Good news! The Libraries have subscribed to Twentieth Century Advice Literature. More than a thousand pages of conduct, behavioral, advice, and etiquette literature reveal rapid and drastic changes in American life in the last century. These sorts of materials typically fell out of date quickly and were rarely collected or preserved by libraries. Much of the content was distributed by organizations only to their members and was never cataloged. Alexander Street is painstakingly collecting the literature from archives and academics around the country, with more than a third of the items in the database classified as ephemeral.
Pam Samuelson on “Overcoming Copyright Obstacles to Creating Digital Libraries” – video of 2/19/2013 Sara Fine Lecture at University of Pittsburgh.
More info: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~fineinst/projects/samuelson.html
Friday, March 8, 1-4 pm
Posner Center
Carnegie Mellon University
Speakers:
Gabrielle Michalek, CMU
Matthew Butkovic, CMU
Tom Clareson, LYRASIS
Panel discussion
Light refreshments
Medici.tv, http://www.medici.tv,offers over 900 programs available on streaming VOD with an unlimited access to the films as long and as often as you wish. The majority of films are accessible in very high quality (HD). Medici.tv offers filmed concerts performed by today’s greatest names in classical music: Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Martha Argerich … Archive movies that bring back to life the legends of the past: Maria Callas, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein … Documentaries on performers and composers directed by well-established names such as Bruno Monsaingeon and Frank Scheffer and movie documentaries directed by the great masters such as Alexander Sokurov and Johann van der Keuken … Live broadcasting of concerts, operas, and ballets … and numerous educational programs and master classes.
To access medici.tv from off-campus, sign in through AnyConnect first, http://search.library.cmu.edu/off-campuswireless/
The CMU trial period for medici.tv ends February 7, 2013. Contact music librarian Kristin Heath, kheath@andrew.cmu.edu with any questions or comments.
The University Libraries invite you to participate in Open Access Week 2012, an international celebration of the movement to provide free online access to research and scholarship. Ten years ago the Budapest Open Access Initiative launched a worldwide campaign for open access (OA) to all new peer-reviewed research. Today OA is well-established and growing in every discipline. The benefits of OA have been proven. The feasibility of OA has been demonstrated. Recommendations for moving ahead have been articulated. It’s time to set the default to open.
OA is strategic for Carnegie Mellon, affirmed by Faculty Senate resolutions in 2007 and 2008. The University Libraries advocate for open access and, in collaboration with the Office of Government Relations, lobby for legislation in support of open access. The Libraries provide an open-access repository and publishing platform called Research Showcase. CMU faculty and students can deposit journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, theses and dissertations with confidence that the Libraries will preserve the material and maintain open access to it. Faculty and students can also use Research Showcase to manage journals and conferences, from paper submission and peer review to publication and preservation.
To celebrate Open Access Week 2012, the University Libraries will have tables in Hunt Library, Newell-Simon Atrium, and the University Center, 11 am-2 pm, October 22 (Monday) and October 25 (Thursday). Come play Non-Trivial Pursuit or Name the Researcher and win a prize. Come talk to a librarian about issues and developments in scholarly communication. Get answers to your questions. And above all, celebrate Open Access Week 2012!
The University Libraries are celebrating Open Access Week 2012. Games. Prizes. Q&A. Handouts. Please mark your calendar and plan to stop by an Open Access Week table in Hunt Library, Newell-Simon Atrium, or the University Center, 11 am-2 pm, October 22 (Monday) and October 25 (Thursday). Play a game and win a prize. Ask a librarian about current issues in scholarly communication. And above all, join in the worldwide celebration of the movement to provide free online access to research and scholarship.
Booklovers can find something for everyone in Carnegie Mellon’s libraries. Fifty-eight members of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS) visited Pittsburgh in May during FABS’ annual book tour and symposium, which highlights special book collections in a different city each year. John Block, publisher of the Post-Gazette and a noted bibliophile, offered to host a tour in Pittsburgh.” Many attending had no idea that Pittsburgh has become such a wonderful place to visit,” said FABS President David Culbert. FABS members are lobbyists for old books, said John Schulman, co-owner of Caliban Books in Oakland in a recent Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article. “They are interested in advancing the idea of the book, its aesthetics, its history, and the fact that it is still the ideal way to read anything,” the newspaper quoted him as saying.
The group spent most of one day enjoying some of the treasures to be seen in the Posner Center, Hunt Library’s Fine and Rare Book Room, and Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. At the Posner Center, dean of University Libraries Gloriana St. Clair spoke about the lifetime collecting interests of Henry Posner Sr. (1888-1976), who created the Posner family collection, as well as the unique contributions of his son, Henry Posner Jr. (1918-2011). The younger Posner conveyed the collection on long-term loan to Carnegie Mellon, built the Posner Center to insure its preservation, digitized the works for universal access, and funded a student internship program to research and mount biannual exhibits drawn from the collection. Ongoing stewardship and the internship program are coordinated by the libraries with the Posner Fine Arts Foundation, created by him. [more]
The International Children’s Digital Library: A Library for the World’s Children (abstract & bio) — Reception at 2:30 pm and lecture from 3-4 pm on April 15 in Rm 501 Information Science Building, University of Pittsburgh.
Allison Druin is the associate dean for research in the iSchool at the University of Maryland and the director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (formerly lead by Ben Shneiderman).
Teaching From Country: Stories and Place in a Postcolonial Australian Aboriginal Pedagogy (abstract & bio) — Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh (University Club, Ballroom B) on Thursday, April 21 at 3 pm.
Michael Christie is a professor of education at Charles Darwin University, Australia.
Posted in digital collections, H&SS, lectures
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