The Perdita Project is an online collection of Early Modern (1500s to 1820s) period manuscripts by women. It is a collaborative project funded until 2002 by the AHRB, Nottingham Trent University, and Warwick University. So far it links to over 400 manuscripts around the world.
The catalog is viewable either as frames-based or frameless. The frame [...]
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Lost women writers of the Early Modern period unleashed
Posted in Academic, Digital, Links, Publishing on Monday, February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ACRL scholarly communication toolkit
Posted in Academic, Links, Solutions on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ACRL’s toolkit for scholarly communication is updated! They want to
provide an educational resource
offer tools and practical resources, and
construct a repository which encourages sharing and reusing content.
Check out especially the links on the Websites page: author’s rights, open access, general sites [...]
European Studies resources
Posted in Academic, Learning, Tech, Web 2.0 on Monday, February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Europeana is a portal-in-progress for European cultural heritage, with a planned launch in November 2008. For now, you can see the quick video intro (from the current main page) or the lengthy site demo. More information is available in the press release:
“Van Gogh’s down at heel boots were the first thing to appear on the [...]
Geocaching at Notre Dame libraries
Posted in Academic, Clever, Gaming, Libraries on Monday, February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Notre Dame libraries have an innovative program to introduce first-year students to the various campus libraries: Caching in @ the Libraries.
“All First Year students are eligible to compete for iPod Shuffles, ND t-shirts, and other prizes. Have fun while getting to know your way around the campus, find out about library services, and meet [...]
More educational resources online
Posted in Academic, Eh?, Links on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
OER Commons (Open Educational Resources) is a “global teaching and learning network of free-to-use resources – from K-12 lesson plans to college courseware.”
iBerry, the Academic Porthole, claims to offer “Free access to Higher Education (HE) resources and Open Courseware (OCW) from the Universities and Colleges of the world.”
I wish, however, that the iBerry team would [...]
Done!
Posted in Academic, Library 2.0, Studies on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been too busy to blog for wrapping up the semester. However, last night was the final meeting of my Seminar & Practicum group. My classwork is officially over! All that remains is to apply for graduation. I hope that will be in February.
The link of the day: ACRL NY Social Software in Academic Libraries [...]
Requirement for college education: cell phone
Posted in Academic, Eh?, Service, Tech on Friday, November 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey apparently requires students to buy a cell phone from a specific carrier for security reasons.
At first I thought it was a joke. But no: the MSU Campus Connect Help Center has information and FAQs about the program. My husband, who’s teaching at MSU this fall and next spring, [...]
Marketing and promoting your library
Posted in Academic, Clever, Humor, People, Studies on Thursday, July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday in Communication class we were talking about marketing. This is an area that I know very little about. However, there is clearly something to be said for being creative, and for going where the people are. A sample of things I found are below.
The Ursinus College Library (Collegeville, PA) has posted great pictures [...]
I can has internship!
Posted in Academic, Career, Cataloging, Reference, Studies on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I had an interview for an internship with the Assistant Director of the Bank Street College of Education Library. We chatted, and she showed me around. The library is not big, but meticulously taken care of. There’s an especially impressive collection of children’s material in a variety of formats. The staff is friendly, [...]
…and more borrowed links!
Posted in Academic, Library 2.0, Studies, Tech, Usability, Web 2.0 on Monday, July 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
(I’m obviously going through my aggregator tonight.)
I found these through Library 2.0 – An academic’s perspective:
At The College of New Jersey, the modern languages librarian has added a tag cloud with links to pertinent links at del.icio.us to the library’s Italian Studies resources page. In addition, some of the del.icio.us bookmarks have been inserted on [...]
