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Just a few months before this year’s Fourth of July celebrations, a federal budget agreed upon by Congress and the President set off a round of fireworks about as spectacular and festive as the “rockets’ red glare” commemorated in our national anthem (which, as you recall, was composed by Francis Scott Key during the [...]
Continue Reading →[This is a guest post by Margaret Brill, Librarian for Britain/Ireland, Canada, Australasia, World History and Medieval/Renaissance Studies]
The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29th has provoked widespread interest in the British Monarchy here in the USA, and even in the Duke community. A frequent question is “Why doesn’t The [...]
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On March 4-5, 2011, the National Humanities Center in Durham, NC will host a symposium on “The Virtual Nineteenth Century.”
Participating scholars intend to take on the notion of “virtuality,” a buzzword that theorists of new media have used to explain the (supposedly) revolutionary “changes in social interactions and in mental states [...]
Continue Reading →The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, recently announced the completion of a five-year project to catalog its Imperial Russian Era (pre-1917) collection of 5,000 pamphlets and dissertations for degrees in medicine, pharmacy and veterinary science. The core of the NLM collection is over [...]
Continue Reading →On Oct. 21, 2010, during the second annual meeting of the Russian-American Working Group on Library Cooperation, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington was presented with digitally preserved copies of 10 American silent movies—considered lost for decades— from the Russian Federation, represented by Vladimir I. Kozhin, Head, Management and Administration of the President of the [...]
Continue Reading →In September 2010, Columbia and Cornell University Libraries announced an agreement “to collaboratively support the Slavic and East European collection development activities of both institutions” using the services of a single subject specialist, namely Columbia’s own Librarian for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. This agreement tacitly ratifies the decision to [...]
Continue Reading →Join us for the lecture, Civility in a Fractured Society, by Jim Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities. This upcoming event is organized by the Office of the President, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the Franklin Humanities Institute. It will be held on Monday Sept 20th at 5:30pm at the [...]
Continue Reading →Despite the deluge of information available on the web, students and scholars still need to know how to locate a trustworthy source, whether analog or digital. As the following example demonstrates, this is a process that requires at least some basic grasp of the cultural and political contexts in which information is [...]
Continue Reading →Can librarians crack jokes about the “death of libraries” and still be taken seriously in the age of digitization and globalization? I believe that the answer is Yes. Especially if we approach the so-called crisis in the humanities with the same dark sense of humor as Monty Python and Nikolai Gogol.
“Bring out your [...]
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