It’s 2017. Do you know how digitization happens at your library? How collections are selected to be digitized? Who decides on the interface? Please join the Libraries and Research Forum at its panel, Session 347, “Acknowledging Boundary Conditions: Opening the…
Just putting in a plug for this MLA2016 session, “The Evolving Scholarly Record,” which two former Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee members, Dawn Childress (UCLA) and David Oberhelman (Oklahoma State U.), have organized. Given the illustrious panelists, the session…
Attending the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, Texas? If so, then please join us at the Libraries and Research Forum for its first themed open meeting, described in this post – read on! Anyone with an interest in libraries and research in…
The Libraries and Research in Language and Literature Discussion Group will host two panels at MLA 2015 in Vancouver: 259. Bibliography for the Twenty-First Century Friday, 9 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 219, VCC West Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Libraries…
CFP sponsored by the Libraries and Research and the Bibliography and Textual Studies discussion groups. Bibliography has long been integral to literary studies, textual studies, and book history. Not only does it serve an evidentiary purpose through documentation of the…
CFP sponsored by MLA Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures Discussion Group How do libraries and archives function as sites for preserving and constructing public memory? Libraries, archives and other institutions (such as museums, cemeteries, heritage sites, and monuments)…
The Libraries and Research in Language and Literature discussion group is hosting two sessions at MLA 2014: Session 405 Meeting Where Students Are: Faculty-Library Collaborations and Undergraduate Research Friday, 10 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., Ohio, Sheraton Chicago Presiding: Dawn Childress, Penn…
Posted for Harriett Green The HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for prototyping projects to define and implement a tool or service that will help scholars better identify and select relevant resources at scale from the HathiTrust corpus and/or facilitate…
Meeting Where Students Are: Faculty-Library Collaborations and Undergraduate Research Class assignments, group projects, senior theses or independent study are all ways that student work brings faculty and librarians together to support research in and outside of courses. In this context…
Please join us for the MLA Libraries and Research in Language and Literature Executive Committee meeting at MLA 2013! The meeting will be held following our panel discussion on “How Many Copies Is Enough? Too Many? Libraries and Shared Monograph Archives.” Meeting…