Boundary Conditions and the (Still) Black Box of Digitized Collections
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…
Help us crowdsource the agenda! Libraries and Research Forum at the 2016 MLA Convention
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…
MLA 2015 Session Dates and Times
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 MLA 2015: Bibliography for the twenty-first century
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 for MLA 2015: Libraries, Archives and Public Memory
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)…
MLA 2014 Session Dates and Times
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…
MLA 2014 Call for Papers
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…
MLA Libraries Executive Committee Meeting
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…
MLA 2013 Session Dates and Times
We now have the dates, times, and locations for the two sessions our discussion group is sponsoring! Session 285 How Many Copies Is Enough? Too Many? Libraries and Shared Monograph Archives Friday, 04 January 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverway, Sheraton Program…
MLA 2013 Collaborative Session: The Third Degree: Joint Programs in Languages, Literature, and Libraries
The MLA Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures and Computer Studies in Language and Literature discussion groups will offer a joint session at MLA 2013 on “The Third Degree: Joint Programs in Languages, Literature, and Libraries.” Paul Fyfe (Florida State Univ)…