English Corner
Don Boadle: The historian as archival collector: an Australian local study, in: AARL 34:1 (March 2003)
Online:
http://alia.org.au/publishing/aarl/34.1/full.text/boadle.html
Abstract: Neither archivists nor historians have shown much interest in trying to establish a link between the kinds of writing an historian does and the kind of archival records he or she acquires and preserves. This paper presents an Australian study, focussing on the writing of the local historian Keith Swan (1916-1996) and the collections he created for the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society and for Charles Sturt University.
Online:
http://alia.org.au/publishing/aarl/34.1/full.text/boadle.html
Abstract: Neither archivists nor historians have shown much interest in trying to establish a link between the kinds of writing an historian does and the kind of archival records he or she acquires and preserves. This paper presents an Australian study, focussing on the writing of the local historian Keith Swan (1916-1996) and the collections he created for the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society and for Charles Sturt University.
KlausGraf - am Samstag, 18. Oktober 2003, 02:52 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Rating System for Evaluating Public History Websites (2000):
http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/rating_system.html
Examples for reviewed websites especially on labour history:
http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/index.asp
http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/rating_system.html
Examples for reviewed websites especially on labour history:
http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/index.asp
KlausGraf - am Samstag, 18. Oktober 2003, 02:09 - Rubrik: English Corner
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KlausGraf - am Freitag, 17. Oktober 2003, 03:52 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Call for Papers
Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture Area
Joint conference with Popular Culture Association and American Culture
Association
San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio TX 78205
April 7-10, 2004
The Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture area solicits paper
proposals from librarians, graduate students, library school faculty,
collectors, writers, and other aficionados (yes! including people who use
libraries, archives, and museums, and other information settings!) of
popular culture and information settings of all types!
Also welcome are proposals for slide shows, video presentations, workshop
formats, and panels organized around common themes.
Among previous presentations were a culture study of a small public library,
a report on a one city/one book program, an overview of collection
development for feminist spirituality, and considerations of librarians as
presented in cartoons and movies.
Suggested topics:
- discussion of intellectual freedom issues related to popular culture
resources, including the USA PATRIOT Act
- profiles of popular culture collections
- knowledge management issues
- book clubs and reading groups
- reports of research studies of popular culture & libraries, archives, or
museums
- marketing popular culture materials to library, archives, or museum users
- collection building and popular culture resources
- organization and description of popular culture resources
- new media formats and popular culture in libraries, archives, or museums
For more details, visit the Association's web site at
http://www.swtexaspca.org/
Send a 200-word abstract to the Area Co-Chairs by November 15, 2003.
Also include your complete mailing address, school or other affiliation,
e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number.
Rhonda Harris Taylor
School of Library and Information Studies
401 West Brooks, Room 120
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019-6032
PHONE (405) 325-3921
FAX (405) 325-7648
e-mail: rtaylor@ou.edu
Janet Brennan Croft
Head of Access Services
Bizzell Library NW104
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019-6030
PHONE (405) 325-1918
FAX (405) 325-7618
e-mail: jbcroft@ou.edu
Source: H-MUSEUM http://www.h-museum.net
Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture Area
Joint conference with Popular Culture Association and American Culture
Association
San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio TX 78205
April 7-10, 2004
The Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture area solicits paper
proposals from librarians, graduate students, library school faculty,
collectors, writers, and other aficionados (yes! including people who use
libraries, archives, and museums, and other information settings!) of
popular culture and information settings of all types!
Also welcome are proposals for slide shows, video presentations, workshop
formats, and panels organized around common themes.
Among previous presentations were a culture study of a small public library,
a report on a one city/one book program, an overview of collection
development for feminist spirituality, and considerations of librarians as
presented in cartoons and movies.
Suggested topics:
- discussion of intellectual freedom issues related to popular culture
resources, including the USA PATRIOT Act
- profiles of popular culture collections
- knowledge management issues
- book clubs and reading groups
- reports of research studies of popular culture & libraries, archives, or
museums
- marketing popular culture materials to library, archives, or museum users
- collection building and popular culture resources
- organization and description of popular culture resources
- new media formats and popular culture in libraries, archives, or museums
For more details, visit the Association's web site at
http://www.swtexaspca.org/
Send a 200-word abstract to the Area Co-Chairs by November 15, 2003.
Also include your complete mailing address, school or other affiliation,
e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number.
Rhonda Harris Taylor
School of Library and Information Studies
401 West Brooks, Room 120
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019-6032
PHONE (405) 325-3921
FAX (405) 325-7648
e-mail: rtaylor@ou.edu
Janet Brennan Croft
Head of Access Services
Bizzell Library NW104
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019-6030
PHONE (405) 325-1918
FAX (405) 325-7618
e-mail: jbcroft@ou.edu
Source: H-MUSEUM http://www.h-museum.net
KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003, 23:53 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_10/normore/
Studying special collections and the Web: An anlaysis of practice by Lorraine Normore
Many digital library collections are the virtual analogs of special collections in libraries, museums, historical societies and archives today. A field study of people responsible for collection maintenance across a variety of institutions was carried out. It aimed at improving our understanding of issues involved in collection description and access. A second study examined the current state of Web access to materials from the previously studied special collections. Data concerning the availability of online finding aids, externally accessible databases for collection content, digitized images and Web exhibits are presented.
Studying special collections and the Web: An anlaysis of practice by Lorraine Normore
Many digital library collections are the virtual analogs of special collections in libraries, museums, historical societies and archives today. A field study of people responsible for collection maintenance across a variety of institutions was carried out. It aimed at improving our understanding of issues involved in collection description and access. A second study examined the current state of Web access to materials from the previously studied special collections. Data concerning the availability of online finding aids, externally accessible databases for collection content, digitized images and Web exhibits are presented.
KlausGraf - am Montag, 13. Oktober 2003, 03:53 - Rubrik: English Corner
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According to
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/pst00431.htm
* Catherine of Alexandria
* Jerome
* Lawrence
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/pst00431.htm
* Catherine of Alexandria
* Jerome
* Lawrence
KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2003, 05:00 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Timo Burkard, Herodotus: A Peer-to-Peer Web Archival System, a master's thesis submitted to MIT in 2002. [PDF] (Thanks to LIS News.) Distributed users donate unused CPU cycles and disk space to crawl the net and store its contents. Like LOCKSS, it uses duplicate copies to assure persistence. If every node could contribute 100 GB of storage, then (as of May 2002) Burkard estimated that it would take 20,000 nodes to archive the whole net. (PS: A quick Google search suggests that Burkard's idea has been cited but not implemented. Does anyone know of an implementation? If it was tried and found wanting, does anyone know how it fell short?)
Posted by Peter Suber in the Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_10_05_fosblogarchive.html#a106544634435241484
Posted by Peter Suber in the Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2003_10_05_fosblogarchive.html#a106544634435241484
KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2003, 04:40 - Rubrik: English Corner
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The Fictional World of Archives, Art Galleries and Museums is a great website made by the Canadian archivist David Mattison.
Archives, archivists, records managers, secret documents and lost manuscripts have been used as characters, settings and plot devices in many stories, novels, movies and TV shows, as well as jokes and cartoons. The tradition of fictionalizing archives extends back to Graeco-Roman times according to classicist Mary Lefkowitz. Today, archives, archivists and records are so important to fiction that this Web page was written to document as fully as possible their many representations found in popular culture. Inspiration for this Web page came from a 1995 discussion on the ARCHIVES electronic mailing list about fictional archives. Sources include submissions by archivists and others, as well as Arlene Schmuland's bibliography from her American Archivist article.
Archives, archivists, records managers, secret documents and lost manuscripts have been used as characters, settings and plot devices in many stories, novels, movies and TV shows, as well as jokes and cartoons. The tradition of fictionalizing archives extends back to Graeco-Roman times according to classicist Mary Lefkowitz. Today, archives, archivists and records are so important to fiction that this Web page was written to document as fully as possible their many representations found in popular culture. Inspiration for this Web page came from a 1995 discussion on the ARCHIVES electronic mailing list about fictional archives. Sources include submissions by archivists and others, as well as Arlene Schmuland's bibliography from her American Archivist article.
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 3. Oktober 2003, 18:04 - Rubrik: English Corner
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A great list with a lot of weblogs on medieval topics.
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 3. Oktober 2003, 03:24 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Worth a look: a weblog from Canada with unusual emphasis on European archaeology and history.
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 3. Oktober 2003, 02:52 - Rubrik: English Corner
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