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Robert Frost Lectures Find Fresh Audience
by Andrea Shea All Things Considered, 7 March 2008 “Poet Robert Frost gave a series of informal lectures at Dartmouth College in 1947. Transcripts are now being published, using recordings that were in college’s archives for decades.” Listen to this … Continue reading
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Alice Walker to Place Her Archive at Emory University
Emory University Press Release, December 18, 2007: Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winner and internationally known Georgia-born novelist and poet, will place her archive with Emory University, Provost Earl Lewis announced today. “The acquisition of the Alice Walker Archive is a major … Continue reading
Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts
Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts is a special issue of Academic Commons, an online community focused “digital tools and innovative practices for teaching and learning with technology.” From David L. Green, editor of the December 2007 special issue: Cyberinfrastructure offers … Continue reading
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Faculty Grants for Collection Development
Mervyn H. Sterne Library is accepting proposals for Faculty Grants for Collection Development. Six grants of $2000 each will be awarded for the purchase of materials to add to the Sterne Library collection in support of research and teaching interests. … Continue reading
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National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Reading Study
National Endowment for the Arts Press Release, 19 November 2007 Washington, DC — Today, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announces the release of To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence, a new and comprehensive … Continue reading
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New Sterne Library Exhibit: Alabama Illustrated
Mervyn H. Sterne Library is hosting a new exhibit: Alabama Illustrated. The exhibit features original drawings and illustrations by the UAB students from the Advanced Drawing class of Fall 2007. The instructor is Douglas Baulos, Department of Art and Art … Continue reading
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Mark Twain Project Online
Press release from University of California Press 1 November 2007 University of California is pleased to announce the launch of the beta version of Mark Twain Project Online (www.marktwainproject.org), a digital critical edition of the writings of Mark Twain. Mark … Continue reading
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New York Times increases free online content
The New York Times ended its TimesSelect subscription service effective 19 September 2007 and is offering op-ed columns as well archives of articles from 1987 to present free online. The following question and answer from the TimesSelect FAQ outlines the … Continue reading
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New database: Oxford African American Studies Center
Sterne Library has a year-long trial to the Oxford African American Studies Center, a collection of scholarship about African American and African history and culture. Major Oxford University Press encyclopedias provide the core database content: Africana, Encyclopedia of African American … Continue reading
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‘Super-scope’ to see hidden texts
by Liz Seward BBC News, 13 September 2007 The hidden content in ancient works could be illuminated by a light source 10 billion times brighter than the Sun. The technique employs Britain’s new facility, the Diamond synchrotron, and could be … Continue reading
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