Playing the Margins Update

 Historical Bibliography, Workshops  No Responses »
May 152011
 
Over on the UCL DIS Student Blog you can read about the first workshop held by the Playing the Margins project, which uses UCL Library Services Special Collections to explore annotation practices with actors, drama students and academics. Post author, Paris O’Donnell, observes that she and her project partner Sian Prosser realised that the unfamiliar interface of [...]

Playing the Margins

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Mar 182011
 
As the clock ticks to midnight, I thought I would start the Day of Digital Humanities with a post about Playing the Margins, a public engagement project led by MA LIS students Paris O’Donnell and Sian Prosser. Sian and Paris have both taken Digital Resources in the Humanities and Historical Bibliography, and we are delighted [...]

Printing in the Digital Age

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Mar 162011
 
Last Thursday, Julianne Nyhan and I accompanied some of the students from the Historical Bibliography module on a visit to the Bibliography Room in Oxford. The trip was suggested by Elizabeth Gallagher, who as well as studying on UCL’s MA LIS, is a member of staff at the Bodleian Library, and who was able to [...]

Paper in the brave new digital world

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Jan 262011
 
Many thanks to all those who came along to the painless introduction to paper in the brave new digital world. The object of the painless introductions is to spark discussion and collaboration. Some of the topics covered today included: content versus carrier and the impact of format on text and text on format Darnton’s communications circuit case study: Watermarks [...]

CELM: Summary and reflections on London seminar #3

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Dec 062010
 
Despite the snow we had a remarkably good turnout for the third London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, which proved thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you to everyone who got there! However, some of our usual attendees couldn’t make it but were sufficiently intrigued, when following the tweets, to want to find out more about what [...]

English Literary Manuscripts: London Seminar #3

 digital humanities, Digital Resources, Historical Bibliography, Manuscript Studies  Comments Off
Nov 182010
 
Professor Henry Woudhuysen, Dean of UCL Arts and Humanities and member of UCLDH executive will be giving a paper on the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts project. This will be a strictly non-techie discussion of the project, so you don’t need to be a geek to be there. Henry will be discussing the prototype interface [...]

Digitised History

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Jul 222010
 
Yesterday I attended the British Library / JISC Conference Digitised History: Newspapers and their Impact on Research into 18th and 19th Century Britain. Linked to the launch of the British Library Newspapers 1800-1900, which offers online access to “articles from 49 London, national and regional newspaper (1800 – 1900) titles”, the conference brought together expert [...]

Rare Books and the Internet

 digital humanities, Historical Bibliography, Rare Books School, training  Comments Off
Jul 102010
 
I’ve spent this week at the London Rare Books School (LRBS), taking a course on Modern First Editions. This course is unique at the LRBS in that it is taught entirely by booksellers, principally Laurence Worms (Ash Books) and Julian Rota (Bertram Rota). As a traditionally qualified librarian, who studied under John Turner at Aberystwyth, this [...]