Decision in Georgia State copyright case
On Friday afternoon (5/11/2012) a decision was handed down in the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by three publishers against Georgia State over their electronic reserves service. The judge found no infringement in 94 out of the 99 cases that made it to the last stage of the trial*. The decision is long, at 350 pages,...
WordPress for the Humanities
Along with our colleagues at Northwestern University Library’s Digital Collections and NUIT’s Academic & Research Technologies, the Center has been collaborating with Michael Kramer, lecturer in History & American Studies, on a digital history course, “Digital Folk Music History,” an undergraduate History course dedicated to studying the Berkeley Folk Music Festival through digital means, using WordPress and a...
Report from CARLI Digital Preservation Conference
The following is a guest conference report by Nicole Finzer (Visual Resources Librarian), Benn Joseph (Manuscript Librarian), and Jessica Thomson (Metadata Assistant) at Northwestern University Library. Digital Preservation: An Introduction to Technologies and Processes for the Care of Digital Collections CARLI Preservation Working Group and Digital Collections Users’ Group April 10, 2012. Champaign, IL. What...
Now Playing: The Humanities in a Digital Age
The Humanities in a Digital Age Northwestern University, April 23, 2012 Speakers: Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Tara McPherson, Katherine Rowe Moderator: Sarah Pritchard Editing & Design: Brendan Quinn & Josh Honn More info: www.library.northwestern.edu/hda
CIC Digital Humanities Summit
Our latest guest post is by Geoffrey Morse, Coordinator for Humanities and Social Sciences at Northwestern University Library. Geoff recently participated in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Digital Humanities Summit, held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on April 19-20, 2012. The CIC Digital Humanities Summit provided Humanities faculty, deans and librarians with a forum to discuss the challenges...
Today we are six (months)
The Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation officially opened during Open Access week in October 2011 with a wonderful talk by Ed Valauskas, editor of First Monday: “Fifteen years of First Mondays: Scholars, readers and openly accessible research.” In a very nice piece of symmetry, exactly six months after he helped open the Center,...
#librarianscode: A Recap and Call to Action
This past Monday, Northwestern University and CARLI hosted a half-day event titled “Copyright and Fair Use in the Digital Age,” which was attended by over 130 librarians, and prompted by the recent publication of ARL’s Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. The presenters at the conference were Brandon Butler (Director...
The Humanities in a Digital Age
On Monday, April 23, Northwestern University will be hosting three special guests—Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA), Tara McPherson (USC), and Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr)—for a series of digital humanities presentations culminating in a panel presentation and reception titled “The Humanities in a Digital Age,” hosted at the University Library. Kathleen, Tara, and Katherine are all leading scholars...
#librarianscode Chicago, April 16
Following the recent publication of Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, Northwestern University and the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries of Illinois (CARLI) will be hosting an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) #librarianscode event, “Copyright and Fair Use in the Digital Age,” on April 16, 2012, from 1-5pm at the Hughes Auditorium on NU’s...
Two Views from PASIG, pt. 2
Our latest guest post is by Benn Joseph, Manuscript Librarian at Northwestern University Library’s Special Collections department. This is the second part of a two part post on reflections from the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting on Jan. 11-12, in Austin, Texas. I approached the PASIG (Preserving and Archiving Special Interest Group) conference in Austin last...
Two Views from PASIG, pt. 1
Our latest guest post is by Stefan Elnabli, Moving Image and Sound Preservation Specialist at Northwestern University Library’s Digital Collections department. This is the first part of a two part post on reflections from the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting on Jan. 11-12, in Austin, Texas. Here’s a thought: life today without online...