Welcome to the 47th edition of the Giant’s Shoulders Blog Carnival! We’re delighted to have this opportunity to showcase the latest and greatest online writing (and talking!) on a variety of topics including 20th century literary figures, astronomy, alchemy, geography, publishing, and letter-writing.
In alpha order by blogger’s last name (or first name or blog name if that’s all we could find!), then, and divided only by media type, here is your recommended reading list: Continue reading
Wondering how our collection is looking lately? Well, we’ve been adding lots of material and we have over 28,000 items for your research!
We’ll be making some more specific announcements about these new additions in the near future but, for the minute, here’s a great quick overview of what we’re up to: Continue reading
On January 17, 2012, Gregory Crane (Harvard BA 79, Phd 85), Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship, Tufts University, and Editor in Chief of the Perseus Project, spoke on “Libraries, Humanists, and Intellectual Life in the 21st Century” at Harvard University to a mixed group of librarians, technologists and faculty. He described a number of opportunities for libraries in a world of “ubiquitous information,” where the number of books a library owns is no longer the only important metric – and may not be that important at all. Continue reading
The MHL collection is growing fast. We now have more than 12,000 items in the Internet Archive so I created this word cloud to help you see what’s in our collection. Clicking on a term will take you to the content. Enjoy!
The MHL’s National Endowment for the Humanities “Digital Humanities Start-Up” project is underway (see: http://www.medicalheritage.org/2011/08/mhl-project-updates/). We are meeting with faculty, graduate students, and administrators at partner organizations to learn from them how they use digital sources in teaching and research, their ideal solutions to overcoming teaching and research obstacles, and how they envision the MHL supporting their work. This data will inform the near-term development of the MHL and its goals for the future. Continue reading
Reading room of the Wellcome Library. (Photo by JL Phillips.)
Over the last couple of months, we’ve been working on a resource list for you here on the website. You can get to it by navigating to the “Tools for Digital Research” page on the navigation bar at the top of the page.
Lori Jahnke and I have been putting together a list of tools you can use to analyze text, take notes and organize your research, connect with other researchers, and, of course, check out more great online collections.
We’ve done our best to describe these links accurately and make sure they’re up-to-date, indicating which services require payment or purchase, what tools will allow you to do, and what sort of materials online collections might feature, for example. Continue reading
Via a recent posting to the Caduceus-L listserv, we learn that the Rudolph Matas Library of Tulane University is announcing the opening of its online collection of New Orleans Charity Hospital Reports. Available through the Internet Archive, the Rudolph Matas website, and LOUISiana Digital Library Collection of Collections, the collection of reports spans over 100 years from 1842 to 1974. Researchers can browse the reports online or download the reports in .pdf form from the Matas website or browse them at the Internet Archive. Continue reading
The MHL partners are pleased to announce that Maura Marx, CEO of the Open Knowledge Commons (OKC), has been honored with the GSLIS Alumni Achievement Award, presented annually by the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Award winners have “demonstrated excellence in a way that exceeds the boundaries of their current positions by achieving influence as an outstanding role model for library and information science professionals.”
Ms. Marx initiated the Boston Public Library’s digital services program. Through the OKC, she catalyzed the MHL’s digitization project, now starting its second year. Ms. Marx is currently a fellow at the Berkman Center of Harvard University where her current project, developing a dialog around a digital public library, is drawing national attention.
We are proud to be associated with Ms. Marx and OKC and look forward to the exciting years ahead!
