This Slate article looks at a consequence of digitization for books in libraries on college campuses.
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/05/college_libraries_should_keep_their_b...
EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET
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Applications are now being accepted for Library of Congress Kluge Fellowships. The application deadline is July 15.
Kluge Fellowships are residential research fellowships open to post-doctoral scholars worldwide with a Ph.D. or other terminal advanced degree conferred within seven years of the deadline. The fellowships support research in the humanities and social sciences, especially interdisciplinary, cross-cultural or multilingual projects that makes use of the Library’s large and varied collections.
Centre for Human Animal Studies Conference and Launch
Animals: ethics, sustainability, sentience
Saturday 25th October 2014
Dear All,
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 5 May
2014 to 12 May 2014. These job postings are included here based on
the categories selected by the list editors for H-HistBibl. See the
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information.
DePaul University - Instructor in Documentary and Digital
Communication
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48842
From: H-Net Reviews <hbooks@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 07:00:01 -0400
Subject: H-Net reviews posted to the web 05 May 2014 - 12 May 2014
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
05 May 2014 and 12 May 2014.
Good story from NPR on the turnspit dog C16--C19.
. . . Hannah Penn, the wife of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, wrote to England requesting that the dogwheel for her turnspits be sent. Elsewhere in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette had advertisements for turnspit dogs and wheels for sale. And historians say a turnspit was active in the kitchen of the Statehouse Inn in Philadelphia.
White paper on a new model of open access publishing for the humanities and social sciences:
Rebecca Kennison AND Lisa Norberg, A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Open Access Publishing and Archiving for Humanities and Social Sciences: A White Paper (K|N Consultants, April 11, 2014, http://knconsultants.org/toward-a-sustainable-approach-to-open-access-publishing-and-archi...)
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 5 May
2014 to 12 May 2014. These job postings are included here based on
the categories selected by the list editors for H-Appalachia. See the
H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more
information.
AMERICAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Migration Without Boundaries: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on Migration
10-11 October 2014
Michigan State University, USA
CALL FOR PAPERS
Keynote speaker: José C. Moya (Barnard College)
Description:
Special issue of Critical Sociology
Special Issue Editors:
Sangeeta Kamat, Associate Professor, International Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Feyzi Ismail, Teaching Fellow, Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
The Department of Asian Studies of the University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint an outstanding candidate to a fixed term Teaching Fellow post to supplement teaching provisions on the undergraduate and postgraduate level in the field of East Asian relations and politics with a special focus on Japan and/or Korea. The department welcomes applications from candidates with demonstrable expertise in Korea or Japan or, ideally, Korean-Japanese relations and politics (also in their historical dimension).
Call for papers :
1st Congress of the Scientific Interest Group « Moyen-Orient & Mondes musulmans », July 7th-9th, 2015, Paris:
Panel : « Cross-border circulations and inequalities within Palestinian societies »
The following book announcement published on H-MedAnthro on Sunday may be of interest to some members of this network (click on the title to get to the announcement)
A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps: My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade. Barbara Rylko-Bauer. University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8061-4431-3
