Friends:
The following announcements, culled from other H-Net lists as well as ICA's Communication History Discussion listserv, will interest JHistory subscribers. Please scroll down for information on a book review that touches on journalists in World War I, a call for papers for a special journal issue devoted to digital archives, and a call for conference papers for a 50-year retrospective on the turbulence of 1968.
The Igbo Studies Archive seeks to build up a free and robust online resource in the field of Igbo studies. We seek subject specialists to write articles of varying lengths (500 to 3000 words) on topics spanning Igbo studies including Igbo culture, history, arts and politics.
This year the conference of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) discusses the theme
Document to Digital: How Does Digitisation Aid African Research?
For more details go to http://scolma.org/bookings-open-for-scolmas-document-to-digital-conference/.
Venue: National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Monday, 11 September 2017
Programme
9.00 Registration
9.20 Welcome
Responsible person(s): Joanne Bernardi
Synopsis: Creative digital curation of an original physical collection of travel and educational ephemera about Japan
Content type: High resolution images, moving images, audio materials, interactive timeline
Intended audience: Academic community and general public
Host institution: University of Rochester
"Marmot Library Network, the multi-type consortium based in Grand Junction, CO, has developed a Digital Archive and repository solution, enabling its member libraries to showcase digitized collections of images, postcards, books, magazines, videos, recorded oral histories and music, academic research, and more... the new solution is designed to surface archive content alongside related books, ebooks, DVDs, and other content when patrons conduct searches of their library’s catalog."
Responsible person(s): Joanne Bernardi
Synopsis: Creative digital curation of an original physical collection of travel and educational ephemera about Japan
Content type: High resolution images, moving images, audio materials, interactive timeline
Intended audience: Academic community and general public
Host institution: University of Rochester
The Igbo Studies Archive seeks to build up a free and robust online resource in the field of Igbo studies. We seek subject specialists to write articles of varying lengths (500 to 3000 words) on topics spanning Igbo studies including Igbo culture, history, arts and politics.
Responsible person(s): Joanne Bernardi
Synopsis: Creative digital curation of an original physical collection of travel and educational ephemera about Japan
Content type: High resolution images, moving images, audio materials, interactive timeline
Intended audience: Academic community and general public
Host institution: University of Rochester
