Hey, you, researchers, busy packing bags, ready to head out on an archival trip! Or those of you about to sit down at your computers and navigate a digital repository. Yes, all of you! I want to hear how your research went and so do our readers. I’m currently looking for posts that I can edit over the summer and publish in the fall.
An example from the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Collection, Port of Spain Gazette, September 8th, 1998. [https://www.dloc.com/UF00094730/00616/citation].
“Date Search” page, Digital Library of the Caribbean. [https://www.dloc.com/dates]. Accessed April 2022.
Publication search results for pinpoint location search of “Georgetown, Guyana,” Digital Library of the Caribbean.
Map search for the pinpoint location “Georgetown, Guyana” on the former dLOC website.
An example from the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Collection. Port of Spain Gazette, September 8th, 1998. [https://www.dloc.com/UF00094730/00616/citation].
As part of its stated commitment to assist in the development of our knowledge of the Catholic Church's association with Native American Boarding Schools (NABS), the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA) has received a $75,000 grant from the American Historical Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities. This year-long initiative will enable conversation and collaboration between historians, archivists, and Native American communities around the central theme of "access."
The Elephant Roundup (April 2022)
Changing Shape of Scholarship
Danielle Cooper and Dylan Ruediger, Guest Post — Event Streaming Start-Ups: A Strategic Overview and Taxonomy, Scholarly Kitchen (blog), April 20, 2022.
Overdue Conversations is a podcast about the ways archives inform our discussions around history, literature, and politics. From digital publishing to reparative justice, climate change to public health, this series of overdue conversations takes archival documents out of the stacks and into the public forum to consider how collecting practices, selective reading, and erasure of past knowledge informs and distorts contemporary debates.
