Faculty Collaborative Research Colloquium – “Redlining Maps From the Homeowners Loan Corporation” @ Bird

On Voting Day, November 2^nd, Come to Bird Library to hear a discussion on Redlining maps of urban communities, and also feel free to invite your students to this interesting session:

Syracuse University Library will present a Faculty Collaborative Research Colloquium entitled: “1930′s Redlining Maps from the Home Owners Loan Corporation” in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in Bird Library on November 2, 2010 from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Speakers include Emanuel Carter, Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at SUNY-ESF, Kishi Animashaun-Ducre, Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department at Syracuse University, Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, John Olson, Government Documents, Maps, and GIS Librarian at Syracuse University Library, and Arthur Paris, Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at SU.

For more information about the Colloquium, contact John Olson at 443-4818 or jaolson@syr.edu.

Jane Austen fiction manuscripts available online

Scans of the manuscripts were recently made available by a project of the Oxford, Kings College, & the  British Library:

Jane Austen’s fiction manuscripts are the first significant body of holograph evidence surviving for any British novelist. They represent every stage of her writing career and a variety of physical states: working drafts, fair copies, and handwritten publications for private circulation. The manuscripts were held in a single collection until 1845, when at her sister Cassandra’s death they were dispersed among family members, with a second major dispersal, to public institutions and private collections, in the 1920s.¹ Digitization enables their virtual reunification and will provides scholars with the first opportunity to make simultaneous ocular comparison of their different physical and conceptual states; it will facilitate intimate and systematic study of Austen’s working practices across her career, a remarkably neglected area of scholarship within the huge, world-wide Austen critical industry.

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MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium

Videos of the MIT/Brown Vannevar Bush Symposium are now available online.

Princeton Library Resource of Women in Printing, 15th – 20thC

A great online exhibit of Women in the book arts from Princeton University Library:

Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders and Book Designers.

Some wonderful stuff!

Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century children’s books

The Rosetta Project has full page/full color scans of children’s books published in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. A great source of imagery and illustration– with some adult titles as well.

The Dictascrivener, 1898

One of many fascinating implements in this post: A Journey Round My Skull: Of Goose Quills, Gloves, and Writing Booths.