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CMU Receives Mellon Grant To Develop Bibliographic Tools
By Lisa Peet
“Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press,” a digital humanities project based at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, has received a $324,931 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Digital Humanities Advancement grant to develop a set of digital tools to analyze the type and paper used in late 17th- and 18th-century English language works. |
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Home Ownership | Collection Development
By John Rodzvilla
Designed to help prospective first-time home buyers gain an understanding of the process, the titles below are focused on the search for a new home, the financial side of home buying, and renovation and upkeep. |
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| “It’s a spectrum that goes from the computer doing an enormous amount of the work to the end where we’ve winnowed down the interesting [text]. That’s where we focus our human domain experts who can bring in that historical context, who can bring everything else that they know about the book that the computer doesn’t know.” | | From “CMU Receives Mellon Grant To Develop Bibliographic Tools” |
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| Joshua Cohen Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Netanyahus | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene
The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes are awarded with The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen, winning the top prize for fiction. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Eliott, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert & Erin I. Kelly, and Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace are also winners. |
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SPONSORED BY JSTOR JSTOR Makes Institutions’ Special Collections More Accessible
Many college and university libraries have digitized their valuable collections of unique primary source materials to make them available to researchers. However, these collections can be hard to find. To solve this problem, the not-for-profit organization ITHAKA has opened up JSTOR—its widely used digital research platform for universities to host their unique collections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
PREMIUM
Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America
By Dan Pfeiffer
While not the first to identify these serious issues within the U.S. political system, Pfeiffer offers a concise overview of the issues and discusses ways that Democrats can remedy their messaging to combat these lies. Concerned citizens, political junkies, and fans of his podcast will find this work accessible and informative. |
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Museum Lectures and Audio Guides | Your Home Librarian
By LJ Reviews
Museum exhibitions mean great art gathered in one location, but they also often translate into long lines, hard-to-get tickets, and, unless the exhibition is nearby, travel expenses. Thankfully, many museums do their best to create a visual and aural record of the exhibition online through images, illustrated lectures, audio guides, and gallery talks. |
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ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: African History
By LJ Reviews
African Europeans, Dear Senthuran, Lover for Liberation, Loot, and More in African history titles: April 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 1. African Europeans: An Untold History.
Otele, Olivette
Basic Books
2021. ISBN 9781541619678. $30.00 2. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir.
Emezi, Akwaeke
Riverhead Books
2021. ISBN 9780593329191. $27.00 3. Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground.
Hayes, Robin J.
University of Washington Press
2021. ISBN 9780295749051. $99.00 |
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