Month: February 2016
The full programme is described below: the session on American Studies is on 15th March at 11.50am. Helping humanities scholars achieve better research outcomes is at the heart of our work at ProQuest. Come and learn about the research value of our historical, art and film collections, how we work with partners such as The British Library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Condé Nast to create rich archival collections of magazines, manuscripts, rare books, periodical archives, official documents, and ebooks and how ProQuest provides an efficient and productive discovery experience for researchers and librarians. *14th March, Monday - Room GR06/07* – Register here <http://links.proquest.mkt5049.com/ctt?kn=4&ms=NTA2OTg2OTAS1&r=MzU0NzMwMzMxNzIS1&b=0&j=ODYxODM2OTgyS0&mt=1&rt=0> 12:00 – Lunch and Refreshments 13:20 – Welcome & Introduction – Jessica Porter, Account Manager and James Caudwell, Electronic Subscriptions, University Library 13:40 – Bringing rare, faraway collections to arts and humanities scholars – Hugh Chatterton, History Sales Specialist 14:40 – Break 15:00 – Current ebook trends and usage case studies – Jackie Stringer, ebook Specialist 16:00 – Close and Drinks *15th March, Tuesday - Room GR06/07* – Register here <http://links.proquest.mkt5049.com/ctt?kn=9&ms=NTA2OTg2OTAS1&r=MzU0NzMwMzMxNzIS1&b=0&j=ODYxODM2OTgyS0&mt=1&rt=0> 10:00 – Refreshments 10:20 – Welcome and Introduction – Jessica Porter, Account Manager and Libby Tilley, Faculty Librarian 10:30 – How digitized content can support teaching and research in Film studies – John Pegum, Senior Product Manager Humanities 11:30 – Break 11:50 – Improving research outcomes with content diversity: American studies – Hugh Chatterton, History Sales Specialist 13:00 – Close and Lunch These events present a great opportunity to catch-up with researchers and library professionals, and build on the shared knowledge of the community. Together we aim to help you to better meet the demands of students at the university. Come and find out how ProQuest is supporting Humanities scholarship. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Please feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues. Registration for each event is required. Best wishes, the ProQuest and Faculty of English Teams
Americanists are warmly invited to two events with Valerie Forman (NYU) who is currently working on a book project about trade and cultural relations in the Caribbean, entitled 'Developing New Worlds: Property, Freedom, and the Economics of Representation in Early Modern England and the Caribbean.' 1) On Tues 23rd Feb at the Renaissance research workshop, Dr Forman will be talking informally about doing interdisciplinary and trans-Atlantic work in the 17th Century. 1-2pm , GR-03. (You are welcome to bring your lunch). 2) On Wednesday the 24th Feb, she will be leading a reading group from 12.30-2pm at the Meeting Room in CRASSH (part of the Crossroads of Knowledge series). The reading will consist of Thomas Southerne's 'Oroonoko' (1695) and Richard Ligon's 'A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados' (1657). See below for further notes on the reading from the seminar coordinator, Rebecca Tomlin. Notes on the Seminar Reading The Southerne text is widely available in collections but if you can obtain the Regents edition ed. by Novak and Rodes (1976) that would be helpful. I have also put a copy of the 1695 text from ECCO in to Dropbox (Warning before printing: this document is 92 pages long). I have put a pdf of the original Ligon text from EEBO into Dropbox (Warning before printing: this document is 85 pages long). There is also a modern edition edited by Karen Kupperman (Hackett, 2011). Professor Forman would like us to look in particular at : 1) The Dedication (I have put this in Dropbox) 2) Pages from Karen Kupperman edition (2011) based on 1673 edition. --Introduction: 1-7, 16-19 --Pages 40-1; up until the end of the paragraph started on p. 40 --Pages 51-62; (Cape Verde section); end at middle of page at St Iago --Page 93-110 (The number and nature of the inhabitants) --140-69 (Plantain, Banana, Pineapple, and SUGAR) I have also put scans of these selected extracts in the Dropbox. Please follow this link to reach the Dropbox folder: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jjhty5i915gm9hq/AACwgWXA1wSrHXc0YMAWxjSza?dl=0
Access is now provided to the digital archive Nineteenth century U.S. Newspapers. The archive can be accessed via this link http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cambuni?db=NCNP and is linked via the eresources@cambridge index and subject pages and via the LibGuides A-Z. Titles in the archive will also be searchable in the ejournals@cambridge A-Z and in LibrarySearch and LibrarySearch+ shortly. The archive content can be searched alternatively via the new Artemis Primary Sources platform either in isolation or in combination with the other digital archives available from Gale Cengage licensed to the University: http://gdc.galegroup.com/gdc/artemis?fromProdId=ECCO&p=GDCS&u=cambuni
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