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March 7, 2016
The Digital Humanities Lab sponsored two events with Scott Weingart, the Digital Humanities Specialist at Carnegie Mellon University. Workshop, 3/7: "Concepts and Practice of Network Analysis for Humanities Applications" Bass Library L06, 1:00-5:00pm Networks are simple formal representations for...
Kelmscott-Goudy Press at RIT. Image courtesy of the Cary Graphic Arts Collections, RIT.
March 7, 2016
The Kelmscott-Goudy Press Legacy at Rochester Institute of Technology by Amelia Fontanel, Associate Curator, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection 3pm Lecture in Sterling Memorial Library (SML) lecture hall 4pm Printing Demonstration in The Bibliographical Press, L&B Room, SML In 1891 a simple iron...
March 3, 2016
In 1891 a simple iron printing press was made in London and sold to William Morris, the founder of the Arts & Crafts movement. Whereupon this press was employed to produce the legendary book commonly known as The Kelmscott Chaucer, completed in 1896. For over a century since, admirers have...
March 3, 2016
The Yale Elizabethan Club will host a presentation in the Sterling Memorial Library on Tuesday, March 8 at 5:30 pm by Earle Havens, the Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins University; and Matthijs Lok,...
C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University
March 3, 2016
Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in US Part II. C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University Speakers: Dr. Chengzhi Wang, Chinese Studies Librarian; Dr. Sachie Noguchi, Japanese Studies Librarian Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Thursday March 10 Place: Room 218, Sterling Memorial...
Yale/Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
March 1, 2016
The Arts Library will be hosting a Yale/Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 4, from 5-8 pm. With 5,077,437 articles in English and counting, Wikipedia is the world's largest encyclopedia. It is free and crowd-sourced, but depends on the interests of those who contribute. As a result...
Koten Haibungaku Taikei
February 29, 2016
We now have a trial of Koten Haibungaku Taikei (古典俳文学大系). It is new addition to the Nihon Bungaku Web Toshokan database we already have a subscription at Yale.    http://kotenlibrary.com/weblibrary/toshokan For those who have been using the Nihon Bungaku Web Toshokan database, you can just access...

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