Hi all! The ARLIS/NA Montreal-Ottawa-Quebec Chapter is currently seeking submissions for their biannual publication : MOQDOC, and welcome contributions from students and emerging professionals. This is a great opportunity to write about a variety of topics including: conference reports exhibition reviews book reviews profile of a member or an organization contributions to the calendar of events […]
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The Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Project and Archive
I recently attended a talk at The University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities. It was part of the Institute’s year long programming on Archives & Futures. UM Professor Marie E. Cotera spoke about a digital archives project she helped spearhead in 2009, and has continued to work on, called the Chicana por mi Raza […]
A Compendium of Archivists Talk About Their First Professional Publishing Experience
The SNAP Roundtable blog just published a great roundup of mid-career archivists discussing their routes to publication, all through grad-school term papers or essay awards. As I’ve written about this previously, obviously I feel like these perspectives are good to have. https://snaproundtable.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/on-the-job-training-publishing/
Getting scholarly-published, part three: Things I learned
To finish off … How was I notified of publication? By a mass email sent out to ARLIS members! This kinda took me off-guard. Since at my last look, my own article was covered in editing marks, I didn’t have a sense that things were in their final phase. I’m definitely more used to […]
Getting scholarly-published, part two: Parsing peer review
Continuing on … I got my peer-review comments back in October of 2014, with the excellent news that I had been accepted (“pending revisions”). I had one month to incorporate changes based on the peer recommendations. In fact, the email stated “please make any revisions that YOU feel are appropriate (reviewer opinions often differ)….” […]
What's it like to be scholarly-published?
As I mentioned in a previous post, I sent out a ton of student-essay-award applications, based primarily on term papers. One of those was the Gerd Muehsam Award, run by ARLIS/NA. I didn’t win (Jasmine Burns won [by submitting her MA thesis, which is another thing you can totally do]!) but the award committee very […]
LOC's The Signal: All About Digital Art
In case you’re in the market for some light summer reading: The Library of Congress has a great digital preservation blog called The Signal. Recently they’ve been focusing on plenty of art-related issues, from digital art (and the power of the GIF) to preserving artists’ websites and communities. There’s even some meta content, in the […]
LOC’s The Signal: All About Digital Art
In case you’re in the market for some light summer reading: The Library of Congress has a great digital preservation blog called The Signal. Recently they’ve been focusing on plenty of art-related issues, from digital art (and the power of the GIF) to preserving artists’ websites and communities. There’s even some meta content, in the […]
Student Essay Award: Book History Essay Prize
Book History, a yearly scholarly journal on the history of printing and publishing, gives away an annual essay award to graduate students writing about books. It’s composed of a $400 cash prize and publication in the journal. http://www.sharpweb.org/book-history-essay-prize/ “The deadline for submission for each editorial year is 31 August. Please contact either Ezra Greenspan or Jonathan Rose for more […]
2014 Annual Award for Best Libri Student Paper
De Gruyter Saur announces the 2014 annual award for best Libri Student Paper. Since 1950, through 63 volumes, “Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services” has been a leader among scholarly journals in the international library world. As part of its strategy to remain one of the premier library journals, Libri is issuing a […]