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From our friends at the Digital Classics Association, who are sponsoring a panel at the next AIA/SCS meeting: American Institute of Archaeology and the Society for Classical Studies (AIA / SCS) Meetings, January 6-9, San Francisco, CA. Digital resources are increasingly opening up new opportunities for classics education and outreach. Some, like MOOCs, have been intensively … Read more

On February 27-28, 2015, the Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) in Boston, MA will host “Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: the Potential of Digital Archaeology.” The proceedings will be live streamed. Registration for attending the workshop in person closes on February 5. The workshop organizers are Erin Walcek Averett (Creighton University), Derek Counts (University of … Read more

Gregory Crane Perseus Project and the Open Philology Project The University of Leipzig and Tufts University We are looking for help in preparing metadata for the Patrologia Graeca (PG) component of what we are calling the Open Migne Project, an attempt to make the most useful possible transcripts of the full Patrologia Graeca and Patrologia … Read more

My appointment as the Chair of the Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication (FCLSC) began at the 2013 conference.  At that time, Camilla MacKay was also elected Secretary. We have worked as a team over the last two years along with many of our FCLSC members.  Our charge in 2013 was to update some … Read more

On Saturday, January 10 from 12:15-1:45pm, Catherine Mardikes (Chicago) will chair a roundtable discussion on “Open Access Books: The Problem of Visibility” in the Napoleon Ballroom of the Sheraton New Orleans. Chuck Jones (ISAW/Penn State), Camilla MacKay (Bryn Mawr), Donald Mastronarde (Berkeley), and Lenny Muellner (Center for Hellenic Studies) will participate in the discussion. Open access … Read more

Members of the Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication (FCLSC) will meet at the AIA/SCS(APA) Conference on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 9:30am-11:30am in the Cornet Room of the Sheraton New Orleans. The current chair and secretary of the forum, Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos, and Camilla MacKay, respectively, have submitted the following agenda: 9:30-11:00am Introductions Confirmation of 2014 … Read more

On Sunday, January 11, 2015 at the SCS/AIA meeting in New Orleans, the Digital Classics Association will host a panel on “Making Meaning from Data” from 8-11am. The session may be of interest to forum members. “Big data” is becoming increasingly significant in classics. Archaeologists can now generate vast amounts of digital information. Online repositories for … Read more

The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication will hold its annual meeting at the AIA/SCS(APA) Conference in New Orleans on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 9:30am-11:30am in the Cornet Room of the Sheraton New Orleans. Agenda topics can be submitted anytime before the meeting. Additional business will include electing a new Chair and a new … Read more

Video from the Digital Classics Association (DCA) panel, “Getting Started with Digital Classics”, is now available on YouTube. The panel took place at the 2014 American Philological Association/American Institute of Archaeology meeting in Chicago, IL. Panelists included Diane Cline (George Washington University), Neil Bernstein (Ohio University), Monica Berti (University of Leipzig), Adam Rabinowitz (The University of Texas at Austin), Francesco … Read more

Welcome to the new Classics Librarian Forum Blog!  CLiF, for short.  As your Chair until 2015, I hope to foster community and online conversation about Classics interests on this spot.  This website is the result of a collaborative effort by many librarians and classicists, most notably the library team of Catherine Mardikes, Jacquie Riley, Camilla … Read more