Ancient Makerspaces 2022 at the SCS/AIA Annual Meeting, Jan. 7, 2022
| January 6, 2022 | Posted by Jeremy Ott under Conferences and Workshops, Digital Humanities and Resources, Professional Development |
The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication (FCLSC), an affiliated interest group of the Society for Classical Studies, is sponsoring Ancient MakerSpaces 2022 at the SCS/AIA Annual Meeting on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022 from 8am to 1pm PST. It is nearly time for the Annual Joint Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication (FCLSC) is excited to be sponsoring the fifth Ancient MakerSpaces (AMS2022) workshop at the SCS/AIA annual meeting. Ancient MakerSpaces is a half-day “workshop” meant to bring attention to projects working at […] more
FCLSC (Virtual) Annual Meeting, Jan. 6, 10-12 PST (18:00-20:00 UTC)
| January 4, 2022 | Posted by David Ratzan under Conferences and Workshops |
The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications will be holding its annual meeting on Jan. 6, 10-12 PST (1-3pm EST / 18:00-20:00 UTC), as part of the AIA/SCS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. As with the rest of the meeting, this will be a virtual session on Zoom. The meeting is open and free: you do not need to register with either the SCS or the AIA to attend. Please circulate the agenda to all interested colleagues. Please contact FCLSC Secretary Megan Daly (mmdaly@ufl.edu) for the zoom link and instructions. Please address all questions to Jeremy Ott (jott@berkeley.edu) […] more
Call for proposals
| December 17, 2021 | Posted by Megan Daly under Conferences and Workshops |
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We are pleased to invite you to submit proposals for FCLSC-supported panels/colloquia related to libraries and scholarly communications at AIA/SCS 2023. Received proposals will be discussed at the FCLSC virtual meeting on January 6 and voted on for further development within an ad hoc FCLSC committee; the winning proposal will finally be submitted to AIA/SCS by March for their consideration. Interested individuals should send Jeremy Ott (jott@berkeley.edu) by January 4 a statement of approximately one page describing their proposed panel/colloquium and its value along with a list of potential speakers (there is no need to contact potential speakers at this time). Topics […] more
Career Opportunity: Assistant Research Scholar, Digital Projects, ISAW Library
| December 28, 2021 | Job Postings |
The Library of Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University seeks an Assistant Research Scholar (ARS) to help develop and support its growing portfolio of digital projects and services and to participate in the scholarly life of the ISAW community. A key component of the ISAW Library’s mission is to provide access to and support for new and innovative forms of digital scholarship, scholarly communication, and pedagogy in ancient studies. The ARS will help the ISAW Library fulfill this charge by collaborating with a diverse group of academic professionals at ISAW and other schools […] more
Job Announcement: Classical Studies Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
| December 17, 2021 | Job Postings |
Classical Studies Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library: https://jobs.illinois.edu/academic-job-board/job-details?jobID=157091&job=university-library-classical-studies-librarian-literatures-and-languages-library-157091 more
Guest post: ISAW Library shares Ancient World Digital Library records across institutions
| May 10, 2021 | Digital Humanities and Resources, Guest posts, Tips and Resources |
By Jasmine Smith, Assistant Research Scholar for Digital Initiatives in the ISAW Library. The ISAW Library has made the metadata describing items in the Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL) available to other libraries and institutions, so that open access items in AWDL be made more discoverable and accessible to the wider scholarly public. The COVID-19 pandemic has made everyone increasingly aware of access to digital research materials. Never has this been more important to own user community at ISAW or to other libraries and institutions that serve the wider academic and scholarly community. For this reason, the ISAW Library has worked during the pandemic to […] more
Job Posting: JavaScript Student Developer for Hieratic Sign Tool
| March 16, 2021 | Digital Humanities and Resources, Job Postings |
Project Thanks to a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), we are seeking a part-time, student JavaScript developer to help with the development of The Hieratic Sign Search Tool. The Hieratic Search Tool will be a web-based digital version of Möller’s Hieratic Palaeography (Hieratische Paläographie [1927]), enabling students and scholars to search for hieratic signs (a form of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing) according to various criteria, including sign shape. The project, which will make the tool publicly available online, is also collaborating with the Projekt Altägyptische Kursivschriften (directed by Prof. Dr. Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen, Johannes Gutenberg-University […] more
Ancient MakerSpaces Announces 2022 CFP
| March 5, 2021 | Conferences and Workshops, Digital Humanities and Resources, News |
Hot on the heels of a very successful showing at the remote AIA-SCS 2021 Joint Annual Meeting, Ancient MakerSpaces (AMS) is back and putting together another dynamite program for the next meeting in January 2022. We don’t know yet whether we’ll be in San Francisco, virtual, or hybrid, but we’re ready for any eventuality and we want you to join us! In case you’re not familiar with us, AMS is a day-long event showcasing digital approaches to the study of the ancient world. Since 2017, AMS has served as a venue at the AIA-SCS Annual Meeting for scholars, librarians, and […] more
Guest Post: Open linked data and mapping scholarship in ancient studies
| March 3, 2021 | Digital Humanities and Resources, Guest posts, Tips and Resources |
By Christian Casey, CLIR postdoctoral fellow at the ISAW Library, which is publishing today a new interactive, map-based visualization of its collection based on a newly redesigned database of bibliographic items tagged with Pleiades IDs, linked open data URIs for ancient places. In addition to the new visualization, the ISAW Library is also publishing the underlying data set, which now comprises over 4,000 curated bibliographic records in ancient studies, as well as the machine-learning algorithm that programmatically performs the initial assignment of Pleiades IDs to raw bibliographic records. Once upon a time (June 2009), researchers at Google created a tool […] more
FCLSC posts recording of “The New Normal for Academic Libraries in a Post-Pandemic World” (Jan. 5)
| January 29, 2021 | Posted by David Ratzan under Conferences and Workshops, News, Professional Development |
The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications (FCLSC) post the recording of a discussion (Jan. , 2021) with Barbara Rockenbach (Yale) and Simon Neame (UMass, Amherst) about “The New Normal for Academic Libraries in a Post-Pandemic World” The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications, an affiliated interest group of the Society for Classical Studies convened its annual meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 5 virtually via zoom as part of the 152nd Annual Meeting of the SCS, held jointly with the Archaeological Institute of America. The meeting was the first to be held virtually for the FCLSC and was the one of the best attended […] more
