Jeremy Ott and Megan Daly elected as officers of the FCLSC for 2021-2023
| January 7, 2021 | Posted by David Ratzan under Conferences and Workshops, News |
Jeremy Ott and Megan Daly were elected as Chair and Secretary, respectively, of the Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications at the Forum’s annual meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. 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 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 on record, as […] more
Ancient Makerspaces 2021 at the SCS/AIA Annual Meeting, Jan. 9, 2021
| January 2, 2021 | Posted by David Ratzan under Conferences and Workshops, Digital Humanities and Resources, Professional Development |
The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications (FCLSC), an affiliated interest group of the Society for Classical Studies, is sponsoring Ancient MakerSpaces 2021 at the SCS/AIA Annual Meeting on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021 from 9am to 3pm CST. 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 Communications (FCLSC) is excited to be sponsoring the fourth Ancient MakerSpaces (AMS2021) workshop at the SCS/AIA annual meeting. Ancient MakerSpaces is an all-day “workshop” meant to bring attention to projects working at […] more
Society Sunday (Jan. 3, 2021) at the AIA Annual Meeting: Digital Archaeology for a Virtual World (panel discussion)
| December 29, 2020 | Posted by David Ratzan under Conferences and Workshops, Digital Humanities and Resources, Professional Development, Tips and Resources |
On Jan. 3, 2021 between 4-5pm CST Carolyn Laferrière will moderate a panel discussion about digital archaeology. Hear from team members from Peopling the Past, Digital Hammurabi, and Everyday Orientalism. You may register here: https://www.archaeological.org/event/society-sunday/ Digital Hammurabi is a public outreach/digital humanities project that aims to provide reliable, accurate information about the Ancient Near East and surrounding areas in an entertaining and engaging fashion. Resources about the Ancient Near East are few and far between, and often filled with misinformation. Digital Hammurabi tries to fill that need through interviews with researchers, and educational videos, as well as self-published books aimed at a non-specialist […] more
FCLSC (Virtual) Annual Meeting, Jan. 5, 12-2pm CST
| December 28, 2020 | Posted by David Ratzan under Conferences and Workshops, News, Professional Development |
The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications will be holding its annual meeting on Jan. 5, 12-2pm CST, as part of the AIA/SCS Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. 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. The zoom link and password are included in the agenda. Please address all questions to David Ratzan (david.ratzan@nyu.edu) or Rebecca Stuhr (stuhrreb@pobox.upenn.edu). The first half of the […] more
Guest post: VIRTUAL ANTIQUITY – EVENTS AND EXPERIENCES
| June 12, 2020 | Posted by David Ratzan under Conferences and Workshops, News, Tips and Resources |
Reposted from the ISAW Library blog (post by Jasmine Smith) With the spread of Covid-19, institutions related to the study of antiquity are finding new and creative ways to continue to engage with their communities and wider audiences. Most institutions are of course turning to technology to create virtual events and experiences that users can enjoy from wherever they are so long as they have an internet connection. These include virtual conferences, museum exhibits, and even virtual tours of ancient places. The ISAW Library staff have attended various virtual events. For instance, the annual meetings of the Association of Ancient Historians and the American Research […] more
Press release: The campaign for digital papyrology
| June 10, 2020 | Posted by David Ratzan under News |
Making the study of ancient papyri self-sustainable: we are on the right track In the last six months, $162,523 have been raised towards making papyri.info self-sustainable! This is more than 6.5% of the 2.5 million dollars we need to secure the future of a tool used daily by scholars, students, and members of the general public from all over the world. Papyrology is the science of deciphering and interpreting the books and documents—hundreds of thousands of them—preserved from the ancient world. The bulk of this material was written on papyrus and was found in Egypt; the main language of the texts is […] more
New Titles in Papyrology, Classics, Ancient History, Sanskrit, and East Asian Studies added to the Ancient World Digital Library
| June 5, 2020 | Posted by David Ratzan under Tips and Resources |
REPOSTED from the ISAW Library (original post by Jasmine Smith): During this first week of June, nine titles were added to the Ancient World Digital Library including works in papyrology, central Asia, and ancient science. Works under the subject “Ancient Science” can now be browsed by navigating to the “Collections Overview” page and selecting the “Ancient Science” tab. Below is a list of the recently added titles: Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon, Scott Pearce, Representing power in ancient Inner Asia, Studies on East Asia, Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University Kathleen McNamee, Sigla and select marginalia in Greek literary papyri, Papyrologica Bruxellensia, Fondation Égyptologique Reine […] more
The Ovid Concordance and Other Aspects of Classics Librarianship
| April 9, 2020 | Posted by Rebecca Stuhr under News, Professional Development |
Blogpost contributed by Michael Konieczny, Ph.D. Classics, Harvard 2019 Most of the writing I have done has taken the form of academic papers, student evaluations, and job applications (the worst!): the blog post is a new genre for me, so I apologize in advance if I don’t get it quite right. I’ve been asked to write about the Center for Hellenic Studies from the perspective of someone who has just recently completed their Ph.D. in Classics (I graduated from Harvard in May of 2019); in addition, I will talk about some of my work for the Open Greek and Latin […] more
Challenges and Changes in Publishing, Spotlight on Classical Studies Part II: Multi-modal Publishing in the Humanities
| March 21, 2020 | Posted by Rebecca Stuhr under Professional Development, Publishing |
Read Part I Multi-modality is unavoidable when researching the ancient world. Scholars rely on primary evidence derived from multiple physical and virtual formats. How can we represent this cornucopia of possible evidence in a way that makes it intuitive for an audience and that is affordable for publishers? Libraries offer one solution through their institutional repositories (IRs). IRs can handle multiple media formats from music samples, to 3D imagery, to video, to interactive maps. IRs notably provide permanent links and DOIs for digital artifacts, and their best practices include long-term storage, accessibility, and portability. Scholars and publishers can work with […] more
Part I: Challenges and Changes in Humanities Publishing with a spotlight on Classical Studies
| March 21, 2020 | Posted by Rebecca Stuhr under Professional Development, Publishing |
This post originates from my contribution to the 2020 SCS Panel on Humanities Publishing organized by Deborah Stewart and sponsored by the FCSLSC I have spent the entirety of my career in collections. My first position was at the University of Kansas. I had a typewriter to produce order slips and I remember hauling around the volumes of the German books in print. Our collections were in print, we worked from card catalogs, and we had a microfiche catalog for journals. We had one dedicated OCLC terminal, and we offered mediated database searching at cost, with no screen, a printer, […] more
