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Untangling Digital Knots, Lauren P. Seney, Daniel H. Weddington May 2014

Untangling Digital Knots, Lauren P. Seney, Daniel H. Weddington

Lauren P. Seney

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Untangling Digital Knots, Lauren P. Seney, Daniel H. Weddington May 2014

Untangling Digital Knots, Lauren P. Seney, Daniel H. Weddington

Library Staff Publications

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Little Else Than A Memory: Purdue Students Search For The Class Of 1904, Kristina Bross May 2014

Little Else Than A Memory: Purdue Students Search For The Class Of 1904, Kristina Bross

Scholarly Publishing Services e-Books

Through their individual studies, the authors of the biographies inside this book were led in interesting and very different directions. From a double-name conundrum to intimate connections with their subjects’ kin, their archival research was rife with unexpected twists and turns. Although many differences between modern-day university culture and the campus of 1904 emerge, the similarities were far more profound. Surprising diversity existed even at the dawn of the twentieth century. Students intimately tracked the lives of African Americans, women, farm kids, immigrants, international students, and inner-city teens, all with one thing in common—a Purdue education. This study of Purdue …


2014 Spring - Friendly Correspondence Newsletter, Courtright Memorial Library Apr 2014

2014 Spring - Friendly Correspondence Newsletter, Courtright Memorial Library

Friends of the Library

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“Performing Archive”: Identity, Participation, And Responsibility In The Ethnic Archive, David J. Kim, Jacqueline Wernimont Apr 2014

“Performing Archive”: Identity, Participation, And Responsibility In The Ethnic Archive, David J. Kim, Jacqueline Wernimont

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

This essay is an effort to reflect on the theoretical underpinnings and implications of both our three-month process and its product. In particular, we would like to consider how our digital book both publishes an archive and allows authors and readers to “perform archive” or enact “liveness” with the materials therein. We also want to use this as an occasion to raise questions regarding the liberal discourse of digital access that seems at times to overshadow opportunities for critical intervention at this moment of digital-archive fever. In particular, we want to bring the insights of critical race and ethnic studies …


Connections Newsletter Winter 2014, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas Jan 2014

Connections Newsletter Winter 2014, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Connections Newsletter

Table of Contents

  • An Online Homecoming for UNLV Students: University Libraries Digitizes the Rebel Yell
  • From the Dean
  • UNLV Libraries Leads the Way on Preserving Nevada’s History with NEH Grant
  • Students Taste the Power of Intellectual Freedom at the Banned Books Buffet
  • K-12 Institute: Bringing UNLV and CCSD Educators Together
  • A Treasure Trove for UNLV Grad Students Working in Special Collections During Summer
  • Staff Spotlight: Michelle Light
  • Project to Capture the History of the Jewish Community in Southern Nevada Begins