NHC hosts historian Dane Kennedy 10/7/2010 at 5pm

George Washington University historian, Dane Kennedy, will give a talk, "Science, Truth, and Knowledge in 19th-Century British Exploration," at 5pm on Thursday, October 7th, 2010, at the National Humanities Center.

The recipient of numerous awards and honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Kennedy will be working this year at the National Humanities Center on Mapping Continents: British Exploration of Africa and Australia.

Lectures and exhibits at the NHC are free and open to the public.

For more information, and to reserve space for this event follow this link,or contact Martha Johnson at (919) 549-0661, ext. 110,or mjohnson@nationalhumanitiescenter.org

New Resources for French and Francophone Studies

It is fairly easy to keep track of digital projects that require a subscription or purchase. It is much more difficult to stay on top of new developments in the realm of free online resources. That is why the annual review by the French Studies Library Group is a welcome source of information.

In the latest issue of FDLG Annual Review Issue 6 (2010): 13-19, Teresa Vernon, Head of French Collections at the British Library, highlights 29 new developments in French and Francophone catalogs abroad.

Of particular interest are :

Catalogue collectif des périodiques Caraïbe-Amazonie
Online union catalogue listing periodicals, magazines and newspapers on the Caribbean held in libraries in Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guyana. Includes material not hitherto visible online since many of the libraries do not have online catalogues.

Manioc: bibliothèque numérique Caraïbe, Amazonie, Plateau des Guyanes
The Manioc digital library, initiated by the Libraries (SCD) of the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, offers free access to online resources on the Caribbean, Guyana and Amazonia in the following categories: Patrimoine numérisé (heritage digitised books, full text). Images du patrimoine. Catalogue collectif des périodiques Caraïbe Amazonie. Audio Vidéo. Travaux de recherches (articles, cartes, communications, livres, thèses). Etudes caribéennes (e-journal on Revues.org).
It thus complements the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC).

Also of interest are expanding lists of digital historic newspaper projects:
Gallica
ICON:International Coalition on Newspapers -- (CRL)-Newspaper Digitization Projects
Réseau francophone numérique

Heidi Madden, PhD

Online Resources for Studying 9/11

If you're interested in primary sources on the September 11, 2001 tragedies, finding your way through the flood of information available online can be difficult. Here are a few of the important, freely available archives of digital material:

• The September 11 Digital Archive. Compiled by CUNY's American Social History Project and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, this site collects a diverse range of materials, from digitized versions of leaflets on the streets of New York City to first-person accounts of the day's events to Department of Justice emails to photographs and artwork contributed by site visitors.
  
• Columbia University Libraries' guide to "The World Trade Center Attack: The Official Documents." A selective bibliography of important government documents on the topic, with links to the documents themselves.
  
• The September 11 Television Archive. Televised news coverage from September 11-13, 2001, recorded live, for the major American broadcast networks, CNN, and the BBC, provided by the Internet Archive and the Television Archive.
• September11News.com. Despite its cluttered interface and some less-than-scholarly sections, this site provides amazing images of newspaper and magazine front pages from around the world in the days after the attacks, allowing for comparison and contrast of domestic and international coverage of the events.
  

Links to many other important resources are available through these sites, including resources from the Library of Congress and other organizations.

Civility in a Fractured Society

Join us for the lecture, Civility in a Fractured Society, by Jim Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities. This upcoming event is organized by the Office of the President, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the Franklin Humanities Institute. It will be held on Monday Sept 20th at 5:30pm at the Nasher Museum of Art.

Drama in Perkins Library

Until this summer, the faculty of the Duke University Theater Studies Department had its digs in various buildings on the far north reaches of East Campus. As of August of this year, the theater faculty have moved into newly renovated offices in the Page Building. At the heart of West Campus, they are now in close proximity to Page Auditorium and to the theater classrooms, costume shop and performance spaces in the Bryan Center. The move brings Theater Studies faculty, adjunct and technical crew staff together on West, and the Libraries have responded by bringing its theater collections to Perkins from its previous home in Lilly Library.

Literary and dramatic works by the same author are now shelved together on the fourth floor of Perkins. Play-scripts are still being interfiled (the last several volumes can be found on the third floor of Perkins ), and the shelving should be complete within a month. Researchers who have any problem locating a volume should visit the circulation desk on the first floor, where staff are as always available to help locate items. Theater reference materials can be found on the Perkins first floor.

Sara Seten Berghausen