Shoulder Bags and Ethnic Identity in Southern Yunnan, China
I am happy to announce the opening of a small exhibition titled Shoulder Bags and Ethnic Identity in Southern Yunnan, China. For such a small exhibition, the project…
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And Another Thing: University Presses
All, or almost all of the ACLS Scholarly Societies are in mutual aid relationships with university-based scholarly publishers (=university presses). In the case of folklore studies and the…
Guest Post: On Changes in the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting Program
I am very happy to share this guest post by Tim Lloyd. The American Folklore Society’s annual meeting is the high point of the professional year for the…
Thandeka Cochrane takes the page 99 test
In the middle of the page a line jumps out: “Nthanu telling, therefore, encapsulates a moral performance”. Lying at the centre of page 99 this line also lies…
Turning the page
This summer I started a new job. My former position, in museums and special collections, was grant funded. We worked that contract until the money was gone. And…
Faculty work, librarian work, and life balance
Tis the season. As my professor friends hustle to write final exams and grade them, only to press through to letter grade submission and finally revel in winter…
An Interview with Jessica Richardson Smith, Museum Anthropologist and Research Services Librarian at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
Jessica Richardson Smith is the Research Services Librarian at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. She pursued three majors—Anthropology, Latin and Greek, and Geology for her Indiana University…
The Free-to-Readers Edition of Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds
As I discussed in a previous post, works in the Material Vernaculars series are being made available in a free-to-readers PDF edition via IUScholarWorks. The eponymous edited collection Material…
An Interview with Dorothy J. Berry, Metadata Specialist and Project Manager for Umbra, an Initiative of the Givens Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota Libraries
While a graduate student at Indiana University, Dorothy J. Berry concurrently earned an MA degree in ethnomusicology from the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and a MLS degree…
Infrastructure as Iron Cage
Weber’s metaphor of the iron cage is one of the most famous in all of sociology. It’s certainly stuck with me: I keep a bookmark in my copy…
Open Access at Indiana University Bloomington
Richard Poynder doesn’t miss a thing. Indiana University: Library Committee of the Bloomington Faculty Council decides not to recommend active OA policy. http://t.co/kmMkWVaX4G — Richard Poynder…
In Tune at Trinity
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to visit a Dublin exhibition named “In Tune: A Millennium of Music in Trinity College Library“. The exhibition shows many…
In Tune at Trinity
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to visit a Dublin exhibition named “In Tune: A Millennium of Music in Trinity College Library“. The exhibition shows many…
In Tune at Trinity
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to visit a Dublin exhibition named “In Tune: A Millennium of Music in Trinity College Library“. The exhibition shows many…
In Tune at Trinity
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to visit a Dublin exhibition named “In Tune: A Millennium of Music in Trinity College Library“. The exhibition shows many…