Great universities have great libraries, and great libraries have great collections, so it follows that great universities have great collections. In the case of The University of Texas at Austin, those collections extend far beyond the walls of the Libraries, a fact made plain by the publication of the significant tome “The Collections” in 2015 by the UT Press, and more recently by the opening of a new exhibition at the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum.
“Deep in the Vaults of Texas” brings together rarely presented artifacts from archives, museums and repositories across the university representing a cross-section of areas of scholarship at UT in a modest but wide-ranging exhibit on the entry level of the presidential library. Collections as disparate as the Blanton Museum of Art and the Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sport commingle in a fascinating juxtaposition that provides the public with a sampling of what lies hidden on shelves and in drawers mostly behind closed doors — though largely accessible — in collections that serve a distinct research and learning purpose for the UT community.
Featured highlights of the exhibit include journalist/writer Dominick Dunne’s notes from O. J. Simpson trial (Briscoe Center for American History), Tom Landry’s iconic fedora (Stark Center) and painter Peter Dean’s 1982 interpretation of the Oswald assassination, “Dallas Chaos II” (Blanton Museum) and crayon drawings by Caroline and John Kennedy, Jr. (LBJ Presidential Library). “Deep in the Vaults” also includes samples from our own holdings in the Fine Arts Library (A Brief History of the Ukulele, housed within an old soprano ukulele
(“A Brief History of the Ukulele,” housed within an old soprano ukulele), the Alexander Architectural Archives (Paul Cret’s masterful architectural drawing of UT’s Tower clock) and the Benson Latin American Collection (Santa Anna’s memoirs from exile, which partners nicely with the Briscoe’s Secret Treaty of Velasco).
Visitors can view these and other items from the aforementioned collections as well as the Harry Ransom Center, the John L. Warfield Center for African & African American Studies, the Tarlton Law Library and th eTexas Archeological Research Laboratory.
The exhibit runs through September 6 and is included with admission to the LBJ.
Written by Hayley Morgenstern, Graduate Research Assistant/Ask a Librarian Intern
The creation of the Black Queer Studies Collection (BQSC) by former librarian Kristen Hogan in collaboration with faculty member Dr. Matt Richardson responds to the need to make content that is marginalized within classification systems more accessible for scholarship.
One of the first special collections of its kind in the U.S. South, the BQSC is a designated virtual collection that seeks to address discoverability issues surrounding holdings in the area of African and African Diasporic Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies. Since standard Library of Congress subject headings are limited in addressing gender and sexual identity, adding a local note to items in the catalog allows materials addressing black queer content to become accessible through a keyword search. The creation of the collection to meet a research need of students and faculty exemplifies the vision of the library as a research ecosystem created through user-focused innovation, collaboration, and expertise.
Over 750 items exist in the collection that spans multiple branches of the library system from the Perry-Castañeda Library, the Benson Latin American Collection, and the Fine Arts Library as well as digital materials like the steaming film Miss Major! (a documentary about Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years). The content in the collection spans fiction, science-fiction, memoir and biography, critical theory, fine art, music, poetry theater, and film.
An exhibit featuring selections from the BQSC is now on display in the Scholars Commons at the PCL.
“Comprehensiveness” is not ultimately the goal for this nationally distinctive collection, in part because the material itself is ephemeral and passes out of print quickly. In fact, the very fleeting nature of the material, particularly that published in serial formats and on low-quality “pulp” paper, is what makes collecting it so imperative. Private collectors often don’t see the value in its popular content—it isn’t “high brow” nor particularly literary, some of it is geared towards women, while others are purely entertainment-oriented. Public libraries (both in South Asia and abroad) might seem well situated for the content, yet they often aren’t equipped nor charged to preserve such fragile but highly used material. As a result, in gathering this material at our research library, even if only at a representative level, we are assuring both current and future researchers a corpus of material within which to explore literary conventions as well as alternative uses of South Asian languages (particularly that not in high registers), to contemplate social norms and anxieties as represented in fictional accounts and graphic design at a particular moment in time, and to question the consumptive practices of publishing and distribution. In order to be as broadly representative as possible with the collection, I am seeking to include multiple languages and different types and periods of publication.
Building upon earlier efforts in Telugu and Urdu already in the collection, on this trip I sought to acquire materials in Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil.
In Delhi, and with the gracious help of Asian Studies PhD Student Aaron Sherraden and former SAI Outreach Coordinator Neha Mohan, I was able to acquire the works of authors such as Anil Mohan and Surendra Mohan Pathak.
In Trivandrum, and following advice and guidance from Asian Studies Malayalam Lecturer, Dr. Darsana, I was able to acquire the works of authors such as Kottayam Puspanath, Ettumanur Sivakumar, and Meluveli Babuji.
In Chennai, I was able to acquire materials in different publishing formats by authors such as Rajeshkumar, Suba, Uma Balakumar, and Indira Soundarajan.
I continue to be struck by how different the quality of publications is between languages as well as the places of distribution. Malayalam print production seems best, even for lesser known and more “low-brow” content, while Tamil publications get rebranded and reissued at multiple price points and quality levels. Train platforms of course continue to be active sites for purchasing this material but sellers there lament a decline, one they explain either by reduced readership overall and/or by the dominance of smart phones rather than books for “time-pass.” Highly graphic covers dominate the pedestrian markets while less controversial covers of the same content find home in proper bookshops.
As we continue to acquire more and more of these materials, the Library is also in the process of digitizing the covers as they are compelling and research worthy themselves. An online exhibit is expected to be released in mid-2017. If you have any suggestions for, questions about or just want to see these materials—I’m happy for all input and eager for the collection to be used!
Before his death in 2006, club owner and Austin music scene icon Clifford Antone brought his vast knowledge of music — more specifically the blues and rock and roll — to the Forty Acres for a lecture series hosted by the Department of Sociology called “The History of the Blues According to Clifford Antone.”
Antone’s affable style and enthusiasm for the subject matter easily won over students of the 12-week guest spot in Dr. Lester Kurtz’s course, “Blues, Race and Social Change” (SOC 308).
Antone was the founder of his namesake club Antone’s, a legendary blues club that launched the careers of Texas music artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Charlie Sexton, and helped Austin to become “The Live Music Capital of the World.”
This is a series of lectures was recorded and resides both in the collection of the Fine Arts Library and online at the university’s digital repository, Texas ScholarWorks.
Poetry can be intimidating – it can be vague, filled with too many metaphors, caught up in form. We’ve tried to de-mystify poetry with our latest display at the UT Poetry Center, Read Like A Librarian: Staff Poetry Recommendations. Library staff found a great range of selections, including 19th century classics by Edgar Allan Poe and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and recently published volumes by poets like Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Peter Macuck.
Here’s a selection of staff recommendations and what they had to say about these books:
Fat Girl Finishing School by Rachel Wiley
Selected by Stephanie Lopez, Weekend & Evening Desk Supervisor
“Fat Girl Finishing School pulled me in with its cheeky cover, and once I started reading I was hooked! Wiley’s words are so powerful and thought-provoking that I found myself looking around to see if anyone else felt the earth shift under them. Before long, I was chasing down everyone I saw so that they, too, could read the words that caused such a visceral reaction in me. Do yourself and favor and read this. Your heart will thank you.”
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Selected by Sarah Morris, Learning & Assessment Librarian
“Barrett Browning is best known for two things: Marrying Robert Browning and writing Sonnets from the Portuguese. But she’s also the author of Aurora Leigh, a feminist epic that explores issues of class, gender, art, and the challenges women face in finding opportunities for work, and respect for their work, in a restrictive society. Groundbreaking at the time, it’s still a great read today.”
Come visit the UT Poetry Center in PCL 2.500 to see more staff picks and read the books in person!
The Prague Spring Archive project — a collaboration between the University of Texas at Austin, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library — has been made live at http://scalar.usc.edu/works/prague-spring-archive. The project aims to make important primary documents on the Prague Spring openly accessible to a wide and inclusive audience, connecting the University of Texas at Austin with an international community of scholars and researchers.
The project began in 2014, when CREEES Director and Slavic Department Chair Dr. Mary Neuburger met with Assistant Director of Research and South Asian Studies Liaison Librarian Mary Rader to discuss an effort to broaden opportunities to access historical primary resources located in the LBJ Presidential Library’s archives.
In 2015, with funding from a US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Centers grant and the Texas Chair in Czech Studies, digitization work on an initial selection of archival boxes was completed by undergraduate and graduate students from CREEES and the UT Libraries. Digitization work is ongoing, with new materials being photographed, processed, and added to Texas ScholarWorks by graduate student Nicole Marino and Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies and Digital Scholarship Librarian Ian Goodale.
The Prague Spring was one of the key events in both the Cold War and 20th Century Czech history. The LBJ’s collections chronicle the United States’ perspective of events leading up to, during, and following the USSR’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, including declassified cables, intelligence reports, letters, and memoranda exchanged by ambassadors, diplomats, intelligence officers, and politicians. Eight archival boxes are currently available digitally through Texas ScholarWorks, with more being worked on and prepared for addition to the repository. Many additional materials that have not yet been digitized are available to researchers in the reading room of the LBJ Presidential Library, as well.
The Prague Spring Archive portal has been designed to replicate the original archival structure of the physical materials in the LBJ Library within a digital framework, allowing the user to “read” and explore the archive on their computer. The portal was designed to appeal to both academic researchers and to patrons conducting personal or non-academic research, with additional features planned that will extend the breadth of the site’s audience. A primer on the Prague Spring in the form of an interactive timeline is one of the site’s features aimed at users not already thoroughly familiar with the events surrounding the incident. A module that will include materials aimed at high school teachers and students, including sample lesson plans and educational activities, will also be added in the future. For researchers who would like to explore what is available in the physical collections of the LBJ, the finding aid for the entire archival collection is also available on the site.
To help maintain the archival integrity of the materials in their digitized format, extensive metadata was created to accompany the materials within the Texas ScholarWorks repository. The metadata allows the materials to be easily searched by researchers working with the materials within ScholarWorks, and can be downloaded by anyone through the repository. Full-text of the documents will soon be added in XML format to accompany the archival PDFs, increasing searchability and providing an additional resource for working with the documents—making digital humanities practices such as text mining or sentiment analysis easier to accomplish, for example.
The Prague Spring site has been an important aspect of embedded librarianship at the UT Libraries. Ian Goodale worked with graduate students in Mary Neuburger’s graduate seminar, REE 301: Introduction to Russian and East European Civilizations, to have the students contribute text for incorporation into the online portal. The students also selected key documents from archival folders to be highlighted on the portal and provided input on the site’s design and features throughout its development. Professors Mary Neuburger and Vlad Beronja contributed their input on design and content, helping to write descriptions of archival materials and select key documents to profile. The finished portal was then presented to the class for additional feedback, and more of their content will be added shortly.
The Prague Spring Archive portal is an attractive, easy to navigate resource that will continue to grow over time. New content and features, in development, will expand its scope and elevate its impact. Utilizing digital humanities tools and collaborative approaches to leveraging local expertise, the project creates context for important, unique primary source materials and shares them in an open access environment for use by local, national and international scholarly communities.
Due to the Geology program’s size, prominence, and traditional emphasis on field science, The Walter Geology Library’s thesis and dissertation collection has always been a central factor in providing research assistance. Prior to the 1980’s, many of these works remained essentially unpublished, and even those that were eventually published were highly condensed, leading researchers back to the original for full access to the complete data set.
When the Texas ScholarWorks digital repository was unveiled in 2008 as the new home for graduate research, we felt it would be advantageous to move as many legacy theses as possible into this new, open, and fully accessible format. A secondary consideration was preservation, for these works are in editions that rarely exceed ten copies, and many have loose plates, glued in photographs, and sometimes low quality paper and binding.
Our strategy was to begin in 1897 scanning the theses of deceased graduates, and to use our extensive alumni network to track down living authors and get their permission to share their work. To date we have been able to produce hundreds of scans of works from the pre-digital era. Is this effective? One recent story serves to illustrate the potential.
Abdullah Homoud Tariki, born in 1919 in Zelfi, Saudi Arabia, got a bachelor’s in geology from Fouad University in Cairo, and in November 1945, just two months after the end of WII in the Pacific, found himself in Austin Texas, entering graduate school in the Department of Geology. Apparently he was the first Saudi Arabian to study geology in the US, and, as best we can determine, the first Saudi Arabian to write an academic thesis on Saudi Arabia. He received his MA in August 1947, and, after a short stint in Houston, returned to Saudi Arabia. In a career filled with firsts, he later became the first Saudi Oil Minister, and, (reportedly based on his understanding of the Texas Railroad Commission’s structure and purpose), one of the original founders of OPEC. He was outspoken, and later involved in a number of disputes with Prince (later King) Faisal, which got him sacked, and earned him the title “The Red Sheikh”, according to some middle east sources. He died in Cairo in 1997.
Meanwhile, Mr. Tariki’s poor thesis sat mostly undisturbed on the shelves, having been checked out only a few times over the decades. Recently, a Saudi Arabian graduate student asked to see the thesis. He was born in the same village as Tariki, and claimed him as the founder of the Saudi geosciences technical infrastructure. As far as he knew, no one in Saudi Arabia had ever seen Tariki’s thesis. We decided to add it to our scanning project, and it was posted in late October of 2016. The Geology of Saudi Arabia, now almost 70 years out of date, has demonstrated that with easier access and a wider audience, digitizing such older scholarship brings new life to old texts. In the two months since its release, Mr. Tariki’s neglected thesis has been downloaded more than 50 times around the world. We are thrilled to be able to extend the reach and impact of our student’s work in this way.
Houston architect Karl Kamrath had an opportunity to meet Frank Lloyd Wright when he visited Taliesin in June of 1946. The encounter had a profound effect on Kamrath’s architectural designs as he began creating Organic architecture, integrating human habitation with the natural environment.
The archive provides insight into the prolific Texan’s work, much of whose modernist design aesthetic paid homage to Wright, and includes some of Kamrath’s award-winning projects such as the Kamrath residence of 1939, Temple Emanu-El in Houston, the Houston Fire Alarm Building, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, and the Contemporary Arts Association in Houston. The archive also includes a number of volumes from Kamrath’s personal library that shed further light on his influences.
Karl Kamrath grew up in Austin and earned his bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas. In 1934, he moved to Chicago, where he worked for the architectural firm Pereira and Pereira, the Interior Studios of Marshall Field and Co. and the Architectural Decorating Company.
In 1937, he and another former graduate of the university, Frederick James MacKie Jr. opened their own architectural firm, MacKie and Kamrath in Houston, Texas. MacKie and Kamrath were among the first Houston architects to follow a modernist approach to design for which they received national recognition.
Kamrath left the firm from 1942 to 1945 to serve as a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers. Shortly after his return in 1946, Kamrath met Wright and immediately became an advocate of Wright’s Usonian architecture style.
Kamrath became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1939 and was elected to fellowship in the institute in 1955, and at various times served in an adjunct capacity at the University of Oklahoma, The University of Texas, Texas A&M University and the University of Oregon. He was also a founder and served on the board of the Contemporary Arts Museum from 1948 to 1952.
A year ago, Rachel E. Winston joined the staff of the Benson Latin American Collection, taking on an entirely new post with the library as its Black Diaspora Archivist. The position is still one of few of its kind in the world, representing heightened attention in academia on diversity area studies, and a desire to collect the cultural history of an underserved population.
As African & African American Studies has joined the predominant fields at the university, the need for bibliographer support from the Libraries became increasingly clear. Winston’s work will involve enhancing existing resources at the Benson related to the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, but will also push her to work with campus faculty and researchers to develop new collections in support of scholarly currents.
“I think in our present moment, black scholarship and the term ‘Black Diaspora’ has gained a lot of prominence mainly because we’ve reached a point where it can’t be ignored anymore,” says Winston. “So, the presence of black people, the contributions of black people, the impact of black people and black labor in societies worldwide has been there, has happened, but has been erased, has been ignored, has been forgotten and has been left out — intentionally and unintentionally — and so I think we’ve reached a point where the silence has become loud. People see the gaps and see the voids and there’s been more of a concerted effort to address that and to fill it.”
Winston’s initial focus has been on the work of processing a large set of materials given to the university by Dr. Edmund W. Gordon and Dr. Susan Gordon, which arrived at the university around the same time she joined the Libraries. “Black intellectuals are underrepresented in archives. This project says that we value the contributions of Black intellectuals, professionals, and artists, and that we will promote their use. I can’t think of a better fit for our first Black diaspora collection.”
Through almost a century of collecting in Latin American, the Benson naturally amassed materials related to the Black Diaspora, but Winston’s presence will allow for the development of a more cohesive approach to building upon those existing resources and the research that has already sprung from them.
“I think as time goes on, we’ll begin to see Black Studies integrated much more throughout different disciplines. Black Studies itself will continue to be necessary. There’s such important work that’s being done. But I do think that the black presence throughout different disciplines will become more recognized and more commonplace. We’ll be able to really take the conversation further in a lot of places. It will be accepted, and we can go from there.”
Winston isn’t taking the work for granted. Taking on a nascent area of study that has been historically marginalized presents challenges in a variety of areas, including the development of a collections strategy, targeting and locating relevant materials and finding the financial support to build an archive.
The Black Diaspora archive recently received a boost in the form of an endowment provided by civic-minded Austinites Darrick and Chiquita Eugene. Their support will aid Winston at a time when budgets might not favor new initiatives, but she feels the significance of the task ahead of her.
“It’s hard work. It’s important work. But I foresee that the impact of black people and the contributions of black people will be much better known.”
Choreographer, dancer, artist and teacher Yacov Sharir recently donated his archive to the Fine Arts Library. Sharir moved to Austin in 1978 where he founded the American Deaf Dance Company and was hired on as faculty at UT shortly thereafter. He developed a dance program that has become a model for universities across the country, founding the university’s professional company-in-residence, the Sharir Dance Company, in 1982, which became Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks (SBDW) in 1998.
The lengthy project of processing the collection of materials from Sharir’s professional career required the persistence of graduate researcher Katie Van Winkle, an advanced degree candidate in the College of Fine Arts.
Van Winkle took time to answer some questions about the project and her impressions of the experience.
Tex Libris: How did you get involved in processing the Sharir archive?
Katie Van Winkle: I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Performance as Public Practice (PPP), a program in the Department of Theatre & Dance. When I began my studies in the fall 2013, a fellow PPP student named Cassidy Browning was working with Dr. Sharir as a research assistant. Cassidy moved on to dissertation work, and recommended me as a replacement, just as Beth Kerr (Theatre & Dance Librarian in the Fine Arts Library) and Dr. Sharir established the archive project.
I have found always physical and digital archives invaluable in my work both as a scholar and as an artist–but I have almost zero training in archival work. At UT, I participated in a one-day workshop with the American Theatre Archive Project (ATAP), and a theory-based course on “Archive and Ephemera.” Instead, I have some experience in inventing and implementing technological solutions for arts management: for example, as a Dramaturgy Fellow at Center Stage in Baltimore I developed an early prototype of the National New Play Network’s New Play Exchange (http://nnpn.org/programs/new-play-exchange) through a Dramaturgy-Driven Grant from the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.
What did the process consist of? What was the scope, and how much in terms of materials and types of materials were there?
KVW:The Sharir/Sharir+Bustamante Dance Collection is a gift archive from Dr. Sharir to UT’s Fine Arts Library. It consists of video documentation of many hundreds of dances between 1977 and 2015, as well as paper documentation (programs, photographs, press clippings, etc.) of the work of the American Deaf Dance Company, the Sharir Dance Company, and Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks. A large selection of this archive has been digitized by Anna Lamphear and Katie Thornton and other staff members of UT Libraries’ Preservation and Digitization Services. The digitized collection is hosted on Texas ScholarWorks.
This symposium celebrates the public launch of the first phase of the digitization process: the videos! The paper archive will be digitized in 2017 as phase two of the project.
Dr. Sharir’s office contained 671 individual video objects. Since the earliest was dated 1977, and the latest 2015, these objects embody four decades of video technology: U-matic (3/4″), VHS, Hi8, Betacam, Digital Video Cassette and Mini DV, DVD, and born-digital files stored only on hard drives: .mov and .mp4.
Some of these 671 objects were labeled with titles and dates and choreographers and other pertinent information; some were not labeled at all. Some of the objects documented multiple dances, some from multiple events with multiple choreographers or dance companies participating; others documented a single dance.
The major challenge we faced was how to balance efficiency and depth of coverage. We wanted to ensure that the digital collection represented as many unique dance works as possible, without wasting time digitizing duplicate tapes, but the inconsistency of visible information made this difficult. Also challenging: there was no way to tell if the physical object had degraded beyond use without playing/digitizing it at the PCL.
Here’s the sequence of my work:
In the fall of 2013, I created an inventory of most of the video items (we discovered more later on). I ordered the items chronologically (as far as possible), gave each a unique number (0001-0671), and made a spreadsheet detailing all “metadata” available at that point. Depending on the item, this could include: unique number, date, item format and brand, event title, individual dance titles, event type (rehearsal or performance), run time, dance companies, choreographers, venues and sites, videographers and their notes, performers, designers, musicians, composers, other collaborators, and notes.
Sharir and I then began selecting “batches” of video items to send to the PCL, 20 at a time. We prioritized based on questions like “how old is this tape?” (older objects got priority); “how significant is this event/dance?” (Dr. Sharir, of course, was the expert of this); and “have we digitized any version of this event/dance before?” (new/unique pieces got priority).
In January 2014, I delivered the first batch of 20 tapes to Anna and Katie in the PCL, where they worked their magic using lots of devices that I do not recognize or understand! I continued to deliver and pick up batches of tapes through the summer of 2016.
Anna and Katie digitized 398 video objects between January 2014 and September 2016. WOW.
After they uploaded each batch to the libraries server as .mp4 files, Dr. Sharir and I watched each digitized video. While he watched the dances closely, reminiscing about his fellow artists and considering the quality of the videography and lighting, I filled in the blanks of my spreadsheet, based sometimes on in-video credits and sometimes on Dr. Sharir’s recollections.
Once he watched the video through, Dr. Sharir decided whether or not to accession it into the digital collection. He based this decision on the significance of the dances represented, the quality of the video (for instance, some videos lacked audio, and some had degraded over time), and whether we had coverage of the event in the collection already. We generally chose to accession subsequent nights of the same dance program, a collection-level acknowledgement that live performance changes in every reiteration.
About halfway through the watching process, Dr. Sharir’s co-artistic director José Luis Bustamante delivered three crates filled with beautifully organized files of programs, press clippings, and season announcements. I am so grateful for this gift! Matched with Dr. Sharir’s files, it has allowed me to create a four-decade production history, and provide extensive credits and notes for almost every item in the digital collection.
Once an item is chosen for the digital collection, I upload its .mp4 file to TexasScholarWorks, and add in all its metadata. On TexasScholarWorks, UT folk and the general public alike can search and browse the collection, view streaming video, and download the videos to their own drives. Each video is protected by a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States).
I take the digitized tapes to Beth Kerr at FAL, and she adds them to the physical Sharir collection located in off-site storage. This physical collection contains all digitized video objects, whether accessioned or not into the digital collection. It also contains all the video objects we decided not to digitize (usually because they were clearly duplicates of something we already had accepted).
You worked closely with Dr. Sharir on this project; did he provide any impressions about the digitization/digital preservation of his work?
KVW: I don’t want to speak for Yacov, but I know he is tremendously grateful for the opportunity to share his work with the global public and with future generations. (He is also grateful to regain all that shelf space in his office!)
He has found great joy in “re-view”ing his choreography and dancing over the decades, and in responding again to the work of the many extraordinary artists he worked with and presented/produced here in Austin and elsewhere.
He shared many jokes and memories with me. Certainly the most poignant and somber touched on the lives of his artist colleagues who had died between the filming of the dance in the 1980s or 1990s, and the day we watched it again in 2015 or 2016. The Sharir Dance Company, like so many arts organizations, lost beloved members to the AIDS epidemic. We felt sometimes that we were watching ghosts dance.
How long did the project take?
KVW: 3 years and 2 months since I began my work as (part-time) archivist. (But the project isn’t done yet—we have phase 2 still to complete). Add in more time before that (I don’t know how much) for Beth and Yacov’s work getting the project up and running and funded.
Did you discover anything in the process that was either unexpected (either in the materials or cataloging), and can you reflect on the accomplishment and its value to the broader world?
KVW: My favorite moment in the inventory process was discovering a VHS tape with no labels except two sticky notes reading: “This is the one you’ve been waiting for. UNCUT UNRULY UNHOLY.”
Having never participated in a archival process of this scope, I had no idea just how much time this work takes. It’s a major undertaking.
Yacov is a treasure: of the dance world, of Austin and the UT faculty, of the Department of Theatre & Dance. His career has been hugely significant and influential, from his pioneering, inclusive work with Deaf and hearing dancers; to his artistic and production collaborations with artists like Merce Cunningham, Bill T. Jones, Deborah Hay, David Dorfman, Doug Varone, Margaret Jenkins, Tina Marsh, Allison Orr…the list goes on.
Documenting and preserving dance has always been difficult. Yacov’s work is perhaps particularly suited to a digital life because he was a pioneer of the integration of digital media and live performance, beginning in the early 1990s and continuing in his collaborations with dancers, musicians, computer programmers, and biomedical and wearable-tech engineers today. (Check out [3D Embodied] and AdMortuos for the most recent examples in the collection):
It has been a privilege—and a real pleasure—to help make this important piece of dance history available to the public. I grew up and discovered theatre and dance here in Austin, and I’m proud to contribute to the preservation of the city’s cultural history.


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An online textual commentary of the New Testament Gospels, authored and given free public access by Wieland Willker, has been added to the Resources page.
A portion of a paper I am writing concerns sacrifice and atonement, and so I’ve been reading a bit of Philo, Josephus, CD, and the DSS. I’d like to post portions of my assessments here in a mini series: Any treatment on atonement in ancient Judaism in communities who do not participate in the temple […]
Here’s an informational video about the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library.
The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library is now live and running online. Here’s an excerpt from the press release: The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) is very proud to present the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a free online digitized virtual library of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hundreds of manuscripts made up […]
This blog is dedicated to my musings on anything pertaining to Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity, in particular the Second Temple Period, from about 520 BCE – 70CE (Although, related topics dating just before the rebuilding of the second temple in c. 516 BCE and just after the temple’s destruction in 70 CE are fair game). Your insights, […]


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Traders, just like athletes, face tremendous pressure, stress, and expectations that would crush the ordinary, unprepared individual. The Trading Athlete utilizes sport psychology strategies to provide you with the knowledge, confidence, and discipline needed to succeed and profit in the sink-or-swim world of online trading.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower--and middle--class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren't talking.
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.
Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush.


The evolution of the home model from the past to the future
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Stories history of the universe on Decca ground is longer than human history. Humans first appeared on earth about three million years ago, during the Ice Age. In the whole history of the earth, and the period of the Ice Age is a geological age of the smaller and more compact, but human history, this period is the period that most parents. Ice Age period appeared about 10,000 to 3,000,000 years lalu.Cerita history of the universe on Decca ground is longer than human history. Humans first appeared on earth about three million years ago, during the Ice Age. In the whole history of the earth, and the period of the Ice Age is a geological age of the smaller and more compact, but human history, this period is the period that most parents. Ice Age period appeared about 10,000 years ago, to 3,000,000.
Natural conditions underlying human life in the Ice Age was characterized by a number of events have a very significant impact on human life on earth. These events include ice on a large scale to parts of the earth, climate change, down to sea level rise, and the emergence of land on the bottom surface of the sea, volcanic eruptions, raising the sinking of the rivers and lakes that are directly or tudak directly influenced the way human life (Djoened, and others 0.2008).
A series of natural events is a challenge that must be faced by human nature during the Ice Age, which ultimately led to the evolution of the physical form and mind. With a very limited capacity, and people are trying to maintain their living conditions with a different feeling to face the challenges of nature and attempts to find a meal with tools that are very simple.
Home is a basic need of every human life. It was one way to preserve human life Plestosen future at that time looking for a place to stay safe from natural challenges. The existence of homes in prehistoric times show that early human life, especially mammals, are already on the ground in a long period of time enough. Which includes the first early humans at that time is Caverns enough. Home form has changed from period to period due to changes and natural resources that exist in nature, so that takes the form of a home with corresponding to the needs of the environment (Thomas, Jesse, 2011). It can be concluded that the history of architecture in the period are not necessary in a stable society is still very traditional. But the history of architecture in terms of the study of real-time and a place where the current architecture is indispensable when people are exposed to a change in development.
Main forms in prehistoric stage
Known as the prehistoric period, as they were not familiar with writing. In this period it takes about 50,000 BC to 10,000. Pre several stages of the history of the Paleolithic period in which people at that time did not yet have a permanent residence, a Mesolitik period, which began a man to settle down around the edge of the river or on the beach to get food and water sources, and Neolithic where humans lived settlement and I have made of mud or wood home (McKay, Cog Hill, 1987). In the Old Stone Age, and there were no other forms of home heritage of human life in a stable manner. It was only during the Mesolithic caves found in the form of shelter, complete with drawings on the walls of caves, which indicates that in this time humans are familiar with the art. Neolithic then found a home that meets the standards like the house on the present, but with a very simple model, and continue to use wooden materials such as wall and leaves as its surface.
Fig. Has been built old house for nearly 10,252 years have been discovered on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland. (Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk)
It constitutes a major in classical period
Home in the form of the classical period was influenced significantly by the culture everywhere. Culture is the most famous Greek culture and ancient culture of Egypt, which is quite a lot of available buildings of historical heritage. Also found classical buildings in the Roman heritage in the country. At the time of this date it has been the establishment of large buildings. Based on ancient Greece is the basis of various forms of changes in the current shape of the building. During the Hellenistic period (323-30 BC), followed by the death of Alexander the Great, which unites Greece and expand the territory to the east, constitute the large buildings are still the Romanian region. In Romania buildings, using technology that is not found in the time of ancient Greece. This technology is also still in use today, a technique that cast concrete. Buildings that the Romans established not only to religion but also mundane.
Fig. In the form of a home classical period
The formation of the modern era home
House shape does not happen in the modern era on the spot, but the shape of this house where change occurs gradually eliminate the old values of home ornaments and replacing them with geometric motifs. House began to talk to that developed for more than half a century. Modern house has a view that modern home form it depends on the process of thinking, if not taste, as well as a game room and not the shape. History of advances in technology, building materials emerging technology that supports the modern types of housing, such as glass ornaments and other forms of support at home in the modern era. In addition, to achieve the speed of construction of the production of large quantities of construction materials, resulting in a modern residential able to overcome the barriers of culture and geography, so that the shape of the house at the present time are universal.
Fig. The formation of the modern era home
Forming a major coming days
Now days, the science building very rapidly along with the rapid advances in technology humans diciptekan. New technologies that support the process of building and development of human material for building materials discovery is also increasingly allows people to explore ideas, which in ancient times was not possible. But sometimes progress while ignoring the context of the natural environment surrounding them, and that is often a result of their own interests. Cut illegal tree of trees that carry modern equipment, and ground clearance of informal settlements with heavy and sophisticated equipment are an example of the use of technology is not in place. It can lead to disaster for humanity, such as floods and landslides. Therefore, it is necessary to address the technological advances more wisely.
The house is on the verge of a very important change, due to the factors of the home form of the environmental impact of such climate change and the depletion of natural resources in the world, it has become a major energy efficiency and an important factor in the person of home design. At present, in Europe, are being intensively implementing the principles of building homes with energy-saving. Building energy-saving movement continues to grow in Europe, and the efforts of individuals, communities and governments to organize and prepare the house of his generation (Thomas, Jesse, 2011).
Fig. A house in the future
Over the years, 6000, and technology in the building has evolved in line with the needs and desires of the population on natural resources account. But now the world is facing the problem, which exceeded the human needs to reduce capacity of the environment that keeps human life. Home at the present time it is completely climate-conditioning which can bring negative effects on human beings to change. So that will shape the development of the home, according to the needs of the factors and natural resources, the environment, and the principles of energy saving.
Thomas, Jesse, 2011. Year 6000 the evolution of the House of Representatives, and the movement of energy-saving construction in Europe. Evergreen State College.
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McKay, John P., Hill, D. Bennett, and gear, John, A History of the World Assembly, Volume I: The 1715 (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984).
The simple design of the house actually been around since the 1950s. In fact, Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe are two of the many architects who influence the color of simplicity (simplicity) is a great architecture in the dynamics of the minimum of the past yet.
Simplicity in painting known as art and sculpture minimum, ABC art, or cool art. Art minimum aircraft can be seen simply express the painter Frank Stella, "what you see is what you see."
Art flourished minimum in America in the 1960s as a reaction to the influx of expressive ABSTRAKT that dominated the art world in the 1950s. ABSTRAKT expressive displays of individual emotional value, while the minimum exposing universal values through the abstract and geometric shapes in the sports formation art.
And about 2000 new design minimum return home boom .. There is some idea of the home include a minimum style featuring architectural elements as necessary and as simple as possible yet still look stylish.
From the above understanding can be concluded some home properti minimum:
- Every meeting it will be seen side vertical field,
- Structure system neat,
- There are models rings,
- A multi-functional and sequential space,
- Construction of the size of the metric format,
In principle, the house minimum berdesign prefers prefers simplicity with the function of accuracy.
Note from the home of the minimum things is:
- The lack of Furniture / Furnishings,
- Clean the walls,
- Accent Decorasi,
- The quality not quantity,
Here are some examples of home interior and ekstrior minimal.


Elevating Interiors: A Discussion on Luxury Interior Design Services in Dubai (60 อ่าน)
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Luxury interior design services in Dubai epitomize a realm of sophistication, blending opulent aesthetics with seamless functionality. These bespoke services cater to discerning clients, crafting spaces that exude elegance and exclusivity. From sumptuous materials to exquisite detailing, designers in this niche redefine extravagance. This discussion embarks on a journey to explore the intricacies of luxury interior design, showcasing how these services elevate living spaces to unparalleled heights of refinement and grandeur.


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The Art of Silliness, that is what I thought I saw on a slender volume by Pico Iyer. I love his writing and I thought – how great, Iyer wrote a perfect book for the beach. On closer examination I saw the title was The Art of Stillness. I bought it anyway.
I connect Pico Iyer to travel writing and also to Buddhism. Although he is not a Buddhist he has written about travels with the Dalai Lama in ways that allow great insight into the teachings that allow the Dalai Lama to live a life devoted to happiness.
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
― Pico Iyer
In many ways I wish he would write The Art of Silliness, or somebody should. We need a silliness primer. Silliness may be an antidote to our present state of upset and darkness or it may be the best definition of our times. The synonyms can be seen to be BAD – but really… Childish – that may be the best way to deal with our childish leader, we need to be silly to ; simple, that would be a far better way to explain the damage being done by the current set of lawmakers, but they are still hiding; inappropriate, not being used to grown up language can be tricky for the Leader of the Free World.


A Poet loves his Ghazal as a father loves his son and when looks...
Meer Muhammad Taqi Meer (Urdu: مِیر تقی مِیرؔ—), whose takhallus (pen name) was Mir (Urdu: مِیرؔ—Mīr) (sometimes also spelt Meer Taqi Meer), was the leading Urdu poet of the 18th century, and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of the Delhi School of the Urdu ghazal. He is called the Shahanshaah of Urdu Ghazals. He lived in the in the Kucha Chelan in Darya Ganj in the old Delhi in 18th century. He met with Ghalib when Mirza Ghalib was young and had commented positive on the Poetic skills.
His father’s name was Meer Muttaqi. He was Sufi Saint. He believed in the goodness of life and highlighted the emotions, love, feelings and compassion in his life. He was a god fearing man. When he was on his death bed, he taught Meer “Adopt tha path of love”.
After his father’s death his, at the age of 11 years he was treated badly by his elder step brother (Hafiz Muhammd Hasan) and the people in whose care he had been left abandoned him. Meer moved to Delhi from Agra. Here Samsamudaula Khan gave him a scholarship of one rupee per day. But this did not continue for a long time. In 1739, Nadir Shah attacked Delhi and Samsamudaula was killed. At that time Meer was in Agra. After a few days, he again went to Delhi and stayed in the home of the maternal uncle of his step brother. Uncle’s name was Khan Arzoo. Muhammad Hasan wrote a letter to his uncle and Meer became homeless and jobless. In 1783, Meer came to Lucknow here Nawab Asafaddaula fixed him Rs200 a month stipend.
His early life experience and shortness of money changed his nature and in the peaceful atmosphere of Lucknow, he live a horriable life. He died in Lucknow on Friday, 21 September 1810.
Meer Taqi Meer and Mirza Ghalib:
Meer Taqi Meer was often compared to with Urdu poet Miza Ghalib. Mirza Ghalib once said about Meer Taqi Meer,
Reekhta ke tum hi ustaad nahi ho Ghalib,
Kehte hain agle zamane me koi aur Meer tha .
(You are not the only master of Urdu, Ghalib. They say there used to be a Meer in the past.)
Meer wrote all kinds of poetic forms: Ghazal, Masnavi, Rubai, Mustezaad, Satire, etc. His masnavi Mu’amlate-e-Ishq (The stage of Love) is one of the greatest love poems in Udu literature.
He started his study from his father's follower named Meer Amanullah. When he was 10 years old, his father died. After that year, his spirtual father also died. After then, he got his education from Meer Zafar Ali and then he got poetry language from Saadat Ali.
Nukat-us-Shura: He wrote biographical dictionary of Urdu poets in Persian language.
Faiz-e-Mir: He wrote collection of five stories about sufis and Faqirs, for education of his son Mir Faiz Ali.
Zikr-e-Mir: He wrote autobiography in Persian language.
Kulliyat-e-Mir: Collection of Urdu Poetry consisting of six diwans containing 13,585 couplets.
Kulliyat-e-Farsi: Collection of poems in Persian language.
Mir Taqi Mir
Mir Taqi Mir, selected Poetry.
Meer's masanvi(the stage of love):
kabhee ham unko, kabhee apane ghar ko dekhte haiN.


Here are a collection of courses to support learning in digital history.
Digital History is the flagship course. It is provides lessons and resources to cover major topics within Digital History. This course includes numerous student activities. A caveat is that the ability to complete such activities will depend on available technology, connectivity and some preexisting knowledge. Alternatively, the text of most of these courses can be downloaded and read offline or printed for those without internet connections or computers at home.
Although there is no perfect substitute for a capable , knowledgeable instructor, the Computer Skills for Research course can help students get some of the required basic knowledge.
Finally, there are several courses concerning programming languages. Ruby was chosen because it is easy to learn and mathematically robust. It is a good language for beginners, with lot of upward capability. Python is a workhorse engine with plenty of useful libraries for digital history. Perl is often the language of choice for text parsing, and frankly, history involves considerable text.


This is our second episode in our series on homelessness and housing. Today, Maddie and Nick talk about housing first initiatives as a way to end homelessness and improve peoples’ health.
How does employment impact well-being? What is the impact of housing on your health?
Join UBC medical student Maddie Elder and her co-host, UBC community engagement librarian Nick Ubels, for a new, conversational podcast where they explore current health research in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES).
The podcast is supported by the Making Research Accessible initiative (MRAi), whose goal is to increase the benefit, usefulness, and accessibility of research in the neighbourhood. For more, visit the DTES Research Access Portal at dtesresearchaccess.ubc.ca.
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Judith Ortiz Cofer
by Jordan Browning
Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico on February 24, 1952. She moved to New York when she was a little child and when she was fifteen she moved to Augusta, Georgia. She obtained a BA in English from Augusta College and later earned an MA in English from Florida Atlantic University. Although she is best known for her works of creative nonfiction, she began her writing career with poetry. In 2010, she was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. As of now, she teaches at the University of Georgia as the Regents’ and Franklin professor of English and Creative Writing.
"Judith Ortiz Cofer."
. Poetry Foundation. Web. 22 Jan. 2016.
1. My name mocks me
for I was born at the cost
of my mother’s life,
earning my father’s hatred
5. with my first breath.
All my life
I have scoured a house soiled
with the thick soot of his resentment.
It has left its mark on the walls,
10. in his eyes, and on me.
All of it I have tried to wipe away.
In my hands I hold a broom,
in my heart—
14. ashes, ashes.
In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s poem entitled Esperanza, it tells of a young lady who struggles with trying to obtain her father’s affection after she was the cause of her mother’s death. She feels his resentment for her and she wants for him to love her and not hold her mother’s death against her. My reaction to this poem was more sympathetic towards the girl. Her father hates her over something she could not control. It was not her intentions to be born into this word and take her mother’s life at the same time. That is what just so happened. This poem is on a very deep level. It shows in the metaphor used in the last three lines where she talks about the broom which represents how she wants to sweep away her problems but the ashes are within and cannot be swept away. The theme of the overall poem is that of the passing down of Esperanza’s mother’s sin, hatred, and a broken household. The tone of the overall poem is sad. The sad tone is covered throughout the whole poem but you can really tell when she writes how she was born at the cost of her mother’s life which earned her hatred from her father. I personally cannot relate to this poem because fortunately my mother did not die before or after having me. Unfortunately there are some readers who can really relate to this poem because they too might have killed their mothers while she was in labor or after. This poem reminds me a lot of Snow White, Star Wars, and Gossip Girl because a mother dies giving birth to their child. I think Gossip Girl relates just a little bit more because Chuck’s dad actually does resent him for his mother’s death. For the illustration to describe the poem I used one of a little girl who looks sad while she holds a broom. I picked this one because in the poem it says that she has tried to wipe away the soot of resentment with the broom she holds in her hands.
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. Poetry Foundation. Web. 22 Jan. 2016
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The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica
1. Presiding over a formica counter,
plastic Mother and Child magnetized
to the top of an ancient register,
the heady mix of smells from the open bins
5. of dried codfish, the green plantains
hanging in stalks like votive offerings,
she is the Patroness of Exiles,
a woman of no-age who was never pretty,
who spends her days selling canned memories
10. while listening to the Puerto Ricans complain
that it would be cheaper to fly to San Juan
than to buy a pound of Bustelo coffee here,
and to Cubans perfecting their speech
of a "glorious return" to Havana--where no one
15. has been allowed to die and nothing to change until then;
to Mexicans who pass through, talking lyrically
to be made in El Norte--
all wanting the comfort
of spoken Spanish, to gaze upon the family portrait
of her plain wide face, her ample bosom
20.resting on her plump arms, her look of maternal interest
as they speak to her and each other
of their dreams and their disillusions--
how she smiles understanding,
when they walk down the narrow aisles of her store
25. reading the labels of packages aloud, as if
they were the names of lost lovers;
, the stale candy of everyone's childhood.
She spends her days
jamón y queso
and wrapping it in wax paper
30. tied with string: plain ham and cheese
that would cost less at the A&P, but it would not satisfy
the hunger of the fragile old man lost in the folds
of his winter coat, who brings her lists of items
that he reads to her like poetry, or the others,
35. whose needs she must divine, conjuring up products
from places that now exist only in their hearts--
closed ports she must trade with.
Judith Ortiz Cofer’s poem entitled The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica is told from the point of view of a woman who works behind the counter of a deli while observing the many Spanish speaking people who come in to the shop to buy food and just sit down and talk. While watching all of these people she notices all of the things that they all have in common even though they all come from different Spanish speaking countries. The tone of the poem is that of being nostalgic about going back to where she was born and the cultures of the customers. She achieves her tone with the use of words such as ancient, exiles, lost lovers, stale, old man, and “places that now exist only in their hearts”. The theme of the poem is that of unity, even though these people all come from different parts of the world the fact that they are all in this one place where they can all speak the same language and they all have the same type of story of being immigrants in the United States which brings them all closer together. I can relate to this poem because this is how black people are. We all come from different countries and yet we all have many things in common. It really shows in some hashtags that can be found on twitter, for example #thanksgiving with black families and #black twitter. These hashtags bring a lot of black people together from all over the world together because we can all relate to what is being said in the tweets. The Deli shop in this poem also reminds me of barbershops and beauty shops for black people. They are a place where you can go and connect with people you have never even met before just like the deli shop. For my picture I picked one of an actual deli shop because that is the place that brings people from all over together in this poem.
"Judith Cofer Ortiz: "The Latin American Deli: An Ars Poetica""
Judith Cofer Ortiz: "The Latin American Deli: An Ars Poetica"
Web. 22 Jan. 2016.
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1. My dolls have been put away like dead
children in a chest I will carry
with me when I marry.
I reach under my skirt to feel
5. a satin slip bought for this day. It is soft
as the inside of my thighs. My hair
has been nailed back with my mother’s
black hairpins to my skull. Her hands
stretched my eyes open as she twisted
10. braids into a tight circle at the nape
of my neck. I am to wash my own clothes
and sheets from this day on, as if
the fluids of my body were poison, as if
the little trickle of blood I believe
15. travels from my heart to the world were
shameful. Is not the blood of saints and
men in battle beautiful? Do Christ’s hands
not bleed into your eyes from His cross?
At night I hear myself growing and wake
20. to find my hands drifting of their own will
to soothe skin stretched tight
over my bones,
I am wound like the guts of a clock,
waiting for each hour to release me.
Judith Ortiz Cofer’s poem Quincenañera is told by a Hispanic girl who is going through the ritual of becoming a woman on her fifteen birthday. She must put away her toys and accept the tasks that women are required to do now. The tone of the overall poem is that of being unhappy. The girl in the poem feels as if she is not ready to grow up yet. She does not want the responsibilities that come when she transitions into being a woman. She still wants to be a child. Cofer achieves the tone of this poem when she uses dark words to describe the objects around her. For example, when she describes putting away her dolls like dead children and when she describes her mother pinning her hair back with black hairpins and describes the process as it being nailed to her head. The theme of the poem is that of growing up but not necessarily wanting to. The narrator does not understand why she must now wash her own clothes and sheets as if the menstrual cycle she has every month is toxic but the blood that men shed in battle is not. I can’t really relate to this poem because I am not Hispanic and have never had a quincenañera before. However, I have been to one and I know that a quincenañera is supposed to be a joyous occasion. It is a celebration of a girl who is coming of age and finally being accepted in this world as a woman. During this celebration the girl transitions from flats to heels signify the end of her transition. I do, however, relate to the narrator still wanting to be a child. I understand how she feels about growing up and having to do things on her own now. For my picture, I found one with a girl who appeared to be sad while in a big dress like one that is usually worn for a quincenañera.
Allen, Austin. "Quincenañera."
. Poetry Foundation. Web. 04 Feb. 2016.
"Quinceanera - Google Search."
Quinceanera - Google Search
. Web. 04 Feb. 2016.
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1. As a young girl
vying for my father's attention,
I invented a game that made him look up
from his reading and shake his head
5. as if both baffled and amused.
In my brother's closet, I'd change
into his dungarees -- the rough material
molding me into boy shape; hide
my long hair under an army helmet
10. he'd been given by Father, and emerge
transformed into the legendary Ché
of grown-up talk.
Strutting around the room,
I'd tell of life in the mountains,
15. of carnage and rivers of blood,
and of manly feasts with rum and music
to celebrate victories para la libertad.
He would listen with a smile
to my tales of battles and brotherhood
20. until Mother called us to dinner.
She was not amused
by my transformations, sternly forbidding me
from sitting down with them as a man.
She'd order me back to the dark cubicle
25. that smelled of adventure, to shed
my costume, to braid my hair furiously
with blind hands, and to return invisible,
to the real world of her kitchen.
In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s poem “The Changeling” a young girl tells of how she dresses up and pretends to be a legendary war hero and tells stories to obtain her father’s attention but when she goes to join the dinner table her mother makes her change back into her regular clothes which make her feel invisible. The overall tone of the poem is kind of sad. The young girl has to dress up like a man just to get her father to pay attention and while he thinks it is charming, however, her mother does not find it charming because she believes that since she is a girl she should look like one and not like a boy. Cofer achieves the tone mostly when she writes about how she has to braid her hair furiously and then return to the table invisible as herself to the real world of her mother. The theme of the poem is that of her rebelling against gender norms. It show through as the whole poem is about the girl changing her appearance. I can kind of relate to this poem and at the same time. For me, I never had to dress up to get my dad’s attention. I did however when I was little dressed up in my mom’s old army uniform because it was fun and I could pretend that I could be this totally awesome crime fighter. It was fun to pretend to be a boy because boys get to play in dirt and climb things while girls are taught to play with brooms, vacuums, and play kitchens. For me it was not about challenging gender norms although it probably had a lot to do with how tomboyish I am now. Also my mother kind of encouraged my dressing up as a boy. For my picture I decided to use one of a little girl who looked happy while dressed up in an army uniform. I felt this picture really went well with the poem because this is exactly what the little girl in the poem does.
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Queen Elizabeth in the Garden: A Story of Love, Rivalry, and Spectacular Gardens by Trea Martyn.
How Robert Dudley and William Cecil competed for the favor of Elizabeth I by laying out extravagant gardens at their palaces.
A collection of prayers and other religious works translated into English by the daughters of King Henry VIII.
The Language of Queen Elizabeth I: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity by Mel Evans.
Sir Walter Raleigh: In Life & Legend by Mark Nicholls and Penry Williams.
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If you have been following my posts you will recall that after the catastrophic war with the Iroquois in 1649 the remnants of the Huron, Petun and Neutrals who had not converted to Christianity made their way to Michilimackinac to live near the Ottawa. There they became know as the Wyandotte, a corruption of the what the Huron called themselves, Ouendat. The Jesuits cut back their mission work in North America to mainly Lower Canada, but did keep a presence at Michilimackinac and Illinois as well as Michigan. They also set up a mission called The Mission of l’assomption Among the Huron at Detroit which, for nearly forty years bore nor fruit.
Father Armand de la Richardie arrived at Detroit in 1728 and labored among the Wyandotte for many years with no conversions. He finally gained one convert, an old Wyandotte chief named Hoosien. His family quickly followed but it wasn’t long after his conversion that he died. Thinking that after the old chief had gone his family would quickly revert to their traditional beliefs Father Richardie, who was in ill-health, thought of giving up and returning to Quebec. To his surprise his mission kept growing and within 3 years of the death of his first convert all the Detroit Wyandotte had embraced Roman Catholicism.
In 1738 the Wyandotte and the Ottawa of Detroit had a falling out. The Jesuits thought the Ottawa were ‘more brutal and superstitious’ than the Wyandotte. Sastaretsy, the title of the principle Wyandotte chief, sent word to the Governor General as well as to their brothers, the Iroquois of Sault St. Louis or Caughnawaga and the Huron of Lorette near Quebec City. He reported that the Ottawa had raised the hatchet to them and had asked the other Algonquian speaking nations there to joined them in exterminating them. This of course would be referring to the Sauteux Ojibwa, Potawatomi and Mississauga.
The Governor General sent presents to them asking, through the Commandant of Detroit Monsieur de Noyelle to settle the peace and keep the Wyandotte at Detroit. The Wyandotte agreed to heed the Governor but said at the first alarm they would either go to the Seneca or else beyond the Belle Riviere. This was the name the French had given to the Ohio River.
That winter the First Nations of Detroit lived in apprehension of each other. The Wyandotte wintered in the interior which was not their custom to do so. In the spring the principle chief or the Wyandotte, Orontony, whose baptismal name was Nicolas, sent branches of porcelain to the Governor begging him to allow the Detroit Wyandotte to move to Quebec. They asked for a tract of land near him to settle on and a French officer to escort them as protection from attack.
Meanwhile, they made peace with the Flathead to the south. This was a nation that continuously skirmished with the Nations of Detroit. They made threats to move south among them but reconsidered after receiving harsh words from Entatsogo, chief of the Sault. Now they begged the Governor to forgive them for not sending their elders to Montreal as asked to do so because they were alarmed by the Praying Indians of Sault St. Louis. They also sent word to the Governor that it was not the custom of the Wyandotte to ask for protection or asylum but that it was the duty of one who had compassion on them to come and console them or to lead them to a new place where they would be safe.
In June of that year Father Richardie wrote to the governor that he had done all he could to influence their minds but they would not let go of their fears and apprehensions. They had been talking to both the English and their allies the Iroquois of Upstate New York and that those two nations had been taking advantage of the Wyandotte’s alarm and trying to induce them toward their side. The Father suggested the Governor allow the move to Quebec and even send his nephew to escort them rather than see his charges go over to the other side. The good Father stated that if the move was made the Wyandotte would not be missed at Detroit because their were some Sauteaux Ojibwa from the St. Clair willing to move to Detroit to take their place not to mention the Shawanee.
NEXT WEEK: More Upheaval at Detroit!


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It is wonderful to see community members “buy-into” one of our programs. I heard of the idea of a community book exchange from some summer interns working at Liberty Grace Church. I got out a small book shelf and stuck in a few books lying around. When I remembered, I announced that people could borrow a book and encouraged people to drop off any extra books they have read. Some church people brought religious and children’s books and a few of them were borrowed. But the book exchange never seemed to get a lot of attention. I began speaking to some community members one on one. Then last week two community members each brought in a huge box of books. The shelves were now overflowing. And community members started coming to see what it was all about. Yesterday I had a number of people ask if they could borrow two books.
It’s when community members adopt an idea that it has an impact.


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LANCE CORPORAL W. J. (Bill) ELLIS.
KILLED ACTION 19-12-1952.
Bill Ellis had all the qualifications to be a member of the Returned and Services League, but he never had the opportunity to join the Sub-Branch, for he was killed in action in Korea. Bill’s is a typical story of popular and dynamic young fellows meeting their death, not always because of loyalty to the Nation, but because of economic times, responsibility to the family and the will to succeed. Whenever the chips came down these fellows were loyal to the cause, the Nation, their fellow servicemen, no matter whether in Darwin, New Guinea, Korea or anywhere. It touches on the responsibility, too, that the Army accepted for the sustenance of his widow and daughter, and that Legacy contributed in a small way, to the education of his daughter. More dramatically it touches on the catastrophic effect of his daughter’s deep suspicion for nigh on forty years that her father in some way had abandoned both her mother and her, by volunteering for service in a War Zone.
Bill’s father Charles, a WW1 veteran of the ANZACS in Gallipoli. He migrated to Western Australia, left the South West Group Settlement Scheme and took his wife Ruby and family to Harvey, where Bill was born. A neighbour, Kitty Smith, then an eight year old girl, had a real doll to nurse. That is how, over the years, a strong friendship with Kitty, later Mrs Ted King, prospered. We find Charles a loyal member of the Harvey RSL Sub-Branch, attending all Anzac Services. At the age of fourteen years, Bill, a well-developed and handsome lad, with a keen sense of humour, was a very capable boxer. Some local Harvey people organised a boxing bout with a visiting 21 year old English sailor, and Bill ably quitted himself. A few years later Bill’s family came to North Beach.
Bill married a North Beach girl, Daphne Sabine, who lived in Ada Street. During 1950 his daughter Caryl was born. With some members of his family he participated in a carrying business. The Metal Trades strike of that era had a profound impact on their business. Money was short, and it appears that Bill was very conscious of his obligation to wife and daughter. He had to get a •job and the Army had vacancies. Bill enlisted, but initially not for overseas service.
The History books state that the troops for Korea were mainly selected from the 65th, 66th and 67th Battalions, part of the Occupational Forces in Japan. Out of that body the Royal Australian Regiment, comprising the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions, was formed, the honour of ‘Royal’ being bestowed on the 22-11-48, the celebrated birth date of the Regiment. Bill was told by an old timers’ who had served overseas in World War Two that he would not get very far in the Australian Army unless he experienced overseas service. He therefore volunteered for duties in Korea and joined the 1st Battalion.
Bill posted a parcel to Kitty King’s mother, Mrs Smith, of Harvey, on the 9th December 1952, for that is the post mark date on the neatly sewn calico parcel that your editor clearly witnessed. It contained a photo Album, obviously purchased in Korea, as a Christmas present for Mrs Smith. Ten days after mailing the parcel, on the 19th December 1952, whilst on night patrol duties in Korea, acting as Sergeant, leading his section, Bill stepped on a land mine. Apparently, he knew that he had tripped the mechanism of the mine, for he stood still whilst he called a warning to his men, who dived for cover. (The anti-personnel land mines as used at that time were s armed’ by a person standing on them, causing the mechanism to make a ‘click’ noise. They exploded as soon as the weight was released. Ed).
Bill’s death is recorded in the book “Australia in the Korean War “(* see hereunder). It is recorded that when a patrol commanded by Lt Boyd, who appears to be O/C No 10 platoon, accidentally entered a mine-field at the foot of Hill 227 (Fanny Hill). Bill, the Forward Scout, was killed and that Boyd and Pte Cupitt were wounded. They were eventually rescued by their Sgt Corcoran, (later Premier of S.A.) organising a squad. After forty one years it is difficult to find and interview any of the troops that were with him at that tragic night. That he called a warning to his men and the circumstances of his death was related by a stranger to Kitty and Ted King, of Harvey, at a dance, some years ago. Efforts have been instituted to contact some of his associates on that dangerous mission. (See Can You Help, West Australian 3-7-93). Ron Cross, a close fellow serviceman friend, stated that Bill had a premonition that he would not return, whilst his brother Don felt that Bill had a feeling that nothing would go wrong with him.
The Christmas parcel arrived at the Smith household the day after the news of Bill’s death. After opening the parcel Mrs Smith informed her daughter Kitty that the album should be put away and given to Billy’s baby daughter as soon as they met her. That meeting did not take place for forty years, by which time Mrs Smith had died. Kitty, long married to Ted King, was an elderly lady herself, but still holding on to the parcel.
When Daphne went along to claim a War Widow’s pension at the appropriate office there was some confusion, for apparently there were not many Western Australians with dependents meeting their deaths in the services at that phase of time. Bill had also taken out an insurance policy, the small print showing some confusing words to the effect that death must occur more than twelve months after enlisting or being posted. The family were only able to collect, because more than twelve months had elapsed from the date of Bill’s enlistment due to him being unfit to leave Fremantle with his original posting, and not having commenced his tour of duty until the next round of departures from Sydney.
Caryl did not know her father. Over the years she created the belief that Bill had abandoned his wife and her. As she went through her teen-age years, often shorter of money than many of her fellow scholars, and struggling to gain a University Degree, she alternated between feelings of rage at her father and self-pity at having been so hardly done by. Legacy contributed what help it could and the Defence Department, because of her academic progress, extended its support through to Post Graduate Studies.
The economic years in which Caryl was maturing saw much development in Western Australia. The development of the Oil Refinery, followed by the discovery of the massive deposits of iron ore and the great reserves of natural gas, brought much wealth to many people. Young maturing people throughout the affluent sixties and seventies did not realise just what slumps meant to families and the community. Caryl did not consider the fact that Bill, with possibly some creditors, had seen the Army as an avenue in which he could get financial relief and support for his family. His case was typical of many men of the 1939 era, initially joining the Army for financial relief, but never flinching in the service of the Nation.
Daphne had moved to the country and remarried. Throughout most of those forty years Caryl chose, quite deliberately, to have no contact with Bill’s brothers, Don and Gerry, and their families. In 1992, backed by support and caring from members of the Centre for Attitudinal Healing, Caryl came to finally understand that the only person being punished by her anger at Bill’s death, and apparent ‘abandonment’, was herself. She then contacted her Uncle Don, who took her to Harvey to meet the Kings. They put her in touch with people who had known and loved Bill during his childhood and had been close friends of her Grandparents whom she had never known.
The laughter and the stories told by the Kings in 1992, finally convinced Caryl that her father was a man who loved life, his wife and his daughter and who had simply made the best choices that he knew to take care of them all.
It was with a deep sense of love and respect for the man, her father, Lance Corporal W.J.Ellis, 5/1677, that Caryl has approached the North Beach Sub-Branch for some memorial to him.
The two Remembrance Rocks placed at the front of the Elected Members section of the City of Stirling Council Chambers make no reference to the Korean War. Members of the Korea and South East Asia Forces Association refer to the Korean War as ‘The Forgotten War’. One caller has advised that there is a Korean War memorial in Melville. Many of Bill and Caryl’s relatives live in the North Beach and adjacent areas. May this epistle stimulate some interest in the community so that the troops who served in Korea, ever loyal to this Nation, to their fellow soldiers and service personnel, to their families and the community in general, are suitably recognised.
The Korean War, being a United Nations War, saw the Australian soldiers not a part of an Australian Force acting with the Australian Air Force and Navy, but as individual small components attached to the much larger forces of Britain and the United States. Yet the Australian Army suffered 277 fatalities and 1210 wounded. Combat casualties were also suffered by the Navy (2f 28w) and the Air Force (280, but the total number serving has been difficult to ascertain because of the nature of their operations and allocations. Perhaps this is the reason that not a lot of the general public goodwill has emerged for these fine servicemen.
*”Australia in the Korean War 1950-53″ by Dr R. O’Neill, Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. The volume mentions the difficulty of obtaining the intimate facts, for at that phase of time, inter alia, Australia did not have its own set of War Diaries as the Australian Regiment was under the jurisdiction of the British Commonwealth Brigade and the records are in the British Ministry of Defence.(see p. 751).


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Book Jacket Design as Art
Graphic Design 224: Form + Content | Instructor: Meta Newhouse, Associate Professor, Graphic Design
The book jackets currently displayed are the product of a course focused on pairing typography and image to express conceptual thinking. The project "The New York Times Non-Fiction Book Bestseller Book Jacket" gives students an opportunity to read about a topic and reinterpret that reading into book jacket form. The students were encouraged to consider characters in the stories, storyline, and relevant surprises and twists. Students were assigned via a lottery system, and given four weeks to produce the jacket. The books displayed belong to the individaul artists, and not part of the MSU Library collection.
One Book One Bozeman
One Book One Bozeman, "a community-wide read program designed to encourage engaged discussion and literacy through the reading of a common book." In 2017, the featured book was Speak by Louisa Hall, which interrogates themes of human communication. Glimpse various tools of human communication from different eras, ranging from a rotary phone to one of the first Apple laptops. One Book One Bozeman is sponsored by the Bozeman Public Library, the Country Bookshelf, and MSU Library.
Banned Books Week 2017
This year we celebrated our freedom to read during the national Banned Books Week. Our display housed information about why books are banned or challenged, as well as historical accounts of book burnings in the United States. We also had a "Banned Books Selfie Station" where patrons were encouraged to snap a selfie with whichever banned book they were caught reading!
The Divide War: 113 Years of Cat-Griz Rivalry
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"The Divide War: 113 Years of Cat-Griz Rivalry" is on display in the MSU Library display case in the main lobby.
This display chronicled the spirited history of the Cat/Griz rivalry. It showcased
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historical photographs from football programs and team photos dating back to the beginning
of the rivalry in 1897. The display took viewers through the first matchup, the Butte
years, and up to this year's Brawl of the Wild.
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