By Tierney Gleason, Reference and Digital Humanities Librarian, and Jeannie Hoag, Reference and Assessment Librarian In recognition of Open Access Week 2020, we’re giving a shoutout to Open Educational Resources, or OER. For faculty, these open digital resources can help ease the stress of developing online course content from scratch. …
The Fordham University Libraries invite faculty members and instructors to join us for a new series of Zoom webinars about copyright issues, as they pertain to teaching both in-person and online classes. There will be six sessions between Monday, September 14th, 2020 and Monday, November 16th, 2020. The presenters will …
By Robyn Ayers, Circulation Support Staff, Quinn Library In the first post of this Queering the Quarantine series, we wandered around what Pride month might look like with the restrictions of social distancing, both within the Fordham community and beyond. In the second post, we explained what Fordham Libraries has …
By Robyn Ayers, Circulation Support Staff, Quinn Library How many times have you walked on to campus and casually passed the banner reading “New York is my campus, Fordham is my school”? It’s habitual for so many of us, but the environment of this pandemic has highlighted just how true …
By Tierney Gleason, Reference and Digital Humanities Librarian Wednesday, April 29th is the Day of DH 2020, an initiative led by centerNet where people working on digital humanities (DH) projects share their work with an international community through tweets and blog posts. What is “digital humanities” you might ask? While …
By Evan Frankl, Reference Librarian, Fordham Westchester Campus Do you remember studying poetry in High School? Loved it? Hated it? Vaguely remember “Poem-in-Your-Pocket” Day? Here is your chance to live, or re-live poetry, as the Academy of American Poets presents National Poetry Month in April (now in its 24th year). …
By Laura Childs (Emerging Technologies Librarian) and Mariah Lewis (Metadata Management Librarian) Copyright is confusing. With so many complicated, often archaic rules, it can be difficult to definitively answer copyright questions that you encounter in academia. But did you know that Fordham faculty members can get help with copyright at …
By Laura Childs and Mariah Lewis On Tuesday, September 24th, 2019, Fordham’s Walsh Library hosted a workshop entitled, “Introduction to Data Curation in the Humanities.” Led by Tierney Gleason, Reference and Digital Humanities Librarian, data curation is a term that encompasses how scholars in the humanities collect, arrange, and document …
You’ve probably seen its famous façade or remarkable reading room in films like Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Maybe you pass by your local branch on your commute. But have you been to the New York Public Library yet? And did you know that all Fordham students and employees are eligible to …
On February 11, 2019, the First Annual Library Associates Lecture was held at Fordham University’s Walsh Library in partnership with the Center for Medieval Studies. We welcomed Dr. William P. Stoneman, Curator Emeritus of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Houghton Library of Harvard University. Titled “Fordham University Library’s MS …
