We are pleased to share that the Fordham Museum has been featured in the April 2021 edition of Connections, published by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU). Written by Curator of University Art Jennifer Udell, Ph.D., the article explores a new student-curated exhibit, “Facing the Past: Reexamining the Modern History of Objects in the Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art.”
April 29th is the Day of DH 2021, where digital humanities (DH) practitioners share their work with a global community through social media and blog posts. This year’s theme is “multilingual DH.” In this post, we highlight the library’s Italian Pamphlet Digital Collection and share a selection of tools to help with multilingual DH projects.
Citizen science projects are a great way to introduce new students to research and the scientific process, as well as gather community support for and increase engagement with research. They’re also a great way to move forward with your own research! Take a look at a few examples of citizen science below to see what they’re all about.
Welcome to Your Library Happy National Library Week! Every year in April, library workers across the country take part in this celebration of libraries, our patrons, and our communities. This year’s theme is “Welcome to Your Library,” highlighting the ways that libraries extend beyond the walls of a building to …
In celebration of Women’s History Month, this post provides a selection of online data tools along with resources exploring the gender data gap. These tools can be helpful for students in social sciences, humanitarian studies, journalism, business, health sciences, computer science, etc.
Fair Use Week is an annual celebration of the doctrines of fair use in the U.S. and fair dealing in Canada. These are limitations to copyright law that, under certain circumstances, allow people to use copyrighted works without permission from the owner. But why does that matter?
The Fordham University Library’s copyright webinar series is back after a successful first run in Fall 2020! Throughout the Spring 2021 semester, we will again be offering a series of webinars about copyright issues that faculty and students often face – with a few changes to the program. There will …
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 …
