Library Circulation Histories Workshop

FAIN: HAA-266457-19

Ball State University (Muncie, IN 47306-1022)
James John Connolly (Project Director: January 2019 to June 2022)

A workshop on Library Circulation Histories to be hosted by Ball State University's Center for Middletown Studies. The workshop will bring together representatives from eleven library and reading history digital projects along with additional scholars and digital humanities developers to investigate making historical library circulation data more accessible for humanities research.

Ball State University's (BSU) Center for Middletown Studies, in conjunction with BSU's Digital Scholarship Lab, seeks a Level I Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to support the Library Circulation Histories Workshop, to be held March 6-7, 2020. The project period will run from September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2020. The aim of the Workshop is to make historical library circulation data more accessible and more analytically powerful. The Workshop assembles scholars and developers representing eleven (or more) library and reading history projects to share insights and develop new strategies or increasing the value for these already powerful research tools. Topics addressed will include the use of computational text analysis, network analysis, ethical issues, and data aggregation. The Workshop will result in published articles in a special issue/section of one or more journals, an online video recording of the conference, and a white paper on best practices.

Associated Products

Library Circulation Histories Workshop (and website) (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Library Circulation Histories Workshop (and website)
Author: James J. Connolly
Abstract: The Library Circulation Histories Workshop featured presentations and comments by 25 scholars engaged or interested in research that employs historical circulation data from libraries. It included scholars from the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia. Presenters discussed projects examining library use and reading in the U.S., U.K., and Australia and covering the period from the 18th century to the recent past.
Date Range: April 19-May 1, 2021.
Location: Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA
Primary URL: https://lchw.bsudsl.org/
Primary URL Description: Library Circulation Histories Workshop website, including video presentations and discussion.
Secondary URL: https://lib.bsu.edu/wmr/
Secondary URL Description: The What Middletown Read database.

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