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Dear ARLIS/NA colleagues,

 

I have permission from my UCLA Library Special Collections colleague Jillian Cuellar to forward this message to you. Please direct any questions about this event directly to Jillian.

 

Best wishes,

 

 

 

Hi again,

 

Many of you have asked how the tag-a-thon for yellowback novels from LSC turned out, so I thought I’d provide an update. I am very pleased to report that it was a rousing success! There were approximately 65 attendees, mostly a mix of English graduate students and faculty. In the 90 minutes of active tagging, the Flickr site received approximately 49,527 views of the digitized images and all images now have at least a couple of tags each. There are 2,173 digitized covers up, of which approximately 1,100 are from the Sadleir Collection in UCLA Library Special Collections (the rest are part of Emory University’s holdings). You can see the full Flickr collection here:

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbacks/

 

Each image from UCLA’s holdings has a link to the Library catalog so that users can go directly to our catalog record and request the book to view in LSC’s reading room.

 

Overall, this was a wonderful opportunity to bring students and faculty into the Library and into contact with our collections in both digital and physical form. A very warm thank you to Octavio Olvera, Dawn Setzer, and Suzy Lee for all of the work they put into making this event successful!

 

Best,

Jillian

 

 

 

 

Dear colleagues,

 

A reminder: please join us tomorrow for this special interactive event! For a sneak preview of a few of the yellowback covers, please see here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbacks

 

 

 

 

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Ellen Truxaw, PhD candidate in English and current scholar in the Center for Primary Research and Training, will be leading a Flickr tag-a-thon to highlight “yellowback” novels from LSC’s Michael Sadleir Collection of 19^th Century Fiction. Sadleir was a British book collector who amassed an extensive collection of 19^th century British literature during his lifetime. The collection includes over a thousand “yellowbacks,” popular novels from the Victorian era, most of which have covers with rich color illustrations laid over a yellow background.

 

For three quarters, Ellen has been working in the CFPRT with two undergraduate students, Gloria Zhang and Angela Kim, to digitize and create metadata that describes the novels and their cover art. Ellen is also conducting in-depth research to provide detailed description of the novels’ contents and convey their historical significance in the Victorian era. The team has been posting the images and their descriptions to Flickr in order to promote wider public discovery. They have completed digitization and description of over 1,000 books so far!

 

On October 27 from 12-2pm in YRL’s main conference room, Ellen will discuss her work and then lead a group tag-a-thon of the digitized “yellowback” covers. No prior experience necessary, but please bring a laptop if you have one. Feel free to forward this to others who may find it of interest.

 

Special thanks to English professor Dr. Jonathan Grossman for conceiving of and spearheading this project!

 

 

Please let me know if you have any questions. Hope to see you there!

 

Jillian

 

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Jillian Cuellar

Head, Center for Primary Research & Training and Digital Initiatives

UCLA Library Special Collections

A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA  90095-1575

310.206.3266

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