Dear Colleagues,
Happy New Year!
Just a quick reminder that our
annual meeting will be held
Tuesday, January 5, 2021, 12:00 - 2:00 pm CST. The
agenda is a google document and has links to the zoom session and the draft of the 2020 minutes, which we need to vote on to approve. Please take a moment to confirm that you can open the agenda.
You do NOT need to register with us or the SCS or AIA to attend the FCLSC annual meeting this year. Indeed,
I encourage all of you to take advantage of this to spread the word to invite colleagues to either the whole meeting or just the second half,
as it is likely to be of interest to librarians and humanists beyond ancient studies.
Discussion: The New Normal for Academic Libraries in a Post-Pandemic World (1:00-2:00pm CST)
Presentation by Barbara Rockenbach, University Librarian, Yale University
Response by Simon Neame, Dean of Libraries, UMass Amherst
Barbara Rockenbach will present her view of what lasting changes to academic and research libraries will follow in the wake of the pandemic experience in higher education, with a special focus on the humanities and comparatively small fields, like classics
and archaeology. Simon Neame will respond with comments and reflections as to the future of academic libraries at public institutions in a post-pandemic world. The presentations will be followed by Q & A with the presenters.
Please also remember that we will be voting for officers in the business meeting
portion of the meeting and that you should all have brief statements from the nominees. If anyone would like to see those statements, please let me know: I would be happy to send them again.
Finally, as always, if anyone would like to write posts for our blog, please let me or Rebecca know: would love to host guest posts!
I will be posting various announcements on twitter if you prefer that mode of communication at @classics_libs
Best wishes on a happy and productive 2021!
David and Rebecca
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David M. Ratzan, PhD
Head, ISAW Library
New York University
15 East 84th St.
New York, NY 10028
212-992-7832
ORCID 0000-0002-3047-5635
D. M. Ratzan (2020), "Teaching Information Literacy in the Digital Ancient Mediterranean Classroom," in S. Heath, ed.,
Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean
(Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota): 31-70.
http://thedigitalpress.org/datam
Recent publications from ISAW and the NYU Press:
ISAW Papers:
Roger S. Bagnall (2020). "Shenoute's Name."
ISAW Papers 19. <
http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/19/>. DOI:
2333.1/05qfv49m
Franziska Naether, ed. (2020).
Cult Practices in Ancient Literatures: Egyptian, Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Narratives in a Cross-Cultural Perspective. Proceedings of a Workshop at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York,
May 16-17, 2016, ISAW Papers 18. <
http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/18/>. DOI:
2333.1/5dv41zmf