Monthly Archives: July 2014
Exporting the Chinese urban model to Africa
According to research of the Go West Project (Shanghai-based architect Daan Roggeveen and Amsterdam-based journalist Michiel Hulshof): More and more Chinese-made buildings, infrastructure, and urban districts are sprouting up across Africa, and this development is changing the face of the continent’s cities. Read more in Justin Zhuang’s July 8, 2014 at Metropolis Magazine. With thanks to @ProfCaraJones
Preserving African history photos
Through the collaborative efforts of organizations committed to raising awareness of the value and significance of photography in Africa, Debra Hess Norris, chair of the University of Delaware‘s Department of Art Conservation, helped create “Preservation of Photography Patrimonial in Africa (3PA): West African Image Lab,“ a four-day workshop held at the end of April in Benin, […]
Wikipedia Library
Help is available if you would like to improve the content in Wikipedia: the Wikipedia Library helps editors access reliable sources to improve Wikipedia. I am hopeful that African related content will be improved by students and scholars who participate. Libraries are a great place to bring the community together and offer this kind of […]
Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War
Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War, a book by Sharon Alane Abramowitz, is now available in cloth via http://www.Amazon.com and in cloth or ebook formats via the U Penn Press. At the end of Liberia’s thirteen-year civil war, the devastated population struggled to rebuild their country and come to terms with their […]
Archiving posts Google forced to obscure in EU countries
From Sophos Naked Security comes this July 16, 2014 article by Lisa Vaas titled: “‘Hidden from Google’ site remembers the pages Google’s forced to forget.” So European Union courts have forced Google to forget certain people’s irrelevant or outdated online histories. Within days of the court order going into effect, EU citizens were mobbing Google with […]
Obituary for Nadine Gordimer
From Helen T. Verongos published in the New York Times on July 14, comes this obituary for the South African writer Nadine Gordimer who died at 90 on Sunday, July 13th, 2014. She never wrote an autobiography. “Autobiography,” she said in 1963, “can’t be written until one is old, can’t hurt anyone’s feelings, can’t be sued for libel, […]
Fraudulent academic peer review and citation ring busted
From the Retraction Watch blog: SAGE Publications busts “peer review and citation ring.” SAGE Publishers is retracting 60 articles from the Journal of Vibration and Control after an investigation revealed a “peer review and citation ring” involving a professor in Taiwan. Wow: sixty papers were retracted. The statement from SAGE on this incident is available […]
Free Microsoft eBooks
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College students unprepared to navigate internet
Or, rather: students are quite good at navigating online for entertainment, purchasing retail products, finding music, and the like–but they’re not effective at using the internet (and other information resources) to dig deep, undertake critical analysis, and answer tough questions through more serious research. “they…expected job candidates to be patient and persistent researchers and to be […]
Post-doc in digital humanites: Languages and literature in the South African context
VACANCY: Post–doctoral position in Digital Humanities Research Unit: Languages and Literature in the South African Context, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa. The vacancy announcement below is from the Global Outlooks :: Digital Humanities (GO::DH) email list. http://www.nwu.ac.za/p-sl/researchunit Applications for this position are invited for a period of at least one year (September 2014 to […]
African Studies library 