Monthly Archives: April 2015
Obituary for John O. Hunwick
The Program of African Studies at Northwestern University shared the sad news of John Hunwick‘s death this week. He may be best known for his discovery of 3,000 privately held manuscripts in Timbuktu in 1999. Northwestern University Professor Emeritus John Owen Hunwick…discovered a treasure trove of historic Arab literature stored in trunks in Timbuktu, Mali, died April 1 […]
Additional resources on Ebola
While the trends appear heartening on the ground with generally fewer new cases in West Africa, there’s still much work to be done (see US Centers for Disease Control update). Here, we offer a few additional resources to supplement earlier posts (including the Ebola Response pocket library on a flash drive offered by WiderNet). African Studies librarians […]
Event: THATCamp-Gainesville, April 24, 2015, at UF
Rebloged from http://laurientaylor.org/2015/04/08/event-thatcamp-gainesville-april-24-2015-at-uf/ THATCamp Gainesville is on April 24th in Smathers Library East from 8:30am to 6:00pm. THATCamp, The Humanities and Technology Camp, is an unconference hosted by the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere with UF Smathers Libraries with the goal of starting informal and productive conversations about Digital Humanities projects, topics, […]
Cataloging the Timbuktu Libraries
Crowd funding site T160k hosts a campaign to document 400,000 items in the Timbuktu (Mali) Libraries in exile. They helped to rescue and preserve these via Indiegogo and now are working to take their efforts to the next level: In 2012, under threat from fundamentalist rebels, a team of archivists, librarians, and couriers evacuated an irreplaceable trove of manuscripts […]
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