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6,420 short blank and white silent films from Adam Matthew Explorer collections on British Newstreets, 1911-1930: Culture and Society were just added to OBIS and Summon. (It will take a few days to see them in Summon until they are indexed.)
The collection can be found via OBIS at https://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b9767224
Enjoy!
Good morning,
I ordered 500 size 10 envelopes (4.125″ x 9.5″) with the official OCL design. I will keep a handful up here by me and place the rest in the receiving room downstairs. Please only take what you need at the time. If you don’t have access to the receiving room, let me know how many you need and I’ll get them for you.
It’s now official: Oberlin College & Conservatory is the newest member of HathiTrust! Launched in 2008, HathiTrust has a growing membership comprising more than two hundred libraries and holds the largest set of digitized books managed by the academic, research, and library community. Members have contributed more than 17.4 million volumes to the digital library, digitized from their library collections. More than 6.5 million of the contributed volumes are in the U.S. public domain and freely available online.
Member services include persistent access to HathiTrust’s digital collections. This includes viewing, downloading, and searching public domain volumes, and searching access to copyrighted works. Notably, specialized features are also available for members that facilitate access by persons with print disabilities, and allow users to gather subsets of the digital library into “collections” that can be searched and browsed.
Oberlin students, faculty, and staff can now access member features by clicking on the “LOG IN” button at hathitrust.org, choosing “Oberlin College and Conservatory”, and using their Obie ID to authenticate.
More information about promoting our membership to the Oberlin community will be forthcoming later in the summer. In the meantime, you can learn more about HathiTrust member benefits and view the Member Toolkit.
Consider submitting a topic for discussion?
The Oberlin Group’s Open and Equitable Access working group is holding a half-day online unconference on April 14th from 1 PM to 4 PM EST. This event will provide a forum for us all to share recent successes, talk through current challenges, explore new developments, and identify opportunities for future collaborations. Since we are using an unconference format, as the date approaches, we will be issuing a call for topics to discuss. We hope you will contribute your own ideas, such as:
Migrations to a new institutional repository
Campus-based OER programs
Open Access outreach success stories
Reports from the HELIOS open science initiative
Open Access publishing models and infrastructures
The event will be organized into three 45 minute breakout small group sessions, with an opening and closing activity. It is free of charge and open to anyone who works on an Oberlin Group campus. Feel free to invite your colleagues from the faculty, IT, or digital learning.
You can sign up at https://forms.gle/TWMFXaJJfXmpppcm7 where you can suggest topics you would either like to hear about or talk about.
We hope you will join us and contribute to what we imagine to be the start of increased engagement across the Oberlin Group in conversations and collaborations in this important area.
You may be aware of the controversy at Hamline University. FIRE’s website is an important source for in-depth discussion of cases of infringement of rights. FIRE advocates on behalf of those punished for exercising rights of expression. Cases are popping up at colleges and universities, and we should be prepared in our roles if it happens here.
“Recently included in the United Nations Association Film Festival, RECKONINGS is the first documentary feature to chronicle the harrowing process of negotiating German reparations for the Jewish people, which resulted in the groundbreaking Luxembourg Agreements of 1952. Filmed in six countries and featuring new interviews with Holocaust survivors, world-renowned scholars and dignitaries, and the last surviving member of the negotiating delegations, this film powerfully models how political will and a moral imperative can join forces to bridge an impossible divide.” — Good Docs
A finding guide for the Jorge Luis Borges Collection in Archives was just published in Archon. The collection primarily concerns a visit to Oberlin arranged by Emeritus Professor Ana Cara in 1983, and a digital collection under the Mellon Grant published in 2012. She is completing a book on Borges, which includes her interviews with him in Argentina. Those recordings are in the collection.
If you are interested, this film is available via OBIS at obis.oberlin.edu/record=b8438866~S4
Tracking his “spectacular rise and fall ” (The Hollywood Reporter) Gerber and Pozdorovkin’s documentary examines how Bout built his empire under the shadows of the fall of Communism and how a series of governments willingly looked the other way. Contrasting his personal home movies with the DEA surveillance footage from the sting operation that led to his arrest, this carefully crafted documentary depicts Bout as a businessman rather than an ideologically-motivated terrorist and challenges what was once a clear-cut depiction of character, crime, country and the Constitution.
The film is recommended for College and University studies in Criminology, Economics, International Policy, Journalism, Media Studies, Political Science, and Russian Studies, and can provide context for the current geopolitical moment.
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“OpenAlex catalogues hundreds of millions of scientific documents and charts connections between them.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00138-y
