Category: Professional Notes

  University Librarian Rosemary Arneson is presenting a session on the ThinkLab makerspace at the Association of College and Research Libraries conference in Indianapolis this week.  The session, titled “Made in the Library” is part of the ACRL CyberZedShed series on innovative uses of technologies in academic libraries.  The UMW ThinkLab is among the first general-purpose 3D printing labs in an academic library in the country.  Arneson will also present a poster session showcasing items created in the ThinkLab.

As part of an attempt to start imagining what open systems for publishing and sharing a community’s work—as UMW has done exceptionally well with UMW Blogs, ds106, and Domain of One’s Own—Jim Groom (the Director of the Division of teaching and Learning Technologies) has been invited to the Open Learning Hackathon at MIT this weekend to work with a range of thinkers to start framing an architecture that might harness and expose the power of loosely coupled syndication systems modelled on the qweb rather than monolithic information systems..

A new Virginia public opinion survey sponsored by UMW’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies and created by Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science, has generated considerable media attention, with two front-page news stories on the poll in the Richmond Times-Dispatch and reports in a variety of media outlets, including Slate.com, the Daily Kos, the American Prospect and the Washington Post.

Marie E. McAllister, professor of English, authored the lead article in volume nine of Eighteenth-Century Novel, “Pox Imagery in Clarissa.“

Eric Lorentzen, associate professor of English, gave a scholarly talk at this year’s annual Northeastern Modern Language Association conference in Boston, for a panel called “Dickens at 201.”  The talk was titled “Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and Connecting with ‘Boz’ in the 21st Century.”