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Item National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day, March 19-21, 2023.(2023-06-07) Luckert, Yelena; Sly, JordanThe NHA Annual Meeting brings together faculty, administrators, and representatives from scholarly societies, museums, archives, libraries, and other humanities organizations to build their capacity to advocate for the humanities. On Humanities Advocacy Day (this year on March 21, 2023), state-based delegations, including Maryland's, traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with Members of Congress and their staff to ensure federal humanities funding in 2023.Item Reading 19th Century Handwriting(2022-06-14) Sly, JordanA brief overview of methods, strategies, and resources for using historical documents for researchItem Reference Instruction(2021-06-23) Gammons, Rachel Wilder; Sly, Jordan; Markowitz, Judy; Budhathoki, MilanFocus: What has changed during COVID-19, and what will change when we are able to resume in-person services Agenda: (1) GIS Virtual Lab (Milan Budhathoki), (2) Reference (Judy Markowitz), (3) Virtual Reference & Screen-sharing (Jordan Sly), (4) Fearless Teaching Institute (Rachel Gammons), (5)Open discussionItem The Closed-Loop: Academic Publication Data Conundrum(2022-06-08) Koivisto, Joseph; Sly, JordanIn this talk we will discuss the problems inherent in the publications-as-data model of large publishing and educational technology platforms. The datafication of scholarly communications establishes a closed-loop pipeline endangering library values and university goals through the narrowing of impact-ratio focused research and the development of a surveillance publishing model. These new methods of extracting value from scholarly content producers and consumers could dramatically impact the future of academic freedom for students, faculty, and libraries. Universities are in a unique position as we have become both the data source and the consumer for publications and data regarding the use of the publications. We will look at distinct aspects of these content models and the ways in which they present problems to the diversity of university research, library acquisitions, and data security for library users.Item Did the Pandemic Alter Faculty Expectations of Library Instruction?(2022-05-25) Sly, JordanThrough the pandemic I found that teaching faculty requests became far more rudimentary and focused on specifics of access as opposed to larger notions of information literacy. While this focus on the practical elements of access –especially access to material in alternative formats as necessitated by the pandemic– reflected the needs of the moment, in the return to the classroom, I have noticed a lingering sense of wanting to stick to the bare essentials in library instruction. For this brief presentation I will conduct a focus group of colleagues in my institution to see if they have experienced a similar backsliding in the depth of library instruction or if their instruction methods have continued to expand as a result of the pandemic restrictions and changes now that we are in a more in-person environment.Item Comment on Marjoleine Kars, “Poisoned Lives: Living in Slavery in Dutch Berbice”(2022-04-01) Sly, JordanComments in response to the author's presentation of her forthcoming workItem Brutal Hands and the Shaping of Historical Memory: How Digital History Can De-Archive Material for Increased Access and Responsible Stewardship(2021-07-06) Sly, JordanIn Arlette Frage’s classic work The Allure of the Archives, she discusses the notion of the “brutal” hand of the archivist collecting, storing, and classifying the material in their care. Frage is discussing the utilitarian nature of the archive as a storage facility for access to the past, but no organizing structure can be neutral. We can expand this notion of the “brutal” into a more provocative usage if we are considering the archivist’s hand as an additional force in history preserving but also obscuring history through the acquisitions, descriptions, colocation, and retention practices. Hierarchies and institutional biases privilege access to certain stories over others which can create an obscuring effect despite the best efforts and intentions of archivists. Additionally, the confines of the archival box or folder can belie important nuances of history swept aside to privilege alternate narratives. In this paper I will discuss how digital history allows for a “de-archiving” of valuable material in a way that not only adds to more general accessibility, but also allows for new interpretations, comparisons, and from of analysis. To do this I will provide a brief survey of the trends in archival literature beginning with classics of archival theory, associated movements such as the so-called “New Museology,” and trends into the more recent postcolonial and social justice inspired methods in recent archival literature. Additionally, I will discuss associated trends in digital history and the digital humanities which seek the remediation of primary archival materials to favor access and a grander scale of digital analysis. I will briefly discuss my previous project titled The Recusant Print Network Project as an example, some of the lessons learned from this experience, and how these lessons can be applied to a document analysis project like the Slavery, Law, and Power project.Item TRPNP: Phase 1(2017-10-13) Sly, JordanItem Digital Approaches to Understanding the Recusant Printing Network(2018-04-07) Sly, JordanThis project illustrates how the use of data-driven visualizations of sixteenth and seventeenth-century title page imprint information can illuminate aspects of the recusant printer network in the era of high-recusancy, c.1558-1640. This period represents the era of the Recusancy Acts which made non-conforming- that is non-Protestant- practice of faith illegal. Recusant literature, therefore, represents the body of literature designed to maintain the faith (through both materials for hidden priests and or personal devotion) of the Catholic communities in England to actively work to subvert the message of the Protestant Church). This project is largely one of experimental remediation with the goal of investigating whether new insight into an established field can be gained by collating, analyzing, and graphically displaying like information —in this case Recusant literature— that is distinct from traditional forms of scholarship. I argue that by removing the impediments of shelf-bound and geographically separated volumes and by quantifying elements of their creation, the network and nature of recusant literature is made more immediate by illustrating trends and anomalies at the same level of access and visibility and thereby potentially opening new avenues of research. Additionally, the aim is to combine methodological approaches of traditional book history — in this case merging bibliographic studies with quantitative history— and also utilizing new methods of corpus mining and data visualization to help make the obscure known. While much has been written about recusancy, there are still new stories to be told by investigating new forms of evidence made available through newer methods of humanities scholarship. New methods can potentially lead to new evidence to help settle old historiographical debates.
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