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Acquisitions/Foreign Travel, Collections, Global Studies, South Asia Collection

Vibrant but Vanishing Lending Libraries of South Asia

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Throughout the fall of 2018, I was honored to be able to convene UT South Asia Institute’s Seminar Series, “Popular | Public | Pulp: form and genre in South Asian cultural production.”  Throughout the series, speakers explored printed examples of South Asian popular culture—mysteries, romances, comics—as they underscore and grapple with historical and contemporary concerns … Continue reading Vibrant but Vanishing Lending Libraries of South Asia →

Acquisitions/Foreign Travel, Distinctive Collections, Global Studies, South Asia Collection

Distinctive, Collaborative Collections Work in the Subcontinent

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Regular travel “to the field” is an indispensable tool in the area studies librarian’s toolkit.  Firsthand knowledge of the cultural, political and intellectual context for the production and distribution of information resources is essential to maintaining both our expertise and currency in support of the global literacy being nurtured and developed here at UT.  I … Continue reading Distinctive, Collaborative Collections Work in the Subcontinent →

Acquisitions/Foreign Travel, Collections, Distinctive Collections, Research, Resources

Distinctive Collaboration in Pakistan

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The mission of UT Libraries is to “advance teaching, fuel research and energize learning through expansive collections and digital content, innovative services, programs and partnerships to develop critical thinkers and global citizens that transforms lives.”  In recent years, our mission is fulfilled through a number of ongoing thematic “Purposeful Pathways” and short-term focused “Current Priorities.”  … Continue reading Distinctive Collaboration in Pakistan →

Digital Humanities, Technology, Texas ScholarWorks

In the Realm of Digital Humanities

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You may have heard the phrase digital humanities (DH), or broadly, digital scholarship (DS), and wondered, “What exactly does that mean?” The reality is that DH or DS means different things to different people. Within the University of Texas Libraries, we think about digital scholarship as research and teaching that is enabled by digital technologies, … Continue reading In the Realm of Digital Humanities →

Distinctive Collections, Research

Return to India

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With the generous support of both the South Asia Institute and the UT Libraries, I had the good fortune to travel again to India in January 2017.  The primary focus of my travel was to continue the active development of the Libraries’ “South Asian Popular and Pulp Fiction Collection.” “Comprehensiveness” is not ultimately the goal … Continue reading Return to India →

Acquisitions/Foreign Travel, Distinctive Collections, Global Studies, Uncategorized

Harvesting Hardboiled Literature

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The UT Libraries has been busy working on our role in national collaborations for deepening and diversifying South Asian collections while simultaneously making them more accessible. One of these efforts exemplifies our multi-pronged approach, namely the growing — albeit idiosyncratic — niche collection in popular and pulp fiction in regional South Asian languages. The various projects associated with this … Continue reading Harvesting Hardboiled Literature →

Acquisitions/Foreign Travel, Books, Collections, Global Studies

Scholarly Discovery in an Indian Book Stall

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The Libraries recently joined a national program to deepen and diversify the national collection for South Asian Studies and focused on a new niche for collection efforts: pulp fiction in South Asian languages. While the Libraries holds one of the largest and broadest collections of South Asian material in the country, there is also a … Continue reading Scholarly Discovery in an Indian Book Stall →