Category: Libraries
Following revelations about the reach of the United States government's controversial surveillance programs, groups representing publishers, booksellers, libraries, and authors have renewed their push for amendments to the USA Patriot Act. In a statement released yesterday, the Campaign for Reader Privacy said: The Campaign for Reader Privacy calls on Congress and on the President to take the…
By Tashina Gunning, Project MUSE Early on Friday, June 27, more than 2,000,000 people descended upon the streets of Chicago for one of the grandest celebrations in the city’s history. Most of them wore red, some dressed in hockey sweaters, others opted for bikini tops on the hot summer day, but all beamed with hometown…
By Tashina Gunning, Project MUSE Early on Friday, June 27, more than 2,000,000 people descended upon the streets of Chicago for one of the grandest celebrations in the city’s history. Most of them wore red, some dressed in hockey sweaters, others opted for bikini tops on the hot summer day, but all beamed with hometown…
By Tashina Gunning 2012 was an exciting year for Project MUSE, and one that expanded our collection of scholarship dramatically. With the addition of books to our platform, the amount of content on MUSE more than doubled. Not to be outdone by its predecessor, 2013 is proving to be every bit as eventful! In response…
By Tashina Gunning 2012 was an exciting year for Project MUSE, and one that expanded our collection of scholarship dramatically. With the addition of books to our platform, the amount of content on MUSE more than doubled. Not to be outdone by its predecessor, 2013 is proving to be every bit as eventful! In response…
Guest post by Claiborne Skinner Last month, I donated a copy of my little book The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes to "The High School affiliated with Renmin University of China" as part of an educational conference. This is, I believe, the first copy in the People’s Republic. Nearly four and…
By Tashina Gunning, marketing coordinator, Project MUSE I returned last week from spending several days in Anaheim, California, at the American Library Association’s annual meeting. Project MUSE, as we always do at ALA, had a booth in the exhibit hall where we met current and prospective library customers, and talked with them about the many exciting …