MITH has a double-header of Digital Dialogue offerings next week, at
our regular Tuesday 12:30 slot AND a special session on Wednesday at
3:00. Read on for all the details.
Wednesday, October 25, 3:00-4:15
MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135
“Rice University Press: Non Fac Simile”
by CHUCK HENRY
Chuck Henry will discuss Rice University Press, recently reborn as the
nation’s first all-digital university press. MICAHEL LONEGRO,
Humanities editor at Johns Hopkins University Press, will also join
the discussion.
Charles Henry is Vice Provost and University Librarian at Rice
University, a position he has held since 1996. He is responsible for
library services and programs, including the Digital Library
Initiative and the Digital media Center, and works with many centers
and institutes on campus. He is a trustee of the Digital Library
Federation, and chair of the Advisory Committee, International
University Bremen, for its Information Resource Center. He received a
Fulbright award for the study of medieval literature in Vienna,
Austria, and a Fulbright senior scholar grant for library sciences in
New Zealand. Recently he was awarded a two year research grant from
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the study of emerging academic
disciplines.
Coming up @MITH, Oct. 31: Jason Nelson’s appearance has been
CANCELLED. Instead, in keeping with some current research projects,
MITH will be hosting an open roundtable on Massively Multiplayer
Online Role Playing Games (MMRPGs). We would especially like to hear
from currently active players of such games (Second Life, World of
Warcraft, etc.) View the complete Fall 2006 schedule for Digital
Dialogues here:
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/programs/mith_speakers_fall_2006.pdf
Free and open to the public.
Contact: Neil Fraistat, Director, MITH (www.mith.umd.edu, mith@umd.edu, 5-5896).
The first episode of MITH’s Digital Dialogues PodCast is now available: Chuck Henry on Rice University Press’s born-digital publishing program (10/24/06). Get it here!
We look forward to PodCasting more Digital Dialogues in the future.
