Welcome to new graduate students!

I would like to welcome the new Classics graduate students to the UCI Libraries!

The library home page is available at www.lib.uci.edu. I have also created a subject guide for Classics. This guide provides links to various resources that will help you with your research.

If you have any resources you would like to suggest for the subject guide, feel free to let me know.

I am also able to provide research consultations, library instruction sessions for your classes, and assistance in acquiring materials you need for your research.

If you have any questions about the libraries or this blog, please contact me at kandrews at uci dot edu.

New Books

I hope everyone is having a great summer! Here are this week’s new books:

Title: Manilius and his intellectual background
Author: Volk, Katharina
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3990040~S7

Title: Il “Miraggio” di Alceo
Author: Marzullo, Benedetto
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3982872~S7

Title: Aetna (English & Latin parallel text)
Author: ed. & trans. Robinson Ellis
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3982877~S7

Title: The rhetoric of Cicero’s “In Verrem”
Author: Frazel, Thomas D.
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3989215~S7

Title: Cicero’s speeches: the critic in action
Author: Usher, Stephen
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3982879~S7

New Books

I’m back from my trip and back in business! Here are this week’s new books:

Title: Einführung, Übersetzung und Kommentar zum Heroikos von Flavius Philostrat (2 vols)
Author: Grossardt, Peter
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3948133~S7

Title: A vehicle for performance: acting the messenger in Greek tragedy
Author: Dickin, Margaret
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3982691~S7

Title: Ancient Greek political thought in practice
Author: Cartledge, Paul
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b4005686~S7

Title: Die Kindheit des Mythos : die Erfindung der Literaturgeschichte in der Antike
Author:  Radke, Gyburg
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3948175~S7

Title: The scattered papers of Penelope : new and selected poems
Author: Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina; ed & trans Karen Van Dyck
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3981268~S7

Title: The care of the dead in late antiquity
Author: Rebillard, Eric
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b4000953~S7

Ithaka Case Study in Sustainability: The TLG

Ithaka recently released 12 case studies examining the sustainability of various digital projects. According to their website:

Tens of millions of dollars, pounds, and euros are invested each year by government agencies and private foundations to develop and support digital resources in the not-for-profit sector. As budgets tighten, will these digital resources be able to survive and thrive?

This question is at the heart of the Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability project, a multi-year, international exploration of the strategies being used to support digital initiatives over the long term. Twelve detailed case studies present the steps project leaders have taken to achieve this, with special attention paid to their strategies for cost management and revenue generation. These studies include financial data, and explore the decision-making process that project leaders undertake when experimenting with different strategies to find the best fit for their organization.

Sustaining Digital Resources: An On-the-Ground View of Projects Today, serves as a guide to the cases, outlining the stages that successful projects undertake in developing sustainability models: from empowering leadership and developing accountability structures, to crafting a strong value proposition that responds to user needs, to securing the resources needed to help the project thrive.

By highlighting the benefits and challenges of a wide range of models, this work is intended to serve as a starting point to understanding the options and obstacles facing digital projects today.

One of the case studies features the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, which is based here at UC Irvine. The TLG case study is available here.

Call for Proposals in Digital Classics

I just spotted a call for book proposals on the Ancient World Bloggers Group site (http://ancientworldbloggers.blogspot.com). Here is a copy of the announcement:

Gorgias Press is expanding its interest in technology and classics and welcomes book proposals regarding digital classics research, for both monographs (including revised dissertations) and edited collections (based on conference sessions or otherwise). Proposals should be no more than 4 pages pdf and include contact details and a biography of the author(s), an overview of the topic and its importance, a brief description of all chapters, and a summation of how this text will relate to other texts in the field. This is an open call. Please send proposals to submissions@gorgiaspress.com.

Out of the office 6/30-7/15

I will be out of the office from Tuesday June 30-Wednesday July 15. This blog will be on hiatus until I return.

New Books

Title: A Companion to Ancient History
Author: Erskine, Andrew (ed)
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3991137~S7

Title: Philostratus
Author: Bowie, Eugene (ed)
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3994512~S7

Title: Gods, Heroes, and Tyrants: Greek chronology in chaos
Author: Sweeney, Emmet
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3969874~S7

Title: The learned banqueters (books 10.420e-11)
Author: Athenaeus; ed. & trans S. Douglas Olson
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3451139~S7

Title: A Companion to Ovid
Author: Knox, Peter E. (ed)
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3994499~S7

Digital Publications & Tenure

How are changes in publication affecting the way universities handle tenure & promotion? Should the Humanities consider new models for publication and tenure beyond the  traditional print monograph? How do we balance the need to assess quality with the opportunities available for digital scholarship?

Inside Higher Ed recently posted an article about the issue of including digital publications in tenure reviews. It states that:

MLA and HASTAC (as the humanities consortium is known, with the acronym pronounced “haystack”) are preparing guides (in the form of a wiki, an early version of which may be found here, but which will move to the MLA site) that will offer guidance for departments on approaches used by various colleges to evaluate digital scholarship, resources available to scholars wanting to get a take on some project, and policies that could be adopted to assure the fair treatment of those coming up for tenure.

New Books

Title: Companion to Late Antiquity
Author: Rousseau, Philip (ed.)
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3981963~S7

Title: Martial’s Rome: empire and the ideology of epigram
Author: Rimell, Victoria
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3982110~S7

Title: Aeschylus vols. I-III (Loeb Classical Library)
Author: Sommerstein, Alan H. (ed. & trans)
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3952333~S7

Title: The Theban plays : King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Author: Ruth Fainlight & Robert J. Littman
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b1256212~S7

New Books

The number of books coming in has been low due to a delay in some of our approval books.  There should be an increase soon as the backlog starts coming in.

Title: Sixty-five papyrological texts : presented to Klaas A. Worp on the occasion of his 65th birthda
Author: Hoogendijk & Muhs (eds)
URL: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu:80/record=b3920763~S7