In the late 1870s, a librarian created a subject catalogue for the burgeoning library of St Ignatius College, the forerunner to Loyola University. College prospectuses from the period herald the dramatic growth of the library\u2019s collection, but it is the surviving library catalogue that reveals the broad range of books that the Jesuit Fathers selected for their educational mission. The library catalogue provides a lens into some of the most important tensions within nineteenth-century urban Catholic identity: between the Jesuits\u2019 centuries-old tradition of the Ratio Studiorum<\/em> and the demands of a professionalizing urban economy; between European-born and educated Jesuits and their American-born students, many of them children of immigrants; and between the desire for idealism and the necessity of pragmatism in a rapidly growing city. Through the unusual lens of a library catalogue, this seminar provides the opportunity for an interdisciplinary exploration of nineteenth-century transnational book history, Catholic history, urban history, educational history, and digital history.<\/p>\n Over the course of the semester, students will:<\/p>\n No prior experience with digital applications is necessary. This course is part of the preparations for the 2014 Commemoration of the Bicentennial of the Restoration of the Jesuits.<\/p>\n The course will be divided into three segments:<\/p>\n Week 1, August 27 Readings for class: <\/em><\/p>\n Week 2, September 3 Readings for class:<\/em><\/p>\n Assignment due by Sunday, September 1, 10 pm: <\/em><\/p>\n Week 3, September 10 Readings for class: <\/em><\/p>\n Week 4, September 17 Readings for class:<\/em><\/p>\n Assignment due in class:<\/em><\/p>\n Week 5, September 24 Class presentations<\/em>:<\/p>\n I would like us to evaluate book history digital resources as part of our discussion. Evaluating a web-based resource is different than evaluating a monograph or an article. Questions of content, functionality, and design all demand attention, alongside argument (if there even is one!) The interdisciplinary composition of this class is uniquely suited to evaluate these resources in a way that often an individual scholar is forced to do on her own. I would like a Digital History, Public History, and History student to work together to evaluate one of the five resources listed below. I would like you to use the Journal of American History (JAH) web review guidelines<\/a> as the basis of your critique, which you will present to the class. This assignment is as much about giving you a deeper familiarity with an web resource as it is about understanding how we evaluate such resources. The sites we will evaluate are:<\/p>\n Readings for class:<\/em><\/p>\n Assignment 1 due: <\/em><\/p>\n Week 6 \u2013 11 Assignment 2 due by Sunday, November 9th, 10 pm:<\/em><\/p>\n Week 12, November 12 Readings for class: <\/b>Sarah Wadsworth, ed., \u201cThe Woman\u2019s Building Library of the World\u2019s Columbian Exposition, 1893.\u201d Special issue, Libraries & Culture<\/i><\/a> 41, no. 1 (Winter 2006)<\/p>\n Week 13, November 19 Readings for class:<\/em><\/p>\n Assignment due on Sunday evening, November 17:<\/em><\/p>\n Week 14, November 26 Readings for class:<\/em><\/p>\n Assignment due on Sunday evening, November 24: <\/em><\/p>\n Week 15, December 3 Assignment due in class: <\/em><\/p>\n THE FINAL LABEL TEXT AND REFLECTION PAPER ARE DUE ON DECEMBER 10TH<\/sup> BY 5 PM. BOTH SHOULD BE EMAILED TO DR ROBERTS.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HIST 410: Advanced Digital Methods: Loyola Library Project Fall 2013, Tuesdays, 6-8:30 pm Information Commons, Room 230 Professor Kyle B. Roberts, (office: Crown Center 548) Overview In the late 1870s, a librarian created a subject catalogue for the burgeoning library … Continue reading \n
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Course Meetings<\/h2>\n
\nIntroduction to the Project; Tour of University Archives<\/p>\n\n
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\nThe Jesuits: Crossings and Dwellings<\/p>\n\n
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\nCatholicism in Nineteenth-Century Chicago and the United States<\/p>\n\n
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\nMARC and Book Cataloguing<\/p>\n\n
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\nThe Loyola Library VLS<\/p>\n\n
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\nCirculation Patterns: Print Culture, A Chicago Jesuit Library, and American Catholic Identity Seminar Series<\/em><\/a>
\nWhile you enter of data into VLS and track down original books in Rare Books, Cudahy, and Sullivan, we will have guest speakers join us to talk about topics related to this class. For each The seminars will begin at 6 pm in the Palm Court, 4th floor of Mundelein Hall.<\/p>\n\n
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\nLibrary History<\/p>\n\n
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\nExhibiting Books
\nWe will meet at LUMA<\/a>, 820 N Michigan Avenue, for this meeting<\/p>\n\n
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\nReception and Audience<\/p>\n\n
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\nPresentation of Final Research Projects<\/p>\n\n