L&IT collaborated with the Dominguez Center for Data Science to run a series of workshops focused on data science for students at Bucknell.
L&IT collaborated with the Dominguez Center for Data Science to run a series of workshops focused on data science for students at Bucknell.
In 2018 Diane Jakacki and Bucknell received an NHPRC-Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives Planning Grant to develop REED London Online, a collection of archival materials related to London theatre, performance, and music throughout the medieval and early modern periods (1200-1650). The grant supported creation of a prototype digital edition using the CWRC platform developed by the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory. Working with collaborators at other universities in the US as well as Canada and the UK, the project team established protocols for turning these archival materials (account books, legal documents, correspondence) into structured TEI-XML, and then ingested the files into the CWRC-Writer […]
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The BU Film Club + Library & IT sponsored a weekend film challenge in April of 2024 where participants recieved a prop at the start of the event, and then had the weekend to create a short <5 min film
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“Forever kept as wild forest lands:”A Story Behind the Making of the Adirondack Forest Preserve Post 2 Post 1 Post 3 Post 4 “New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts & Connecticut.”
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In January 1884 the New York State Senate received a report on state lands from a special committee on state lands in the Adirondack region. According to the report, between 1873 and 1883 New York State went from owning 38,854 acres of land to 750,616 acres of land, almost entirely on the Adirondack Plateau. The state had acquired this land, in some ways, unintentionally, through unpaid taxes. (Logging companies were harvesting the trees, not paying their taxes, and then – after five or ten years – letting the state acquire their land to cover the unpaid taxes.) The state now […]
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During the second half of the nineteenth century, there was a growing conservation movement in North America; however, nature was still considered to be multi-use. Nature could be beautiful in value through tourism and valuable in natural resources like timber, land for cultivation, animals to be hunted, and more. The belief was that nature should be used for the benefit of people, so that even protecting land was “reserving nature for the people’s use.” Yellowstone National Park, for example, was created by the US Congress in 1872 with these values and motivations in mind. By protecting the natural and exotic […]
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a six-episode podcast in which Zoe Wilson ’23 catalogs and analyzes the key textual changes made to Tony Kushner’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America between 1987 and 1994.
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a showcase video highlighting how Bucknell University implements GIS across the curriculum.
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Students in the “Mapping History” course worked with a collection of rare, historic maps, which were documented, described, and turned into a digital gallery as part of the larger project.
Professor Johnathan Favini and students in ENST 210: Environmental Ethnography worked with the Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance (SCRA) to conduct a research project about the Shamokin Creek.
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