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About Jullianne Ballou

Ballou is a project librarian at the Harry Ransom Center, and the project manager of the Gabriel García Márquez online archive.

The scholarly value of the Gabriel García Márquez archive

December 11, 2017 - Jullianne Ballou

The Gabriel García Márquez online archive represents an ongoing collaboration with students, professors, and scholars who visited the Ransom Center during the course of the 18-month project to consult the García Márquez papers. [Read more…] about The scholarly value of the Gabriel García Márquez archive

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Álvaro Santana-Acuña, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Gabriela Polit, José Montelongo

Scrapbooking Gabo

May 15, 2017 - Jullianne Ballou

An interview with Celia Shaheen, Digitization Technician on the Gabriel García Márquez online archive

[Read more…] about Scrapbooking Gabo

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: CLIR Garcia Marquez, Council on Library and Information Resources, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Nobel Prize, Sharing Gabo with the World, Undergraduate

I shout for a flower

March 21, 2017 - Jullianne Ballou

Gabriel García Márquez autographing a wine barrel, 2005. Photographer unknown.

An undeniable source of pleasure in archives is the appearance of a writer’s doodles in the margins of books and manuscripts. As we’ve digitized García Márquez’s papers for his online archive [Read more…] about I shout for a flower

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections Tagged With: archive, autograph, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Council on Library and Information Resources, digitized, doodle, drawings, flower, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jullianne Ballou, manuscript, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Plinio Mendoza, Sharing Gabo with the World

The magically real digital archive of Gabriel García Márquez

August 23, 2016 - Jullianne Ballou

Photograph courtesy of Austin Bat Cave.

In December 2015, the Council on Library and Information Resources granted the Harry Ransom Center a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives award to scan more than 24,000 pages from the Gabriel García Márquez archive.

[Read more…] about The magically real digital archive of Gabriel García Márquez

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections Tagged With: archives, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Council on Library and Information Resources, digital collections, digitization, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, grant, Mirador, philanthropy, Sharing Gabo with the World, students

Dear Guy: Letters in the Guy Davenport collection

February 24, 2016 - Jullianne Ballou

Envelope illustrated by Roy Behrens

Here’s the plot of a story a writer told me he had joked about writing with Guy Davenport: For about two days in the 1970s, Queen Elizabeth, the Dalai Lama, and Thomas Merton were within twelve miles of one another in central Kentucky, about a mile from Lincoln’s birthplace. Merton lived at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Dalai Lama was visiting him, and Queen Elizabeth was staying on a nearby farm [Read more…] about Dear Guy: Letters in the Guy Davenport collection

Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging Tagged With: Cormac McCarthy, Dorothy Parker, Eudora Welty, Ezra Pound, Guy Davenport, Harper’s Magazine, Hugh Kenner, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, letters, Luis Zukofsky, Marianne Moore, Paris Review, The Jargon Society

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