June 30, 2015, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Digital Collections, Meet the StaffMeet the Staff: Digital Collections Librarian Liz Gushee Meet the Staff is a Q&A series on Cultural Compass that highlights the work, experience, and lives of staff at the Harry Ransom Center. Liz Gushee has been the digital collections librarian at the Ransom Center since January 2011. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from Earlham College and… read more
June 16, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: The Christine Brooke-Rose archive Stephanie Jones is a Ph.D. candidate in the English and Creative Writing Department at Aberystwyth University. At the Ransom Center, she analyzed the Christine Brooke-Rose papers for her dissertation, which is a single-author study on the writer, looking at the neglect of her work as a British author by the industry. Jones’s research… read more
June 9, 2015, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsSocial media: Nothing new? Commonplace books as predecessor to Pinterest Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. The Ransom Center’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland exhibition includes a commonplace book kept by Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) with information about ciphers, anagrams, stenography, and labyrinths. As Kelsey McKinney, a former public affairs intern, writes, these “personal… read more
