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Meet the Staff: Q&A with Visual Materials Assistant Michael Gilmore

December 12, 2016 - Marissa Kessenich

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. [Read more…] about Meet the Staff: Q&A with Visual Materials Assistant Michael Gilmore

Filed Under: Meet the Staff Tagged With: archives, Books, bookstore, employee, library assistant, Lyrika, Meet the Staff, Michael Gilmore, poetry, Reading Room, Restless Astronomy, staff profile, visual materials assistant

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

Commitment to collecting

December 9, 2015 - Harry Ransom Center

Going back to the origins of research libraries, there is a long history of scholars building collections to suit personal interests, constructing around themselves an athenaeum of books that supported their individual research goals.

[Read more…] about Commitment to collecting

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Research + Teaching Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, archive, archives, B. S. Johnson, collecting, collection strengths, collections, David Mamet, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Hardwick, humanities, Mark Collins, Norman Mailer, Penelope Lively, Research

Celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Things They Carried

November 11, 2015 - Alicia Dietrich

2015 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. [Read more…] about Celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Things They Carried

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: archives, literary archives, literature, National Book Award, soldiers, The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien, Veterans Day, Vietnam War, war

Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Influencias literarias en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez

October 22, 2015 - Megan Barnard

The cover of the carbon typescript of El coronel no tiene quien le escriba [No One Writes to the Colonel], 1957.

Alguna vez  Gabriel García Márquez comentó que creía que la principal razón por la cual los escritores leen las novelas de otros, era para aprender cómo las escribieron.  Para el laureado con este Premio Nobel los libros tenían una importancia tremenda, y con frecuencia escribía o hablaba de los autores que más habían influido en él. [Read more…] about Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Influencias literarias en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Authors Tagged With: acquisition, archives, collecting, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Manuscripts, William Faulkner, writers

Conociendo al personal: Archivista Daniela Lozano

October 20, 2015 - Charley Binkow

“Conociendo al personal” (Meet the staff) es una sección de entrevistas de Cultural Compass, en la que se destaca el trabajo, experiencia y vida de quienes trabajan en el Harry Ransom Center. Daniela Lozano ha sido archivista en el Ransom Center desde enero de 2012. [Read more…] about Conociendo al personal: Archivista Daniela Lozano

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Authors, Meet the Staff Tagged With: acquisition, Anne Noggle, archives, archivist, Daniela Lozano, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, J. Frank Dobie, Meet the Staff, preservation Categories: Meet the Staff

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