March 24, 2015, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Research + TeachingNational Endowment for the Humanities awards grant to preserve and enhance access to sound recordings The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Ransom Center a $18,900 grant to preserve and enhance access to the Ransom Center’s non-commercial sound recordings. The grant allows the Ransom Center to complete a preservation survey of more than 13,000 archival sound recordings to establish and document preservation… read more
March 23, 2015, Filed Under: Research + TeachingIncreased access to collections with new Saturday hours for Reading and Viewing Room Beginning Saturday, April 4, the Ransom Center increases its Saturday operating hours for its Reading and Viewing Room and will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The times are an increase from the Center’s prior Saturday hours of 9 a.m. to noon. The Ransom Center’s Reading and Viewing… read more
March 17, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingBiographer Hermione Lee discovers author Penelope Fitzgerald’s “heart and meaning” in the archives Hermione Lee is a well-known biographer of literary figures, admired for scrupulously researching her subjects. Her recent book, Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life (2013), details the life of the late-blooming author as Lee discovered her in the archives. Lee will speak at the Ransom Center about her experiences pursuing subjects… read more
