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Item Wyndham Lewis and literary modernist studies(2009-08-11T21:02:29Z) Ross, StephenWyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound’s relation to other modernists and subsequently, to modernist scholarship are contrasted. Lewis’s self-positioning as “the Enemy” had ramifications for his later acceptance into the modernist canon. The paper suggests a re-evaluation of the work of Lewis as an important and perhaps unfairly neglected central figure of modernism.Item Towards a Canadian Vorticism: Wyndham Lewis in Canadian literature(2009-08-11T21:03:36Z) Betts, GregoryThis paper on Vorticism and Futurism in Canadian literature explores three specific examples of Wyndham Lewis’s influence on Canadian authors and begins the process of proposing a Canadian Vorticism. The authors under consideration include Marshall McLuhan, Sheila Watson, and Bertram Brooker – three of Canada’s most acclaimed figures in cultural theory, novels, and art, respectively.Item Forbidden books(2009-08-14T23:50:25Z) Fox, C.J.C.J. Fox recalls first collecting Wyndham Lewis when the writer-painter's works were often in eclipse. Yet Fox's appetite was only heightened by the sense of pursuing "forbidden" underground fare. With growing mainstream awareness of Lewis, his alluring isolation lessened, and Fox compensated by adding other cultural contrarians to his collection. But his Lewisian addiction persists.Item Old books in new libraries: treasures of UVic Libraries(2011-01-21T22:36:58Z)Item The Bishop’s Books(2011-01-21T22:40:02Z) Cazes, HélèneThis overview to the unique “Seghers Collection” will give an idea of the complexity and depth of a collection that gathers the classics of ecclesiastical and philological training and Renaissance and Early Modern books and also contains the accumulated donations of more than 150 years from the Catholic community on Vancouver Island.Item Special Collections, special books, and special readers(2011-04-01T18:38:06Z) Cazes, HélèneThis lecture gives a “guided tour” of a selection of mini-collections within Special Collections: history of medicine, Bibles, discovery of the Americas and Amer-Indian religions, and Aldine editions of modern dictionaries. Leafing through the pages of some of the most precious books in Special Collections will introduce us to scholars, collectors, pious owners, bibliophiles, as well as to bored and undisciplined scribblers using the margins of books for penmanship training.Item Plantiniana: humanist grafts in Special Collections(2011-04-01T18:39:37Z) Cazes, HélèneChristopher Plantin (1520-1589) could be presented as the epitome of Renaissance humanist printers. Born in France, exiled in the Low Countries and settled in Antwerp, he lived at the crossroads of religions and national allegiances. He founded a dynasty of learned editors and publishers. An avid book collector, Charles Seghers secured several publications from the Plantin’s Presses, now kept in Special Collections, McPherson Library.Item Scholarly Editing: Open Access Editions Online(2011-10-31) Crompton, ConstanceOnline publication challenges our notion of the scholarly edition in a number of ways: the resulting editions require teamwork to produce, can be perpetually updated, and open up new avenues of collaboration with users. Drawing on examples from the Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES), The Yellow Nineties Online, and the Devonshire Manuscript: A Social Edition, Constance Crompton discusses role of open access online editions in the changing shape of humanities scholarship.Item Do You Understand What Open Access Publishing Can Do For You?(2012-12-03)The panelists discuss how open access publishing can significantly boost the visibility and impact of research, as well as the perceived or common misunderstanding/myths around open access publishing. Moderator: Jonathan Bengtson, University Librarian, University of Victoria. Panel members: Lynne Herndon, Senior Vice-President, Global Academic Relations, Elsevier; Laura Brown, Licensing Manager, Springer; Jim Gilden, Editor, SAGE Open Sales, Sage; Bob Schatz, North American Sales Manager, BioMED Central; Dr. Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English with cross appointment in Computer Science; Dr. Mary Ellen Purkis, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria; and, Dr. Frank van Veggel, Professor, Canada Research Chair, Supramolecular Photonic Materials, University of Victoria.Item Interview - Howard Brunt(2013-07-02) Brunt, Howard2013 interview with UVic VP Research Howard Brunt on open accessItem Item Interview - Daniel Scott(2013-07-02) Scott, Daniel2013 interview with Professor Daniel Scott on open accessItem Interview - Ray Siemens(2013-07-25) Siemens, Ray2013 interview with Professor Ray Siemens on open accessItem The lion and the fox: Art and literary works by Wyndham Lewis from the C.J. Fox Collection(University of Victoria Libraries, 2009) Lewis, Wyndham; Fox, C.J. (Cyril James); Russell, DanielleThis exhibition presents the Wyndham Lewis portion of the University of Victoria’s overall C.J. Fox Collection. The title, The Lion and the Fox, is meant to indicate a duality between Lewis as subject and myself as collector. It will be familiar to Lewis readers as the title of his 1927 book about the influence of Machiavelli on Shakespeare.1 That spirited study, which revealed as much about its author as it did about Shakespeare, echoes Machiavelli’s argument that the successful ruler must be a blend of the leonine on the one hand, and the vulpine, on the other. To Lewis’s mind, it was the very lack of essential “foxian” guile that gave Shakespearean giants like Coriolanus, Timon and Othello their tragic magnificence as against the small and crooked “men of the world.”Item Interview - Peter Keller(2014-02-05) Keller, C. Peter2013 interview with Professor Peter Keller on open accessItem 2015 Petrie Library Scholarship Award Winning Essay(2015-11-24) Minnes, JonathanIn this award-winning 500-word essay, graduate student Jonathan Minnes describes how he effectively used University of Victoria Library resources to undertake his research as a graduate student in the Faculty of Law.Item 2015 Flaherty Library Scholarship Award Winning Essay(2015-11-24) Gerow, ElizabethIn this award-winning 500-word essay, undergraduate student Elizabeth Gerow demonstrates how she effectively used University of Victoria Libraries resources towards a paper for the Faculty of Music.Item 2016 Petrie Library Scholarship - Award Winning Essay(University of Victoria Libraries, 2016) Vogelaar, ColtonIn this award-winning 500-word essay, graduate student Colton Vogelaar demonstrates how he effectively used University of Victoria Libraries resources towards his research in the Social Sciences.Item 2016 Flaherty Library Scholarship - Award Winning Essay(University of Victoria Libraries, 2016) Fraser, LorindaIn this award-winning 500-word essay, undergraduate student Lorinda Fraser demonstrates how she effectively used University of Victoria Libraries resources towards a paper for Art History and Visual Studies.Item Field Study Findings on Faculty & Researcher Use of New Models of Scholarly Publishing & Communication(2016-10-04) Hahn, KarlaIn the Spring of 2008, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) engaged Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization promoting innovation in academia, to conduct an investigation into the range of new models of scholarly publishing and communication valued by scholars, with a particular focus on those works that are pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional formats and are considered innovative by the faculty who use them. A field team of 301 librarians at 46 institutions interviewed professors about the digital resources they use. Among the key findings and works Karla Hahn, Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at ARL, will describe include: •Evidence that innovative digital resources can be found across the humanities, social sciences, and scientific/technical/medical subject areas. •Almost every resource cited by faculty operates under some form of peer review or editorial oversight. •Some the resources with greatest impact are those that have been around a long while. •Many digital publications are capable of running on relatively small budgets and are tailored to small, niche audiences. •Innovations relating to multimedia content and Web 2.0 functionality appear in some cases to blur the lines between resource types. •Projects of all sizes, especially open access sites and publications, employ a range of support strategies in the search for financial sustainability. The findings were published in November 2008 and titled: “Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication - Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries:” http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/current-models-report.pdf