Welcome to LJAN Resources, our monthly academic content roundup. We’ll be curating standout InfoDocket posts and nonfiction LJ book reviews once every month for quick access to news and reviews you can use. |
| National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Announces $22.6 Million for 219 Humanities Projects Nationwide The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced $22.6 million in grants for 219 humanities projects across the country. Among these are grants that will establish protocols for the stewardship and voluntary return of unethically acquired archaeological and ethnographic artifacts to their communities of origin; enrich K–12 educators’ understanding and teaching of the American Revolution through workshops at lesser-known historic sites around Boston; and produce an immersive virtual replica of the former Mount Pleasant Industrial Indian Boarding School, a boarding school established in Michigan by the U.S. government in 1893 to forcibly assimilate Native American children. |
| Television: Lorne Michaels Donates His Archive to Harry Ransom Center Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live, has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The Lorne Michaels Collection documents Michaels’s career in television from his earliest writing for Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show up through and including the nearly 50-year history of Saturday Night Live, the most Emmy Award–nominated show in television history. |
| New Report from CLIR: “Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration” From the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR): This collection of brief essays challenges long-held principles of archival practice by addressing the carceral underpinnings of the cultural professions. Contributors explore how complicity with carceral systems and the Prison Industrial Complex undermines equitable access to information and perpetuates systemic harms. Drawing from their experiences working with collections documenting the lives and creativity of incarcerated individuals, the authors reflect on how traditional archival methods often fall short of providing respectful access to these materials. The volume offers a call to action for reimagining archival work grounded in abolitionist values. |
| Public Domain Image Archive Launches with More than 10,000 Out-of-Copyright Historical Images From the Public Domain Review: After the hundreds (thousands?) of hours trawling through online image collections since the PDR’s inception, we’ve decided it was time to create one of our own! We are really excited to share with you the launch of our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse. |
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