Presentation at the Lyrasis Summit December 27, 2018December 27, 2018 jshanahan Leave a comment It was exciting to present an overview of the project at the Lyrasis Summit, and video has been posted. You cannot see the slides I am speaking about, but we’re happy to send them to anyone who is interested. … Read more
Presentations at DHCS 2018 November 23, 2018November 23, 2018 jshanahan Leave a comment “Reading Chicago Reading” researchers presented on recent work at the 9th Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, hosted by Loyola University Chicago. … Read more
Lyrasis Catalyst Fund Grant June 30, 2018October 25, 2018 jshanahan Leave a comment We are very happy to announce that Lyrasis will support the “Reading Chicago Reading” project through mid-2019! We will use the funding to develop a novel visualization dashboard for our data. Such an interactive dashboard should be of interest and use to other libraries, public and academic. The DePaul Library wrote a nice description of the award. The Lyrasis announcement is here.… Read more
Planning the Reading of a City: CPL’s Jennifer Lizak May 31, 2018May 31, 2018 jshanahan Leave a comment Just before the most recent season ended on April 30, 2018, Mihaela Stoica of the “Reading Chicago Reading” project team sat down with Jennifer Lizak, Coordinator of Special Projects for Cultural and Civic Engagement at the Chicago Public Library to discuss the work that goes into planning, creating, and promoting events for the One Book One Chicago program. With only a few days of respite after the end of a successful 2017-18 program, and just before she started thinking about the upcoming season, Lizak gave us a glimpse of what goes on behind the curtain of this annual citywide program. Considering… Read more