A&A graduate student Will Pedrick speaks to attendees of the 2024 wintercession workshop: Sicilian Stories: Tales and Treats from The American Excavations at Morgantina
Visual Resources is excited to support one of A&A’s own, Will Pedrick, in offering a revamped repeat of the successful Wintersession workshop offered with Leigh Lieberman last year: “Sicilian Stories: Tales and Treats from The American Excavations at Morgantina.” This year the workshop falls on January 16th and involves Kevin Ennis, another longtime member of the excavation team and expert on the longstanding excavation. The workshop will include some of the archival material from department collections.
A Reminder
This is a reminder that we in Visual Resources are here to support faculty: please reach out if you have any image-related needs. We are currently working on the following for various members of the department:
- Sourcing difficult-to-find high-quality images for classroom use as well as publication
- Responding to image copyright inquiries
- Copying streaming videos into more stable files for use in the classroom
- Photographing from catalogs for use in the classroom
Feel free to reach out to [email protected] or to [email protected] directly with any questions
2024 Inquiries into A&A Collections
General statistics into A&A department collections over the course of 2024, showing the most requested collection (Sinai Expedition images) and the highest number of inquiries occurring in April, August, and September.
January involves a look back at the inquiries and requests into the department collections that we have received the previous year. Department collections were used in eight courses over 2024 and inquiries overall grew slightly from 2023. The most requested collection continues to be the Michigan-Princeton-Alexandria Expeditions to Sinai, as seen in the graph above. There will be an invitation-only workshop on the Sinai digital archive and its use on Friday January 17th which will bring instructors from various institutions together to share how they teach with the material in the collection. The result of the workshop will be a new page on the website titled “teaching resources” which will aid instructors on strategies for using the collection in the classroom.
New Year = New Public Domain
January is actually the most exciting part of winter because it means more entries of works into the public domain. Take a minute to review a summary provided by Duke University School of Law, of the new publicly available works, such as Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and the original character of Tintin by Hergé. The Public Domain Review has also released a Public Domain Image Archive with a feature called “infinite view” that is an endless browse for the visually curious.