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Professional/Scholarly Work:
BISON Records & German Studies Links Webpage
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Since 1995, I have created numerous,
lengthy, descriptive on-line entries in the UM Libraries' online
catalogue BISON for rare, unique, or otherwise noteworthy items held
in the Libraries in general, and in Archives & Special
Collections or in the field of German Studies in particular.
Good examples are:
- a 1949 Kootz Gallery Exhibition Catalogue of Abstract Expressionists
(from the Swinton Collection, 4 p.)
- Wm. Carron's Narrative of an ill-fated Australian expedition in
1848
- the orig. 1808/9 ed. of Coleridge's Journal, The Friend;
- Francesco Colonna's orig. 1499 ed. of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili,
or
- Margaret Laurence's 1943/44 Neepawa Highschool editorials
(when she still Peggy Wemyss).
http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/dafoe/subjects/internetres/german.html
These, among countless others, can rightfully be considered "mini-journalistic" e-publications,
especially, when supplemented with illustrative web-pages.
The many "upgrades" performed on faulty or incomplete bibliographic BISON
records provide an invaluable "service" for the future
retrieval of important Library Resources. This is especially
true when the CONTENS of multi-volume sets or relevant collections
of articles are supplied.
Early examples include:
- the painstaking descriptive recataloguing
of the massive monographic set of the Deutsche National-Literarur;
- the cataloguing of the ca. 500 titles
in Grove's Personal Library, about a third of which were
annotated & went
into the Rare Book Vault;
- the extensive CONTENTS description of the so-called Weimar "Sophien-Ausgabe" of
Goethe's Works, which had fallen prey to a hasty "recon" action
in the mid-1990s, etc.
Among more recent examples, there are notably
- assuring that the ca. 60 rare books in the Dysart Collection could be
readily retrieved, by means of call-numbers or series notes
- the detailed upgrading of a reprint collection of German Expressionist
Journals which were transferred to the Dafoe Collections from the Architecture
Library;
- the proper description of the comprehensive microform holdings
of German Baroque & Enlightenment Literature (Yale's Faber du Faur, Duke's Jantz & Case
Western's Scherer Collections).
These tended to be missed in collection assessments, and can now be found
in BISON with direct link to the full-text Gale database.
- the ca. 200 rare book titles in the Suknaski & Swinton collections
in 2009.
Since ca. 2004, the option to create direct url-links
to relevant websites from cataloguing records
(via 856 fields) has opened up a welcomed & generously
applied nexus of flagged interrelated materials, either linked to locally
held monograph- or serial titles, or newly "acquired" records
of FREE scholarly air-born publications, databases, portals, etc.
After taking Diane Kovac's ALA/ACRL-sponsored
online course "Electronic
Collection Development for the Academic E-Library" in late 2006 for the
specific purpose of developing a high-quality scholarly e-resource in my
subject area of German Studies, I compiled an extensive reference Links-Page.
I had also "acquired" most of the ca. 150 initial websites
by creating full BISON catalogue records for them.
On occasion of a Graduate Studies Review of the German Programs in early
2009, I could make good use of those freely available internet materials.
I was also able to tie the German language content of archival
resources like the FPG (Greve/Grove) & FrL Collections, and
the 16 Dysart incunabula to the general German culture scope of
newly introduced academic courses (German printers had a monopoly
of the emerging industry before 1500).
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Professional/Scholarly Communication:
UM Archives' e-Editions
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| 2002-2006 |
e-Editions of various texts,
documents, or criticism by/about FPG (Greve/Grove) & FrL (Else Baroness
von Freytag-Loringhoven), such as the 1904/5 poems Greve & Else
published under their joint pseudonym 'Fanny Essler', German & English
versions of FrL's satirical poems about Ernst Hardt & August
Endell, or Greve's 1907 autobiographical sketch
for Brümmer's Lexikon. For details, see entries in the "Publications" section
below. |
| 2002/3 |
M.A. Thesis Committee, UM
English Dept.: Lorne Lulashnyk, on Grove's Settlers of the Marsh (1925),
the manuscripts in the UM Archives' FPG (Greve/Grove) Collections, & the
Greves' year in Sparta, Kentucky (1910/11), as intertext of Grove's
first Canadian novel. - Defense: Nov. 2003. |
| 2002/3 |
Invited, by the Graduate Chair & the
Head, UM Dept. of French, to serve on five Doctoral Theses Committees. |
| 2002 |
Member, Search Committee,
for Collections' Management Librarian. |
| 2000-2002 |
e-Editions of Else von Freytag-Loringhoven's
two long, satirical poems about Ernst Hardt & August Endell.
German & English (with Jan Horner. For details, see entries under "Publications"). |
| 1999/2000 |
Proceedings of the Greve/Grove
Symposium "In Memoriam FPG 1879-1948-1998" edited for 12 videos with
Educational Support Systems |
| 1998 |
Member, Search Committee for
Head, Archives & Special Collections |
| 1998 |
Secured
a UM Research Grant for the e-publication of Grove's A Search
for America (1927) & Jane Atkinson (unpublished novel,
ca. 1921. For details, see entries under "Publications", 2000/1. |
| 1998 |
Organizer of the "In Memoriam
FPG 1879-1948-1998" Post-Conference Tour through Manitoba Grove country
(Gladstone, Eden, Waldersee, Amaranth, Plumas, Brandon, & Rapid
City), Sat, Oct. 3, 1998. Tour Guide: Grove Scholar Professor Richard
Ottenbreit, University of Winnipeg |
| 1997-1998 |
Program Chair & participant,
International Greve/Grove Anniversary Symposium "In Memoriam FPG
1879-1948-1998", Marlborough Hotel, Winnipeg, September 30 - October
2, 1998. -- Opening Address: Pulitzer-Prize winning author Carol
Shields on Grove's first Canadian book, the nature essays Over
Prairie Trails [1922]. - Responsible for the Video-Taping of
all twelve sessions, incl. The Banquet, with Carol Shields, Neil
Besner, Leonard & Mary Grove, Ed Schreyer as Guest Speakers, & all
the other participants, including Professors Walter Pache, Konrad
Gross, Irene Gammel, & Gisi Baronin von Freytag-Loringhoven. |
| 1998 |
Electronic, revised, & enlarged
edition of the 1997 promotional brochure: "The FPG (Greve/Grove)
Collections in the University of Manitoba, Archives & Special
Collections". |
| 1997 |
Promotional Brochure: "The
FPG (Greve/Grove) Collections, Archives & Special Collections,
University of Manitoba Libraries", distributed at the Learned Societies'
Congress, Ottawa, & at various other scholarly congregations |
| 1996-1997 |
Elected Member, Libraries
Promotion Committee |
| 1996- |
Hamilton Research Grant Committee,
UML Archives & Special Collections |
| 1996- |
Literary Manuscripts Committee,
UML Archives & Special Collections |
| 1996 |
Secured, from UW Professor
Katherine Taylor, for the Rare Book Room: the truly rare Barbara
Rooke Coleridge Collection, containing all 28 of Coleridge's exceedingly
elusive journal The Friend: a literary, moral, and political weekly
paper, 1808/9. |
| 1996 |
Established, with Dr. Robert
Quackenbush, UM Mathematics, in Archives & Special Collections: The
FPG (Greve/Grove) & Else von Freytag-Loringhoven Endowment Fund.
Exclusive purpose: furthering research, propagation, & electronic
or traditional publication of Greve/Grove & Freytag-Loringhoven
resources |
| 1996- |
Two submissions for a revised
edition of the National Library of Canada's Directory of Special
Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries (Dysart Rare
Book Collection & F. P. Grove Manuscript and Research Collections) |
| 1995-1997 |
Member, Libraries Research
Committee |
| 1994 |
Elected Member, Libraries'
Strategic Planning Retreat, Nov. 17 & 18, 1994 |
| 1992- |
Volunteer, UM Librarians'
Council Executive Committee (Terms of References, Goals & Objectives,
December 1994) |
| 1992 |
Member, Search Committee for
Head, St. Paul's College Library |
| 1991- |
Appointed as Libraries' representative,
Office of Research Administration, Research Liaison Committee |
| 1991-1992 |
Member, Marc-Editor Implementation
Committee |
| 1991-1992 |
Member, Libraries' Gift Policy
Task Force |
| 1991-1993 |
Elected Member, Librarians'
Council Research Committee |
| 1990- |
Member, Editorial Board, Mosaic |
| 1989 |
Member, Hiring Committee for
two Medical Librarians |
| 1989-1990 |
Elected Member, Search Committee
for Director of Libraries |
| 1988-1991 |
Member, Faculty of Graduate
Studies, Comparative Literature Committee |
| 1987-1988 |
Appointed Member, Libraries'
Review Committee (Report Confluence, October 1988) |
| 1987-1989 |
Elected Member, Librarians'
Council Research Committee |
| 1983-1990 |
UMFA Academic Librarians Committee
(Chair, 1988-1990) |
| 1983-1984 |
Member, Libraries' Promotion
Guidelines Review Committee |
| 1982-1983 |
Member, Libraries' Book Sale
Committee |
| 1982-1983 |
Chair, Librarians' Promotion
Committee |
| 1980-1981 |
Member, Libraries' Promotion
Guidelines Committee (Guidelines, May 1981) |
| 1979-1983 |
Member, Board of UM Faculty
Club |
| 1978-1980 |
Chair, UMFA Status of Women
Committee |
| 1977-1978 |
Member, UMFA Status of Women
Committee |
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Refereeing & Reviewing
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Refereeing
CSRS journal: Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme
UM's journal Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature
Canadian Comparative Literature Review.
Reviewing
Anglistik: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Anglistenverbandes
ESC: English Studies in Canada
German-Canadian Yearbook
German Studies Review
Philosophy and Literature
Romance Quarterly
Individual Reviews are listed in "Publications and
Presentations"
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Grants
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| 1998 |
SSHRCC Conference Grant (with
M. Shkandrij): $10,000 for the International "In Memoriam FPG 1879-1948-1998" Anniversary
Symposium, Sept.30 - Oct.3. |
| 1998 |
University of Manitoba
Program Development Grant (with Jan Horner): $6,613 for the
electronic publication of Frederick Philip Grove's unpublished
novel Jane Atkinson (ca. 1927), and his first autobiographical,
out-of-print book A Search for America (Ottawa: Graphic
Publishers, 1927) |
| 1996 |
University Research Grants
Program (URGP): $5,000 for the desk-top and electronic publishing
of Finding Aids related to the archival Greve/Grove source- and
research collections (Grove Manuscript Collection; Grove's Library
(500 titles); Greve's Translations, 1902-1909/10; Spettigue Research
Collection; Stobie Research Collection; Divay Source- & Research
Collection) |
| 1995- |
FPG & FrL
Endowment Fund: research expenses, mostly for website development & services,
related to the UMA's FPG (Greve/Grove) & FrL (Else von Freytag-Loringhoven)
Source- & Research Collections, amounting to some $30.000 [when
counting three informal contributions from UM French Renaissance
Literature teaching stipends]. |
| 1989 |
University of Manitoba
Academic Development Grant: $15,500 for the acquisition of
expensive bibliographic tools in support of German materials in
all disciplines: incl. the Gesamt-Verzeichnis des deutschen Schrifttums
(GV), 1911-1963, 150 v.; Deutsche literarische Zeitschriften, 1940-1914,
5 v., & many journals like Die Insel, Die Schaubühne, Der
Sturm, Die Zukunft in reprint- or MForm editions. |
| 1985- |
Research & Travel Grants:
successful applications to the University of Manitoba Research Administration
for Research Travel Grants for some twenty years. These grants amount
to well over $130.000 in support of FPG (Greve/Grove) & Freytag-Loringhoven
research in Germany, France, Switzerland, England, Austria, Italy,
and the United States. Several grants were for Research Leaves awarded
in 1985/86, 1990, 1993, 1998, & 2001. Grants are submitted in
university-wide competition, and adjudicated by the UM Office of
Research Administration. |
| 1975- |
Travel,
Conferences, and Research Support from PDA (annual Professional
Development Allowances): reimbursements for research expenses,
amounting to some $20.000 in partial support of FPG (Greve/Grove) & Freytag-Loringhoven
research or research materials like antiquarian copies of Greve's
translations into German, or the 1st ed. of Grove's autobiographical
novel A Search for America. These funds are often used to
supplement projects funded by the FPG & FrL Endowment since
1995/6.
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Dr. Gaby Divay
Archives & Special Collections
332E, Bldg Dafoe, University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 474-6483 ; Fax: (204) 474-7913
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