I had an opportunity to read the February 2013 74.2 issue of _College and Research Libraries News_ (link: http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/2.toc ; it's FREE!!) this week. There was much to note of interest, from an article on a critical thinking skills initiative to faculty outreach. For our purposes, however, I'd like to highlight the following notes on foreign language learning :
Learning languages on the web: Online tools. Kershner, Seth. College and Research Libraries News. (February 2013): 96-99. http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/2/96.full and Crowdsourced Yiddish translation project College. News from the field. Free, David. College and Research Library News. February 2013 : 62. http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/2/62.full Crowdsourced Yiddish translation project: An innovative new project is seeking Yiddish speakers to help create an archive of journals and newspapers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Two archival repositories-the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University and the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom-are jointly digitizing more than 1,500 digitized pages from journals and newspapers originally written for working-class Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. The project organizers are relying on individuals' help to translate the publications, which include The Polish Yidel and Hashulamith newspapers and The Ladies' Garment Worker, journal of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union and covers the period 1910 to 1918. Participants in the project simply register, select a journal, and type translations into a text box. Perfect translations are not required; an overall sense of the documents and the content is more important. After pages are digitized and translated, they are available-free and completely searchable-on the project's wiki at http://transcribe.lib.warwick.ac.uk/yt/index.php/ **On a different note, please note: College & Research Libraries to transition to online-only publishing model. College & Research Libraries (C&RL), the official scholarly research journal of ACRL, will adopt an online-only publication model beginning in January 2014. The November 2013 issue will be the final print issue of the journal. http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/2/62.full Stephanie (Sara Leah) Gross MSLIS, MATESOL Chair, AJL Mentoring Member, AJL Librarianship and Education Committee Pollack Library Yeshiva University 500 West 185th Street New York NY 10033-3229 212.960.5442
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