Mariana Strassacapa Ou
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou deposited ‘Oral history for library history’ : talk given at the Cilip Local Studies Group Conference 2018 in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoText of 15-minutes talk given at the CILIP Local Studies Group Conference 2018: Oral history and sound heritage. It briefly presents my Library Science master’s dissertation, ‘”The public libraries of London” collection: oral history in the digital age’, which can also be found in CORE.
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou deposited ‘Oral history for library history’ : talk given at the Cilip Local Studies Group Conference 2018 on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
Text of 15-minutes talk given at the CILIP Local Studies Group Conference 2018: Oral history and sound heritage. It briefly presents my Library Science master’s dissertation, ‘”The public libraries of London” collection: oral history in the digital age’, which can also be found in CORE.
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoAmazing! Didn’t hear about it. On the El País article, the photo of a doctor treating a man: I’m pretty sure that’s Dr. Reginald Saxton, who developed a mobile infrastructure for blood transfusion in the SCW. We have his papers in the Marx Memorial Library, including a diary he kept–more like a block for note taking, with many illegible bits but…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoHello! I’m Mariana, based in London, and since last October I’ve been working at the Marx Memorial Library, cataloguing the Spanish Collection: a major archive that includes the whole archive from the International Brigade Association/International Brigade Memorial Trust. I’ve been dealing mostly with the collection of 500+ pamphlets: aprox. half…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic SCW + Catalan referendum in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoHello Anne, I’ve just joined the group so the reply comes very late. I have read The Winterlings and loved it. It’s really my type of fiction. Have you read it in the end?
That said, I wonder why the author decided to suggest that Spanish/Basque children may have suffered or been exploited in their time as refugees in the UK? In the Marx Memorial…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoAlso here in the UK, the University of Warwick has an archive on the Spanish Civil War from papers of the Trades Union Congress. They are all digitised which is quite amazing. My favourite items are in Spanish Situation: Pamphlets, leaflets etc.
Attached is cover of pamphlet by the Labour Party, one that we also hold at the MML. I find it…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoI’m working at the Marx Memorial Library in London. The library is home to the Spanish Collection, which is an archive of more than 7000 items, initially gathered by British International Brigaders and their families. We have just completed cataloguing the collection thanks to a grant from the National Archives (link below). Only very few items…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Challenge #1: Profiles (5/29-6/9) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoHello!
I had some information on my profile already, but wanted to add more.
I’ve added:
my CV (love the feature; great for juniors like me!),
an About (kept it brief, and added a personal tone),
Education (very easy to do, copy+paste from CV, really),
Cover image (I had a profile photo already, which people who know me think ‘it’s very me’;…[Read more] -
Mariana Strassacapa Ou's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou replied to the topic Welcome! in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoHello! I’m Mariana Ou. Recently received my MSc Library Science from City, University of London, after a few years working as an architect in Brazil. Now in the UK, I’ve been doing library & archive work, which I love. Considering going back to research in a PhD; still thinking about choice of institution, topic, timing (I might be the most junior…[Read more]
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou deposited ‘The public libraries of London’ collection: oral history in the digital age in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoDissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MSc in Library Science, City, University of London, September 2017.
This piece of research presents the process and outcomes of building ‘The Public Libraries of London’ collection of interviews with current and former staff members of a few public libraries of…[Read more]
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou deposited ‘The public libraries of London’ collection: oral history in the digital age on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MSc in Library Science, City, University of London, September 2017.
This piece of research presents the process and outcomes of building ‘The Public Libraries of London’ collection of interviews with current and former staff members of a few public libraries of…[Read more]
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou deposited Presentation: Introducing HC – “Humanities Commons: scholarly communication as sharing” in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 6 years agoPresentation introducing HC to City, University of London – MSc Library and Information Science students, in the occasion of an informal session.
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou deposited Library History: Four texts and a website in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 6 years agoEssay presented in 2017 as fulfillment of requirements for completion of the module INM310 – Independent Study, part of the MSc Library and Information Science course at City, University of London. This essay stands as a report of a few months of an independent study conducted by the author about library history. The theme was explored both as a…[Read more]
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou deposited Publishing as Sharing: observations from Oral History practices in the Digital Humanities in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 6 years agoEssay presented in 2017 as fulfillment of requirements for completion of the module INM380 – Libraries and Publishing in an Information Society, part of the MSc Library and Information Science course at City, University of London. In this essay, I use the debates on Oral History in the Digital Humanities to support the presentation of some of the…[Read more]
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