#GovernmentData in the #US are no longer reliable: "Researchers examined more than 200 federal datasets and found that nearly half of them were altered between January and March [2025]. In most, the term 'gender' was replaced with 'sex.'" journalistsresource.org/home/federal... #opendata #datarescue
Congratulations! 🎉 We will add it to our collection in Göttingen!
New post on our blog! 🍁
Catch a glimpse of the 44 brand-new titles of #CanadianStudies research & read about how they made their way to our collection after the GKS conference 🍁🍁🍁
Soon all of them will be available via our online catalogue
🍁 libaac.de/home/full-...
#Canada #CanadianHistory
Salut @historiogirl.bsky.social ! 🌸
We appreciate your enthusiasm for the author's & publisher's work, however, we will NOT take your money as our project is publicly-funded by our libraries & the @dfg.de !
You can get the book on inter-library loan from us - or request it from your home library!🌸
Find them in our catalogue:
🌸Jagusch s.gwdg.de/jt2mj8
🌸Nardi & Fancher s.gwdg.de/VWhi45
🌸Liu s.gwdg.de/q09lBF
🌸Yuan s.gwdg.de/F7cH8l
🌸Van Overmeire s.gwdg.de/BWTEIZ
Holding the book "American Koan" in front of cherry trees in full bloom
The final book in today's 🧵on Asia & the anglophone world: "American Koan" by Ben Van Overmeire - a study on the #zen #koan & self in #autobiographies by Natalie Goldberg, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Kapleau, Ruth Ozeki & others
#ReligiousStudies #buddhism #AmericanLiterature
Holding the book "Alimentary Orientalism" in front of cherry trees in full bloom
In "Alimentary Orientalism" Yin Yuan follows the politics of tea, sugar & opium in 18th & 19th c Britain: How did British authors portray Otherness & the consumption of the Orient?
#PostColonialStudies #Orientalism #FoodStudies #LiteraryStudies #Romanticism #VictorianLiterature
Holding the book "From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism" in front of cherry trees in full bloom and a bicycle
Yu Liu's book "From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism" covers Anglo-Chinese relations 1600-1830 and their influence (via Spinoza) on #RomanticLiterature - e.g. #Coleridge & #Wordsworth - & art & landscape gardening
#Romanticism #EnglishLiterature #China #philosophy #CulturalStudies
Holding the book "Studio Ghibli Animation as Adaptations" in front of cherry trees in full bloom
Another book for #ICBD #InternationalChildrensBookDay is this essay collection edited by Dominic J. Nardi & Keli Fancher on #Japan 's #StudioGhibli as #adaptations of children's books such as "Howl's Moving Castle", "Earthsea", "Anne of Green Gables" & more
#AdaptationStudies #FilmStudies
Holding the book "Japan and American Children's Books" in front of a cherry tree in full bloom
Today is #InternationalChildrensBookDay - so book 1 of this 🧵by Sybille A. Jagusch is on depictions of #Japan in 200 years of American #ChildrensBooks - from #travelogues to picture books, adventure stories #folklore & more
#ICBD #AmericanLiterature #Asia #interculturalexchange #LiteraryStudies
A view of the round tower of the SUB Göttingen library with blue skies in the background and a pink cherry tree in the foreground
Göttingen campus with a path lined by bright pink cherry trees in bloom
It's #spring and the (Chinese) cherry trees on our Göttingen campus are in full bloom! They remind us of the connection of Asia & the anglophone world, so here come 5 new additions to our collection on that topic 🧵
#newbooks #librarylove #LibSky #LibrarySky #cherryblossom #sakura
"I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-w...
✒️ #JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet, courtier and rascally rake, was #BOTD 1 April 1647. #Poetry
"Vanity takes no more obnoxious form than the everlasting desire for approval."
✒ #EdgarWallace, English novelist, playwright, and journalist ("The Terror", "The Four Just Men"), created King Kong, was #BOTD 1 April 1875. #Theatre #Literature
["I was so tired of all the weak women screaming in the corner while their boyfriends were beating off the aliens. I wouldn't have been--I'd've been in there swinging with something or kicking them as hard as I could." Anne McCaffrey, BOTD 100 years ago to write a bunch of SF books with dragons.]
2 stacks of books by (on the left) & on (on the right) John Fowles, with "The French Lieutenant's Woman" standing in the middle. The books are positioned on a wooden table in the library, with several library shelves filled with books in the background
Another 100th birthday already: John Fowles, author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Magus" & many other Postmodern novels, was #BOTD 100 years ago.
Find many of his works & secondary works of #LiteraryStudies on Fowles in our collection!
#JohnFowles #Postmodernism #EnglishLiterature #OTD
Digital publication day! 🎉
I'm very proud of this little book on a difficult subject, one I take very much to heart (as I try to do with all my work, but especially this one). Gothic Dementia is free to download until April 12th!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Why did Frank O'Hara celebrate his birthday on a different day? Find out in this Irish Times article:
A stack of books on & by Frank O'Hara, topped by a volume of "Poems Retrieved", next to it standing "The Collected Poems by Frank O'Hara", in front of a window looking out of the library and onto some buidlings of Göttingen
Today would have been the 100th birthday of Frank O'Hara!
Celebrate the famous New York poet by reading some of his texts - we have a large selection of books by & on him in our collection!
#FrankOHara #QueerWriters #AmericanPoetry #AmericanLiterature #Poetry #BOTD #OTD
Check out both of these books in our online catalogue & get them sent to your home library via inter-library loan!
Pfeiffer , "Transforming Girls" opac.sub.uni-goettin...
Corbett "In Transition" opac.sub.uni-goettin...
Holding the book "In Transition" in front of a pink cherry tree in bloom
"In Transition" by Emily Corbett covers the past 20 years of contemporary #YALiterature with #transgender characters and/or by #transAuthors (fiction & #memoirs) & a perspective on the YA book market in UK & USA 🏳️⚧️
#YAbooks #TransStudies #TransLiterature #EnglishLiterature
Holding the book "Transforming Girls" in front of a pink cherry tree in bloom
We added 2 new titles on #adolescence & processes of change!
Julia Pfeiffer's "Transforming Girls" talks about the #transformation from #backfisch to #womanhood within 19th c #youngadultliterature in German & #AmericanLiterature
#VictorianStudies #LiteraryStudies #girlhood #ChildrensLiterature #YA
I wonder if editors and blurbers will discuss why they were taken in by a book that lots of people immediately flagged as likely AI-derived...
Newspaper photo of the President of the USA with the caption “the president said the crisis would be over ‘pretty soon.’”
The professor said papers would be graded and handed back “pretty soon.”
Shout-out & thank you to @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social who recommended these books to us 🫶
The book "Rereading Modernist Postcards" by Bradley D. Clissold, on a metal table in front of trees, green meadow and blue sky
Of course you have to send us a postcard from your trips, pretty please! 💝 Find inspiration in this book on #postcards in #Modernism by Bradley D. Clissold, focussing on postcards in the fiction & correspondence of #Hemingway #RingLardner #Joyce & #WilfredOwen
#MaterialCulture #LiteraryStudies
The book "Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District" on a metal table in front of trees, green meadow and blue sky
Maybe a trip to the #LakeDistrict next? Joanna E. Taylor & Ian N. Gregory present this innovative, interdisciplinary study bringing together #LiteraryStudies on #Literature & #History of the Lake District 1622-1900, with tools from geography & #digitalhumanities
#spatialhumanities #Romanticism
The book "To the Sea by Train" by Andrew Martin, on a metal table in front of trees, green meadow and blue sky
First, you could take Andrew Martin's study "To the Sea By Train" on a daytrip by #train
Learn about the "Golden Age of Railway Travel" in the UK, 1900-today - in a #railway carriage of your choice or the comfort of your home (inter-library loan) or in our equally comfy SUB library in Göttingen.
A stack of books on a metal table with trees, greenery and blue sky in the background
It's the 1st day of #spring 🌸🐝🍃
Today we celebrate that the Northern hemisphere has made it through another winter. For this occasion, here is a little idea what to do on your first spring weekend... apart from reading, of course! 3 bookish suggestions to guide your spring
#MarchEquinox
Die dt. Buchbranche zeigt gerade eindrücklich, was die dt. Wissenschaftscommunity im Zuge der #Fördergeldaffäre in dieser Breite & Konsequenz nicht geschafft hat: Wie man zusammenhält gegen autokratisches Gebaren von oben. Wissenschaftscommunity täte gut daran, daraus zu lernen! #LauteWissenschaft
Find all 3 books in our online catalogue:
🌲Pavey: opac.sub.uni-goettin...
🌲Yeomans: opac.sub.uni-goettin...
🌲 Roy: opac.sub.uni-goettin...