medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Here is one of them. I included the book to give you an idea of the size.
Frans van Liere
Department of History, Calvin College
1845 Knollcrest Circle SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402
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http://www.calvin.edu/academic/history/faculty/vanlieref/
>>> Karl Brunner <[log in to unmask]> 04/26/08 12:55 PM >>>
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Could we get a photo or a sketch?
b.k.
Am 26.04.2008 um 18:25 schrieb Cormack, Margaret Jean:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
>
> If Frans ever does decide to go into business, I can strongly
> recommend his carpentry
> skills - Ím sure the stand he describes is terrific!
> Meg
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval
> religious culture [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Frans van Liere
> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 10:52 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [M-R] Organizing Files
>
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
> Dear all,
>
> I thought the original question was: how do you keep track of your
> files while you are writing?
>
> I have a number of reading stands on my desk that look a bit like
> the old-fashioned reading stands you got in the Bodleian Library,
> before they started using the foam cushions there. I made them from
> recycled pallets (which in the US are often made of nice oak
> boards). (The design is so popular with friends that I have
> considered giving up my academic career and start a business in
> making these.) The ideal, I found, would be to have a two-sided
> reading stand that swivels, so I can have various books and notes
> open at the same time while I am writing. I once saw a nifty
> construction like this on an image of Christine De Pizan in her
> study (I think it's on the cover of the Penguin translation), and
> I've been wanting to build one ever since.
>
> Color-coded post-it notes are very helpful, too. The only problem is
> that they fade in the sunlight very quickly.
>
> But the discussion seems to have broadened to: how do you keep track
> of your files, electronic or in xerox form, full stop. May I be so
> bold as to suggest using NotaBene (www.notabene.com)? This program
> has a nifty system to take notes, store and retrieve them, combined
> with a bibliography, all intregrated into its word processing
> program. I simply cannot imagine any scholar in the humanities not
> using it. (Sorry for the commercial pitch, but I assure you I am not
> getting paid for this.)
>
>
>
>
>
> Frans van Liere
> Department of History, Calvin College
> 1845 Knollcrest Circle SE
> Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> http://www.calvin.edu/academic/history/faculty/vanlieref/
>>>> "Cormack, Margaret Jean" <[log in to unmask]> 04/25/08 4:44 PM >>>
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
> Dear Christopher,
> But then you have to organize your CDs and/or hard drive,
> which is just as bad as when the stuff is on paper!
> Meg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious
> culture [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Christopher Crockett
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:54 PM
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] Organizing Files
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
> From: Diana Wright <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> This question is for the rest of you who are NOT librarians. How do
> you
> organize your files -- notes, offprints, photocopies, notebooks, etc.
>
> "[handwritten] notes, offprints, photocopies, notebooks"
>
> how Quaint.
>
>> -- & still keep things handy while you are writing? I think I have
> reached some kind of tipping point>> My ideal space would have a couple of very long, parallel tables for
> stacking & spreading, but I am pretty well limited to a small desk
> in a
> small bedroom for the files and papers, although books are allowed all
> over the house. [It was quite a struggle, though, to get them out of
> the
>
> bathroom closet, but after a good pout they settled onto the
> staircase.]
> The
> issue here is all the non-book stuff.
>
>
> i seem to be heading in a "non-book stuff" direction, even when i use
> books to
> extract the information.
>
> lately i've been doing a *lot* of OCRing, from books, periodicals, off
> The
> Innernets (esp. JSTOR), ending up with WORD files which i can put on
> my
> USB
> drives to haul home from the lieberry, put on my HD at home,
> eventually
> on
> CDs.
>
> also, downloading a lot of older stuff as .pdfs from Gallica,
> books.google,
> wherever, putting those together, topically arranged, onto CDs --i've
> got
> quite a library of CDs now, including long runs of basic [French]
> periodicals,
> etc.
>
>
> shucks, i can't remember when i last wrote a "note" --sometime away
> back
> in
> the last millennium, it seems like.
>
> Abby FineReader is the best OCR program i've found and, with a fast
> machine
> (which i have at taxpayers' expense), works pretty... well, fast.
>
> with *really* clean images of really standard fonts (i.e., from
> JSTOR),
> pasting directly into WORD works pretty well.
>
> even the crappy, low (or no) rez images of 19th c. stuff off of
> Gallica
> can be
> downloaded in .tff format and run through FineReader with a more or
> less
> legible result --i only do a real Clean Up if i'm going to use it in
> something
> i'm writing.
>
>
> it's just *so* much easier when quoting extensive sections of text --
> or
> doing
> rough drafts using long bits which will eventually be cut out of the
> final
> version-- to have all that text in digital form rather than
> keystroaking
> from
> a Hard Copy.
>
> and, it's convenient to get to, as well.
>
> not as though i've got to find it stacked on some table or in a
> bathroom
> closet...
>
> c
>
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