Literature
Text Analysis with Archival Materials: Gale Digital Scholar Lab
Text Analysis with Archival Materials: Gale Digital Scholar Lab
Thursday, February 16th, 2:00-3:00pm
Online: Register to receive the Zoom link
The Gale Digital Scholar Lab is a platform that allows researchers to do text data mining on archival collections available through Gale (see list below). During this session we’ll cover the workflow for using the Lab, focusing on the Build, Clean, and Analyze steps. We’ll review curating and creating a content set, developing clean configurations, applying text data mining analysis tools, and exporting your Lab results. We’ll also review new Lab updates and explore the Lab Learning Center.
Primary source collections available in Gale include: American Fiction, 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990, American Fiction, Archives Unbound, Archives of Sexuality & Gender, British Library Newspapers, The Economist Historical Archive, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Indigenous Peoples: North America, The Making of Modern Law, The Making of the Modern World, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana, 1500-1926, The Times Digital Archive, The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, U.S. Declassified Documents Online
This event is part of the UC-wide “Love Data Week” series of talks, presentations, and workshops to be held February 13-17, 2023. All events are free to attend and open to any member of the UC community. To see a full list of UC Love Data Week 2023 events, please visit: https://bit.ly/UC-LDW
Related LibGuide: Text Mining & Computational Text Analysis by Stacy Reardon
Black History Month 2023
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Suzette Mayr
Talia Hibbert
Tara M. Stringfellow
Sidik Fofana
Daniel Black
David Wright Falade
Jayne Allen
Nikki May
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Workshop: Publish Digital Books & Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks
Publish Digital Books & Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks
Wednesday, February 8th, 11:10am-12:30pm
Online: Register to receive the Zoom link
Tim Vollmer
If you’re looking to self-publish work of any length and want an easy-to-use tool that offers a high degree of customization, allows flexibility with publishing formats (EPUB, PDF), and provides web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be great for you. Pressbooks is often the tool of choice for academics creating digital books, open textbooks, and open educational resources, since you can license your materials for reuse however you desire. Learn why and how to use Pressbooks for publishing your original books or course materials. You’ll leave the workshop with a project already under way! Register here.
Upcoming Workshops in this Series – Spring 2022:
- Can I Mine That? Should I Mine That?: A Clinic for Copyright, Ethics & More in TDM Research
- By Design: Graphics & Images Basics
- HTML/CSS Toolkit for Digital Projects
Please see bit.ly/dp-berk for details.
New Years

Happy New Year! Kick off the new year by revisiting some great reads from 2022. Stay tuned for more epic reads coming up this year.
Bonnie Garmus
Fatimah Asghar
Lucy Foley
Celeste Ng
Naomi Novik
Sarah Thankam Mathews
Gabrielle Zevin
Jennette McCurdy
Karen Jennings
December Reads

Spend the break binging these engrossing picks on Overdrive.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Sabaa Tahir
Maddie Mortimer
Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Barbara Kingsolver
Temple Grandin
Malcolm Gaskill
George Saunders
PhiloBiblon 2022, n. 5 (diciembre): La traducción española de De civitate Dei, un nuevo manuscrito
Nos es muy grato proporcionar nuestro consabido aguinaldo de Navidad para el deleite de nuestros colegas y amigos.
Parece mentira que a estas alturas aún queden manuscritos de primerísima importancia para la literatura medieval española cuya existencia se nos ha escapado no sólo al equipo de PhiloBiblon, sino a toda la comunidad de investigadores. Pero tal es el caso que vamos a tratar en este post: dar a conocer un nuevo manuscrito (en realidad, tres, como se verá más adelante) de la traducción de De civitate Dei de San Agustín, atribuida a Gómez García del Castillo (BETA texid 1531).
Hasta el momento actual se conocían dos manuscritos de esta traducción, ambos conservados en la Biblioteca de El Escorial, esc. A-I-8 (BETA manid 1824) y esc. A-I-9 (BETA manid 1823). El primero contiene los libros 8-17; el segundo, los libros 18-22. Faltaba, por lo tanto el comienzo de la obra. El colofón del códice esc. A-I-9 explica las circunstancias de su confección:
Este libro que se llama la segunda parte de la çibdat de | dios. El qual fizo e ordeno el muy glorioso dotor señor | sant agustin. escriujo para la muy esclaresçida señora Reyna | doña maria fija del muy esclaresçido Rey don ferrãdo de Aragon que aya santa gloria E muger que agora es del | muy exçelente e muy virtuoso señor don iohan Rey de | Castilla e de leon. gomes garçiª del Castillo criado de la | dicha señora Reyna por su Ruego e mandado. E aca|boso [!] de escreujr enla villa de valladolid A xxvij dias del mes de abril del año de j Vcccc.º xxx iiijº Años.

Es evidente que Gómez García del Castillo es el copista, pero queda la duda de sí también fue el traductor del texto, basado en una versión catalana que, a su vez, depende del texto y comentario en francés a cargo del gran humanista galo Raoul de Presles (1316-1382), autor, entre otras destacadas obras, de la traducción al francés de la Biblia.
Debemos a uno de los miembros de BETA, Óscar Perea Rodríguez, la noticia de la existencia de tres nuevas fuentes de la citada traducción de García del Castillo hasta ahora desconocidas para la amplia mayoría de la comunidad académica. Se trata de los manuscritos X.430.2 (lib. 1-9; BETA manid 6371), X.430.1 (lib. 10-17; (BETA manid 6370) y X.430.3 (lib. 18-22; (BETA manid 6369) conservados en el Metropolitan Museum de Nueva York, los cuales, en conjunto, contienen todo el texto de los 22 libros de La ciudad de Dios. Por lo tanto, el primer gran avance que nos proporciona este descubrimiento es que por primera vez podremos examinar el contenido de los libros 1-7, ausente en los dos códices escurialenses conocidos hasta ahora.
Como indica el escudo de armas que figura al inicio del ms. X.430.1 (un castillo con tres torres de oro y azur sobre fondo de gules, coronado con un capelo episcopal), los tres manuscritos se copiaron para Alfonso Carrillo de Acuña, arzobispo de Toledo (1446-1482).


Bosch, Lynette M.F. (1990), “Una atribución nueva a Cano de Aranda, miniaturista toledano”, Archivo Español de Arte, 63 (n. 249), págs. 69-79.
Native American Heritage Month
November is National Native American Heritage Month! We’ve compiled a list of fiction, memoirs, and poetry for you to check out. Visit the Native American Heritage Month website for more information and live events.
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Angeline Boulley
Marcie Rendon
Morgan Talty
Debra Magpie Earling
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
See more here. Do you have a favorite? Tell us on Twitter!
Workshop: Copyright and Fair Use for Digital Projects
Copyright and Fair Use for Digital Projects
Tuesday, November 8th, 11:10am – 12:30pm
Online: Register to receive the Zoom link
Tim Vollmer
This training will help you navigate the copyright, fair use, and usage rights of including third-party content in your digital project. Whether you seek to embed video from other sources for analysis, post material you scanned from a visit to the archives, add images, upload documents, or more, understanding the basics of copyright and discovering a workflow for answering copyright-related digital scholarship questions will make you more confident in your publication. We will also provide an overview of your intellectual property rights as a creator and ways to license your own work. Register here
Please see bit.ly/dp-berk for details.
Notable Books October 2022
Check out the National Book Award finalists of 2022 and celebrate the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature Annie Ernaux! You can find their work at the UC Berkeley Library. Take a peek at some of the selections below:
Tess Gunty
Annie Ernaux
Jamil Jan Kochai
Meghan O’Rourke
Imani Perry
Gayl Jones
Workshop: The Long Haul: Best Practices for Making Your Digital Project Last
The Long Haul: Best Practices for Making Your Digital Project Last
Tuesday, October 25th, 11:10am – 12:00pm
Online: Register to receive the Zoom link
Scott Peterson & Erin Foster
You’ve invested a lot of work in creating a digital project, but how do you ensure it has staying power? We’ll look at choices you can make at the beginning of project development to influence sustainability, best practices for documentation and asset management, and how to sunset your project in a way that ensures long-term access for future researchers. Register here
Upcoming Workshops in this Series – Fall 2022:
- Copyright and Fair Use for Digital Projects
Please see bit.ly/dp-berk for details.