Halloween

I sent a congratulatory email to Betsy Balzano today. She received a $177K grant for professional development for Rochester area teachers. I offered the services of Digital Commons.

ISSNs

I sent the ISSN application in today for Dissenting Voices; earlier this week I sent in one for Literary Onomastic Studies.
http://www.loc.gov/issn/

I'm going to give Pat a copy of the application, in case she wants to show the class what it is.

Literary Onomastics Studies

Update: Received the ISSN for this on 11/19/2014
I sent the ISSN application off today for Literary Onomastics Studies (or LOS as we prefer to call it). We now have 14/16 volumes up, with the last 2 on Elizabeth's desk for Monday. It was quite a process that included digitizing about 3200 pages from 16 volumes, breaking the package down into articles, OCRing, and uploading them. We added introductory text, both at the journal and volume level, broke the contents into Front Matter (cover, preface, TOC), Conference Papers, News Items and Back Matter (back cover containing conference photo and list of attendees). About mid-way through the upload process, I brought Elizabeth onboard. She split pdfs into articles, and I later showed her how to upload them to the system. She even went as far a re-typing (correctly formatted) an article that was totally illegible in its original form. The finally step was to assign each manuscript to an issue, arrange them and close the issue.
Once the volume was online, Greg started working on adding keywords and assigning disciplines. Next week, we'll bring Jules onboard to help out with this.

Over the summer, Greg, Ken and I worked on creating a design that would relate to the later journal (Journal of Literary Onomastics), but be informed by the design of the print edition of LOS.

The banner for Literary Onomastics Studies

As you can see we took the Peter Maxx type graphic, and added it to a banner that uses a similar font style and key pattern as the original, and the color scheme from JLO.