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ISAW Library hosts the New York Classical Club Greek and Latin Recitation Contest
by David Ratzan | 04/08/2025
The ISAW Library hosted the New York Classical Club undergraduate and graduate student Greek and Latin recitation contest on April 5, 2025.
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ISAW Library Announces the launch of the Digital South Caucasus Collection
by David Ratzan | 03/21/2025
The Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World announces the beta release of the Digital South Caucasus Collection. The Digital South Caucasus Collection preserves and provides open access to historical, archaeological, and ethnographic scholarship on the ancient South Caucasus, a region that today roughly coincides with the geographical boundaries of the three countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
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Archaeological Tourism in Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad"
by Gabriel McKee | 02/14/2025
Mark Twain's 1869 book "The Innocents Abroad" is a record of a steamship trip throughout the Mediterranean, including numerous stops at major sites from antiquity. "Innocents Abroad" is prominently featured in the Grolier Club exhibition "A First-Class Fool: Mark Twain and Humor," co-curated by Gabriel Mckee, ISAW's Librarian for Collections and Services.
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NYU Special Collections accessions the archive of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
by Gabriel McKee | 02/04/2025
In October 2024, the ISAW Library assisted NYU Special Collections in accession the archive of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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ISAW Library Internship Report: Developing a Linguistic Dataset of Latin Works by Women
by Patrick J. Burns | 02/03/2025
ISAW Library Intern Lily Hegener recounts her contributions to the “Representing Women Authorship in the Latin Treebanks” (RWALT) pilot project during the Fall 2023 semester.
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ISAW Library Research Digest 2024
by David Ratzan | 01/15/2025
An update about research by ISAW library staff in 2024.
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Experimenting with the ISAW AI Librarian
by Federico Di Pasqua | 12/16/2024
A guest blog post by Federico Di Pasqua, who spent several weeks in the ISAW Library during the Fall 2024 term experimenting with deploying generative AI to find potential avenues for making ISAW Library collections and data more discoverable and useful.
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Spotlighting Islamic Spain Through NYU's Library Collections
by Mina Turunc | 12/04/2024
To complement ISAW’s new exhibition “Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain,” NYU museum studies interns Mina Turunc and Madeline Baird worked with ISAW curatorial assistant Carl Walsh and Librarian for Collections and Services Gabriel Mckee to design, write, and install two vitrine cases that explored the history of Islamic Spain through NYU Library collections and other media.
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Professor Peter Cobb (Hong Kong University) visits ISAW to discuss Augmented and Mixed Reality in Archaeological Fieldwork
by Sebastian Heath | 11/19/2024
Professor Peter Cobb of Hong Kong University visited ISAW on November 13, 2024 to discuss recent developments in the application of digital technologies to archaeological fieldwork and teaching, specifically around augmented and mixed reality applications. Professor Cobb is a prehistorian and director of the Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project (APSAP), which is conducted in collaboration with the Armenian Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography. He is also an internationally recognized expert in the application of digital technologies to fieldwork and teaching.
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