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New Walter Ong website

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Just in time for the Media Ecology Association’s tenth annual convention here at SLU, Pius Library has launched a new and improved website to showcase the Walter J. Ong papers in our collection.  The site, which will be known as the Walter J. Ong Archives at Saint Louis University, is available at the following URL:

http://libraries.slu.edu/special/digital/ong/index.php

The new website features an improved design and a copy of the archival finding guide to Fr. Ong’s papers.  In addition, there are digitized materials from the collection, including papers, photos, and audio recordings.  More material will be added soon, so please check back or subscribe to our RSS feed for regular updates.

Drew Kupsky
Digital Resources Librarian
Pius XII Memorial Library
Saint Louis University

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Walter J. Ong, SJ CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Breaking News:

Saint Louis University has established a new center of excellence with the creation of theWalter J. Ong, SJ, Center for Language and Culture. The Ong Center honors the work of Walter J. Ong, SJ (1912–2003), an internationally renowned scholar who spent his career in teaching and research at Saint Louis University, where he was Professor of English and of Humanities in Psychiatry, and later University Professor.  [Read more.]

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Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan

Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Libraries and Archives Canada has launched Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan, a digital archive project to both introduce and discuss the legacy of these two great media theorists. From the introduction:

The main goal of this website is to introduce and discuss the ideas of two great Canadian thinkers in the field of communications – Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan — both of whom had an enormous influence on the foundation and direction of the study of modern communications. To this end, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has collaborated with two academics in the field – Dr. Sandra Gabriele and JoAnne Stober, a doctoral candidate – to give an overview of the works of Innis and McLuhan, and to comment on their legacies (see Innis, McLuhan, and Forum).

As with its other websites, LAC has endeavoured to illustrate the current theme with photographs, manuscripts, and audiovisual materials from its own collections, as well as from the University of Toronto, which holds a rich collection on Harold Innis, including his private papers. Given that both of the thinkers featured in Old Messengers, New Media were concerned with media’s role in, and effects on, society and knowledge, it is interesting to consider what McLuhan and Innis would have thought about their ideas being presented through such a variety of media, including the World Wide Web.

Cross-posted to Machina Memorialis.

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