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Blog Tag: Books

January 29, 2025

Grant opportunities for libraries to digitize, describe, and preserve collections in 2025

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
Highlighting key 2025 grant opportunities for libraries to digitize, preserve, and describe collections, including funding for audiovisual materials and community archives. Deadlines and award amounts vary, offering multiple pathways for support.

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October 21, 2024

Frankenstein, The Vampyre, and the spirit of the humanities: Echoes from the summer of 1816

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
Discover how a ghost story contest during the summer of 1816 gave birth to Frankenstein and The Vampyre, two literary masterpieces that continue to haunt the humanities. This blog post explores the fateful gathering at Villa Diodati, the gothic themes of life, death, and ambition, and the enduring relevance of these stories in our quest to understand human nature and societal dynamics—just in time for Halloween.

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