Hi, Russ, and also other Inkshedders,
I've just been thinking of you all -- with thankfulness and many happy
memories -- as I go through the Inkshed archives in preparation for
transferring the newsletters at least (and possibly other items) to a
publicly accessible "back room" of the CASDW website. Yes, the extensive
Inkshed storehouse at St. Thomas is now gone, but the newsletters and
conference materials are still online at the old Inkshed address,
inkshed.ca <http://www.inkshed.ca>. The new (though soon to be retired
as well) Inkshed website at www.inkshed.ca/blog/
<http://www.inkshed.ca/blog/> has a small coloured link to these
Archives at the top right of each page.
There are a few gaps in the newsletter files, and I've been working to
fill them in. If anyone at all has electronic files (preferably PDF) for
Volume 15 from 1997 or Volume 16 (issues 1 and 2) from 1997-8, for
instance, I'd be glad to put them into the collection. That would save
me the trouble of scanning the hard copies I happen to have on hand.
Russ, I'll be in touch about a few technical matters, but I can say that
Inkshed is still alive online and will stay that way for a while longer.
More news and a new URL soon....
Margaret
On 1/16/2018 2:22 PM, Russell Hunt wrote:
> I've just had my memory challenged -- I'm participating tomorrow in a sort of nostalgic reminiscence about the early days of IT at St. Thomas and UNB. As a way of pinning down some dates I went back looking for early Inkshed newsletters -- and realized they've been lost to link rot. As I poked around the Inkshed.ca Web site, I realized that, since last spring the surviving Shedders agreed that it was over, the Web site and its ancillary documents (mainly the issues of the newsletter and the archive of CASLL and CASLL-L) need to be converted into an archive, and arrangements made for it to survive. I'm currently facing the same issue with my own Web site (the server it lives on is about to be decommissioned), so I'm looking at ways of doing that.
>
> In order to start, though, I need to regain access to the Web site. I'm assuming the person to contact is probably Roger, but it's possible that Margaret or Tania, or someone else I'm not thinking of, might know how to do that. So I'm using what's left of the list to put out a general call for help. Anyone? (Email me off list, at [log in to unmask]).
>
> There's not much I miss about academia since I began what Victor Brombert, on today's _New Yorker_ blog, calls my "permanent sabbatical." The Inkshed community, however, is something I do still miss, as I was reminded reading the last postings on the CASLL-L list.
>
> -- Russ
>
> Russ Hunt
> Professor Emeritus of English
> St. Thomas University
> http://www.stu.ca/~hunt
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