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Archives for February 2008

Monthly archives for February, 2008

“Online Is Not Cheaper”

February 29, 2008

My latest story for the Chronicle looks at lessons learned from Gutenberg-e, the high-profile digital-history monograph series created by Columbia University Press and the Columbia Libraries in collaboration with the American Historical Association. It has quietly added an open-access option. It has also switched its subscription model from in-house to the Humanities E-Book project run… Continue reading »

“An Expert Writer Must First Become an Expert Reader”

February 22, 2008

I’ve been getting questions about the new, reading-heavy recommendations for undergraduate creative-writing instruction that I wrote about not long ago for the Chronicle (subscription required). The guidelines, put together by the AWP (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs), have now been posted on the group’s website as part of the 2008 AWP Director’s Handbook…. Continue reading »

Mixing It Up With the Post-Avant

February 19, 2008

I have been accused, from time to time, of being a mixer. My husband likes to remind me of the time that I posted a perfectly innocent question–about the pros and cons of circumcision–to a parenting listserv. Before long, the pro- and anti- camps were hurling accusations of genital mutilation and cultural imperialism at each… Continue reading »

“Your Whole Life Has Been a Crushing Failure”

February 15, 2008

Librarians get their own web series, “Erik the Librarian,” courtesy of “The Office” scribe Brent Forrester. Speak Quietly has the skinny and a clip. Worth the three minutes and 25 seconds of your life that you will spend watching it. (Link via LIS News.)

Content and Discontent

February 13, 2008

Over at Print Is Dead, Jeffrey Gomez has posted a report from this week’s O’Reilly Tools of Change confab NYC. Depending on how devoted you are to the idea of the solitary writer/reader, you will find it either bracing or alarming. According to Gomez, one panelist, Stephen Abram, talked about how Wiki-style creation (context, in… Continue reading »

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