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“What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like”

Feb. 13, 2018 | EdSurge

Has it really been 10 years? The Office of Digital Humanities at the NEH celebrated a decade of supporting seminal digital scholarship recently, and I was there to mark the occasion. Read More at EdSurge »

“Pop Up Archive Filled a Need for Audio Archiving, and Apple Noticed”

Dec. 20, 2017 | Humanities

"Whatever lies ahead, during its five-year existence Pop Up Archive helped accelerate a collective and rapidly evolving effort to get a handle on audio archives, accidental or otherwise. That Pop Up Archive won the intense support it did in a short time span speaks to the pressing need felt not just by radio producers and broadcasters but by galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, too." Read More at Humanities »

“The Character of Its Content”

Dec. 7, 2017 | Princeton Alumni Weekly

My alma mater's alumni magazine asked me to profile Peter Dougherty, the outgoing director of Princeton University Press, and I was happy to oblige. Read More at Princeton Alumni Weekly »

“The Copyright Mavericks”

Nov. 30, 2017 | Slate

Is there a workaround that allows libraries to make digitized copies of some copyrighted material publicly accessible? Looks that way. The Internet Archive (the geniuses behind the Wayback Machine) and a crack copyright scholar are testing the limits of a little-known section of the copyright code.

(N.B. I hadn't written for Slate for a while, and I'm thrilled to be contributing now to Slate's Future Tense.) Read More at Slate »

“Old Ways Meet New Tech (and New Students) at Meeting of Library and Academic Leaders”

Nov. 30, 2017 | EdSurge

Sometimes the old ways (copy machines, general-purpose digital tools) really are best. My report from the Ithaka Next Wave conference. Read More at EdSurge »

“Campus Libraries Are Centers of Information, But Not of Diversity (At Least Among Librarians)

Aug. 30, 2017 | EdSurge

My writeup of a new report from Ithaka S&R, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, about diversity (or the persistent lack thereof) among librarians at research universities, in spite of a number of attempts to improve the situation. Read More at EdSurge »

“What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of Library Books?

Aug. 10, 2017 | EdSurge

Among other things, it gave us (or at least expedited) the HathTrust Digital Library, and it made possible scholarship like this. Read More at EdSurge »

“When You’re Ready to Move From Summer Reading to Summer Writing”

June 10, 2017 | The Washington Post

Writers retreats for every palate (if not every budget). Read More at The Washington Post »

“Colleges, Libraries and Presses Team Up to Publish Open Scholarship (And Rethink Model)”

April 11, 2017 | EdSurge

My debut as a contributing writer for EdSurge. It's good to be back on the library/publishing beat. Read More at EdSurge »

“Marching With Audre Lord and Virginia Woolf”

Jan. 23, 2017 | The Times Literary Supplement

My first-hand report from the Women's March in Washington, D.C. Vive la revolution. Read More at The Times Literary Supplement »

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What happened to Google's effort to scan millions of library books? Quite a lot, actually. I wrote about it for EdSurge.

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