What kind of research environment will libraries have to operate 20 years from now? To help its members plan for possible futures, Association of Research Libraries did some prognosticating. Note: I was surprised to see how many readers read the scenarios as gloomy. See the comments on the story. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
Writing
“National Digital Library Spurs Conversation About ‘Cultural Patrimony'”
What makes a national library national anyway? Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
“Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight”
In the first of a two-part series, I talk to a couple of researchers who've investigated link rot and what it means for scholarship when URLs in journal articles go bad. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Finding an Editor–or Lots of Them–in the Crowd”
A writer decides to upload a working draft of his novel to Amazon's Kindle store and sell it for 99 cents a download. What he really wants, though, is editorial feedback. Read More at PageView (CHE) »
“One Step Closer to a National Digital Library”
I talked to Robert Darnton, the historian who directs the Harvard University Library, about how plans for a Digital Public Library of America are shaping up. Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
