Will Nixon's grand-jury testimony from June 1975 help settle debates about what the president really knew and did during Watergate? A prominent Watergate historian and several historical associations have petitioned a federal court to open the records. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
Writing
“Conference Describes How to Find–and Make Findable–Information in a Digital Sea”
A report on the Ithaka group's Sustainable Scholarship 2010 conference, whose theme this year was "Discovering Scholarly Content." Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Digitizing the Personal Library”
A book-loving scholar living in a space-challenged New York City apartment with a toddler and 3000 books decides to digitize his personal library. How does that feel? Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
“Bourbon, Thoroughbreds, and Digital Curation”
Librarians at the University of Kentucky employ a combination of strategies to manage digital collections, including a hundred years' worth of the Daily Racing Form (America's turf authority")." Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
“Publishers Join Forces to Sell E-Books to Libraries”
The strength-in-numbers approach: Four university presses organize a multi-press consortium to sell digital monographs to libraries, Project MUSE gets ready to debut MUSE Editions next year, and JSTOR has some serious conversations with publishers about whether it should branch out into e-books. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
