A Victorianist and a team of spectral-imaging scientists try to uncover the writing in an 1871 diary kept by the explorer in the weeks leading up to his famous encounter with Stanley. Read More at Wired Campus »
Writing
“British Libel Law Chills U.S. Scholars’ Speech, but Change Is Afoot”
A look at efforts in the U.K. to change libel laws there, and some questions about how much of a problem so-called libel tourism really is. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“The Archivist Enters the Blogosphere”
AOTUS--that's David S. Ferriero, the Archivist of the United States, head of the National Archives and Records Administrations--now has a blog called "AOTUS: Collector in Chief." AOTUS wants you, citizen archivist! Read More at Wired Campus »
“Twitter Makes It Into the Historical Record”
The Library of Congress announces that it will archive all public tweets posted since Twitter made its debut in March 2006. The historians of the future don't know what they're in for. Read More at Wired Campus »
“Scholars Increasingly Embrace Some, but Not All, Digital Media”
E-journals? Yes! E-books? Not yet. Libraries? Maybe or maybe not. A new study of faculty members by the Ithaka group has the details on how scholars conduct and publish research in this ever-more-digital environment. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
