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 »
Writing
“Pop Up Archive Filled a Need for Audio Archiving, and Apple Noticed”
"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 Copyright Mavericks”
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”
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)
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 »
