Energy and enthusiasm ruled the day at a plenary meeting hosted by the National Archives. But a lot of the details of the proposed library remain unsettled. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
Journalism
“Research Librarians Consider the Risks and Rewards of Collaboration”
Big-scale collaborations and digital-era collection strategies took center stage at the Association of Research Libraries' fall membership meeting. Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
“Hemingway in His Own Words”
A handful of highlights from some of the author's just-published letters. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Hemingway’s Newly Released Letters Cast Author in New Light”
The first volume of Hemingway's collected letters is out this month. Publishing them all is expected to take 20 years. Hemingway never wanted his letters to be made public but posterity outvoted him. For this story, I got to talk to the author's surviving son, Patrick, about what the letters tell us that the biographies get wrong. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Online Platforms Begin to Test the Market for University Press E-Books”
Long-planned ebook platforms for scholarly books are beginning to go live. Which ones are likely to succeed, and will libraries sign up? Read More at Wired Campus (CHE) »
