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) »
Journalism
“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) »
“E-Books: What a Librarian Wants”
I talked to a top eletronic-resources librarian at the University of Chicago Library about what he likes to see when he goes shopping for digital monographs. Read More at PageView (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) »
“Reason for Hope Survives in Academic Publishing Despite a Month of Bad News”
A Hot Type column in which I argue that a few pieces of bad news does not equal a trend. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
