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 »
Journalism
“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 »
“Hot Type: New Forms of Scholarship in a Digital World Challenge the Humanities”
I report on "Online Digital Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come," a conference held at UVa in late March. What was hot? "Social editions" and the idea that sometimes sustainability means knowing when to let a project die. Not so hot: traditional publishing. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Achive Watch: Civil Rights Over There”
A look at The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany," an online archive devoted to the experiences of black GIs in Germany after World War II:The domestic history of the American civil-rights movement is well known to scholars. Less familiar is the movement's international side, especially as it played out in Germany, where African-American GI's stationed after World War II helped spread its ideas. The transatlantic influence worked in the other direction, too, as those soldiers brought their experience in fighting for democracy home to the United States." Read More at Wired Campus »
“A Shakespeare Scholar Takes on a ‘Taboo’ Subject”
In a new book, Contested Will, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro argues that Stratfordians and anti-Stratfordians have more in common than they admit or acknowledge. All sides want to find autobiography in the plays of William Shakespeare--a habit that Shapiro, a firm Stratfordian, says is the wrong approach. Read More at The Chronicle Review »
