Now that so many archives have gone digital, it can be easy to forget that many collections exist only partly online, if they have a digital component at all. An interesting case is the William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz at Tulane University. I sat down with the archive's director, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, to talk about the collection, jazz scholarship, and how the brass-band tradition will not die. Read More at Wired Campus »
Journalism
“A Monk Saves Threatened Manuscripts Using Ultramodern Means”
A profile of Father Columba Stewart, a Benedictine monk who directs the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John's University in Minnesota. Father Stewart and the HMML team seek out collections of rare manuscripts held by Christian monastic communities, many in the Middle East, and help the owners make digital copies of them. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Hot Type: Obama’s Mother’s Dissertation Gets Star Treatment from Duke U. Press”
S. Ann Dunham's dissertation is published almost 15 years after its author's death. I spoke with Maya Soetoro-Ng, Dunham's daughter and President Obama's half-sister, about their mother's life and work. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Libraries Explore Big Ideas to Overcome Small Budgets”
Lean budgets and ambitious collaborative dreams are on research libraries' agendas. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“In Face of Professors’ ‘Fury,’ Syracuse U. Library Will Keep Books on Shelves”
A library plan to send some humanities books to remote storage creates an uproar among faculty. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
