What happens to libraries when more and more books are digitized and then moved off site? What happens when libraries convert shelf space to “learning commons” space? And what happens when a major media company decides to limit its content to searches run by one search engine (not Google)? The answers (or at least speculation…
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Digital Humanities Now
When I first heard about Digital Humanities Now, “a real-time, crowdsourced publication [that] takes the pulse of the digital humanities community and tries to discern what articles, blog posts, projects, tools, collections, and announcements are worthy of greater attention” I thought that, at last, there might be something that would get me tweeting. DHN went…
Grad Student Final Projects
The students in my graduate seminar “Teaching History in the Digital Age” began presenting their final projects last night and I’m very pleased with both the diversity of their work and with the degree of thinking about historical thinking that their projects reflect. To give you an idea of what they’re working on, here are…
The Future of History
I’ve been spending a lot of time of late clearing out the house my parents lived in from 1965-2009 and among the many, many boxes of junk in the attic I found some old folders of mine from (shudder) high school. Among the many things I found was an editorial I had clipped from the…