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Google Book Search

Posted on November 30, 2005 by Mills

On Monday I attended a talk sponsored by the Center for History and New Media and the Visual Knowledge Project on Google’s plans to digitize essentially every book in several major university or research libraries (Michigan, Stanford, Oxford, Harvard, New York Public Library). The speakers were Clifford Lynch from the Coalition for Networked Information and…

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World Digital Library?

Posted on November 28, 2005 by Mills

In case you didn’t see Librarian of Congress James Billington’s op ed piece in the Washington Post on November 21, he announces a big initiative to create a World Digital Library in which the great works of print are digitized. Guess who’s helping to pay for it? Google did you say? Give the lucky lady…

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Off the desktop

Posted on November 22, 2005 by Mills

What will happen to digital history when it moves off the desktop and into the handheld device? The day of the migration from desktop computer to handheld portable device is closing in on us fast, but will it transform what we do with digital history in the same ways that the migration from CD-Rom to…

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Digital Classrooms

Posted on November 18, 2005 by Mills

My graduate students have weighed in on the topic of “digital classrooms” in their class blog. Their postings are very instructive because they offer the view of the next generation of historians on where digital media will (and won’t) take us in the teaching and learning of history. As I read their contributions to the…

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