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…
Off the desktop
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…
Digital Classrooms
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…
Changing attitudes
This past weekend I attended the national conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Salt Lake City. In addition to the usual conference activities of presenting a paper, serving as the discussant on a panel, and doing a lot of schmoozing with colleagues, I attended my first meeting of the…