Last year my colleague Sheila Brennan and I spent some time trying to make sense of the lessons we’d learned from several years of work on the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank–a project that Sheila did the vast majority of the heavy lifting on here at CHNM. The essay we wrote about our experiences is now…
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Stalin’s Ghost
This news is not new, nor it is — alas — very surprising. But it is terrible nonetheless. Acting on what appear to be very trumped up charges, Russian authorities raided the offices of the St. Petersburg based human rights group Memorial in mid-December and seized the extensive files Memorial has gathered on the history…
Yet Another Attempt at Digital Books
I’ve been thinking about digital books a lot lately. Perhaps it’s because I was on a panel at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies that was devoted to the future of Slavic library collections archives in the digital age. I’m also on the editorial board of a print-on-demand…
Watching Gustav, Remembering Katrina
Over the weekend the American news media was as focused on Hurricane Gustav as it was on the Republican National Convention. Naturally there were numerous comparisons between the response to Gustav and the non-response to Katrina almost exactly three years ago. These reminders of the disaster that was Katrina have brought lots of people to…