[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxgQIAHX8kg&w=560&h=315] Here is Grossman at Perspectives on History: Access to research materials—both print and digital—is crucial for any historian engaged in scholarship and teaching. For historians working outside of well-resourced colleges and universities, gaining access to these materials has become...
Here is Jim Ambuske of Mount Vernon at the blog of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: The historian’s craft is a collaborative enterprise. For all of the long days and quiet nights we spend laboring...
This is the argument of Portland Community College librarian Meredeth Farkas in a piece at The New Republic.Farkas chides outgoing Librarian of Congress James Billington for, among other things, not modernizing the Library and bringing it fully into the digital world.She writes:President...
Press release from the DPLA website: BOSTON — The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced today $594,000 in new funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to research potential sustainability models and to pursue the most promising option (or...
G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian, talks about his new free e-book, Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWvpBXoDN64]...
It launched about an hour ago. Jonathan Wilson tells us more. Here is a taste of his post at The Junto: At noon Eastern today, the Digital Public Library of America will launch a beta version of its “discovery portal,”  allowing...
