blue oak
Kristin’s
website continues to grow and merits your BookMark.
pergamena parchment
Jesse Meyer has a
website describing his wonderful vellums and parchments.
art of the book link
Randy Silverman has kindly linked his students to FotB. View his excellent
syllabus for the Art of the Book at Emporium University.
scholarly communication trends
Turns out that the revolution in scholarly communication is a side effect of word processing, rather than any acceptance of on-line publication as a book equivalent. The new
CIC Report predicts every utilization of digital research methods, but no deviation from a full reliance on the print monograph.
the B word
A new joint program promses to return the B word (book) to the L word (library) in the context of an “information school”. The University of Iowa Center for the Book will now enroll library school students in a joint MLS/Certificate diploma. This is an excellent initiative of Christine Pawley, the
SLIS scholar of the history and sociology of reading.
extreme interdisciplanarianism
The most extreme interdisciplinary group on campus is the
UI Collection Coalition. This group is the progenitor for an official Collections Advisory Committee soon to be created under an emerging, campus-wide collections policy.
migration of the Center
The University of Iowa Center for the Book is migrating to the
Department of Interdisciplinary Programs. Adminstrative efficiency and enrollment growth are anticipated. Elaborations of the interdisciplinary quality of book studies will follow including the UICB cross over to other DIP components.
information universe school
Not time and space, but information surrounds us. Professor Danielle Plumer has kindly linked to FotB at her
Information Technologies and Professions course site.