big heads
“Wonderful exchange. Is Google Books more like a library (Paul) (Duguid), or more like a search catalog (Patrick) (Leary)? I find Patrick closer to the mark, in that Google Books is a hybrid between a catalog and a library, or what I think of a networked universal text. Its value lays in the collective, even if the individual units are imperfect — and they are very imperfect. The new text is searchable, actionable, and animated in a way that neither libraries, books, or even catalogs in the past were.” Kevin Kelly
arch-ival
SLART will soon assume the avatar of print, Ink-Jet. Experience this transcendance.
equal time
Advocates for screen based reading should advocate equally for print since any trend away from the skills and exercise of print reading will also signal a trend away from reading in any mode.
Under the News (”A Nation of Non-readers”)
Print is Dead (”Better Dead Than Read”)
The same goes for
advocates of diversified scholarly publishing who should also demonstrate correlated support for libraries and their missions to expand reading and literacies.
linked links
The
Banff Centre has kindly linked to FotB and MIT Preservation has also linked to our little outpost.
university publishing beyond books
The University of Michigan
Ithaka report is awaiting comments in
CommentPress format.
A discussion on academic publishing without books is as possible as a discussion of publishing confined to print. Meanwhile a discussion of the relation and possible symbotics of screen and print research goes on at SHARP-L.