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Robert Darnton's "The Great Cat Massacre"2 comments

archivemanager wrote 3 weeks ago:   Title page of volume one of the Encyclopédie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)   Darnton‘s … more →

Tags: united states, Paris, France, Mother Goose, darnton, Digital Public Library of America, Harvard University, New York Review of Books, age of enlightenment

The Digital Public Library of America Has Arrived19 comments

Joseph Esposito wrote 4 weeks ago: English: Illustration of the final chase of Moby-Dick. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Digital Public … more →

Tags: Authors, Books, controversial topics, Copyright, Reading, Research, technology, World of Tomorrow, archive.org

America's Digital Library launches -- without a peep from Google

Jeff John Roberts wrote 1 month ago: The Digital Public Library of America opened shop this week, offering access to a rich repository of … more →

Tags: Copyright, Digital Public Library of America, DPLA, google books, hathi trust, Internet Archive

America's Digital Library launches -- without a peep from Google8 comments

Jeff John Roberts wrote 1 month ago: The Digital Public Library of America opened shop this week, offering access to a rich repository of … more →

Tags: Copyright, google books, Digital Public Library of America, DPLA, hathi trust, Internet Archive

Robert Darnton – Blogging: Now and Then (250 years ago)1 comment

jannekeadema1979 wrote 1 month ago: Things have been quiet here for quite a while now but I am hoping to upload a selection of new posts … more →

Tags: Copyright, Information and knowledge, Lectures and Conferences, Reading, Remix, 18th Century, Anecdotes, Blogging, bricolage

A Library for the Digital Republic: The DPLA Is Launched

Jonathan Wilson wrote 1 month ago: Four years ago, Robert Darnton, historian and librarian at Harvard, wrote in the New York Review tha … more →

Tags: technology, News, Thomas Jefferson, digital history, Digital Humanities, Digital Public Library of America, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, DPLA, Internet Archive

Beyond the Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

c18booktrade wrote 1 month ago: I am pleased to be able to announce that the first major peer-reviewed article output of the French … more →

Tags: FBTEE database, Historical Bibliometrics, historical journal

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Is Launched2 comments

Eleanor Shevlin wrote 1 month ago: About a year ago, Anna reported on plans to launch the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) by A … more →

Tags: Digital Public Library of America, DPLA, public humanities, Research, Teaching

Digital Public Library of America

Brad Fest wrote 1 month ago: In the most recent issue of The New York Review of Books Robert Darnton discusses the 18 April 2013 … more →

Tags: Of Archival Interest, Hyperarchival Realism, Archive, hyperarchive, Digital Public Library of America, The New York Review of Books

wednesday | 3 april 2013

Marcus wrote 1 month ago: WAR AND PEACE AL QAEDA WANTS AFRICA Aris Roussinos | Vice | via Longform.org This February, after a … more →

Tags: Daily, New Yorker, New York Times, War and Peace, Work, Music, Guns, media, New York Review of Books

Digital Public Library of America will launch on April 18

Laura Hazard Owen wrote 1 month ago: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which aims to “make the holdings of America’s re … more →

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Digital Public Library of America will launch on April 18

Laura Hazard Owen wrote 1 month ago: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which aims to “make the holdings of America’s re … more →

Historical Doodle: The Unity of Europe

pwverschuren wrote 2 months ago: Europe is actually a state of mind. It began as a myth, the abduction of Europa, daughter of Agenor … more →

Tags: Historical Doodles, History, Unity, Europe, Politics, Myth, Euro, enlightenment

How a Book is a Ladder2 comments

dontpanictrent wrote 5 months ago: In one of the core courses of the program, “Public Texts I,” we were each told to do a c … more →

Tags: Don't Panic, Library of Babel, Jorge Luis Borges, tractatus logico philosophicus, Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, Home Hardware, Library

The Girl from the Hood3 comments

childtasticbooks wrote 6 months ago: It’s unforgivable really to have not updated this blog for a while. But I must admit the lates … more →

Tags: Fairy Tales, Maria Tatar, Little Red Riding Hood, Roald Dahl Little Red Riding Hood, James Thurber

Reading Review: Journal-ism

Homemaster wrote 6 months ago: I am buried in books. Strangled by sentences. Overwhelmed by words. Tomes from the library regarding … more →

Tags: Non-Fiction, academic journal, Arts, Books, iPad, journals, Kill Your Darling's, Lindsay Lohan, Literature

Building the Digital Public Library of America

zlnewell wrote 7 months ago: Building the Digital Public Library of America, 11:30-1:00 We now have the technology to create the … more →

Tags: DPLA

coarseness of thought and feeling; want of grace and taste; numerous allusions to matters of merely local interest

Lunar Camel Co. wrote 10 months ago: Via Dangerous Minds, here is Fran Lebowitz talking about NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, who she has a … more →

Tags: Video, Books, Writers, Ideas!, Around town, NYC, Mayor Bloomberg., Fran Lebowitz, Lost Illusions

Libraries Linking Past to Future3 comments

chidemkurdas wrote 11 months ago: by Chidem Kurdas A trustee of the New York Public Library, Robert Darnton, defends in the New York R … more →

Tags: Books, Institutions, The New York Review of Books, New York Public Library, New York University, Stephen Greenblatt


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