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Digitization and the Nineteenth-Century Book: Traces in the Stacks |
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Monday, Oct 27, 2014 , 4:10PM - 5:30PM Andrew Stauffer will discuss the changing nature of academic research libraries in the wake of Google, with specific reference to nineteenth-century books. Out of copyright, non-rare, and often fragile due to poor paper quality, these books are both richly served and particularly imperiled in the new media ecosystem. A massive horizon of opportunity is now opening for humanists to trace the history of language, of ideas, of books, and of reading via automated searches and visualizations of the global digital library. But we must also give sustained attention to the material record of nineteenth century reading before it disappears from our academic research libraries for good. Andrew Stauffer is an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he also direct NINES (http://nines.org), a digital scholarly organization focused on nineteenth-century studies. He is a member of a faculty of the Rare Book School, and is currently the Pinetree Fellow in the Advanced Research Collaborative at the CUNY Graduate Center. His current research focuses on book history and the nineteenth-century archive, with reference to digital technologies. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries Christine Roysdon |
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