LIS520 Janes
The Monograph: Structure, History, Ancestors, Descendents
I the book and how it got that way
Kilgour, Frederick, The Evolution of the Book, chapters 1,
5, 8, 12, 1998 available
via e-reserves
Flipbacks! PhiloBiblos 6/11
The
Dog-Eared Paperback, Newly Endangered in an E-Book Age NY Times 9/3/11
You
Say God Is Dead? There’s an App for That NY Times 7/2/10
The
first printed books came with a question: What do you do with these things?
Boston Globe 8/29/10
Drescher, Elizabeth, “Medieval
Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?” Religion
Dispatches 7/12/10
What
is a book? What are the defining or
distinguishing characteristics of a book?
What’s
your opinion of Kilgour’s five characterizations of
the major innovations in the history of the book?
The
Oldest Book from the Americas
II the ebook, how it
got that way and what that might mean
Siracusa, John The once and future e-book:
on reading in the digital age ars technica
Armstrong, Chris “Books in a virtual
world: The Evolution of the e-book and
its lexicon” Journal of Librarianship
and Information Science 40 (3), 193-206 September 2008
Epstein, Jason, “The
End of the Gutenberg Era” Library
Trends 57(1), 8-16, Summer 2008
Mace, Michael Why
E-Books Failed In 2000, And What It Means For 2010 Business Insider 3/19/10
Auletta, Ken, “Publish
or Perish” The New Yorker 4/26/10
Epstein, Jason, “Publishing: The Revolutionary Future” New York Review of
Books 3/11/10
What
strikes you in these articles? What
questions do you have?
How
much of the transition to/adoption of ebooks will be
generational, do you think?
What
helps these transitions happen?
What
does an institution dedicated to the long haul do in this sort of transitional
period?
Why
has there been so much difficulty in definition of “ebook”?
How
much of Armstrong’s definition is really necessary?
What’s
the implication of works permanently in progress, as Epstein poses?
Is
information in print form different than in a digital/electronic format? How?
What
is/should be the role of the modern publisher? Librarian/ information professional?
Are
digital/ebooks the ephemera (paperbacks?) of our age?
Should they be designed for discard or preservation?
How
does the history of the ebook industry
parallel/diverge from the history of the print industry, and what can this tell
us about the future?
Hillesund, Terje,
“Digital
Reading Spaces”
First Monday April 2010
(see esp. Summary)
E-Books’
Varied Formats Make Citations a Mess for Scholars Chronicle of Higher Education 2/6/11
III the library response
Anderson, Rick, “Circulation
Trends in Major Research Libraries” Library
Journal 6/1/11
Inside
the Librarians’ Digital Library Library Journal 7/15/11
Kansas
State Librarian Argues Consortium Owns, Not Licenses, Content from OverDrive Library
Journal 6/20/11
Why
do you think the HathiTrust was launched? What’s its primary
motivations?
Why
so much attention to “workflows, policies and standardization” and
metadata? Preservation? Aggregation?
Look
at the areas covered by working groups and committees; what does that list tell
you about the project and its operation?
Are there areas missing there you find interesting?
Darnton, Robert, “A
Library Without Walls”, NYR Blog (New York Review of Books) posted 10/4/10
Digital Public Library of
America project wiki (Berkman Center, Harvard
University)
Rausing, Lisbet,
“Toward
a New Alexandria” The New Republic 3/12/10
How
would you describe the DPLA project to a friend, not in the library field? What do you think their reaction would be?
Do
you think the DPLA is a good idea? What
are its advantages and drawbacks, in your mind?
COSLA: eBook Feasability
Study for Public Libraries (HUGE pdf file, fyi)
Shaw, Jonathan, “Gutenberg 2.0” Harvard Magazine
May-June 2010
The
Future of Libraries in the E-Book Age NPR 4/4/11
The Future
of Libraries in the Digital Age NPR 12/4/04
What differences do you see (hear)
between these two stories? Why do you think
the question of the future of libraries continues to arise in the popular
consciousness?
From everything you read here, how
would you characterize the library response so far to ebooks?
UW Libraries FAQ on ebooks, netLibrary
extra the case of Google Book Search
(see
the ALA Washington Office Google Book Search website at http://wo.ala.org/gbs/ and set of links from Library Journal at http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6650383.html
)
Band, Jonathan, A
Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries and
the Google Library Project Settlement 2008
Coyle, Karen, “The
Google/AAP Settlement: What’s in it for
Libraries?” January 2009
Oder, Norman, “Fissures Evident
in Panel on Google Settlement”, Library
Journal 7/23/09
Helft, Miguel, “Advocates
Ask Google for Privacy Guarantees in Online Library”, New York Times Bits 7/23/09
Singel, Ryan, “Disability
Group Boosts Google Book Search”, wired.com Epicenter 8/7/09
Oder, Norman, “More Pushback
Against the Google Book Search Settlement”, Library Journal 8/11/09
Hadro, Josh, “Michigan Deal A
New Twist on Access to Scanned Book Content”, Library Journal 7/23/09
Sage, Alexandra, “Sony plugs Google’s
library into e-readers”, Reuters 7/29/09
Darnton, Robert, “Google & the Future of Books”,
The New York Review of Books 56 (2),
2/12/09
What
strikes you in these articles? What
questions do you have?
Is
Google Book Search a good idea? For whom? Under what circumstances?
Who might be hurt by it?
Why
(How) did “ordinary” public libraries get thrown into the Google settlement
without participating?
And why public libraries (cf. some
other entity)?
Which
of Karen Coyle’s questions do you think most important, and why? Did she miss anything?
Per
the 8/11 LJ article…who gets to say who gets what rights to what?
What
would a Google representative say to Darnton?
He
lays out 2 paths, the utopian and the jeremiad…what’s at the end of each of
those roads?
Who
is Darnton’s intended audience, do you think?
Does
any of this make you further question or rethink Kilgour’s
5 elements?
older
things
Blumenthal, Ralph. "College
Libraries Set Aside Books in a Digital Age" The New York Times (13 May 2005) available
via e-reserves
eBooks—Costs and Benefits to Academic and Research
Libraries, Springer, 2007
Young,
Jeffrey, “Book 2.0: Scholars turn monographs into digital
conversations”, Chronicle of Higher
Education 7/28/2006
Brown,
et al, University
Publishing in a Digital Age, Ithaka, July
2007
Carnevale, Dan, “Amazon
to Sell Digital Copies…” Chronicle of
Higher Education 7/6/2007
Stone,
Brad, “Are
Books Passe?” New
York Times 9/6/2007
Bell,
David A. “The
Bookless Future” The New Republic
5/2/2005
Malama, Landoni & Wilson, “What Readers
Want: A Study of E-Fiction Usability”,
DLib 11(5), May 2005
Ekman,
Richard, “The
Books Google Could Open”, Washington
Post 8/22/2006
Albanese,
Andrew, “Scan this
Book!”, Library Journal,
8/15/2007
Duguid, Paul,
“Inheritance and Loss? A Brief Survey of
Google Books”, First Monday
12(8), August 2007
“The Book, Then and Now”, Engines of
Ingenuity #1775 2003
Journal of Electronic Publishing (University of Michigan Press)
Antelope Publishing (no, seriously;
ebooks, including for children, via Web browser)
“Books Get Interactive Makeover”
bbc.co.uk, May 2004
Dreher,
Christopher, “Why Do Books Cost So Much?”, salon.com
“Electronic Books:
Reports of their Death are Greatly Exaggerated”, Online July/August 2002
Top 20 e-books from Questia, Open eBook Forum's eBook Bestseller List
(August 2004)
Publishers: Get Ready for the New ISBN!
NISO, 2003
Ditlea,
Steve, “The Electronic Paper Chase” Scientific American, Nov. 1, 2001
“Battle Over Access to Online Books”, New York Times, 6/17/2002
press release on netLibrary and Gale,
9/30/2002
Esposito,
Joseph J. "The Processed Book" First Monday 8(3) (3 March 2003)
Mellor,
Phil. "CAMiLEON: Emulation and BBC Domesday"
RLG DigiNews 7(2) (15 April 2003)
Cox,
John, “E-Books:
Challenges and Opportunities”, DLib 10 (10), October
2004
Mattison,
David, “Alice in E-book Land”, Computers in Libraries 22(9), Oct 2002