Jennifer Howard
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited The Future History of the Book: Time, Attention, Convention in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAnxieties abound regarding the ostensible obsolescence of the book. Exploring whether the book is in fact becoming obsolete — and what it might mean if it were — requires thinking distinctly about the specific material form of the book (the codex) and about the content that it has long carried. If the form were to change — becoming digital, for i…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited The Future History of the Book: Time, Attention, Convention in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAnxieties abound regarding the ostensible obsolescence of the book. Exploring whether the book is in fact becoming obsolete — and what it might mean if it were — requires thinking distinctly about the specific material form of the book (the codex) and about the content that it has long carried. If the form were to change — becoming digital, for i…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited The Future History of the Book: Time, Attention, Convention on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago
Anxieties abound regarding the ostensible obsolescence of the book. Exploring whether the book is in fact becoming obsolete — and what it might mean if it were — requires thinking distinctly about the specific material form of the book (the codex) and about the content that it has long carried. If the form were to change — becoming digital, for i…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago
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Rosemary G. Feal started the topic NLRB rules that grad students can unionize in the discussion
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe National Labor Relations Board issued a decision on 23 August “that student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act.” https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-student-assistants-covered-nlra-0
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months ago
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Sarah Werner's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
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Sarah Werner deposited Looking for a radically open digital landscape in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe digital landscape has the potential to open up rare books and manuscript libraries. If they used to be places where selected people were invited in to witness the display of special items, and those with sufficient expertise were allowed to use items under careful supervision, they now can become radically more open. More institutions are…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Looking for a radically open digital landscape in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe digital landscape has the potential to open up rare books and manuscript libraries. If they used to be places where selected people were invited in to witness the display of special items, and those with sufficient expertise were allowed to use items under careful supervision, they now can become radically more open. More institutions are…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Looking for a radically open digital landscape on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
The digital landscape has the potential to open up rare books and manuscript libraries. If they used to be places where selected people were invited in to witness the display of special items, and those with sufficient expertise were allowed to use items under careful supervision, they now can become radically more open. More institutions are…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOpen access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOpen access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOpen access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago
Open access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Sarah Werner's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years ago
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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