Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age Book Publication Will Bring Together Essays from Forum 2017
Our Forums are ongoing intellectual enterprises that will shape and contribute to programming and scholarship for years to come. Consequently, the Center is pleased to announce a forthcoming publication that brings together revised essays from participants in Forum 2017, edited by Center Director Susan Mizruchi. Like the Forum, the book, slated to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in January 2020, continues to explore some of the most pressing concerns of humanists, scholars, and citizens worldwide. Questions of what to record and how to record it touch the very core of who we are as individuals, cultures, and nations. Now, more than ever, the accessibility of curated historical information, the sharing of resources, and the uses of digitization raise questions central to democratic society.
The book is organized according to four major areas of analysis. Part I, Access, describes the innovative efforts being pursued by leading institutions and organizations to democratize access, making ever-expanding resources available on a global scale. Part II, Preservation and Community, explores the role of preservation methods in recuperating lost communities, strengthening existing communities, and creating new ones. Part III, Archival Politics, considers the practical, moral, and legal implications of destroying and restoring archives in places where the status of archives has particular political urgency. Part IV, Digital Practice, takes up methodological imperatives highlighting the ways that librarians and scholars can collaborate in the name of more holistic institutional understandings of digital work.
To explore these issues further and for more information about the Forum 2017 we invite you to visit the archive here.