Collecting New Media

Course Readings

January 17 / Review Syllabus, Introductions

• Benjamin, W. (1968). Unpacking My Library. A Talk about Book Collecting. In H. Arendt (Ed.), Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books. [Blackboard]
• Dibbell, J. (2000). Unpacking my record collection. Retrieved from http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/feed_records.html
• Harlem.org: iTunes versus Jazz Preservation http://www.harlem.org/itunes/index.html

January 24 / Getting Excited!

• LISTEN: Library Lab / The Podcast #001: James Bridle interviewed by Dan Jones:, May 11, 2011: http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/blog/2011/05/11/concrete-digital/
• Watch/Read: James Bridle — Waving at the Machines (54 minutes)
  http://www.webdirections.org/resources/james-bridle-waving-at-the-machines/)

(Re: Getting Your Head Right IRT Final Projects)

• Not Exactly Rocket Science: “There Are Some People Who Don’t Wait: Robert Krulwich on the Future of Journalism.” Text of Commencement Speech – Berkeley, May 2011. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/05/12/
• James Dyson (2011): Epicenter Wired Blog, No Innovator’s Dilemma Here: In Praise of Failure http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/04/in-praise-of-failure/all/1
• David Tate (2011) – Certain Extent Blog: The Dangerous Effects of Reading: http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/12/the-dangerous-effects-of-reading/

January 31 / Theories and Practices of Interpretation and Collecting

• Hedstrom, M., & King, J. L. (2006). Epistemic Infrastructure in the Rise of the Knowledge Economy. In B. Kahin & D. Foray (Eds.), Advancing knowledge and the knowledge economy. The MIT Press. [Blackboard]
• Akrich, M. (1992). The De-Scription of Technical Objects. In J. Bijker & J. Law (Eds.), Shaping Technology / Building Society. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Blackboard]
• Latour, B. (1992). Where are the missing masses? The sociology of a few mundane artifacts. Shaping technology/building society: Studies in sociotechnical change, 225–258. [Blackboard]

February 7 / Early Assemblages / Cabinets of Curiosities

• Wintroub Powerpoint on Cabinets of Curiosities [Blackboard]
• Geary, P. (1986). Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics. The social life of things, 169–94. [Blackboard]
• Mueller, W. (2001). Mathematical Wunderkammern. American Mathematical Monthly, 108(9), 785–796 [Blackboard]

February 14 / Early Modern Collections & Scientific Method

• Wintroub, M. (1999). Taking stock at the end of the world: Rites of distinction and practices of collecting in early modern Europe. Studies in history and philosophy of science, 30, 395–424. [Blackboard]
• Biagioli, M. (1990). Galileo the Emblem Maker. Isis, 230–258. [Blackboard]
• Shapin, S. (1984). Pump and circumstance: Robert Boyle’s literary technology. Social studies of science, 14(4), 481. [Blackboard]
• Gould, S. J. (1985). The Hottentot Venus. In The flamingo’s smile (pp. 291-305). W.W. Norton & Company. [Blackboard]

Feburary 21 / The Role of Classification In Collection Building

• Darnton, R. (1984). Philosophers trim the tree of knowledge: the epistemological strategy of the Encyclopédie. The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history, 191–215. [Blackboard]
• Bowker, G. C., & Starr, S. L. (1999). Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Chapters 9 & 10) [Blackboard]
• Haraway, D. (1984). Teddy bear patriarchy: Taxidermy in the garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936. Social Text, 20–64. [Blackboard]

February 28 /  Transitions: Personal Collections

• Melanie Feinberg (2011). Expressive bibliography: personal collections in public space. Knowledge Organization 38(2): 123-134. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~feinberg/Feinberg%20KO%202010%20preprint.doc
• Clifford Lynch (2011). Personal Digital Archiving Keynote @ Personal Archiving Conferece, 2011.. http://www.archive.org/details/PDA2011-cliffordlynch
• Marc Smith (2011). Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Personal Archiving Conference, 2011. Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA, February 23 – 25, 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/Marc_A_Smith/personal-digital-archiving-2011-charting-collections-of-connections-in-social-media
• (Then, go look at: http://smrfoundation.com/)
• (also, look at services like Percolate and OneSpot)

March 6 / Transitions: Content-Centric Institutions

• Do Books have a Future? An Interview with Robert Darnton On academia, Google Book Search and the future of electronic publishing. http://www.apieceofmonologue.com/2012/01/robert-darnton-interview-google-books.html
• Daniel Nester (2011). Is the future of physical book publishing the same as the future of reading and writing? http://wewhoareabouttodie.com/2011/02/08/is-the-future-of-physical-book-publishing-the-same-as-the-future-of-reading-and-writing/
• Paul Ford (2011). Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings? 7/18/11 http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/07/paul_ford_facebook_and_the_epiphanator_an_end_to_endings.html
• Kevin Kelly (2011). What Books Will Become, Technium Blog. http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/what_books_will.php
• Hugh McGuire & Brian O’Leary (2011). Book: A Futurists Manfiesto. O’Reilly Media. http://book.pressbooks.com/ (choose some chapters, read them. We’ll talk in class)

March 13 / No Class – Spring Break!

March 20 / Case Studies: Publishers & Book Sellers

• Lynch, C. (2010). Imagining a University Press System to Support Scholarship in the Digital Age. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 13(2). http://quod.lib.umich.edu/
• Jeremy Greenfield (December 2011). Leaked: Hachette Document Explains Why Publishers Are Relevant. Digital Book World http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2011/leaked-hachette-explains-why-publishers-are-relevant/
• Boris Kachka (2011). The New Pamphleteers: E-books are more than a publishing platform—they’re a whole new literary form. New York Magazine. http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2011/e-books/
• Jenn Webb (2011). Research and restraint: Two more things to add to your digital publishing toolkit – “Breaking the Page” author Peter Meyers on the tools, tech and future of digital publishing. http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/12/peter-meyers-breaking-the-page.html
• Jason Epstein (2010). Publishing: The Revolutionary Future. New York Review of Books. March, 2010. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/mar/11/publishing-the-revolutionary-future/

Alternate Publishing Models / Interesting Ideas:

• Annotum: ScholarlyPublishing / WordPress
• PressBooks: I think this is another WordPress plugin…
• Atavist: “publishes bestselling nonfiction stories that are longer than typical magazine articles but shorter than books…”
• Pandamian: The easiest way to publish books online
• Aquafadas: Digital Publishing System
• LeanPub: Self-Publish Your Book While You’re Writing It!
• Paper.li: Start an online newspaper today!
• Open Air: Publishing exclusively for iPad
• Inkling: Online Textbooks
• ACX: Audiobook Creation Exchange (Example in use: Neil Gaiman Presents!)
• Amazon Publishing: “Same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!”

March 27 / Case Studies: Museums (All Kinds)

• James Davis (2011). Art & Artists. Museums and the Web 2011. Philadelphia, PA. http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2011/papers/art_artists
• Gunter Weibel (2009). An Open Smithsonian, All Around. http://hangingtogether.org/?p=676
• Michelle Springer, Beth Dulabahn, Phil Michel, Barbara Natanson, David Reser,
• David Woodward, and Helena Zinkham (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Prject. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf
• Nina Simon (2009). Self Expression is Over-rated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences. http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2009/03/self-expression-is-over-rated-better.html

Exemplar New Media Situations

• New Media Art:
• Depocas, A., Ippolito, J., & Jones, C. (Eds.). (2003). Permanence through change: The variable media approach. New York, NY: Guggenheim Museum Publications. [Blackboard]
• Videogames:
• Lowood, H. (2002). Shall We Play a Game: Thoughts on the Computer Game Archive of the Future. In BITS OF CULTURE: New Projects Linking the Preservation and Study of Interactive Media. Presented at the Bits of Culture, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University. [Blackboard]
• Videogames 2: McDonough, J., Lowood, H., Kirschenbaum, M., Krauss, K., Reside, D., Donahue, R., Phelps, A., et al. (2010). Preserving Virtual Worlds: Final Report (Final Report). National Digital Information Infrastructure Program. Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress. (Chapters 1- 4) [Blackboard]

April 3 / Case Studies: Libraries & Archives

• Clifford Lynch (2009). Special collections at the cusp of the digital age: A credo. Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI and SPARC, 267. http://publications.arl.org/ps028.pdf
• Robert Darnton (2008). Library in the New Age. New York Review of Books, June 2008. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/jun/12/the-library-in-the-new-age/
• Maria Popova (2011). Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/08/accessibility-vs-access-how-the-rhetoric-of-rare-is-changing-in-the-age-of-information-abundance/
• Clay Shirky (2012). Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users. http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/01/newspapers-paywalls-and-core-users/
• Scott Sherman (2011). Upheaval at the New York Public Library. http://www.thenation.com/print/article/164881/upheaval-new-york-public-library
• Andy Wright (2011). As Big Libraries Suffer, Micro-Libraries Spring to Life. http://www.baycitizen.org/literature/story/micro-libraries-viracocha-comics-bay/1/
• Jonathan Shaw (2010). Gutenberg 2.0: Harvard’s Libraries Deal with Disruptive Change. Harvard Magazine May-June 2010. http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/gutenberg-2-0?page=all
• Lisbet Rausing (2010). Toward a New Alexandria: Imagining the Future of Libraries. The New Republic. http://www.tnr.com/print/article/books-and-arts/toward-new-alexandria

Exemplar Library Apps

• Scriblio: Open Source CMS and OPAC
• Open Library dot org: Open, editable, library catalog

April 10 / New Challenges: Expertise & Gatekeeping

• Maria Bustillos (2011). Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert
  http://www.theawl.com/2011/05/wikipedia-and-the-death-of-the-expert
• Katerina Gkoutziouli (2012). Curating in a new media age
  http://www.curating.info/archives/566-Curating-in-a-new-media-age.html

April 17 / New Challenges: Communication

• The Woman Who Gave It to Bill Keller About Twitter—on Twitter JUN 22 2011 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/the-woman-who-gave-it-to-bill-keller-about-twitter-on-twitter/240858/
• Storified by Tim Carmody, April 2011- I happen to have that research right here, Mr Keller
  http://storify.com/tcarmody/the-day-zeynep-tufecki-dropped-a-bundle-of-knowled

April 24 / Course Wrap Up: Digital Curation

• Sarah Rottman Epps (2010) Ars Techna: Curated Computing: What’s Next for Devices in a Post iPad World. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/05/curated-computing-whats-next-for-devices-in-a-post-ipad-world.ars
• Crane, G. (2006). What Do You Do with a Million Books? D-Lib Magazine, 12(3). URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/crane/03crane.html.
• Bruce Sterling (2010). Atemporality for theCreative Artist. Keynote @ Transmedia 10, Berlin. February 2010. http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/02/atemporality-for-the-creative-artist/
• Lynch, C. (2006). Research Libraries Engage the Digital World: A US-UK Comparative Examination of Recent History and Future Prospects. Ariadne Issue 46. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/lynch/

May 1 / Presentations