Rare Book School
Preliminary Reading List

Digitizing the Historical Record

Andrew Stauffer

Preliminary Advices

Required Reading

1. Furlough, Mike. “What We Talk About, When We Talk About Repositories.” Reference & User Services Quarterly (49:1, 18-23). And see updated version, prepared for Hacking the Academy: http://www.personal.psu.edu/mjf25/blogs/on_furlough/2010/05/sepulchres.html
2. Malpas, Constance. “Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment.” OCLC Research. January 2011. http://ww.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-01.pdf
3. McDonough, Jerome. “XML, Interoperability and the Social Construction of Markup Languages: The Library Example.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 3:3 (Summer 2009). http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000064/000064.html
4. McGann, Jerome. “On Creating a Usable Future.” Profession 2011, pp. 182-95. http://www.mlajournals.org/toc/prof/2011/1
   
5. Scholarly Communication Institute 9 Report (2011): “New-Model Scholarly Communication: Road Map for Change” http://www.uvasci.org/current-institute/sci-9-report/
6. Smith, Abby, “The Research Library in the 21st Century: Collecting, Preserving, and Making Accessible Resources for Scholarship.” No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century (August 2008). http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub142/smith.html

   Recommended Reading

   Read these if you have time, before or after the course.

7. Companion to Digital Literary Studies, ed. Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).
    
   Chapters 6, 24, and 30 are the most obviously relevant.
8. Deegan, Marilyn and Kathryn Sutherland, eds. Text Editing, Print and the Digital World (Ashgate, 2009).
    
   Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 9 are most relevant to the course.
9. Grafton, Anthony. “Apocalypse in the Stacks? The Research Library in the Age of Google.” Daedalus 138.1 (2009): 87-98.