20 COOPER SQUARE, 5TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10003
Technologies of Memory: Digitization and the Future of the Nineteenth
Century
What is the archive of the nineteenth-century history of reading? And what
will be its content and contours in the wake of wide-scale digitization? To
address these questions, this talk looks in two directions: first, at the
evidence of use in individual nineteenth-century books and, second, at the
changing nature of academic research libraries after Google. Out of
copyright, non-rare, and often fragile due to poor paper quality,
nineteenth-century printed books are both richly served and particularly
imperiled in the new media ecosystem. As scenes of evidence, they are at
once exposed and occluded by the digitization of our library collections.
Co-sponsored by NYU Digital Humanities.
*Andrew Stauffer*
Associate Professor, Director of NINES (Networked Infrastructure for
Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship), University of Virginia
*Matthew Gold*
Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities Executive Officer,
M.A. Program in Liberal Studies. City University of New York
*Marion Thain*
Associate Director of Digital Humanities (Faculty of Arts and Science), New
York University
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