Occasional Readings

June ’008

Dear colleagues,

The following links are to materials that those of us on FACULTY SENATE LIBRARY COMMITTEE might well find useful as background to our deliberations.

The first link is to “The Library in Your Future,” (PDF - 57MB) an article from the June 12 issue of the New York Review of Books: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514 (HTML).  Its author, Robert Darnton, is a distinguished historian of eighteenth-century culture and, more to the point here, Director of the University Library at Harvard University.  See what you think.

Soon I hope we’ll also have a link, here, to the presentation that Julia Zimmerman, Director of the FSU Libraries, gave in mid-April, wrapping up the year-long Faculty Luncheon Series, “The Constant Challenges of Academic Freedom.”

Looking forward,
Dennis Moore
2008-’009 Chair
dmoore@fsu.edu