Some issues discussed at the Annual MLA Conference, December 27-30 in Chicago.

“The now-burgeoning field of the study of the book is one response to that debate. Yet technology also promised a way to reduce costs and close considerable gaps of distance between scholars and the materials they study. And the ethos of the technological revolution — openness and access — is closely aligned with that of the humanities and its stance on knowledge.

So how is this difficult transition playing out in archives, classrooms and tenure committees? A panel on Open Digital Communities , organized by the MLA’s Committee on Information Technology, offered a few glimpses into the process.”

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