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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.
- Disciplinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that every age was an age of information, each in its own way and according to the available media.
- Celebrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.
- Exploded
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
Digital data are more fragile than printed material.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020