Books by Robert Darnton
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English
review 1: I picked this up hoping to find a cousin of The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. It’s a collection of essays that turned out to be more waist-deep in the academic world than I anticipated (library acquisitions, rare books, etc). The writing was accessible and some interesting observati...
language
English
review 1: Despite the general title, Darnton's collection of essays deals mainly with research libraries and scholarly publishing (he is the director of Harvard's library after all). He discusses Google Book Search and Harvard's open access program. Darnton enlightened me on the cost of jo...