Selected Publications

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Reports

Creating Value and Impact in the Digital Age Through Translational Humanities (2013)
Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information. The Final Report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (2010)
Survey of the State of Audio Collections in Academic Libraries (with David Randal Allen and Karen Allen) (2004)
Access in the Future Tense (2004)
New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive? (2003)
Strategies for Building Digitized Collections (2001)

The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections (with Stephen G. Nichols) (2001)
Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Museums and Libraries (2001)
Authenticity in a Digital Environment (2001)
Managing Cultural Assets from a Business Perspective (with Laura Price) (2000)
The Future of the Past: Preservation in American Research Libraries (1999)
Why Digitize? (1999)

Essays

“Architectures of Memory, Past, and Future” in The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture (2019)
The Risk of Digital Oblivion, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 4, 2016
“Face the People and Speak. On the Future of Expertise and Public Conversations.” Boom: A Journal of California, Winter 2013, Vol. 3 No. 4
“The Research Library in the 21st Century: Collecting, Preserving, and Making Accessible Resource for Scholarship” in No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century (2009)
““Valuing Preservation” in Preserving Cultural Heritage (2007)
“Russian History: Is It in the Archives?” in Archives, Documentation, and the Institutions of Social Memory (2006)
Collections in the Digital Library in Digital Library Development: The View from Kanazawa (2006)
“Preservation” in Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities (2004)
“The Digital Preservation Conundrum”in Serials in the Park (2004)
“Common Cause: Taking Care of Print Collections” in Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services (2004)
“When Big Is Not Better” in EDUCAUSE Review (2004)
“Enduring Value: an Introduction” in Who Wants Yesterday’s Papers?: Essays on the Research Value of Printed Materials in the Digital Age (2003)

“What Can We Afford to Lose?” in To Preserve and Protect: the Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources, reprinted in Journal of Library Administration (2003)
“Issues in Sustainability: Creating Value for Online Users” in First Monday (2003)
“New-Model Scholarship: Destined for the Dustbin of History?” in Perspectives: Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (2003)
“Authenticity and Affect: When Is a Watch Not a Watch?” in Library Trends: Special Collections in the Twenty-first Century (2003)
Digital Preservation: An Individual Responsibility for Communal Scholarship in EDUCAUSE Review (2003)
“Digital Collection Development: Who is Doing What in the United States?” in ZfBB 48 (2001)
“The Problem of Authenticity in Digital Libraries” in Spectra (2001)
“Real Life Choices” in Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Reiger, eds. (2000)
“Setting a National Agenda: a Collaborative Plan” in Getting Ready for the 19th Century: Strategies and Solutions for Rare Books and Special Collections Librarians (1998)
“The Brilliant Career of Prince Golitsyn,” in Rhetoric of the Medieval Slavic World, Harvard Ukrainian Studies (1995)

Edited works

Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes (with Samuel Brylawski) (2006)
Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Museums and Libraries (2001)

Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis (2001)
Content, Collections, and the Web (2000)