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The 2010 Book Conference delegates and plenary speakers will gather together for the conference dinner on Sunday, 7 November at Goldene Schäfli.
Goldene Schäfli is the oldest guild pub in the city dating back to the 17th century. Join friends, colleague and plenary speakers for an evening of food and conversation amidst the historical ambiance and regional specialties of Goldene Schäfli.
To reserve your place at the dinner, or for more information, please visit the Activities & Extras webpage.
Congratulations to Adam Riggio the winner of the International Award for Excellence n the development of the book with his paper Peer Review and the Revolutionary Academic: A Kuhnian Critique.
Abstract: This paper explores what I take to be a significant activity of human thought: the creation and enforcement of orthodoxies. I do so through investigating examples with which many academics are familiar: the formations both of standards for publication in peer reviewed journals, and of our allegiances with particular traditions and predecessors in our fields. Several sociological studies of these phenomena could lead one to conclude that our current methods of academic discipline stifle the progress of many fields. When the standard for publication or recognition of the merit of academic work is based on how well the work fits with established orthodoxy, an academic field can become repetitive and moribund. However, the vocabulary of Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, can give us the ability to understand a different way of relating to orthodoxies, in which our thinking is more open to novelty and creativity.
From BBC News…
The £26m site near Swindon, Wiltshire, has 153 miles (246km) of shelving.
The library, which is entitled to a copy of every book published in the UK, had been running out of space to store works for decades.
With 1,000 new books arriving each day, the head librarian said the situation had become “desperate”.
The new warehouse has enough space to support the Bodleian for the next 20 years.
Over the next year, nearly six million books and more than 1.2 million maps will be transferred from Oxford to the storage facility.
It will be predominantly low-usage books and maps which will be stored at the 13-acre site, 28 miles from Oxford.
More popular items and special collections – including four original manuscripts of the 13th century Magna Carta – will remain in Oxford. More…
From Triplecanopy…
In 2004, Bob Stein founded the Institute for the Future of the Book, with the goal of finding new models for publishing as it moved from the page to the screen, from the enclosed world of the individual reader to the networked one of the Internet. While innovative for its own time, the Institute’s mission built on Stein’s decades of experience exploring the frontiers of electronic publishing, whether with Atari, the Criterion Collection, or Voyager. Long before the popularization of the Internet, the tools that Stein developed for publishing with floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and LaserDiscs laid the groundwork for dramatic shifts in how we interact with (formerly) printed media. Much of his work proposed hybrid formats, combining the referential nature of books with the visual appeal of films, using computers to turn texts into what Stein was already calling, in the mid-’80s, “user-driven media.” Today these hybrids seem natural, but the history of publishing and technology prior to the Web, which has largely gone unrecorded, suggests that the evolution of the medium was not prescribed, but rather spurred by the experiments of Stein and his cohorts. The Public School New York invited Stein to discuss his work with Dan Visel, a researcher at the Institute for the Future of the Book. Their conversation spans Stein’s entire career, charting a prehistory of online publishing that continues to be a source of inspiration and innovation. More…