{"id":1219,"date":"2008-03-25T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2008-03-25T12:46:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T12:46:47","slug":"major_news_ifb_and_nyu_librari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/25\/major_news_ifb_and_nyu_librari\/","title":{"rendered":"major news: IFB and NYU libraries to collaborate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/migrating_eastward.html\">alluded<\/a> to a new institutional partnership that&#8217;s been in the works for some time. Well I&#8217;m thrilled to officially announce that the we are joining forces with the NYU Division of Libraries!<br \/>\nFrom Carol A. Mandel, dean of the NYU Libraries. &#8220;IFB is a thought leader in the future of scholarly communication. We will work together to develop new software and new options that faculty can use to publish, review, share, and collaborate at NYU and in the larger academic community.&#8221;<br \/>\nRead the full press release: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/public.affairs\/releases\/detail\/2031\">NYU Libraries &#038; Institute for the Future of the Book Announce Partnership to Develop Tools for Digital Scholarly Research<\/a><br \/>\nA basic breakdown of what this means:<br \/>\n-?\u009d NYU is now our technical home. All IFB sites are running out of there with IT support from the NYU Libraries&#8217; top-notch team.<br \/>\n-?\u009d Bob, Dan and I will serve as visiting scholars at NYU.<br \/>\n-?\u009d With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/ODH\/ODHUpdate\/tabid\/108\/EntryID\/30\/Default.aspx\">recently secured NEH digital humanities start-up funding<\/a> (along with other monies yet to be raised), we will work with the NYU digital library team, headed by James Bullen, to develop social networking tools and infrastructure for <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\">MediaCommons<\/a>. This will serve as applied research for digital tools and frameworks that NYU is presently developing.<br \/>\n-?\u009d We will work with NYU librarians, with the digital library team, and with Monica McCormick, the Libraries&#8217; program officer for digital scholarly publishing, to create forums for collaboration and to develop specific projects and digital initiatives with NYU faculty, and possibly NYU Press.<br \/>\nNeedless to say, we&#8217;re tremendously excited about this partnership. Things are still being set up but expect more news in the weeks and months ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I alluded to a new institutional partnership that&#8217;s been in the works for some time. Well I&#8217;m thrilled to officially announce that the we are joining forces with the NYU Division of Libraries! From Carol A. Mandel, dean of the NYU Libraries. &#8220;IFB is a thought leader in the future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1062,1156,1546,1659],"tags":[2647],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-library","category-mediacommons","category-publishing","category-scholarship","tag-library-scholarship-publishing-mediacommons-academic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}