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Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities
Mark Vareschi, editor
Heather Wacha, editor
University of Wisconsin Press
728 State Street, Suite 443, Madison, WI 53706-1418
www.uwpress.wisc.edu
9780299338107, $79.95, HC, 184pp

https://www.amazon.com/Intermediate-Horizons-History-Digital-Humanities/dp/= 029933810X

Synopsis: The collaborative work of co-editors Mark Vareschi and Heather Wa= cha, "Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities" is innova= tive collection tat examines how book history and digital humanities (DH) p= ractices are integrated through approach, access, and assessment.

There are eight erudite essays by rising and senior scholars practicing in = multiple fields (including librarians, literature scholars, digital humanis= ts, and historians) that consider and reimagine the interconnected futures = and horizons at the intersections of texts, technology, and culture and arg=
ue for a return to a more representative and human study of the humanities.

Integrating intermedial practices and assessments, the editors and contribu= tors explore issues surrounding the access to and materiality of digitized = materials, and the challenge of balancing preservation of traditional archi= val materials with access. They offer an assessment in our present moment o=
f the early visions of book history and DH projects. In revisiting these pr= ojects, they ask us to shift our thinking on the promises and perils of arc= hival and creative work in different media.

"Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities" reconsiders th=
e historical intersections of book history and DH and charts a path for fut= ure scholarship across disciplinary boundaries.

Critique: Of special relevance and appeal to readers with an interest in th=
e subjects of General Library & Information Science, Communications & Media=
Studies, and Continuing Education, "Intermediate Horizons: Book History an=
d Digital Humanities" is collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Professo=
rs features fourteen illustrations, a four page listing of the contributors=
and their credentials, as well as a fourteen page Index. Impressively info= rmative and thought-provoking throughout, "Intermediate Horizons: Book Hist= ory and Digital Humanities" is a strongly recommended addition to personal,=
professional, community, college, and university library Library Science c= ollections and writer/publisher/bibliophile reading lists.

Editorial Note #1: Mark Vareschi (https://english.wisc.edu/staff/vareschi-m= ark) is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin - = Madison and the author of "Everywhere and Nowhere: Anonymity and Mediation =
in Eighteenth-Century Britain".

Editorial Note #2: Heather Wacha (https://ischool.wisc.edu/blog/staff/wacha= -heather) is a former University of Wisconsin fellow and CLIR Postdoctoral = Fellow and associate coordinator of the Center for the History of Print and=
Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She is also the = coauthor of "The Cartulary of the Abbey of Premontre: A Dual Print and Digi= tal Edition".

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