January 19, 2017

Melissa Homestead, Professor of English, checks out a book from the top shelf of one of the library stacks. The basement of Love Library north filled with hunters looking to document interesting bits of history in handwritten margin notes, photographs and other objects. Crowd-sourced digital humanities project, Book Traces. The event was led by Peter Capuano, associate professor of English and director of the 19th-century studies program, and Andrew Stauffer of the University of Virginia and founder of Book Traces. Book Traces lets everyone become a digital humanist and aims to identify and document the unique marginalia and items left by readers long ago, and engage the question of the future of the print record in the wake of wide-scale digitization. March 30, 2018. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.