{"id":60,"date":"2018-03-31T19:16:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T19:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jillholman.com\/librarian\/?p=60"},"modified":"2018-03-31T19:16:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T19:16:22","slug":"documents-that-changed-the-way-we-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillholman.com\/librarian\/documents-that-changed-the-way-we-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Documents that Changed the Way We Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-62\" src=\"http:\/\/ecngx285.inmotionhosting.com\/~jillho5\/librarian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/janescover-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jillholman.com\/librarian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/janescover-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jillholman.com\/librarian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/janescover-1.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>I love this book!<\/p>\n<p>It came out last year and the author makes unexpected choices. We learn about things we might not have thought of as documents, such as the AIDS quilt, but they do of course document something significant. He only includes well-known documents if there is an extra twist that we don\u2019t already know.<\/p>\n<p>The stories are so interesting! For example . . .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Considering Alfred Nobel&#8217;s will, it is a wonder we have the Nobel prizes at all<\/li>\n<li>John Snow&#8217;s cholera map was really innovative at the time<\/li>\n<li>Fannie Farmer really made an impact with her cookbook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The author was a favorite professor of mine from when we were both at the University of Michigan. He is not an historian. His field is information science and so he wants to know how a document got written. Who wrote it? How did it come to be? As he says, \u201cI look at the world through information-colored glasses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the author brings up issues to ponder around documents such as . . .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does it mean to be an author?<\/li>\n<li>Documents that don&#8217;t exist can have a great impact<\/li>\n<li>The changing nature of document formats, especially going from physical items to digital versions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There also are a couple of recorded book talks available, which were given\u00a0after the book was published. Janes includes some information that was not in the book, especially, there are more pictures!\u00a0He prompts us to consider more issues around power and questions such as how are we recorded and documented now and by whom?<\/p>\n<p>Check out the book talks here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ikhKml1YxdQ\">Book talk via Choice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J225iRPC7gY\">Book talk at the National Archives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>More Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/05\/documents-that-changed-the-way-we-live-podcast-by-uws-joe-janes-now-a-book\/\">Brief interview from the University of Washington<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ischool.uw.edu\/podcasts\/dtctw\">Check out the podcast<\/a> that preceded the book<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this book! It came out last year and the author makes unexpected choices. 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