University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is Elizabeth Eisenstein's monumental history of the advent of printing and its relation to scholarship and knowledge. A foundational text of my doctoral education, it was a revelation of the sorts of questions that could and should be asked about culture and technology. Even though I am not a historian, the book served as a paradigm when I did research into newer technologies and contemporary cultures. Now that I am a librarian, the book again provides me with a model for my exploration of the new media through which knowledge is represented, produced, circulated and applied.