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work_ntjq364fibgxbhnlzsfbktevre	Paul Fyfe	Technologies of Serendipity	2015.0	6	.pdf	application/pdf	2170	166	49	In reckoning with the digital restructuring of the scholarly discourse network circa 2004, Patrick Leary begins with a story. trying to find specifics amid superabundance, whether in terms of the Victorian archive or networked digital information.3 Instead, that characteristic research experience has been absorbed into the technological routines framework.4 Digital materials have proliferated since "Googling the Victorians" but so too have the contexts in which we encounter them, including the very tools and platforms which circumscribe the digital objects Archive.11 At the British Library, the Digital Scholarship Department created "The Mechanical Curator" to push "randomly selected small illustrations and ornamentations" from seventeenthto nineteenth-century books books' author."16 These visual discovery interfaces may be especially relevant for nineteenth-century texts and periodicals which, because of their Perhaps the field of periodicals research should especially embrace serendipity in its technologies and scholarly techniques. accessed October 3, 2013, http://www.google.com/about/company/history; web.archive.org/web/20041218121347/http://www.google.com.	./cache/work_ntjq364fibgxbhnlzsfbktevre.pdf	./txt/work_ntjq364fibgxbhnlzsfbktevre.txt