id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16424 Lippincott, Joan K. Libraries and the Digital University 2015-03-01 13 .pdf application/pdf 7540 256 31 He notes that Paul Evan Peters, the found- ing executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), significantly influenced his thinking for his 1988 article.3 As a mark of its influence, it is interesting to note that Lewis’s article was cited beginning in 1989, shortly after its appearance, by the late Peter Graham, who was highly respected for his deep analysis of research libraries and who called Lewis one of the best thinkers about libraries, and into the early 2000s, by the late, highly esteemed librarian and author Ross Atkinson.4 While much writing in scholarly journals devoted to academic libraries takes the form of empirical studies of relatively finite topics, Lewis had the reputation for looking at the big picture and expressing his thoughts on principles, trends, and changes in practice in a mode that resonated with his peers. Humanities research has continued, by and large, to be very traditional, in both methods and modes of publica- tion; however, significant pockets of innovation with digital technologies exist. cache/crl-16424.pdf txt/crl-16424.txt