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...Darnton will take the helm at a time when digital collections—including Google’s book-scanning project—are playing an ever-growing role in the University’s holdings...
...Professor Darnton seemed born for this position,” Hyman, who chaired the advisory committee for the search, wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday. “He is a profound scholar, a historian and lover of the book, who is also quite at home with bits and bytes...
...Darnton, 68, will return to his alma mater after teaching at Princeton for nearly 40 years. He spent his undergraduate years in Adams House and later served as a junior fellow on the Society of Fellows...
...Darnton, a scholar in the “history of the book,” said in an interview yesterday that the prospect of taking over the largest university library system in the world was “daunting—quite a responsibility...
...professor, Darnton has embraced online media. Among other projects, he is helping to create an online archive of the correspondence between four of the Enlightenment’s greatest thinkers, and is writing a book that he plans to release both in print and digitally...