this is the only mention of libraries in the body of this essay.

i’d suggest replacing Friendster with facebook.

the events that HASTAC has organized, or is currently organizing, are really inspired. that said, i strongly believe that engaging undergraduates in digital media and culture is so much more *productive* than engaging graduate students. i am not suggesting either – or. however, i would like to hear more about how peer-to-peer learning affects undergraduate digital literacy and digital creation.

conferences that attract faculty and graduate students already exist. what we need, i think, are massively distributed digital projects designed and built by massively distributed undergraduates.

U Tube should be YouTube.

i strongly encourage the authors to rethink the notion of institutions as mobilizing networks but this time insert libraries into the mix. academic libraries are:

* the cultural and intellectual hearts of campuses;
* the physical spaces where interdisplinarity works best and most often;
* unlike professors who often hoard knowledge, libraries are tasked with disseminating and sharing knowledge;
* many libraries are immune (or somewhat immune) to the turf wars that mark disciplinary work. getting multiple academic libraries to collaborate is infinately easier, i believe, than getting multiple, say, english departments to collaborate.

i strongly encourage the authors to consider the role of academic libraries in the future of learning institutions in a digital age.

the comments page (which doesn’t allow comments – thus, i’m commenting here) says: “This page contains a running transcript of all conversations taking place inside the Iraq Study Group Report.” yikes!

how about including hyperlinks to all HASTAC events? so, in this case, hyperlinking to Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, to technoSpheres, etc. then readers can get a sense of the richness of these events.

also, in general, i suggest linking as much as possible!