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Education / Reading / Literacy / Scholarship Timeline Outline

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2,500,000 BCE – 8,000 BCE

The Advantages of Orally Transmitted Traditions
(Circa 30,000 BCE)

<p>Flutings at Rouffignac.  Both children and adults created cave art known as finger flutings in the French caverns of Rouffignac roughly 13,000 years ago.  Credit: Jessica Cooney / Leslie van Gelder).</p>
Pre-Historic Art Created by Children at the Cave of a Hundred Mammoths, Rouffignac
(Circa 11,000 BCE)

8,000 BCE – 1,000 BCE

A pictographic list of titles and professions in ancient Sumeria (top), with the scribe's signature on the reverse side (bottom.) (View Larger)
The Earliest Autograph Signatures
(Circa 3,100 BCE)

Hammurabi (1792-1750 BCE), the most famous of the early Babylonian kings. (View Larger)
Education in the Bronze Age in the Middle East
(Circa 3,000 BCE – 1,200 BCE)

The Abu Salbikh Tablet Lost in the Iraq War
(Circa 2,500 BCE)

1,000 BCE – 300 BCE

The ancient Greek wine jug bearing the Dipylon inscription.
One of the Oldest Records of the Greek Alphabet
(Circa 740 BCE)

The Cup of Nestor. (View Larger)
One of the Oldest Known Examples of Writing in Greek
(Circa 740 BCE – 720 BCE)

How Herodotus Used Writing and Messages in his Histories
(Circa 450 BCE – 420 BCE)

One of the earliest surviving images of anyone reading a papyrus roll, preserved in the Louvre. (View Larger)
One of the Earliest Images of Someone Reading a Papyrus Roll
(440 BCE – 435 BCE)

Socrates on the Invention of Writing and the Relationship of Writing to Memory
(Circa 370 BCE)

"The Founding Document of Mathematics"
(323 BCE – 283 BCE)

300 BCE – 30 CE

The Royal Library of Alexandria: The Largest Collection of Recorded Information…
(Circa 300 BCE)

Fragments of the Odyssey, most likely copied in Alexandria.
The Beginnings of Philology
(Circa 280 BCE)

The Earliest Treatise on Mnemonics
(Circa 90 BCE)

Sling-bolts, or bullets, engraved with a winged lightning-bolt on one side, and the words 'take that' on another. Circa fourth century BCE Athens. (View Larger)
Humorous Inscriptions on Lead Sling-Bolts (Sling Bullets; Slingshot) Reflect…
(41 BCE)

30 CE – 500 CE

The Alexamenos Grafitto. (View Larger)
Probably the Earliest Surviving Image of the Crucifixion: A Graffito
(Circa 50 CE – 250 CE)

Note-Taking Versus "Place Memory" from Antiquity through the Renaissance and Later
(Circa 50 CE – 1700)

A fresco of a Pompein couple with stylus, wax tablets, and papyrus scroll, preserved in the Museuo Archeologico Nazionale. (View Larger)
Roman Portraits Celebrating Literacy
(Circa 75 CE)

An inscription depicting a contemporaneous politician. (View Larger)
Over 11,000 Wall Inscriptions Survived from Pompeii
(79 CE)

Vindolanda Tablet 309, an inventory of wooden goods dispatched dispatched by and to civilians working for the military. (View Larger, with translation.)
The Oldest Surviving Handwritten Documents in Britain
(Circa 100 CE)

Recto of papyrus containing lines from Homer's Illiad, found at Hawara. (View Larger)
The "Hawara Homer"
(Circa 150 CE)

Commercial and Private Book Trade in 2nd Century Egypt
(Circa 150 CE)

The Diptych Document Format
(198 CE)

Origen's Hexapla: Made Possible by the Codex Form, and the First Codices to Display Information in Tabular Form
(Circa 234 CE – 253 CE)

Foundation of Imperial Nanking University
(258 CE – 317 CE)

The Porphyrian Tree: The Earliest Metaphorical Tree of Knowledge
(270 CE)

The Role of Books in the Rule of the Earliest Christian Monasteries
(318 CE – 348 CE)

A Sarcophagus Showing a Greek Physician in His Library
(Circa 320 CE)

The Most Widely Used Medieval Grammar
(Circa 350 CE)

Possibly the World's First University
(Circa 350 CE)

At the Beginning of the Dark Ages Production of New Manuscripts Essentially Ceased
(Circa 400 CE – 600)

A map of Britannia from A Classical Atlas of Ancient Geography by Alexander G. Findlay. New York: Harper and Brothers 1849. (View Larger)
The Withdrawal of Roman Legions from Britannia Results in the End of Literacy…
(410 CE – 449 CE)

The Church Assumes Role of Educator and Civil Service for the Tribal Kingdoms
(Circa 450 CE – 650)

Surviving in Only One Deeply Corrupt Renaissance Manuscript
(Circa 450 CE)

500 CE – 600

How the Middle Ages Processed and Recycled Roman Culture
(Circa 524 – 1300)

Justinian. (Click to view larger.)
The Code of Justinian
(529 – 533)

The Deterioration of Libraries, Publishing and Educational Institutions in Italy by the Sixth Century
(534)

Gundishapur, province of Khuzestan, Iran. (View Larger)
Most Important Medical Center During 6th and 7th Centuries
(550 – 650)

"A Public Popularity for Books Never Existed in Antiquity"
(Circa 550)

An image from Codex Amiantinus. (Click to view larger.)
The Scriptorium and Library at the Vivarium
(Circa 560)

Saint Columba (View Larger)
From the Monastery on the Small Island of Iona, the Conversion of Pagan…
(Circa 563)

St. Augustine of Canterbury. (View Larger)
Augustine of Canterbury Preaches to the Anglo-Saxons
(597)

600 – 700

Tablet 3v of the Springmount Bog Tablets. (National Museum. Dublin, 1914: 2) (View Larger)
The Springmount Bog Wax Tablets
(Circa 600)

Excepting the Bible, Probably the Most Widely Circulated Educational Work During the Middle Ages
(Circa 633)

Saint Aidan (View larger)
Foundation of the Monastery on Lindisfarne
(634)

700 – 800

The Earliest Surviving Letter Known to Have Been Written from One Englishman to Another
(704 – 705)

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The Earliest Image of a Scribe Using a Writing Table
(Circa 715 – 720)

Most of the Surviving Greek Literature was Translated into Arabic by 750
(750)

Evidence of the Decline of Literacy Among the Laity in the Early Middle Ages
(Circa 750)

A modern photograph of a courtyard in the House of Wisdom, also known as the Bait al-Hikma. (View Larger)
Foundation of the House of Wisdom
(762)

Raban Maur (left), flanked by Alcuin (middle), dedicates his work to Archbishop Otgar of Mainz (Right), taken from a Carolingian manuscript (ca. 831/40) currently residing in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien. (View Larger)
The Finest Library North of the Alps
(767)

The Carolingian Revival
(779 – 814)

An example of the Carolingian minuscule, taken from the tenth century Freising manuscripts. (View Larger)
The Educator Alcuin and the Emperor Charlemagne
(780 – 796)

1302 Manuscript Codices or Fragments Survive of Texts Written before 800
(799)

800 – 900

A page from the Uspensky Gospels. (View Larger)
The Earliest Surviving Dated Manuscript Written in Greek Minuscule
(815 – 835)

The Plan of Saint Gall. (View Larger)
The Only Surviving Major Architectural Drawing from the Fall of the Roman…
(820 – 830)

The Earliest Surviving Text of Lucretius's De rerum natura
(Circa 825)

The First Surviving Book Written Entirely in English
(Circa 890)

Folio 94v of the Clarke Plato. (View Larger)
The Oldest Surviving Manuscript of Plato's Tetralogies
(November 895)

900 – 1000

Printing Not to Make Literature More Accessible
(932 – 953)

Massive Byzantine Encyclopedic Dictionary
(Circa 950)

The First Western Medical School
(Circa 950)

A map of the Caliphate of Cordoba circa 1000CE. (View Larger)
Over 400,000 Manuscript Volumes at Cordoba
(Circa 961)

Foundation of Al-Azhar University
(970 – 972)

1000 – 1100

The First Truly Recognizable Dictionary
(Circa 1040 – 1050)

Folio 1r of the manuscript of Liber Pantegni preserved in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. (View Larger)
Probably the Earliest Surviving Western Medical Treatise
(Circa 1075 – 1098)

The seal of the University of Bologna. (View Larger)
Foundation of the University of Bologna
(1088)

Oxford University's coat of arms. (View Larger)
Origins of the University of Oxford
(1096)

1100 – 1200

The coat of arms of the University of Paris. (View Larger)
Origins of the University of Paris
(Circa 1110)

A folio from MS 2085 of the Schoyen Collection, one of the twelve extant manuscripts of the letters of Abelard and Heloise. (View Larger)
Among the Best Known Records of Early Forbidden Romantic Love
(1115)

The Oldest University in Spain
(1134)

A 16th century portrait of King Henry II of England, by an unknown artist.
Henry II Forbids English Students to Study at Paris
(1167)

1200 – 1300

Beginnings of an Active Book Trade Outside of Monasteries
(Circa 1200)

Knowledge of Greek and Greek Texts During the Middle Ages
(Circa 1200 – 1450)

The coat of arms belonging to Cambridge University. (View Larger)
Origins of Cambridge University
(1209)

Perhaps the Oldest State-Supported University
(June 5, 1224)

The Greater Kyz Kala at Merv, presumed to be the residence of a noble or royal personage. (View Larger)
No Fewer than Twelve Libraries Available to the Public in Merv
(1228)

The Pecia System
(April 4, 1228)

Robert de Sorbon, founder of the University of Paris. (View Larger)
Formation of the University of Paris
(1257)

Hulagu Khan with his wife, Dokuz Kathun. (View Larger)
So Many Books were Thrown into the Tigris River that they Formed a Bridge…
(1258)

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139 Professional Scribes Are Working in Bologna
(1265 – 1268)

The Merton College Library, at Oxford. (View Larger)
"The World's Oldest Continuously Functioning Library for University Academics…
(1276)

1300 – 1400

Lay Readers and Book Owners
(Circa 1300)

A Venetian Ordinance on the Production of Eyeglasses
(April 2, 1300)

Origins of Beijing University
(1306)

Early Persian Appreciation of the Value of Chinese Printing for the Standardization of Correct Texts
(1317)

A pair of leather spectacles, found, among other artifacts, in 1953 beneath the floorboards of Kloster Wienhausen, near Celle, in Germany. (View Larger)
The Earliest Surviving Spectacles
(Circa 1350)

The first depiction of spectacles in art: a portrait of Cardinal Hugo of Provence at his writing desk, painted by Tommaso de Mondena in fresco in the Basilica San Nicolo in Treviso, Italy. (View Larger)
The Earliest Depiction of Eyeglasses in a Painted Work of Art
(1352)

A globe in the present day Merton College Library. (View Larger)
Merton College Library Contains Approximately 500 Manuscripts
(1378)

Saint Catherine in her Study with her Revolving Bookstand
(Circa 1399 – 1416)

1400 – 1450

A page of the Yongle Encyclopedia. (View Larger)
An Encyclopedia in 11,095 Volumes
(1403 – 1408)

The First Dated Example of Poggio's Humanistic Script
(1408)

The Rediscovery of Lucretius's De rerum natura
(1417 – 1473)

From About 1440 -1470 the Production of Manuscript Books Increased; From 1471 to 1490, with the Increase of Printed Book Production, Manuscript Book Production Declined
(Circa 1440 – 1475)

1450 – 1500

A depiction of the siege of Constantinople, painted in Paris in 1499. (View Larger)
Byzantine Greek Scholars Carry Manuscripts to Italy
(Circa June 1453)

Possibly the First Printed Edition of the Most Widely Used Medieval Grammar
(Circa 1454)

<p>The first page of a manuscript of <em>De oratore</em> by Cicero, written and illuminated in Northern Italy in the 15th century, and preserved in the British Library</p>
Perhaps the First Book Printed in Italy; One of the First Printed Editions of a Classical Text
(1465)

One of the First Three Printed Editions of Classical Texts
(1465)

Probably One of the Three Earliest Printed Editions of a Classical Text
(Circa 1465)

The panel painting by Hans Memling depicting the Annunciation.
Mary Reading from a Manuscript Book
(Circa 1465 – 1475)

<p>Wood engraved portrait of Cardinal Basilios Bessarion from the <em>Bibliotheca chalcographica.</em></p>
The First Full Exposition of Plato's Thought Published in the West
(Circa August 27, 1469)

<p>A 17th century engraving of The Sorbonne, Paris.</p>
The First Printing Press in France
(1470)

Three Ways that Printing Changed Manuscript Culture
(Circa 1470)

The Earliest Printings of Plato in the Fifteenth Century
(1472 – 1475)

Probably the Best-Selling 15th Century Printed Book by a Living Author
(1474)

Probably the First Printed Civil Law Book
(January 26, 1475)

The Earliest Printing of Any Book of the Bible in Greek
(1481)

The Most Famous Textbook Ever Published
(May 25, 1482)

The First Edition of Plato's Opera, Printed by the First Press to Employ Women
(1484 – 1485)

An Early Depiction of a Child Wrecking a Book
(Circa 1485)

The Editio Princeps of Aristotle in Greek
(November 1495 – June 1498)

1500 – 1550

The Transition from Latin to the Vernacular in the 16th Century
(Circa 1500 – 1600)

The Growth of Literacy from 1100 to 1500
(Circa 1500)

Pope Alexander VI issued a bull granting cesorial powers over book printing to Archbishops and local authorities serving under them. (View Larger)
Censorship from One of the Most Controversial of Renaissance Popes
(1501)

The First Book Published in England Devoted Exclusively to Mathematics
(October 14, 1522)

The First Printed Edition of the Greek Text of Euclid
(September 1533)

Portrait of a Elegant Young Man Mishandling a Book
(Circa 1535)

Henry VIII Restricts the Reading of the Bible
(May 12, 1543)

1550 – 1600

<p>Engraved portrait of Hernan Cortes by W. Holl and published by Charles Knight.</p>
The First Treatise on Mathematics Published in the Western Hemisphere and the First Textbook on Any Subject Besides Religion Printed Outside of Europe
(1556)

The First Book Printed in Civilité Types
(1557)

<p>A portrait of Albreccht V, Duke of Bavaria by Hans Mielich, 16th century.</p>
Origins of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
(1558)

The Earliest Description of the Printing Process
(1567)

One of the Earliest Pop-Up Books
(1570)

Renaissance Information Retrieval Device
(1588)

1600 – 1650

Erasable Paper from 1609
(1609)

Leiden University Library in 1610
(1610)

The First Institution of Higher Learning in the U.S.
(1636)

The First Book Printed in North America
(1640)

1650 – 1700

The First Book on Librarianship in English
(1650)

The First Doctoral Degree is Awarded to a Woman
(June 25, 1678)

The First Hieroglyphic Bible for Children
(1684 – 1692)

Locke's Method of Indexing Commonplace Books
(1685 – 1706)

The First Reading Primer Designed for the American Colonies
(1687 – 1690)

The First Licensed Woman Printer in North America Was Illiterate
(May 13, 1696)

The First Country-Wide Printed Union Catalogue of Manuscripts
(1697)

1700 – 1750

Baroque Counterpoint
(1725)

Cruden's Concordance, Possibly the Largest Task of Compilation Ever Undertaken by One Man
(1738)

One of the Earliest Histories of a Science
(1742)

The First Printed Book Specifically for the Amusement of Children: No Copies of the First Edition Survive
(June 18, 1744)

1750 – 1800

The First Discovery of Ancient Papyri in Europe
(October 19, 1752 – 1754)

The First Comprehensive Treatise on Papermaking
(1761)

The First Biographical Timeline Chart
(1765)

The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe
(1769 – 1794)

The Most Influential Historical Timeline of the Eighteenth Century
(1769 – 1770)

The First Book on Western Medicine and Science Published in Japanese
(1774)

Reforming the Teaching of English in the United States
(1783 – 1785)

The First English History of Paleography and Diplomatics
(1784)

The Beginnings of Papyrology
(1788)

1800 – 1850

Webster's Dictionary
(1806 – 1828)

Foundation of the Ecole nationale des chartes
(February 22, 1821)

The First Indigenous Arabic Press in Egypt
(December 1822)

A Press in Malta to Print Books in Arabic & Turkish
(1825 – 1842)

The Braille System of Printing and Reading for the Blind
(1829)

Non-Euclidean Geometry Independently Discovered
(1832 – 1833)

The First Lithographed Books Printed in Persia
(1832 – 1837)

The Penny Magazine
(1832 – 1845)

Pitman Shorthand, & The First "Correspondence Course"
(1837)

News of the World Begins Publication
(October 1, 1843)

Foundation of Microphotography; Landmark in Hematology, Oncology, and Pathology
(1844 – 1845)

Spencerian Script
(Circa 1848 – 1920)

Report on Select Committee on Public Libraries
(July 23, 1849)

1850 – 1875

The First Modern Institution of Learning in Iran
(1851)

Origins of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
(1857)

The First Distance Learning Program
(1858)

Requring Universal Education of Children Between the Ages of 5 and 12 in England and Wales
(1870)

1875 – 1900

The Caxton Quadricentennial Celebration: Probably the Largest Exhibition on the History of Printing Ever Held
(June 30 – September 1, 1877)

Edison Describes Future Uses for his Phonograph
(June 1878)

The First Carnegie Library
(1883)

The American Historical Association
(1884)

The O E D Finally Begins Publication
(February 1, 1884)

Establishment of the First Library School, the "School of Library Economy"
(1887)

The Palmer Method
(1894)

1920 – 1930

The BBC is Founded
(October 18 – November 14, 1922)

1930 – 1940

Visionary of New Reading Machines and Changes in the Process of Reading
(1930 – 1931)

The First "Talking-Books"
(1931)

Burning 25,000 Volumes of "un-German" Books
(May 10, 1933)

Picasso Depicts His Lover Reading at a Table
(1934)

Bradford's Law
(January 26, 1934)

Fantasies of an All-Encompassing Archive or "Universal Library"
(1939)

1940 – 1950

Transposing a System from Commercial and Statistical Uses to the Sorting of Words in a Literary Text: The Origins of Humanities Computing
(1949 – 1951)

1950 – 1960

National Educational Television
(1952)

First International Congress on Cybernetics
(June 26 – June 29, 1956)

There are Forty Computers on American University Campuses
(1957)

The First "Large Scale" Application of Humanities Computing in the U. S.
(1959)

Machines Can Learn from Past Errors
(July 1959)

1960 – 1970

The First Electronic Learning System
(1960)

Coining the Term "Computer Science"
(1961)

The Information Economy
(1962)

"The Medium is the Message"
(1964)

Programming Language for Education and Games
(1965 – 1969)

The First Anthology of Research on Humanities Computing
(1967)

The Beginning of Automated Essay Scoring
(1967)

1970 – 1980

PBS is Founded
(October 5, 1970)

A Digital Library of Greek Literature
(1972)

One of the First Touchscreens
(1972)

Probably the World's First Online Community
(1973)

The First Omni-Font Optical Character Recognition System
(1974)

Publication of the Index Thomisticus: Forty Years of Data Processing
(1974 – 1980)

First Print-to-Speech Reading Machine
(1976)

The English Short Title Catalogue
(June 1976)

1980 – 1990

Foundation of Computational Sylistics
(1987)

1990 – 2000

TED: Technology, Entertainment and Design
(1990)

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
(April 1, 1993)

Probably the First For-Profit Social Networking Site
(1995)

2000 – 2005

HASTAC is Founded
(2002)

ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online) is Founded
(December 1, 2002)

Amazon Introduces "Search Inside" 120,000 Books
(October 23, 2003)

2,350,000 U.S. Students in Online Learning
(2004)

The Institute for the Future of the Book
(2004)

The Site of the Original Library of Alexandria
(May 12, 2004)

The Google Print Project
(October 2004)

2005 – 2010

"Last Child in the Woods" : Exploration of Nature Versus Exposure to Media in Childhood
(2005)

The Million Dollar Homepage
(August 25, 2005 – January 11, 2006)

A University Library Intended to Contain Very Few Physical Books
(September 6, 2005)

College-Level Lectures Via Podcasts
(January 28, 2006)

Reborn Digital: The First Fully Digital University Press: A 3 Year Experiment in the United States
(July 13, 2006 – September 30, 2010)

IBM Begins Development of the Watson Question Answering System
(2007)

Second Life is Used for Teaching Foreign Languages
(July 2007)

The World Wide Telecom Web for Illiterate Populations
(August 2007)

The First Healthcare Course Taught in Second Life
(September 2007)

Codex in Crisis
(November 5, 2007)

The Amazon Kindle
(November 19, 2007)

Game-Based Learning for Virtual Patients
(March 2008)

Toward a World Digital Mathematics Library
(July 27, 2008)

Creation of the HathiTrust Digital Library
(October 2008 – March 2012)

A Virtual Exhibition . . .
(November 18, 2008)

"The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age"
(2009)

"Readability" is Launched
(2009)

Larger Version of the Amazon Kindle Introduced
(May 6, 2009)

The First College Journalism Course Focused on Twitter
(September 1, 2009)

Darnton's Case for Books: Past, Present and Future
(September 14, 2009)

French Alternative to Google Books Formed
(December 17, 2009)

The Amazon Kindle is Hacked; eBook Digital Rights Management Cracked
(December 23, 2009)

2010 – 2011

"The Never-Ending Language Learning System"
(January 2010)

"Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication. . . "
(February 2010)

Modifiable eBook Editions of Textbooks
(February 22, 2010)

The Sociology of Wikipedians
(March 2010)

Probably the First Fully Visually Satisfying Interactive eBook
(April 5, 2010)

Social Networking Added to Reading Electronic Books
(June 12, 2010)

Flipboard, "Your Personalized, Social Magazine"
(July 2010)

The First Traditional Humanities Journal to Try "Open" Peer Review
(July 26, 2010)

Bestsellers on eBook Readers: Romance Novels
(December 9, 2010)

The Digital Public Library of America
(December 13, 2010)

Culturomics Introduced by the Cultural Observatory
(December 16, 2010)

An Interactive Pop-Up Children's Book App for the iPhone & iPad
(December 16, 2010)

2011 – 2013

Post-Review Process Rather than Pre-Review Process in Publishing?
(2011)

The Wikipedia Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary
(January 15, 2011)

The New York Times Recommendations Service
(January 31, 2011)

IBM's Watson Question Answering System Defeats Humans at Jeopardy!
(February 14 – February 16, 2011)

The Impact of Automation on Legal Research
(March 4, 2011)

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Automation on Jobs
(March 6, 2011)

Amazon to Launch Library Lending for eBooks on the Kindle Platform
(April 20, 2011)

College Textbooks Make a Slower Transition from Print to Digital
(June 6, 2011)

Digital Democracy is Not So Democratic
(June 10, 2011)

"Distant Reading" Versus "Close Reading"
(June 24, 2011)

South Korea to Shift All Primary and High School Textbooks to Digital by 2015
(July 2011)

Free Online Artificial Intelligence Course Attracts 58,000 Students
(August 15, 2011)

Interactive Reading and Spelling on the iPad
(August 18, 2011)

Toward Cognitive Computing Systems
(August 18, 2011)

Michael Hart, Father of eBooks & Founder of Project Gutenberg, Dies
(September 6, 2011)

Room to Read Donates its 10,000,000th Book
(October 28, 2011)

The Swedish Twitter University Begins
(November 14, 2011)

Digital Books Represent 25% of Sales of Some Categories of Books but Less than 5% of Childrens' Books
(November 20, 2011)

Rapid Growth of the Digital Textbook Market in the U.S.
(November 23, 2011)

Sales of eBook Readers in 2011
(January 5, 2012)

Apple Introduces iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U
(January 19, 2012)

After Digitizing Over 20 Million Books Expansion of the Google Books Project Begins to Slow
(March 9, 2012)

Using a Densitometer to Measure Usage of Medieval Books of Hours
(April 23, 2012)

Microsoft Invests in Barnes & Noble's Nook eBook Reader Division
(April 30, 2012)

Harvard & M.I.T. to Offer Free Online Courses
(May 2, 2012)

Growing Adoption of the eBook Format in the U. S.
(May 29, 2012)

The Book History Online Database, Previously a Free Service, Becomes an Expensive Private Research Source
(September 3, 2012)

Coursera Enrolls Nearly Two Million Students from 196 Countries in Online Courses within its First Year
(November 20, 2012)

2013 – Present

The Youngest Person to Create a Mobil Game App
(January 17, 2013)

The Pew Internet Report on Library Services in the Digital Age
(January 22, 2013)

Jane Austin and Walter Scott Were the Two Most Influential Novelists of the 19th Century: A Discovery Made Through Digital Humanities Research
(January 26, 2013)

Smartphone Interactive Reading Device Will Track Eyes to Scroll Pages
(March 4, 2013)

"The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens"
(April 11, 2013)

The Digital Public Library of America is Launched
(April 18, 2013)