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"Libraries and Learning: A History of Paradigm Change," portal: Libraries and the Academy. 9, 2 (April 2009), 181-197. | view pdf file

"The Information or the Learning Commons: Which Will We Have?" Journal of Academic Librarianship, 34 (May 2008), 183-185. | view pdf file view html version

"Campus Cultures Fostering Information Literacy," portal: Libraries and the Academy, Volume 7, Number 2, April 2007, 147-167 | link verified February, 2009

"Designing for Uncertainty: Three Approaches," Journal of Academic Librarianship,  Volume 33, Issue 2, March 2007, 165-179 | link verified February, 2009 | view pdf file

"First Questions for Designing Higher Education Learning Spaces," Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 33 Issue 1, January 2007, 14-26 | link verified February, 2009 | view pdf file

"The Choice for Learning," in Journal of Academic Librarianship Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2006, pp. 3-13 | link verified March 2006 | view pdf file view html version

With Richard A. O'Connor, "The Power of Place in Learning," Planning for Higher Education, 33 (June-August 2005), 28-30 | view pdf file view html version

"Righting the Balance," in Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space (Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005), pp. 10-24 | link verified February, 2009 | view pdf file view html version

Libraries Designed for Learning (Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003) | link verified March 2006 | view pdf file

"The Golden Age of Libraries," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Academic Librarianship in the New Millennium: Roles, Trends, and Global Collaboration, ed. Haipeng Li (Kunming: Yunnan University Press, 2002), pp. 13-21. This is a slightly different version of the following item.

"The Golden Age of Libraries," Journal of Academic Librarianship, 24 (2001), 256-258

"Second Chances. An address . . . at the annual dinner of the Friends of the Oberlin College Library November 13 1999," Friends of the Oberlin College Library, February 2000

"Authors' Rights," The Journal of Electronic Publishing (December 1999) | link verified February, 2009 | view pdf file

"Information-Based Productivity," in Technology and Scholarly Communication, ed. Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt (Berkeley, 1999), pp. 73-94

"Just-In-Time Scholarly Monographs: or, Is There a Cavalry Bugle Call for Beleaguered Authors and Publishers?" The Journal of Electronic Publishing (September 1998) | link verified February, 2009 | view pdf file

"Re-engineering Scholarly Communication: Thoughts Addressed to Authors," Scholarly Publishing, 27 (1996), 185-196

"The Copyright Challenge: Strengthening the Public Interest in the Digital Age," Library Journal, 15 November 1994, pp. 34-37

"The Management of Intellectual Property," Computers in Libraries, 14 (May 1994), 18-20

"Repositioning University Presses in Scholarly Communication," Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 25 (1994), 243-248

"Preservation and the Economic Investment Model," in Preservation Research and Development. Round Table Proceedings, September 28-29, 1992, ed. Carrie Beyer (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993), pp. 17-18

"Copyright and Innovation in Electronic Publishing: A Commentary," Journal of Academic Librarianship, 19 (1993), 87-91; reprinted in condensed form in Library Issues: Briefings for Faculty and Administrators, 14 (September 1993)

with Nina Matheson, "Scholarly Articles: Valuable Commodities for Universities," Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 May 1992, pp. B1-B3

"Strategies for Increasing [Preservation] Productivity," Minutes of the [119th] Meeting [of the Association of Research Libraries] (Washington, D.C., 1992), pp. 39-40

"Management Issues: The Director's Perspective," and "Cooperative Approaches to Mass Deacidification: Mid-Atlantic Region," in A Roundtable on Mass Deacidification, ed. Peter G. Sparks (Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 1992), pp. 15-18, 54-55

"The Boat that Must Stay Afloat: Academic Libraries in Hard Times," Scholarly Publishing, 23 (1992), 131-137

"Buying Time: An Alternative for the Preservation of Library Material," ACLS Newsletter, Second Series 3 (Summer, 1991), 10-11

"The Golden Stain of Time: Preserving Victorian Periodicals" in Investigating Victorian Journalism, ed. Laurel Brake, Alex Jones, and Lionel Madden (London: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 166-183

"Commentary on the Stephens and Haley Papers" in Coordinating Cooperative Collection Development: A National Perspective, an issue of Resource Sharing and Information Networks, 2 (1985), 199-201

"The Editorial Character and Readership of The Penny Magazine: An Analysis," Victorian Periodicals Review, 17 (1984), 127-141

"Current Initiatives and Issues in Collection Management," Journal of Academic Librarianship, 10 (1984), 257-261; reprinted in Library Lit: The Best of 85

"Revolutions in Thought: Serial Publication and the Mass Market for Reading" in The Victorian Periodical Press: Samplings and Soundings, ed. Joanne Shattock and Michael Wolff (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1982), pp. 225-257

"Victorian Newspaper Advertising: Counting What Counts," Publishing History, 8 (1980), 5-18

"Library Friends: A Theoretical History" in Organizing the Library's Support: Donors, Volunteers, Friends, ed. D.W. Krummel, Allerton Park Institute Number 25 (Urbana: University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, 1980), pp. 23-32

"The Learned Professor: being a brief account of a scholar [Harris Francis Fletcher] who asked for the Moon, and got it," Non Solus, 7 (1980), 5-12

"Prolegomenon to Serials Bibliography: A Report to the [Research] Society [for Victorian Periodicals]," Victorian Periodicals Review, 12 (1979), 3-15

"The Bibliographic Control of Victorian Periodicals" in Victorian Periodicals: A Guide to Research, ed. J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel (New York: Modern Language Association, 1978), pp. 21-51

"John Murray's Family Library and the Cheapening of Books in Early Nineteenth Century Britain," Studies in Bibliography, 29 (1976), 139-166

with Robert Carringer, "Dreiser to Sandburg: Three Unpublished Letters," Library Chronicle, 40 (1976), 252-256

"David Douglas and the British Publication of W. D. Howells' Works," Studies in Bibliography, 25 (1972), 107-124

as primary editor, W. D. Howells, Indian Summer (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971)

"The Profession of Authorship: Some Problems for Descriptive Bibliography" in Research Methods in Librarianship: Historical and Bibliographic Methods in Library Research, ed. Rolland E. Stevens (Urbana: University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, 1971), pp. 74-85

edited with Ronald Gottesman, Art and Error: Modern Textual Editing (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970)--also published in London by Methuen, 1970

"Catholic Emancipation, the Quarterly Review, and Britain's Constitutional Revolution," Victorian Studies, 12 (1969), 283-304

as textual editor, W. D. Howells, The Altrurian Romances (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968); introduction and annotation by Clara and Rudolf Kirk

as associate textual editor, W. D. Howells, Their Wedding Journey (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968); introduction by John Reeves

"A Concealed Printing in W. D. Howells," Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, 61 (1967), 56-60

editor, Non Solus, A Publication of the University of Illinois Library Friends, 1974-1981

editor, Robert B. Downs Publication Fund, University of Illinois Library, 1975-1981

reviews, short articles, etc. in Victorian Studies, Journal of English and German Philology, Victorian Periodicals Newsletter, Collection Management, Nineteenth-Century Literature, College & Research Libraries, Scholarly Publishing Today, ARL Newsletter, Serials Review, Library Issues, S[ociety for] S[cholarly] P[ublishing] Newsletter, and Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia.