Tech Bites

Episode 2: Libraries, Culinary Archives and Digital Menus

Episode Summary

Collecting cookbooks and menus is so important to our culinary life, whether its for our personal memories or sharing public knowledge. This episode of Tech Bites looks at two of the countrys top culinary collections, curation and preservation in the digital age. Guests: Marvin Taylor is the Director of the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University. Rebecca Federman is the Electronic Resources Coordinator and Culinary Collections Librarian at the New York Public Library. This program was brought to you by Rolling Press. I think we live in a hybrid world now and we will for quite some time [...] Researchers want both [digital and print]. They want the convenience of an e-book but they want to read the print. [29:00] --Rebecca Federman on Tech Bites

Episode Notes

Collecting cookbooks and menus is so important to our culinary life, whether it’s for our personal memories or sharing public knowledge. This episode of Tech Bites looks at two of the country’s top culinary collections, curation and preservation in the digital age. Guests: Marvin Taylor is the Director of the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University. Rebecca Federman is the Electronic Resources Coordinator and Culinary Collections Librarian at the New York Public Library. This program was brought to you by Rolling Press.


“I think we live in a hybrid world now and we will for quite some time […] Researchers want both [digital and print]. They want the convenience of an e-book but they want to read the print.” [29:00]

–Rebecca Federman on Tech Bites