Dan
Cohen
Vice provost for information collaboration, dean of the Libraries, and professor of history
Expertise
Dan Cohen in the Press
Journaling during the pandemic, for yourself and the historians
“Digital media and technology is amazing in many ways, but it also has a lot of problems,” said Dan Cohen, the dean of libraries at Northeastern University, whose extensive documentation of firsthand accounts following the Sept. 11 attacks is in the Library of Congress. “A physical diary, if you stick it in your attic, you’ll likely be […]
Research center expanding historical collection on Boston’s neighborhoods
Daniel Cohen, the Dean of the Northeastern Library, said that the Boston Research Center brings together a wealth of information and archival materials about Boston’s neighborhoods. “We’re all familiar with the stories about Boston that we see and read in textbooks and see in documentaries,” Cohen said.
Boston Research Center embarks on archival mission
“After we had that prototype phase, we all got together and thought about what we could do next,” said Dan Cohen, the vice provost for information collaboration, dean of libraries, and professor of history at Northeastern. “We really thought a key aspect of it was connecting more concretely with communities in Boston.”
The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper
At my library at Northeastern University, undergraduate circulations declined 50 percent from 2013 to 2017—before we decided to do our own book relocation—and our logged number of books removed from shelves but not checked out also dropped by half.
