Author: Lucy A. Tedd
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9783598116278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Digital libraries are now a reality and yet their implementation and use is still not at an optimum. This text examines the various options for setting up digital libraries from digitising information in the first place to providing the interface to access the information held by the digital global library.
Author: Bibliographical Planning Committee
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-11-11
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1512819808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author: Melvil Dewey
Publisher:
Published: 1899
Total Pages: 836
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Author: Patrick M. Valentine
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012-09-27
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0810885719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While the importance of writing has often been recognized, the role of books and especially that of libraries has just as often been slighted. Knowledge, once generated, has to be communicated, preserved, and accessible. Books in their varying formats—from clay tablets to scrolls and manuscripts to pixels—have been instrumental in spreading knowledge, although relatively little attention has been given to the story of books themselves. A Social History of Books and Libraries from Cuneiform to Bytes traces the roles of books and libraries throughout recorded history and explores their social and cultural importance within differing societies and changing times. It presents the history of books from clay tablets to e-books and the history of libraries, whether built of bricks or bytes. Following an introduction that sets the theoretical basis for the historical importance of books and libraries, chapters alternate between the history of the book and the history of libraries. Included within the chapters are short excursions on some particular development, such as book emblems or cataloging. Case studies are given as thematic illustrations of libraries everywhere. Patrick M. Valentine argues that social and cultural forces have been more influential in determining the nature and status of information, books, and libraries than has technology. But A Social History of Books and Libraries is far from a jeremiad against technology; rather it presents history within the subtle yet shifting context of time and place. Although written primarily for librarians and library students, it will also be of interest to a wider audience of scholars and those interested in books, libraries, and cultural history.
Author: Cynthia Burlingham
Publisher: Los Angeles : UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essays by Nicholas Barker, Kenneth Breisch, Anthony Grafton Few people are aware of Los Angeles' vast collective resource of rare books, manuscripts, and related objects, housed in Los Angeles-area libraries. Featuring more than three hundred selections from area collections, The World from Here explores this treasure trove of rare books and ephemera. Included are materials ranging from a 1482 atlas of the known world to fiction classics, early botanical and scientific texts, letters, posters, and artists' books. Selections were culled from nearly forty institutions, including the Huntington Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles Public Library and the libraries at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California. Essays on libraries in the American West, the history of book collecting in Los Angeles, and library buildings in Los Angeles during the twentieth century make The World from Here an engaging study of this impressive, yet little-known, cultural resource. It catalogues an exhibit at the UCLA Hammer Museum until January 13, 2002.
Author: Paul R. Wonning
Publisher: Mossy Feet Books
Published: 2019-10-28
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Short History of Libraries, Printing and Language relates the story of printing, language, books, writing and libraries. Learn about the development of ink, papyrus, parchment, paper and the story of Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press. This Ripley County Edition relates the history of early Indiana libraries, the Indiana State Library, Indiana library laws and the libraries of Ripley County.
Author: Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wendy Pradt Lougee
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0974510904
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