Books, Bricks and Bytes: Libraries in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9781138519725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 379 str.

Stephen R. Graubard; Paul Leclerc

Opis

Books, Bricks, and Bytes brings together an extraordinary array of authors at the cutting edge of these concerns, not only within the United States, but experts drawn from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, Brazil and India.

Spis treści

Introduction; What is a Digital Library? Technology, Intellectual Property, and the Public Interest; Libraries, the Library of Congress, and the Information Age; Buy or Lease? Two Models for Scholarly Information at the End (or the Beginning) of an Era; A Library Historian Looks at Librarianship; Librarianship: A Changing Profession; Libraries and Publishers: A Partnership at Risk; Searching for the Catalog of Catalogs; The Yin and Yang of Knowing; The Centrality of Communities to the Future of Major Public Libraries; Redefining Community through the Public Library; American Public Libraries: A Long Transformative Moment; Bricks and Bytes: Libraries in Flux; A Distant Mirror: The Story of Libraries in South Africa; Libraries, Social Inequality, and the Challenge of the Twenty-First Century; The History of the French National Library; Problems of Russian Libraries in an Age of Social Change; Making the Transitory Permanent: The Intellectual Heritage in a Digitized World of Knowledge; Allocated Parts: The Story of Libraries in Germany; The Story of Libraries in India

O autorze

Stephen R. Graubard, Paul LeClerc