The National Electronic Library

Author : Gary Pitkin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781567508871

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The National Electronic Library by Gary Pitkin Pdf

The National Information Infrastructure will bring information to the doorstep of every household. Librarianship must respond to this development through the National Electronic Library. Librarianship as a profession must set the information agenda if it is to be a viable and influential entity in the electronic environment. Traditional library services are being redefined by technology, and the concept of the National Electronic Library must combine the roles of the academic institution, public enterprise, and library education. This professional reference is a guide to assist librarians in planning for the future. The volume maintains that the growing electronic environment is driving a cultural transformation in which libraries must examine and understand what libraries have been, what they are, and what they need to be. Libraries need to participate actively in this transformation in order to remain the central providers of information and related services. The book explores the National Electronic Library as a concept and formal organization. Library services, collections, and the physical facility are examined in terms of present and future needs based on the rapidly changing electronic environment, and the volume relates the future management of information to administrative structures, constituencies, public and technical services, collection development, education, and strategic planning.

Author : National Library of Canada. Reference and Information Services Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0662582128

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Online Information Service at the National Library of Canada by National Library of Canada. Reference and Information Services Division Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Steering Committee for Developing a Digital National Library for Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309059771

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Developing a Digital National Library for Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Steering Committee for Developing a Digital National Library for Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Pdf

In 1996, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a report about ways to improve undergraduate science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SME&T) education. One recommendation called for establishing a digital library, similar to those that are being constructed for many research communities, that would make available electronically a wide variety of materials for improving teaching and learning of SME&T. The NSF asked the National Research Council to examine the feasibility of and issues associated with establishing such a digital national library. In response, an NRC steering committee commissioned a series of papers and convened a workshop to consider these issues. This resulting book delineates the issues that should be considered and provides recommendations to resolve them prior to committing funds.

Author : Robert Darnton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190678005

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A Literary Tour de France by Robert Darnton Pdf

The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian Robert Darnton uses his exclusive access to a trove of documents-letters and documents from authors, publishers, printers, paper millers, type founders, ink manufacturers, smugglers, wagon drivers, warehousemen, and accountants-involving a publishing house in the Swiss town of Neuchatel to bring this world to life. Like other places on the periphery of France, Switzerland was a hotbed of piracy, carefully monitoring the demand for certain kinds of books and finding ways of fulfilling it. Focusing in particular on the diary of Jean-François Favarger, a traveling sales rep for a Swiss firm whose 1778 voyage, on horseback and on foot, around France to visit bookstores and renew accounts forms the spine of this story, Darnton reveals not only how the industry worked and which titles were in greatest demand, but the human scale of its operations. A Literary Tour de France is literally that. Darnton captures the hustle, picaresque comedy, and occasional risk of Favarger's travels in the service of books, and in the process offers an engaging, immersive, and unforgettable narrative of book culture at a critical moment in France's history.

Author : Bonny Hicks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Models (Persons)
ISBN : 9810020511

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'Excuse Me, are You a Model?' by Bonny Hicks Pdf

Author : Matt Baker,John Andrews
Publisher : Thunder Bay Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1645174174

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Timeline of World History by Matt Baker,John Andrews Pdf

Chart the course of history through the ages with this collection of oversize foldout charts and timelines. Timeline of World History is a unique work of visual reference from the founders of the Useful Charts website that puts the world's kingdoms, empires, and civilizations in context with one another. A giant wall chart shows the timelines and key events for each region of the world, and four additional foldout charts display the history of the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and Africa and the Middle East. Packed with maps, diagrams, and images, this book captures the very essence of our shared history.

Author : National Library of Education (U.S.). Advisory Task Force
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015041756456

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Access for All by National Library of Education (U.S.). Advisory Task Force Pdf

Author : Lucy A. Tedd,J. A. Large
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3598116276

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Digital Libraries by Lucy A. Tedd,J. A. Large Pdf

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 : National Library of Canada
Publisher : La Bibliothèque
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Document delivery
ISBN : UIUC:30112074053809

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Interlibrary Loan Services of the National Library of Canada by National Library of Canada Pdf

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021471565

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The National Digital Library Program--a Library for All Americans by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Christine L. Borgman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262250284

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From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure by Christine L. Borgman Pdf

Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communication equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to information for all? Will it replace libraries and publishers? How can computers and information systems be made easier to use? What are the trade-offs between tailoring information systems to user communities and standardizing them to interconnect with systems designed for other communities, cultures, and languages? This book takes a close look at these and other questions of technology, behavior, and policy surrounding the GII. Topics covered include the design and use of digital libraries; behavioral and institutional aspects of electronic publishing; the evolving role of libraries; the life cycle of creating, using, and seeking information; and the adoption and adaptation of information technologies. The book takes a human-centered perspective, focusing on how well the GII fits into the daily lives of the people it is supposed to benefit. Taking a unique holistic approach to information access, the book draws on research and practice in computer science, communications, library and information science, information policy, business, economics, law, political science, sociology, history, education, and archival and museum studies. It explores both domestic and international issues. The author's own empirical research is complemented by extensive literature reviews and analyses.

Author : Lewis Hyde
Publisher : Union Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781908526052

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Common As Air by Lewis Hyde Pdf

In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous ‘ I Have a Dream’ speech. Thirty years later his son registered the words ‘ I Have a Dream’ as a trademark and successfully blocked attempts to reproduce these four words. Unlike the Gettysburg Address and other famous speeches, ‘ I Have a Dream’ is now private property, even though some the speech is comprised of words written by Thomas Jefferson, a man who very much believed that the corporate land grab of knowledge was at odds with the development of civil society. Exploring the complex intersection between creativity and commerce, Hyde raises the question of how our shared store of art and knowledge might be made compatible with our desire to copyright everything, and questions whether the fruits of creative labour can – or should – be privately owned, especially in the digital age. ‘ In what sense,’ he writes, ‘ can someone own, and therefore control other people’ s access to, a work of fiction or a public speech or the ideas behind a drug?’ Moving deftly between literary analysis, history and biography (from Benjamin Franklin’ s reluctance to patent his inventions to Bob Dylan’ s admission that his early method of songwriting was largely comprised of ‘ rearranging verses to old blues ballads, adding an original line here or there… slapping a title on it’ ), Common As Air is a stirring call-to-arms about how we might concretely legislate for a cultural commons that would simultaneously allow for financial reward and protection from monopoly. Rigorous, informative and riveting, this is a book for anyone who is interested in the creative process.

Author : Deanna B. Marcum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313075100

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Development of Digital Libraries by Deanna B. Marcum Pdf

Every year, leading librarians, scholars, and administrators from the United States are invited to give papers on important library-related topics at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology's Roundtable. From 1995 to 1999, some aspect of digital library development was the theme of the symposium, and the essays in this collection are all devoted to that topic. In these essays, some of the most innovative thinkers and practitioners discuss how digital libraries have been conceived and implemented in the United States. Insight into the policy, legal, and technical frameworks of digital libraries is given, while honest views of problems encountered in trying to integrate digital and traditional libraries are given. Finally, some of the essays explore how users are affected by digital library services.

Author : John Feather,Paul Sturges
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134513215

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International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science by John Feather,Paul Sturges Pdf

The International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science was published to widespread acclaim in 1996, and has become the major reference work in the field. This eagerly awaited new edition has been fully revised and updated to take full account of the many and radical changes which have taken place since the Encyclopedia was originally conceived. With nearly 600 entries, written by a global team of over 150 contributors, the subject matter ranges from mobile library services provided by camel and donkey transport to search engines, portals and the World Wide Web. The new edition retains the successful structure of the first with an alphabetical organization providing the basic framework of a coherent collection of connected entries. Conceptual entries explore and explicate all the major issues, theories and activities in information and library science, such as the economics of information and information management. A wholly new entry on information systems, and enhanced entries on the information professions and the information society, are key features of this new edition. Topical entries deal with more specific subjects, such as collections management and information services for ethnic minorities. New or completely revised entries include a group of entries on information law, and a collection of entries on the Internet and the World Wide Web.

Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Public Information
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Federal aid to medical care research
ISBN : MINN:30000005875103

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NIH Almanac by National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Public Information Pdf