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The library beyond the book / Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Matthew Battles.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: MetaLABprojectsPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014Description: 167 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674725034 (alk. paper)
  • 0674725034
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 020.9
LOC classification:
  • Z 721 S357l 2014
Contents:
Steampunk to scrolls: Melvil Dewey, time traveller / cartoon by Joe Altieri The library beyond the book Prospects Windows: Book; Bookshelf; Card catalog; Carrel; Copy station; Librarian; Library card; Reference desk Scenarios: Living Mausoleum; Neocloister; Database; Accumulibrary; Programmable library; Libraries of here and now So .. Endnotes Cold storage (visual verbal essay)
Summary: With textbook readers and digital downloads proliferating, it is easy to imagine a time when printed books will vanish. Such forecasts miss the mark, argue Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles. Future bookshelves will not be wholly virtual, and libraries will thrive although in a variety of new social, cultural, and architectural forms. Schnapp and Battles combine deep study of the library s history with a record of institutional and technical innovation at metaLAB, a research group at the forefront of the digital humanities. They gather these currents in The Library Beyond the Book," exploring what libraries have been in the past to speculate on what they will become: hybrid places that intermingle books and ebooks, analog and digital formats, paper and pixels. Libraries have always been mix-and-match spaces, and remix is their most plausible future scenario. Speculative and provocative, The Library Beyond the Book" explains book culture for a world where the physical and the virtual blend with ever increasing intimacy."--Publisher's description
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) Z 721 S357l 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000174119

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Steampunk to scrolls: Melvil Dewey, time traveller / cartoon by Joe Altieri
The library beyond the book
Prospects
Windows: Book; Bookshelf; Card catalog; Carrel; Copy station; Librarian; Library card; Reference desk
Scenarios: Living Mausoleum; Neocloister; Database; Accumulibrary; Programmable library; Libraries of here and now
So ..
Endnotes
Cold storage (visual verbal essay)

With textbook readers and digital downloads proliferating, it is easy to imagine a time when printed books will vanish. Such forecasts miss the mark, argue Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles. Future bookshelves will not be wholly virtual, and libraries will thrive although in a variety of new social, cultural, and architectural forms. Schnapp and Battles combine deep study of the library s history with a record of institutional and technical innovation at metaLAB, a research group at the forefront of the digital humanities. They gather these currents in The Library Beyond the Book," exploring what libraries have been in the past to speculate on what they will become: hybrid places that intermingle books and ebooks, analog and digital formats, paper and pixels. Libraries have always been mix-and-match spaces, and remix is their most plausible future scenario. Speculative and provocative, The Library Beyond the Book" explains book culture for a world where the physical and the virtual blend with ever increasing intimacy."--Publisher's description

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