Books, bricks & bytes : libraries in the twenty-first century /

Books, bricks & bytes : libraries in the twenty-first century / edited by Stephen R. Graubard & Paul LeClerc.

"Libraries are experiencing a technological revolution that goes well beyond anything that has existed since the invention of printing. Not surprisingly, the digital library, with all that it portends for the future of the book and the periodical, but also with all that it implies for the kinds...

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Other Authors: Graubard, Stephen Richards., LeClerc, Paul, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A. : Transaction, [1998]
Subjects:
Library science.
Library science > United States.
Libraries > Data processing.
Libraries > United States > Data processing.
Digital libraries.
Digital libraries > United States.
Simmons University. > Library. > Gifts. Solomon.
Table of Contents:
  • What is a digital library? Technology, intellectual property, and the public interest / Peter Lyman
  • Libraries, the Library of Congress, and the information age / James H. Billington
  • Buy or lease? Two models for scholarly information at the end (or the beginning) of an era / Ann Schumelda Okerson
  • A library historian looks at librarianship / Kenneth E. Carpenter
  • Librarianship: a changing profession / Peter R. Young
  • Libraries and publishers: a partnership at risk / Donald S. Lamm
  • Searching for the catalog of catalogs / Jamie Frederic Metzl
  • The yin and yang of knowing / Marilyn Gell Mason
  • The centrality of communities to the future of major public libraries / Kenneth E. Dowlin and Eleanor Shapiro.
  • Redefining community through the public library / Deanna B. Marcum
  • American Public libraries: a long transformative moment / Susan Goldberg Kent
  • Bricks and bytes: libraries in flux / Brian Lang
  • A distant mirror: the story of libraries in South Africa / Peter Johan Lor
  • Libraries, social inequality, and the challenge of the twenty-first century / Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
  • The history of the French National Library / Jean Favier
  • Problems of Russian libraries in an age of social change / Vladimir Zaitsev
  • Making the transitory permanent: the intellectual heritage in a digitized world of knowledge / Klaus-Dieter Lehmann
  • Allocated parts: the story of libraries in Germany / Hermann Leskien
  • The story of libraries in India / Dwarika N. Banerjee.

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