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Battles, Coordinating Editor Of The Harvard Library Bulletin Matthew

 
9780393351453: Library: An Unquiet History
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ISBN 10 : 0393351459 ISBN 13 : 9780393351453
Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015

Synopsis

Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and on to the Information Age, to explore how libraries are built and how they are destroyed: from the scroll burnings in ancient China to the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia to the latest revolutionary upheavals of the digital age. A new afterword elucidates how knowledge is preserved amid the creative destruction of twenty-first-century technology.

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À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Battles is the author of Palimpsest and Library: An Unquiet History and a program fellow at the Berkman Center of Harvard University, where he is associate director of metaLAB, a research group exploring the bounds of networked culture.

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Éditeur
W. W. Norton & Company
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393351459
ISBN 13 
9780393351453
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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Personne responsable
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