The Library Beyond the Book

Jeffrey T Schnapp

ISBN 10: 0674725034 / ISBN 13: 9780674725034

Edité par Harvard University Press Jul 2014, 2014

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Neuware - Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles reflect on what libraries have been in order to speculate about what they will become: hybrid places that intermingle books and Elektronisches Buchs, analog and digital formats, paper and pixels. They combine the cultural history of libraries with innovations at metaLAB, a research group at the forefront of digital humanities.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Library Beyond the Book
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press Jul 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674725034
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674725034
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 207 L x 142 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 207 millimètres de largeur par 142 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 349 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos des auteurs

Jeffrey T. Schnapp is the faculty director of metaLAB at Harvard University and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Matthew Battles is Associate Director of metaLAB at Harvard University.