Research Catalog

Title

Future libraries / R. Howard Bloch and Carla Hesse, editors.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995.

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Additional Authors

• Bloch, R. Howard
• Hesse, Carla Alison

Description

vi, 159 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

As the digital revolution sweeps us toward the twenty-first century, what issues, passions, and anxieties are evoked when we consider the place of the library in the future? Humanists and social scientists are only beginning to recognize that the current revolution in the dissemination of knowledge is comparable to the one that followed the advent of printing, when huge numbers of books first became available. On the eve of the opening of the Bibliothèque de France, which has become a lightning rod for the issues raised by the electronic revolution, this collection brings together distinguished lawyers, historians, librarians, computer scientists, linguists, and architects to assess the future of libraries, books, and the printed word. The contributors represent a wide range of institutions: the Bibliothèque de France, the Library of Congress, law schools, architectural firms, universities. We are still exploring the ramifications of revolutionary techniques for writing and reading; new modes of storing and distributing data; new possibilities for acquiring, reconfiguring, and integrating knowledge. 'Future libraries' does much to stimulate and inform the debate on a revolution that will affect our most diverse cultural forms and our deepest social structures.

Series Statement

Representations books ; 7

Uniform Title

Representations books 7.

Subject

• Bibliothèque de France
• Libraries > Automation
• Libraries and electronic publishing
• Libraries
• Libraries > Automation
• Libraries and electronic publishing
• Libraries
• Library Automation

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Prognoses (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The places of books in the age of electronic reproduction / Geoffrey Nunberg -- Libraries without walls / Roger Chartier -- Copyright without walls? : speculations on literary property in the library of the future / Jane C. Ginsburg -- History, philosophy, and ambitions of the Bibliotheq̀ue de France / Dominique Jamet and Hélène Waysbord -- New orders of knowledge, new technologies of reading / Gérald Grunberg and Alain Giffard -- Future librarians / Robert C. Berring -- My everydays / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie -- The libraries of Eastern Europe : information and democracy / Prosser Gifford -- A civic library for San Francisco / Cathy Simon -- Books in space : tradition and transparency in the Bibliothèque de France / Anthony Vidler.

ISBN

• 0520088107 (alk. paper)
• 0520088115 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^94029447^

OCLC

• 30891997
• SCSB-9910762

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Harvard Library