Librarian and theologian Maxwell (Miami Dade College North Campus Library) reflects on the spiritual dimensions of libraries and librarianship in a secular world. She contends that, despite predictions of their eventual obsolescence, libraries will continue to thrive in the futu…
"Librarians serve a higher purpose that no amount of digitization or computerization can ever replaceLibraries have survived and will continue to thrive in the future, because they fulfill eternal needs for people."Nancy Kalikow Maxwell from the Preface. Librarianship as a calli…
"Drawing from history, sociology, and philosophy, Sacred Stacks voices the importance of the library profession and libraries as community institutions in a secular time."--Jacket. Librarianship as a calling is a powerful perspective. While it's been a long time since libraries…
"In Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age, Nathan R. Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold. He works through both familiar and esote…
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Building memory's infrastructure -- A universal memory machine -- Intermezzo: Exorcising the library spirit: Library labor as a technê of memory -- Hybrid memory labor -- Intermezzo: Calvin Mooers's zatocodes -- Memory conflicts -- Intermezzo: Dorothy Croslan…
"In Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age, Nathan R. Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold. He works through both familiar and esote…
"In Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age, Nathan R. Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold. He works through both familiar and esote…
"Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transforming the capitalist libraries of today. Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of this Marxist framework, the authors also provid…
"Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transforming the capitalist libraries of today. Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of this Marxist framework, the authors also provid…
"Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transforming the capitalist libraries of today. Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of this Marxist framework, the authors also provid…
"Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transforming the capitalist libraries of today. Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of this Marxist framework, the authors also provid…