"Once treated as exclusive spaces for valuable but hidden and under-utilized material, over the past few decades special collections departments have been transformed by increased digitization and educational outreach efforts into unique and highly visible major institutional as…
Reflections on the meanings of objects / E. Haven Hawley -- Affinities and alliances : thoughts on acquisitions, collection development, and donor relations / Jim Kuhn -- Where does the collector/donor community see special collections today? / Jon A. Lindseth -- Collecting comm…
"Once treated as exclusive spaces for valuable but hidden and under-utilized material, over the past few decades special collections departments have been transformed by increased digitization and educational outreach efforts into unique and highly visible major institutional as…
1. The myth of the new : theories of technological discourses -- 2. Digitised newspapers : histories, contexts, behaviours -- 3. Exploring methods for evaluating user behaviour -- 4. Institutional impact of large-scale digitised collection -- 5. The impact of large-scale digitis…
Introduction: search all about it -- The myth of the new -- Digitised newspapers: histories, contexts, behaviours -- Exploring methods for evaluating user behaviour -- Institutional impact of large-scale digitised collection -- "Unequally free": mapping public access to digitise…
In recent years, cultural institutions and commercial providers have created extensive digitised newspaper collections. This book asks the timely question: what can the large-scale digitisation of newspapers tell us about the wider cultural phenomenon of mass digitisation? The u…
In recent years, cultural institutions and commercial providers have created extensive digitised newspaper collections. This book asks the timely question: what can the large-scale digitisation of newspapers tell us about the wider cultural phenomenon of mass digitisation? The u…
"The successful transmediation of books and documents through digitization requires the synergetic partnership of many professional figures, that have what may sometimes appear as contrasting goals at heart. On one side, there are those who look after the physical objects and st…
