The knowledge infrastructure -- From past to present : the history and mission of libraries -- The library as an institution : an organizational perspective -- Transforming the library : the impact and implications of technological change -- Library and information science : an …
The primary purpose of this book is to describe the current LIS environment and examine some of the ever-changing forces that shape that environment and the larger society. The intent is to help prepare LIS professionals to cope with and effectively manage their many complex res…
The primary purpose of this book is to describe the current LIS environment and examine some of the ever-changing forces that shape that environment and the larger society. The intent is to help prepare LIS professionals to cope with and effectively manage their many complex res…
This book focuses on producing critical consumers of research and also goes some way towards producing researchers in the fields of information management and systems. This second edition has a chapter on ethics, to address the importance of the ethical implications of research.
African Americans have a long tradition of preserving their histories through archival projects. The purpose of the thesis is two-fold: to place African Americans in the history of community archiving and create tools to aid in creating these spaces for African descendants. The …
Hüsn-i hat sanatımızın önemli yazı çeşitlerinden bir tanesi olan Ta'lîk yazı, İran'da doğup gelişmiştir. Fatih Sultan Mehmed devri ile Osmanlı'ya gelen yazı estetik olgularıyla büyük ilgi görmüş ve usta hattatlar eliyle kendi estetik ve sanat anlayışımız ile yorumlanarak XVIII. …
Built in 1830, Liverpool Road Station is the oldest extant passenger railway station in the world. For this reason, the Station was preserved and transformed into a science and industry museum in the early 1980s. Yet, the ‘oldest station’ story, perpetuated in the collective mem…
This dissertation, using the case of the historical establishment of the American Sociological Association archives, argues that a lack of collaboration across institutions and among people contributed to difficulties in establishing the significance of the ASA archives as a soc…
In the U.S., museums have long struggled with elitism and exclusion. Recently, however, the notion of inclusion has become a central and defining aspect of contemporary U.S. museological practice and thought. In 2018-2019 alone, a number of institutional and grassroots initiativ…
This study explores how libraries mediated interactions between black readers and texts in twentieth century South Africa. By situating libraries as vital infrastructures of reading, I critically examine how librarians tried to build the habit of reading within black communities…
Repositorios de Datos de Investigación para Bibliotecas es un extracto significativo del tema quepresento en los capítulos, abordando desde su desarrollo en algunos países representativos en estamateria en Europa, incluyendo a Reino Unidos, Australia, Estados Unidos, América Lat…
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a genre with a long history and several well-established assumptions. Scholarship and journalism about Wikipedia often consider the ways it carries forward, diverges from, or takes to an extreme the various qualities commonly ascribed to encyclopedi…
Contemporary computer interfaces are frequently designed using multiple media, including images, audio, and animation. These digital interaction modalities were conceptualized, implemented, and popularized within an interdisciplinary network of collaboration at the edges of prev…
This study sought to determine what factors influenced the selection and collection development process of seven secondary school librarians in Richland and Lexington Counties in South Carolina. The purpose of this study was to investigate how external factors like national and …
Across the American South, civil rights memory institutions created by city and state governments and private organizations, preserve and communicate complex civil rights histories. Each of these institutions, for different reasons, influenced by their particular cultural, histo…
This dissertation explores how artists creatively engaged with digital and networked technologies care for their artworks and related studio or personal archival materials. As digital and new media artworks frequently face preservation concerns and require regular maintenance sh…
There are relatively few bibliometric or citation analysis historical studies of the scholarly literature of arts or humanities fields as compared with the science, technical, medical, or social science disciplines; many studies focus on the journal literature and use the formal…
