The Library Beyond the Book (Metalabprojects) - Softcover

Schnapp, Jeffrey T.; Battles, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674725034 ISBN 13: 9780674725034

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

<p>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 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Library Beyond the Book</i>, 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.<br><br>Libraries have always been mix-and-match spaces, and remix is their most plausible future scenario. Speculative and provocative, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Library Beyond the Book</i> explains book culture for a world where the physical and the virtual blend with ever increasing intimacy.</p>

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674725034
• ISBN 13: 9780674725034
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 167
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