Main entry:

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thompson), 1954-

Title & Author:

The library beyond the book / Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Matthew Battles.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Description:

167 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Series:

MetaLABprojects

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Steampunk to scrolls: Melvil Dewey, time traveller / cartoon by Joe Altieri -- The library beyond the book -- Prospects -- Windows: Book; Bookshelf; Card catalog; Carrel; Copy station; Librarian; Library card; Reference desk -- Scenarios: Living Mausoleum; Neocloister; Database; Accumulibrary; Programmable library; Libraries of here and now -- So ... -- Endnotes -- Cold storage (visual verbal essay).
Text in English.

Summary:

"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 The Library Beyond the Book," 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. Libraries have always been mix-and-match spaces, and remix is their most plausible future scenario. Speculative and provocative, The Library Beyond the Book" explains book culture for a world where the physical and the virtual blend with ever increasing intimacy."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9780674725034 (alk. paper)
0674725034 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Libraries History.
Libraries and society.
Libraries Aims and objectives.
Libraries and electronic publishing.
Libraries Forecasting.
Bibliothèques Histoire.
Bibliothèques et société.
Bibliothèques Finalités.
Bibliothèques et édition électronique.
Bibliothèques Prévision.
Libraries.
Bibliothek
Buch
Bibliotek historia.
Bibliotek och samhälle.
Elektronisk publicering.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Battles, Matthew.
MetaLABprojects.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287836
Call No.: BIB 229239
Status: Available