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{"c923ce8b-0270-4263-9f1c-9c51d10f5cec": {"title": "Amazon: At the Intersection of Culture and Capital", "title_sort": "Amazon: At the Intersection of Culture and Capital", "pubdate": "2022-12-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "c923ce8b-0270-4263-9f1c-9c51d10f5cec", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Amazon is everywhere. In our mailboxes, in delivery vans clogging our streets, in an increasing portion of our air traffic, in our grocery stores, on our televisions, in our smart home devices, and in the infrastructure powering many of the websites we visit. Amazon's tendrils touch the majority of online retail transactions in the United States and in many other countries. As Amazon changes the face of capitalist business, it is also changing global culture in multiple ways. This book brings together some of the most important analyses of Amazon's pioneering business practices and how they intersect with and affect the components of everyday culture. Its contributors examine the political economy of Amazon's platform, making the argument that it operates as an unregulated monopoly that is disruptive to the global economy and that its infrastructure and logistical operations increasingly alienate its workers and wreak many other social harms. Our contributors outline the practices of resistance that have been employed by organizers ranging from Amazon employees to artists to digital piecemeal laborers working on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform. They examine the broader cultural impact that Amazon has had, looking at things like Amazon Prime and the creation of unending consumption, the absorption of Whole Foods and its brand of 'conscious capitalism, ' and the impact of Amazon Studios and Prime Video on everyday film and television viewing practices. This book examines the broader environmental impacts that Amazon is having on the world, looking at the slow violence it incurs, its underwhelming Climate Pledge, and the regional impacts that its business practices have. Lastly, this book gathers together some important artistic responses to Amazon for the first time in an appendix that offers readers insight into other ways in which critics of the company are making their voices heard and attempting to move broader audiences into solidarity against Amazon.</p></div>", "publisher": "Rowman & Littlefield", "authors": ["Paul Smith", "Alexander Monea", "Maillim Santiago"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Amazon_ At the Intersection of Culture and - Paul Smith.pdf", "dir_path": "Paul Smith/Amazon_ At the Intersection of Culture and Capital (1)/", "size": 5434199}], "cover_url": "Paul Smith/Amazon_ At the Intersection of Culture and Capital (1)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781538165225"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "3kdIzwEACAAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "6426de91-66ee-4ff8-8da4-ae60cc633d5f": {"title": "Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life", "title_sort": "Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life", "pubdate": "2008-12-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "6426de91-66ee-4ff8-8da4-ae60cc633d5f", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Standardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling certain standards may be, their fundamental purpose in streamlining procedures, regulating behaviors, and predicting results is rarely questioned. Indeed, the invisibility of infrastructure and the imperative of standardizing processes signify their absolute necessity. Increasingly, however, social scientists are beginning to examine the origins and effects of the standards that underpin the technology and practices of everyday life.Standards and Their Stories explores how we interact with the network of standards that shape our lives in ways both obvious and invisible. The main chapters analyze standardization in biomedical research, government bureaucracies, the insurance industry, labor markets, and computer technology, providing detailed accounts of the invention of \"standard humans\" for medical testing and life insurance actuarial tables, the imposition of chronological age as a biographical determinant, the accepted means of determining labor productivity, the creation of international standards for the preservation and access of metadata, and the global consequences of \"ASCII imperialism\" and the use of English as the lingua franca of the Internet.Accompanying these in-depth critiques are a series of examples that depict an almost infinite variety of standards, from the controversies surrounding the European Union's supposed regulation of banana curvature to the minimum health requirements for immigrants at Ellis Island, conflicting (and ever-increasing) food portion sizes, and the impact of standardized punishment metrics like \"Three Strikes\" laws. The volume begins with a pioneering essay from Susan Leigh Star and Martha Lampland on the nature of standards in everyday life that brings together strands from the several fields represented in the book. In an appendix, the editors provide a guide for teaching courses in this emerging interdisciplinary field, which they term \"infrastructure studies,\" making Standards and Their Stories ideal for scholars, students, and those curious about why coffins are becoming wider, for instance, or why the Financial Accounting Standards Board refused to classify September 11 as an \"extraordinary\" event.</p></div>", "publisher": "Cornell University", "authors": ["Martha Lampland"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Standards and Their Stories_ How Quantifyi - Martha Lampland.pdf", "dir_path": "Martha Lampland/Standards and Their Stories_ How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Every (2)/", "size": 9069706}], "cover_url": "Martha Lampland/Standards and Their Stories_ How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Every (2)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780801474613"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0801474612"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "204e7350-2984-46d5-9b48-32434a2c0613": {"title": "Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization", "title_sort": "Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization", "pubdate": "2021-09-20 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:06.366307+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "204e7350-2984-46d5-9b48-32434a2c0613", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital libraryLibraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of authors and publishers, and whether a powerful corporation should be the conveyor of such a fundamental public good. Along Came Google traces the history of Google's book digitization project and its implications for us today.Deanna Marcum and Roger Schonfeld draw on in-depth interviews with those who both embraced and resisted Google's plans, from librarians and technologists to university leaders, tech executives, and the heads of leading publishing houses. They look at earlier digital initiatives to provide open access to knowledge, and describe how Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made the case for a universal digital library and drew on their company's considerable financial resources to make it a reality. Marcum and Schonfeld examine how librarians and scholars organized a legal response to Google, and reveal the missed opportunities when a settlement with the tech giant failed.Along Came Google sheds light on the transformational effects of the Google Books project on scholarship and discusses how we can continue to think imaginatively and collaboratively about expanding the digital availability of knowledge.</p></div>", "publisher": "Princeton University", "authors": ["Deanna Marcum", "Roger C. Schonfeld"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Along Came Google_ A History of Library Di - Deanna Marcum.pdf", "dir_path": "Deanna Marcum/Along Came Google_ A History of Library Digitization (3)/", "size": 2561117}], "cover_url": "Deanna Marcum/Along Came Google_ A History of Library Digitization (3)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "CUUsEAAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780691172712"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "84b86aef-55d2-49e1-88f2-07e458dc4e75": {"title": "Amateur Librarian - A Course in Critical Pedagogy", "title_sort": "Amateur Librarian - A Course in Critical Pedagogy", "pubdate": "2016-06-27 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "84b86aef-55d2-49e1-88f2-07e458dc4e75", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>An essay from \"<a href=\"https://www.mondotheque.be/\"><span style=\"color: #0057ae\">Mondoth\u00e8que: a radiated book</span></a>\" edited and produced by <a href=\"https://constantvzw.org/\"><span style=\"color: #0057ae\">Constant</span></a>.</p>\n<p>\u00a0</p>\n<p>From \"Amateur Librarian - A Course in Critical Pedagogy\":</p>\n<p>\u00a0</p>\n<p>\"A proposal for a curriculum in amateur librarianship, developed through the activities and exigencies of the Public Library project. Drawing from a historic genealogy of public library as the institution of access to knowledge, the proletarian tradition of really useful knowledge and the amateur agency driven by technological development, the curriculum covers a range of segments from immediately applicable workflows for scanning, sharing and using e-books, over politics and tactics around custodianship of online libraries, to applied media theory implicit in the practices of amateur librarianship. The proposal is made with further development, complexification and testing in mind during the future activities of the Public Library and affiliated organizations.\"</p></div>", "publisher": "Constant", "authors": ["Marcell Mars", "Tomislav Medak"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Amateur Librarian - A Course in Critical P - Marcell Mars.pdf", "dir_path": "Marcell Mars/Amateur Librarian - A Course in Critical Pedagogy (4)/", "size": 141956}], "cover_url": "Marcell Mars/Amateur Librarian - A Course in Critical Pedagogy (4)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "d22e7e2c-74df-4a45-9d21-ffa2d7edbe91": {"title": "Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth", "title_sort": "Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth", "pubdate": "1969-09-17 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "d22e7e2c-74df-4a45-9d21-ffa2d7edbe91", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Hermes is a vital and complex figure in Greek mythology\u2015trickster and culture hero, divine child and patron of stealthy action, master of magic words, seducer and whisperer. Shepherd, artisan, herald, musician, athlete, merchant\u2015who is this tricky shape-shifter, confronting us at every turn? </p>\n<p>In this classic, prescient work (first published in 1947 and foreshadowing all subsequent work greeting the return of the gods), Brown asks: Is Hermes the Thief the prototype from which, by extension and analogy, the Trickster was derived? Alternatively, is the notion of trickery the fundamental idea and theft merely a specific manifestation of it? </p>\n<p>This thoughtful study will be of interest to anyone wishing a fresh view of an important, often misunderstood, character of Greek mythology.</p>\n<p>\u00a0</p></div>", "publisher": "Vintage", "authors": ["Norman Oliver Brown"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Hermes the Thief_ The Evolution of a Myth - Norman Oliver Brown.pdf", "dir_path": "Norman Oliver Brown/Hermes the Thief_ The Evolution of a Myth (5)/", "size": 37660485}], "cover_url": "Norman Oliver Brown/Hermes the Thief_ The Evolution of a Myth (5)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "BzNfeQSXKfcC"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0940262266"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780940262263"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "2a927000-d645-4693-a4f5-34fad0a23943": {"title": "Duchamp Is My Lawyer", "title_sort": "Duchamp Is My Lawyer", "pubdate": "0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "2a927000-d645-4693-a4f5-34fad0a23943", "tags": [], "abstract": "In 1996, during the relatively early days of the web, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. What started out as a site to share works from a relatively obscure literary movement grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music. Visitors around the world now have access to both obscure and canonical works, from artists such as Kara Walker, Yoko Ono, Pauline Oliveros, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Duchamp, Cecil Taylor, Glenn Ligon, William Burroughs, and Jean-Luc Godard. In Duchamp Is My Lawyer, Goldsmith tells the history of UbuWeb, explaining the motivations behind its creation and how artistic works are archived, consumed, and distributed online. Based on his own experiences and interviews with a variety of experts, Goldsmith describes how the site navigates issues of copyright and the ways that UbuWeb challenges familiar configurations and histories of the avant-garde. The book also portrays the growth of other \u201cshadow libraries\u201d and includes a section on the artists whose works reflect the aims, aesthetics, and ethos of UbuWeb. Goldsmith concludes by contrasting UbuWeb\u2019s commitment to the free-culture movement and giving access to a wide range of artistic works with today\u2019s gatekeepers of algorithmic culture, such as Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify.", "publisher": "Columbia University", "authors": ["Kenneth Goldsmith"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Duchamp Is My Lawyer - Kenneth Goldsmith.epub", "dir_path": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Duchamp Is My Lawyer (6)/", "size": 10296130}], "cover_url": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Duchamp Is My Lawyer (6)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "801e00f6-03a3-4c0d-a73b-065311932202": {"title": "Against Innovation: Compromised institutional agency and acts of custodianship", "title_sort": "Against Innovation: Compromised institutional agency and acts of custodianship", "pubdate": "2019-07-09 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "801e00f6-03a3-4c0d-a73b-065311932202", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "MayFlyBooks/Ephemera", "authors": ["Marcell Mars", "Tomislav Medak"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Against Innovation_ Compromised institutio - Marcell Mars.pdf", "dir_path": "Marcell Mars/Against Innovation_ Compromised institutional agency and acts of custodianship (7)/", "size": 176758}], "cover_url": "Marcell Mars/Against Innovation_ Compromised institutional agency and acts of custodianship (7)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization"}, "6186d66c-800f-43d4-afcc-e5679bb16448": {"title": "Free Libraries For Every Soul: Dreaming of the Online Library", "title_sort": "Free Libraries For Every Soul: Dreaming of the Online Library", "pubdate": "2014-03-08 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "6186d66c-800f-43d4-afcc-e5679bb16448", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>It seems to be an unarguable fact that libraries are a public good if not a moral standard of a modern, civilised society. They are the physical and societal manifestation of a commonly held principle that it is in society\u2019s best interests for information to flow freely, and there are very few voices that would publically dispute this point. However, over the past decade the fate of public libraries (in the western world at least) has been on a downward trajectory, threatened on all sides by political, economic and social factors. Previously held standards of access and preservation are under considerable threat, in some cases a very real threat of destruction and coercion, actual libricide not restricted to war torn countries or fundamentalist regimes.</p></div>", "publisher": "Samizdat", "authors": ["Aideen Doran"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Free Libraries For Every Soul_ Dreaming of - Aideen Doran.pdf", "dir_path": "Aideen Doran/Free Libraries For Every Soul_ Dreaming of the Online Library (8)/", "size": 92288}], "cover_url": "Aideen Doran/Free Libraries For Every Soul_ Dreaming of the Online Library (8)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "b58879be-eac2-43fe-8f6a-f9c4057f4186": {"title": "The Twenty Days of Turin", "title_sort": "Twenty Days of Turin, The", "pubdate": "2017-05-15 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "b58879be-eac2-43fe-8f6a-f9c4057f4186", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>Written during the bloodiest phase of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English language debut.</p>In the spare wing of a church-run sanitarium, some fervent youths create \"the Library,\" a space where lonely citizens can read one another's private diaries and connect with like-minded types. But does this pre-Internet experiment in social media attract anyone normal? Is the Library an answer to isolation or a honey-trap for antisocial content that drains its contributors' souls? As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day \"phenomenon of collective psychosis,\" climaxing in nighttime massacres, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a self-driven investigator suspects that the unnamable forces behind these unexplained events have continued in the shadow of public amnesia. His inquiry leads him through the city's netherworld of occultists and to a singular reward for his stubborn curiosity....", "publisher": "Liveright", "authors": ["Giorgio de Maria"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Twenty Days of Turin - Giorgio de Maria.epub", "dir_path": "Giorgio de Maria/The Twenty Days of Turin (9)/", "size": 1638165}], "cover_url": "Giorgio de Maria/The Twenty Days of Turin (9)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "758868cc-c170-494d-a0a3-37566baa9c1a": {"title": "Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South", "title_sort": "Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South", "pubdate": "2019-10-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "758868cc-c170-494d-a0a3-37566baa9c1a", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the world images of horrific racial violence. And while some of the bravest people of the 20th century risked their lives for the right to simply order a cheeseburger, ride a bus, or use a clean water fountain, there was another virtually unheard of struggle--this one for the right to read. Although illegal, racial segregation was strictly enforced in a number of American states, and public libraries were not immune. Numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only: there would be no cards given to African-Americans, no books for them read, and no furniture for them to use. It was these exact conditions that helped create Freedom Libraries. Over eighty of these parallel libraries appeared in the Deep South, staffed by civil rights voter registration workers. While the grassroots nature of the libraries meant they varied in size and quality, all of them created the first encounter many African-Americans had with a library. Terror, bombings, and eventually murder would be visited on the Freedom Libraries--with people giving up their lives so others could read a library book. This book delves into how these libraries were the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, and the remarkable courage of the people who used them. They would forever change libraries and librarianship, even as they helped the greater movement change the society these libraries belonged to. Photographs of the libraries bring this little-known part of American history to life.</p>", "publisher": "Rowman & Littlefield", "authors": ["Mike Selby"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Freedom Libraries_ The Untold Story of Lib - Mike Selby.epub", "dir_path": "Mike Selby/Freedom Libraries_ The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South (10)/", "size": 3189207}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Freedom Libraries_ The Untold Story of Lib - Mike Selby.pdf", "dir_path": "Mike Selby/Freedom Libraries_ The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South (10)/", "size": 6224248}], "cover_url": "Mike Selby/Freedom Libraries_ The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South (10)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781538115534"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "WufywwEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1538115530"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "77426753-5ece-4ded-be26-a49a251c40b2": {"title": "Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe", "title_sort": "Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe", "pubdate": "2016-10-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "77426753-5ece-4ded-be26-a49a251c40b2", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">We are so accustomed to use digital memories as data storage devices, that we are oblivious to the improbability of such a practice. Habit hides what we habitually use. To understand the worldwide success of archives and card indexing systems that allow to remember more because they allow to forget more than before, the evolution of scholarly practices and the transformation of cognitive habits in the early modern age must be investigated. This volume contains contributions by nearly every distinguished scholar in the field of early modern knowledge management and filing systems, and offers a remarkable synthesis of the present state of scholarship. A final section explores some current issues in record-keeping and note-taking systems, and provides valuable cues for future research.</p>", "publisher": "Brill", "authors": ["Alberto Cevolini"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Forgetting Machines_ Knowledge Management - Alberto Cevolini.pdf", "dir_path": "Alberto Cevolini/Forgetting Machines_ Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (11)/", "size": 4857767}], "cover_url": "Alberto Cevolini/Forgetting Machines_ Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe (11)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9789004278462"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "MMzGDAEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "900427846X"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Library of the Written Word. The Handpress World."}, "c869163e-2bb1-423a-944e-12ca7dbb013c": {"title": "System Of A Takedown", "title_sort": "System Of A Takedown", "pubdate": "2019-07-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "c869163e-2bb1-423a-944e-12ca7dbb013c", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>Since 2012 the Public Library/Memory of the World1 project has been developing and publicly supporting scenarios for massive disobedience against the current regulation of production and circulation of knowledge and culture in the digital realm. While the significance of that year may not be immediately apparent to everyone, across the peripheries of an unevenly developed world of higher education and research it produced a resonating void. The takedown of the book-sharing site Library.nu in early 2012 gave rise to an anxiety that the equalizing effect that its piracy had created\u2014the fact that access to the most recent and relevant scholarship was no longer a privilege of rich academic institutions in a few countries of the world (or, for that matter, the exclusive preserve of academia to begin with)\u2014would simply disappear into thin air. While alternatives within these peripheries quickly filled the gap, it was only through an unlikely set of circumstances that they were able to do so, let alone continue to exist in light of the legal persecution they now also face.\n\nThe starting point for the Public Library/Memory of the World project was a simple consideration: the public library is the institutional form that societies have devised in order to make knowledge and culture accessible to all their members regardless of social or economic status. There\u2019s a political consensus that this principle of access is fundamental to the purpose of a modern society. Yet, as digital networks have radically expanded the access to literature and scientific research, public libraries were largely denied the ability to extend to digital \u201cobjects\u201d the kind of de-commodified access they provide in the world of print. For instance, libraries frequently don\u2019t have the right to purchase e-books for lending and preservation. If they do, they are limited by how many times\u2014 twenty-six in the case of one publisher\u2014and under what conditions they can lend them before not only the license but the \u201cobject\u201d itself is revoked. In the case of academic journals, it is even worse: as they move to predominantly digital models of distribution, libraries can provide access to and \u201cpreserve\u201d them only for as long as they pay extortionate prices for ongoing subscriptions. By building tools for organizing and sharing electronic libraries, creating digitization workflows, and making books available online, the Public Library/Memory of the World project is aimed at helping to fill the space that remains denied to real-world public libraries. It is obviously not alone in this effort. There are many other platforms, some more public, some more secretive, working to help people share books. And the practice of sharing is massive.</p>", "publisher": "Meson Press", "authors": ["Marcell Mars", "Tomislav Medak"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "System Of A Takedown - Marcell Mars.pdf", "dir_path": "Marcell Mars/System Of A Takedown (12)/", "size": 143592}], "cover_url": "Marcell Mars/System Of A Takedown (12)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "In Search of Media"}, "fe9fb77a-a66d-4178-80a3-3838a576b474": {"title": "ReadMe! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge", "title_sort": "ReadMe! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge", "pubdate": "1999-02-02 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "fe9fb77a-a66d-4178-80a3-3838a576b474", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Media Studies. Technology. This collection, filtered by Nettime, was generated as the result of various meetings, conferences, and an internet mailing list dealing with current technological and political issues. Nettime has been described as a collective subjectivity with no fixed identity, made up of the people who come and go from the Nettime list, who contribute more or less to it characteristic ideas and expressions (Introduction). The result is a vigorous international networked discourse that neither promotes cash-cow euphoria nor propagates cynical generalizations about the cultural possibilities of new media. READ ME! pits the printing press against the Turing machine in an intellectual demolition derby. E-mail addresses of the authors are provided in the last section of the book, inviting collaboration on the part of the reader.</p>", "publisher": "Autonomedia", "authors": ["Josephine Bosma", "Pauline van Mourik Broekman", "Ted Byfield", "Matthew Fuller", "Geert Lovink", "Diana McCarty", "Pit Schultz", "Felix Stalder", "McKenzie Wark", "Faith Wilding"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "ReadMe! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of K - Josephine Bosma.pdf", "dir_path": "Josephine Bosma/ReadMe! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge (13)/", "size": 2538713}], "cover_url": "Josephine Bosma/ReadMe! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge (13)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781570270895"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1570270899"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "AHbSOwAACAAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "509bae6e-1b32-4cea-9882-facf215ad1db": {"title": "The Politics of Mass Digitization", "title_sort": "Politics of Mass Digitization, The", "pubdate": "2019-01-28 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "509bae6e-1b32-4cea-9882-facf215ad1db", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory.Today, all of us with internet connections can access millions of digitized cultural artifacts from the comfort of our desks. Institutions and individuals add thousands of new cultural works to the digital sphere every day, creating new central nexuses of knowledge. How does this affect us politically and culturally? In this book, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup approaches mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon, offering a new understanding of a defining concept of our time.Arguing that digitization has become a global cultural political project, Thylstrup draws on case studies of different forms of mass digitization\u2014including Google Books, Europeana, and the shadow libraries Monoskop, lib.ru, and Ubuweb\u2014to suggest a different approach to the study of digital cultural memory archives. She constructs a new theoretical framework for understanding mass digitization that focuses on notions of assemblage, infrastructure, and infrapolitics. Mass digitization does not consist merely of neutral technical processes, Thylstrup argues, but of distinct subpolitical processes that give rise to new kinds of archives and new ways of interacting with the artifacts they contain. With this book, she offers important and timely guidance on how mass digitization alters the politics of cultural memory to impact our relationship with the past and with one another.</p>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Nanna Bonde Thylstrup"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Politics of Mass Digitization - Nanna Bonde Thylstrup.pdf", "dir_path": "Nanna Bonde Thylstrup/The Politics of Mass Digitization (14)/", "size": 5757280}], "cover_url": "Nanna Bonde Thylstrup/The Politics of Mass Digitization (14)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "026203901X"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262039017"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "6d-CDwAAQBAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "0c01120b-4f66-496a-a19a-396780b50781": {"title": "Archives", "title_sort": "Archives", "pubdate": "2019-07-16 16:59:43+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "0c01120b-4f66-496a-a19a-396780b50781", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-appearance: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: osRegular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: 0px !important;\"><br class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\">Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. This book sets out to show how expanded archival practices can challenge contemporary conceptions and inform the redistribution of power and resources. Calling for the necessity to reimagine the potentials of archives in practice, the three contributions ask: Can archives fulfill their paradoxical potential as utopian sites in which the analog and the digital, the past and future, and remembrance and forgetting commingle?</p><div><br></div></div>", "publisher": "Meson Press", "authors": ["Andrew Lison", "Marcell Mars", "Tomislav Medak", "Rick Prelinger"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Archives - Andrew Lison.pdf", "dir_path": "Andrew Lison/Archives (15)/", "size": 873135}], "cover_url": "Andrew Lison/Archives (15)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "doi", "code": "10.14619/1501"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781517908065"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "In Search of Media"}, "948b25c9-9640-465e-a887-d9a6aea39e08": {"title": "The Bourgeois", "title_sort": "Bourgeois, The", "pubdate": "2013-01-15 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "948b25c9-9640-465e-a887-d9a6aea39e08", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">\"I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals,\" wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today?<br><br>Thus begins Franco Moretti's study of the bourgeois in modern European literature, where a gallery of individual portraits is entwined around the analysis of specific keywords \u2014 such as 'useful' and 'earnest', 'efficiency', 'influence', 'comfort', 'roba' \u2014 and of the formal mutations of the medium of prose. The book charts the rise and fall of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical<br> weakness, and searches for the seeds of its failures.<br></p>", "publisher": "Verso", "authors": ["Franco Moretti"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Bourgeois - Franco Moretti.epub", "dir_path": "Franco Moretti/The Bourgeois (16)/", "size": 1313940}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Bourgeois - Franco Moretti.pdf", "dir_path": "Franco Moretti/The Bourgeois (16)/", "size": 5452835}], "cover_url": "Franco Moretti/The Bourgeois (16)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781781683057"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "d2e23b94-60ac-473b-85da-c6db84d61eb6": {"title": "Open Sources: Voices From the Open Source Revolution", "title_sort": "Open Sources: Voices From the Open Source Revolution", "pubdate": "1999-01-13 05:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "d2e23b94-60ac-473b-85da-c6db84d61eb6", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the software revolution known as Open Source. Open Source has grabbed the computer industry's attention. Netscape has opened the source code to Mozilla; IBM supports Apache; major database vendors haved ported their products to Linux. As enterprises realize the power of the open-source development model, Open Source is becoming a viable mainstream alternative to commercial software.Now in <em>Open Sources</em>, leaders of Open Source come together for the first time to discuss the new vision of the software industry they have created. The essays in this volume offer insight into how the Open Source movement works, why it succeeds, and where it is going.For programmers who have labored on open-source projects, <em>Open Sources</em> is the new gospel: a powerful vision from the movement's spiritual leaders. For businesses integrating open-source software into their enterprise, <em>Open Sources</em> reveals the mysteries of how open development builds better software, and how businesses can leverage freely available software for a competitive business advantage.The contributors here have been the leaders in the open-source arena:</p><ul>\n<li>Brian Behlendorf (Apache)</li>\n<li>Kirk McKusick (Berkeley Unix)</li>\n<li>Tim O'Reilly (Publisher, O'Reilly &amp; Associates)</li>\n<li>Bruce Perens (Debian Project, Open Source Initiative)</li>\n<li>Tom Paquin and Jim Hamerly (mozilla.org, Netscape)</li>\n<li>Eric Raymond (Open Source Initiative)</li>\n<li>Richard Stallman (GNU, Free Software Foundation, Emacs)</li>\n<li>Michael Tiemann (Cygnus Solutions)</li>\n<li>Linus Torvalds (Linux)</li>\n<li>Paul Vixie (Bind)</li>\n<li>Larry Wall (Perl)</li>\n</ul><p>This book explains why the majority of the Internet's servers use open- source technologies for everything from the operating system to Web serving and email. Key technology products developed with open-source software have overtaken and surpassed the commercial efforts of billion dollar companies like Microsoft and IBM to dominate software markets. Learn the inside story of what led Netscape to decide to release its source code using the open-source mode. Learn how Cygnus Solutions builds the world's best compilers by sharing the source code. Learn why venture capitalists are eagerly watching Red Hat Software, a company that gives its key product -- Linux -- away.For the first time in print, this book presents the story of the open- source phenomenon told by the people who created this movement.\u00a0<em>Open Sources</em> will bring you into the world of free software and show you the revolution.</p></div>", "publisher": "O'Reilly", "authors": ["Chris Dibona", "Sam Ockman", "Mark Stone"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Open Sources_ Voices From the Open Source - Chris Dibona.epub", "dir_path": "Chris Dibona/Open Sources_ Voices From the Open Source Revolution (17)/", "size": 1105268}], "cover_url": "Chris Dibona/Open Sources_ Voices From the Open Source Revolution (17)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781565925823"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1565925823"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "18b87fe0-910c-49e6-91ec-2d1ab485a74e": {"title": "Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution", "title_sort": "Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution", "pubdate": "2005-10-21 04:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "18b87fe0-910c-49e6-91ec-2d1ab485a74e", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p><em>Open Sources 2.0</em> is a collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in the 1999 book <em>Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution</em> .</p><p>These essays explore open source's impact on the software industry and reveal how open source concepts are infiltrating other areas of commerce and society. The essays appeal to a broad audience: the software developer will find thoughtful reflections on practices and methodology from leading open source developers like Jeremy Allison and Ben Laurie, while the business executive will find analyses of business strategies from the likes of Sleepycat co-founder and CEO Michael Olson and Open Source Business Conference founder Matt Asay.</p><p>From China, Europe, India, and Brazil we get essays that describe the developing world's efforts to join the technology forefront and use open source to take control of its high tech destiny. For anyone with a strong interest in technology trends, these essays are a must-read.</p><p>The enduring significance of open source goes well beyond high technology, however. At the heart of the new paradigm is network-enabled distributed collaboration: the growing impact of this model on all forms of online collaboration is fundamentally challenging our modern notion of community.</p><p>What does the future hold? Veteran open source commentators Tim O'Reilly and Doc Searls offer their perspectives, as do leading open source scholars Steven Weber and Sonali Shah. Andrew Hessel traces the migration of open source ideas from computer technology to biotechnology, and Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger and Slashdot co-founder Jeff Bates provide frontline views of functioning, flourishing online collaborative communities.</p><p>The power of collaboration, enabled by the internet and open source software, is changing the world in ways we can only begin to imagine.<em>Open Sources 2.0</em> further develops the evolutionary picture that emerged in the original <em>Open Sources</em> and expounds on the transformative open source philosophy.</p><p>\"This is a wonderful collection of thoughts and examples bygreat minds from the free software movement, and is a must have foranyone who follows free software development and project histories.\"</p><p>--Robin Monks, Free Software Magazine</p><p><em>The list of contributors include</em></p><ul>\n<li>Alolita Sharma</li>\n<li>Andrew Hessel</li>\n<li>Ben Laurie</li>\n<li>Boon-Lock Yeo</li>\n<li>Bruno Souza</li>\n<li>Chris DiBona</li>\n<li>Danese Cooper</li>\n<li>Doc Searls</li>\n<li>Eugene Kim</li>\n<li>Gregorio Robles</li>\n<li>Ian Murdock</li>\n<li>Jeff Bates</li>\n<li>Jeremy Allison</li>\n<li>Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona</li>\n<li>Kim Polese</li>\n<li>Larry Sanger</li>\n<li>Louisa Liu</li>\n<li>Mark Stone</li>\n<li>Mark Stone</li>\n<li>Matthew N. Asay</li>\n<li>Michael Olson</li>\n<li>Mitchell Baker</li>\n<li>Pamela Jones</li>\n<li>Robert Adkins</li>\n<li>Russ Nelson</li>\n<li>Sonali K. Shah</li>\n<li>Stephen R. Walli</li>\n<li>Steven Weber</li>\n<li>Sunil Saxena</li>\n<li>Tim O'Reilly</li>\n<li>Wendy Seltzer</li>\n</ul><p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n</p><p>**</p></div>", "publisher": "O'Reilly", "authors": ["Chris Dibona", "Mark Stone", "Danese Cooper"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Open Sources 2.0_ The Continuing Evolution - Chris Dibona.epub", "dir_path": "Chris Dibona/Open Sources 2.0_ The Continuing Evolution (18)/", "size": 1346880}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Open Sources 2.0_ The Continuing Evolution - Chris Dibona.pdf", "dir_path": "Chris Dibona/Open Sources 2.0_ The Continuing Evolution (18)/", "size": 4496084}], "cover_url": "Chris Dibona/Open Sources 2.0_ The Continuing Evolution (18)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780596553890"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "q9GnNrq3e5EC"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0596008023"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "4d317603-c8ce-4951-8d52-b453b28cb3ba": {"title": "Public Library (an essay)", "title_sort": "Public Library (an essay)", "pubdate": "2014-10-29 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "4d317603-c8ce-4951-8d52-b453b28cb3ba", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>With the emergence of the Internet and software tools such as Calibre and \u201c[let\u2019s share books],\u201d librarianship was granted an\nopportunity, similar to astronomy and the project SETI@home, to include thousands of amateur librarians who will, together with the experts, build a distributed peer-to-peer network to care for the catalog of available knowledge, because <i>\"a public library is:</i><div><ul><li><i>free access to books for every member of\nsociety</i></li><li><i>library catalog</i></li><li><i>librarian.</i></li></ul></div><div><i>With books ready to be shared, meticulously\ncataloged, everyone is a librarian.\nWhen everyone is librarian, library is is everywhere.\"</i></div></div>", "publisher": "Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia", "authors": ["Marcell Mars"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Public Library (an essay) - Marcell Mars.pdf", "dir_path": "Marcell Mars/Public Library (an essay) (20)/", "size": 197327}], "cover_url": "Marcell Mars/Public Library (an essay) (20)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "52f9e5ed-944e-4cf8-b710-ef79b74546e8": {"title": "Guerrilla Open Access", "title_sort": "Guerrilla Open Access", "pubdate": "0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "52f9e5ed-944e-4cf8-b710-ef79b74546e8", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><div><font face=\"DejaVu Sans, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">\"In the 1990s, the Internet offered a horizon from which to imagine what society could become, promising autonomy and self-organization next to redistribution of wealth and collectivized means of production. While the former was in line with the dominant ideology of freedom, the latter ran contrary to the expanding enclosures in capitalist globalization. This antagonism has led to epochal copyfights, where free software and piracy kept the promise of radical commoning alive.</font></div><div><font face=\"DejaVu Sans, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><br></font></div><div><font face=\"DejaVu Sans, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Free software, as Christopher Kelty writes in this pamphlet, provided a model \u2018of a shared, collective, process of making software, hardware and infrastructures that cannot be appropriated by others\u2019. Well into the 2000s, it served as an inspiration for global free culture and open access movements who were speculating that distributed infrastructures of knowledge production could be built, as the Internet was, on top of free software.</font></div><div><font face=\"DejaVu Sans, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><br></font></div><div><font face=\"DejaVu Sans, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">For a moment, the hybrid world of ad-financed Internet giants\u2014sharing code, advocating open standards and interoperability\u2014and users empowered by these services, convinced almost everyone that a new reading/writing culture was possible. Not long after the crash of 2008, these disruptors, now wary monopolists, began to ingest smaller disruptors and close off their platforms. There was still free software somewhere underneath, but without the \u2018original sense of shared, collective, process\u2019. So, as Kelty suggests, it was hard to imagine that for-profit academic publishers wouldn't try the same with open access.</font></div><div><font face=\"DejaVu Sans, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><br></font></div><div><font face=\"DejaVu Sans, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">Heeding Aaron Swartz\u2019s call to civil disobedience, Guerrilla Open Access has emerged out of the outrage over digitally-enabled enclosure of knowledge that has allowed these for-profit academic publishers to appropriate extreme profits that stand in stark contrast to the cuts, precarity, student debt and asymmetries of access in education. Shadow libraries stood in for the access denied to public libraries, drastically reducing global asymmetries in the process.</font></div><div><font face=\"DejaVu Sans, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><br></font></div><div><font face=\"DejaVu Sans, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">This radicalization of access has changed how publications travel across time and space. Digital archiving, cataloging and sharing is transforming what we once considered as private libraries. Amateur librarianship is becoming public shadow librarianship. Hybrid use, as poetically unpacked in Bal\u00e1zs Bod\u00f3's reflection on his own personal library, is now entangling print and digital in novel ways. And, as he warns, the terrain of antagonism is shifting. While for-profit publishers are seemingly conceding to Guerrilla Open Access, they are opening new territories: platforms centralizing data, metrics and workflows, subsuming academic autonomy into new processes of value extraction.</font></div><div style=\"font-family: 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 10px;\"><br></div><div><div><font face=\"DejaVu Sans, sans-serif\" size=\"1\">The 2010s brought us hope and then realization how little digital networks could help revolutionary movements. The redistribution toward the wealthy, assisted by digitization, has eroded institutions of solidarity. The embrace of privilege\u2014 marked by misogyny, racism and xenophobia\u2014this has catalyzed is nowhere more evident than in the climate denialism of the Trump administration. Guerrilla archiving of US government climate change datasets, as recounted by Laurie Allen, indicates that more technological innovation simply won't do away with the 'post-truth' and that our institutions might be in need of revision, replacement and repair.\" - <i>Memory of the World</i></font></div></div></div>", "publisher": "Post Office Press", "authors": ["Memory of the World", "Bal\u00e1zs Bod\u00f3", "Christopher Kelty", "Laurie Allen"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Guerrilla Open Access - Memory of the World.pdf", "dir_path": "Memory of the World/Guerrilla Open Access (21)/", "size": 9620886}], "cover_url": "Memory of the World/Guerrilla Open Access (21)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "8b189b82-71c3-4023-8687-34897f5be4ce": {"title": "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems", "title_sort": "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems", "pubdate": "1991-01-15 05:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:10.258560+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "8b189b82-71c3-4023-8687-34897f5be4ce", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">No new product offering has had greater impact on the computer industry than the IBM System/360. IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems describes the creation of this remarkable system and the developments it spawned, including its successor, System/370. The authors tell how System/360's widely-copied architecture came into being and how IBM failed in an effort to replace it ten years later with a bold development effort called FS, the Future System. Along the way they detail the development of many computer innovations still in use, among them semiconductor memories, the cache, floppy disks, and Winchester disk files. They conclude by looking at issues involved in managing research and development and striving for product leadership.While numerous anecdotal and fragmentary accounts of System/360 and System/370 development exist, this is the first comprehensive account, a result of research into IBM records, published reports, and interviews with over a hundred participants. Covering the period from about 1960 to 1975, it highlights such important topics as the gamble on hybrid circuits, conception and achievement of a unified product line, memory and storage developments, software support, unique problems at the high end of the line, monolithic integrated circuit developments, and the trend toward terminal-oriented systems.System/360 was developed during the transition from discrete transistors to integrated circuits at the crucial time when the major source of IBM's revenue was changed from punched-card equipment to electronic computer systems. As the authors point out, the key to the system's success was compatibility among its many models. So important was this to customers that System/370 and its successors have remained compatible with System/360. Many companies in fact chose to develop and market their own 360-370 compatible systems. System/360 also spawned an entire industry dedicated to making plug-compatible products for attachment to it.The authors, all affiliated with IBM Research, are coauthors of IBM's Early Computers, a critically acclaimed technical history covering the period before 1960.</p>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Emerson W. Pugh", "Lyle R. Johnson", "John H. Palmer"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems - Emerson W. Pugh.pdf", "dir_path": "Emerson W. Pugh/IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems (22)/", "size": 97992524}], "cover_url": "Emerson W. Pugh/IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems (22)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262161237"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "MFGj_PT_clIC"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "cb0f88b2-19f6-486f-acd0-6299c0b63b22": {"title": "Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom", "title_sort": "Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom", "pubdate": "2017-07-09 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "cb0f88b2-19f6-486f-acd0-6299c0b63b22", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>In this compelling examination of the intersection of smart technology and the law, Joshua A. T. Fairfield explains the crisis of digital ownership - how and why we no longer control our smartphones or software-enable devices, which are effectively owned by software and content companies. In two years we will not own our 'smart' televisions which will also be used by advertisers to listen in to our living rooms. In the coming decade, if we do not take back our ownership rights, the same will be said of our self-driving cars and software-enabled homes. We risk becoming digital peasants, owned by software and advertising companies, not to mention overreaching governments. Owned should be read by anyone wanting to know more about the loss of our property rights, the implications for our privacy rights and how we can regain control of both.</p>", "publisher": "Cambridge University", "authors": ["Joshua A. T. Fairfield"], "formats": [{"format": "azw", "file_name": "Owned_ Property, Privacy, and the New Digi - Joshua A. T. Fairfield.azw", "dir_path": "Joshua A. T. Fairfield/Owned_ Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom (23)/", "size": 1383268}], "cover_url": "Joshua A. T. Fairfield/Owned_ Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom (23)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "TdQoDwAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "1107159350"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1107159350"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B0725ZHQWQ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "576fe041-c97d-45e1-b308-1a1f0da5ead2": {"title": "Amazon\u2019s Stranglehold: How the Company\u2019s Tightening Grip Is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities", "title_sort": "Amazon\u2019s Stranglehold: How the Company\u2019s Tightening Grip Is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities", "pubdate": "2016-11-23 03:18:55+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:06.366307+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "576fe041-c97d-45e1-b308-1a1f0da5ead2", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>For all of its reach, Amazon, the company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995 as\nan online bookstore, is still remarkably invisible. It makes it easy not to notice\nhow powerful and wide-ranging it has become. But behind the packages\non the doorstep, and behind the inviting interface and seamless service\nthat has consistently put the company at the top of corporate reputation\nrankings, 1 Amazon has quietly positioned itself at the center of a growing\nshare of our daily activities and transactions, extending its tentacles across\nour economy, and with it, our lives. Today, half of all U.S. households are\nsubscribed to the membership program Amazon Prime, half of all online\nshopping searches start directly on Amazon, and Amazon captures nearly\none in every two dollars that Americans spend online. Amazon sells more\nbooks, toys, and by next year, apparel and consumer electronics than any\nretailer online or off, and is investing heavily in its grocery business. As a\nretailer, its market power now rivals or exceeds that\nof Walmart, and it stands only to grow: Within five\nyears, one-fifth of the U.S.\u2019s $3.6 trillion retail market\nwill have shifted online, and Amazon is on track to\ncapture two-thirds of that share.</p>", "publisher": "Institute for Local Self-Reliance", "authors": ["Olivia LaVecchia", "Stacy Mitchell"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Amazon's Stranglehold_ How the Company's T - Olivia LaVecchia.pdf", "dir_path": "Olivia LaVecchia/Amazon's Stranglehold_ How the Company's Tightening Grip Is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, (24)/", "size": 35254123}], "cover_url": "Olivia LaVecchia/Amazon's Stranglehold_ How the Company's Tightening Grip Is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, (24)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "6678cce1-6147-4e86-a06b-0130c7a6da5b": {"title": "Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016 to 2021", "title_sort": "Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016 to 2021", "pubdate": "2016-12-01 09:44:45+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "6678cce1-6147-4e86-a06b-0130c7a6da5b", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>The Taskforce\u2019s role is to enable the delivery of the recommendations from the <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-library-report-for-england\">Independent Library Report for England</a> and to build upon and add value to existing good practice, partnerships and other activities that are already supporting public libraries. It also promotes libraries to national and local government and to potential funders, and creates a strong and coherent narrative around the contribution public libraries make to society and to local communities.</p><p>The Taskforce reports to ministers via the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Local Government Association (LGA).</p><p>The priorities for the Libraries Taskforce are:</p><ul><li>making the case for investment in libraries</li><li>raising public awareness of what libraries have to offer</li><li>identifying and showcasing good practice and supporting innovation</li><li>supporting workforce development</li><li>supporting development of the digital offer of libraries</li><li>monitoring and reporting on progress</li></ul></div>", "publisher": "Libraries Taskforce", "authors": ["Libraries Taskforce"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2 - Libraries Taskforce.pdf", "dir_path": "Libraries Taskforce/Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016 to 2021 (25)/", "size": 2825352}], "cover_url": "Libraries Taskforce/Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016 to 2021 (25)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "5dfc551e-62b6-4b04-8851-3bfe03f925da": {"title": "Online File Sharing: Innovations in Media Consumption", "title_sort": "Online File Sharing: Innovations in Media Consumption", "pubdate": "2013-08-27 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "5dfc551e-62b6-4b04-8851-3bfe03f925da", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>It is apparent that file sharing on the Internet has become an emerging norm of media consumption\u2015especially among young people. This book provides a critical perspective on this phenomenon, exploring issues related to file sharing, downloading, peer-to-peer networks, \"piracy,\" and (not least) policy issues regarding these practices. Andersson Schwartz\u00a0critically engages with the justificatory discourses of the actual file-sharers, taking Sweden as a geographic focus. By focusing on the example of Sweden\u2015home to both The Pirate Bay and Spotify\u2015he provides a unique insight into a mentality that drives both innovation and deviance and accommodates sharing in both its unadulterated and its compliant, business-friendly forms.</p>", "publisher": "Routledge", "authors": ["Jonas Andersson Schwarz"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Online File Sharing_ Innovations in Media - Jonas Andersson Schwarz.pdf", "dir_path": "Jonas Andersson Schwarz/Online File Sharing_ Innovations in Media Consumption (26)/", "size": 960996}], "cover_url": "Jonas Andersson Schwarz/Online File Sharing_ Innovations in Media Consumption (26)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "041585430X"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780415854306"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Comedia"}, "5b419187-d135-4cc2-b559-5e3d2c888095": {"title": "A Reader in International Media Piracy: Pirate Essays", "title_sort": "Reader in International Media Piracy: Pirate Essays, A", "pubdate": "2015-11-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "5b419187-d135-4cc2-b559-5e3d2c888095", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Piracy. It is among the most prevalent and vexing issues of the digital age. In just the last decade, it has altered the music industry beyond recognition, changed the way people watch television, and dented the business models of the film and software industries. From MP3 files to recipes from French celebrity chefs to the jokes of American standup comedians, piracy is ubiquitous. And now piracy can even be an arbiter of taste, such as in the decision by Netflix Netherlands to license heavily pirated shows.  </p>\n<p>In this unflinching analysis of piracy on the internet and in the markets of the Global South, Tilman Baumg\u00e4rtel brings together a collection of essays examining the economic, political, and cultural consequences of piracy. The contributors explore a wide array of topics, which include materiality and piracy in Rio de Janeiro; informal media distribution and the film experience in Hanoi, Vietnam; the infrastructure of piracy in Nigeria; the political economy of copy protection; and much more. Offering a theoretical background for future studies of piracy, <em>A Reader in International Media Piracy</em> is an important collection on the burning issue of the internet age.</p></div>", "publisher": "Amsterdam University", "authors": ["Tilman Baumg\u00e4rtel"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "A Reader in International Media Piracy_ Pi - Tilman Baumgartel.pdf", "dir_path": "Tilman Baumgartel/A Reader in International Media Piracy_ Pirate Essays (27)/", "size": 1734508}], "cover_url": "Tilman Baumgartel/A Reader in International Media Piracy_ Pirate Essays (27)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "9089648682"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9789089648686"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "MediaMatters"}, "721876fd-5430-4d14-aaa6-21bf0ab10aed": {"title": "Bibliogifts in LibGen? A study of a textsharing platform driven by biblioleaks and crowdsourcing", "title_sort": "Bibliogifts in LibGen? A study of a textsharing platform driven by biblioleaks and crowdsourcing", "pubdate": "2015-03-27 09:46:46+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "721876fd-5430-4d14-aaa6-21bf0ab10aed", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>Research articles disseminate the knowledge produced\nby the scientific community. Access to this literature is\ncrucial for researchers and the general public. Apparently,\n\u201cbibliogifts\u201d are available online for free from textsharing\nplatforms. However, little is known about such\nplatforms. What is the size of the underlying digital\nlibraries? What are the topics covered? Where do these\ndocuments originally come from? This article reports on\na study of the Library Genesis platform (LibGen). The 25\nmillion documents (42 terabytes) it hosts and distributes\nfor free are mostly research articles, textbooks, and\nbooks in English. The article collection stems from isolated,\nbut massive, article uploads (71%) in line with a\n\u201cbiblioleaks\u201d scenario, as well as from daily crowdsourcing\n(29%) by worldwide users of platforms such as\nReddit Scholar and Sci-Hub. By relating the DOIs registered\nat CrossRef and those cached at LibGen, this\nstudy reveals that 36% of all DOI articles are available for\nfree at LibGen. This figure is even higher (68%) for three\nmajor publishers: Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley. More\nresearch is needed to understand to what extent\nresearchers and the general public have recourse to\nsuch text-sharing platforms and why.</p>", "publisher": "Wiley", "authors": ["Guillaume Cabanac"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Bibliogifts in LibGen_ A study of a textsh - Guillaume Cabanac.pdf", "dir_path": "Guillaume Cabanac/Bibliogifts in LibGen_ A study of a textsharing platform driven by biblioleaks and crowdsourcing (28)/", "size": 403043}], "cover_url": "Guillaume Cabanac/Bibliogifts in LibGen_ A study of a textsharing platform driven by biblioleaks and crowdsourcing (28)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "doi", "code": "10.1002/asi.23445"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "2d3fd145-3536-473e-b04e-9f7d502a12f8": {"title": "Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge", "title_sort": "Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge", "pubdate": "2017-04-02 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "2d3fd145-3536-473e-b04e-9f7d502a12f8", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic of the Library's inability to account for sexual difference, Melissa Adler embarks upon a detailed critique of how cataloging systems have delimited and proscribed expressions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in a manner that mirrors psychiatric and sociological attempts to pathologize non-normative sexual practices and civil subjects.</p>\n<p>Taking up a parallel analysis, Adler utilizes Roderick A. Ferguson's Aberrations in Black as another example of how the Library of Congress fails to account for, and thereby \"buries,\" difference. She examines the physical space of the Library as one that encourages forms of governmentality as theorized by Michel Foucault while also allowing for its utopian possibilities. Finally, she offers a brief but highly illuminating history of the Delta Collection. Likely established before the turn of the twentieth century and active until its gradual dissolution in the 1960s, the Delta Collection was a secret archive within the Library of Congress that housed materials confiscated by the United States Post Office and other federal agencies. These were materials deemed too obscene for public dissemination or general access. Adler reveals how the Delta Collection was used to regulate difference and squelch dissent in the McCarthy era while also linking it to evolving understandings of so-called perversion in the scientific study of sexual difference.</p>\n<p>Sophisticated, engrossing, and highly readable, Cruising the Library provides us with a critical understanding of library science, an alternative view of discourses around the history of sexuality, and an analysis of the relationship between governmentality and the cataloging of research and information--as well as categories of difference--in American culture.</p></div>", "publisher": "Fordham University", "authors": ["Melissa Adler"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Cruising the Library_ Perversities in the - Melissa Adler.pdf", "dir_path": "Melissa Adler/Cruising the Library_ Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (29)/", "size": 5832029}], "cover_url": "Melissa Adler/Cruising the Library_ Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (29)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "_ilHvgAACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0823276368"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780823276363"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "60b67eaa-522b-420e-b439-d78980481298": {"title": "Really Useful Knowledge", "title_sort": "Really Useful Knowledge", "pubdate": "2014-10-13 17:45:13+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "60b67eaa-522b-420e-b439-d78980481298", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Catalogue from the exhibition \"Really useful knowledge\" from the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. \nThe notion of \u201creally useful knowledge\u201d emerged at the beginning of the 19th century alongside the workers\u2019 awareness of the need for self-education. In the 1820s and 1830s, working class organisations in the UK introduced this phrase to describe a body of knowledge that encompassed various \u201cunpractical\u201d disciplines such as politics, economy and philosophy, as opposed to the \u201cuseful knowledge\u201d proclaimed by business owners who had previously begun to invest more heavily in their companies\u2019 progress through financing workers\u2019 education in \u201capplicable\u201d disciplines like engineering, physics, chemistry and mathematics. In this reference to the long-forgotten class struggles of early capitalism, the title of the exhibition suggests an inquiry into \u201creally useful knowledge\u201d from a contemporary perspective.</p>\n<p>Authors: What, How &amp; for Whom, Marina Garc\u00e9s, Raqs Media Collective, Luis Camnitzer, Trevor Paglen, Jacob Appelbaum, Fred Moten &amp; Stefano Harney, G.M.Tam\u00e1s</p></div>", "publisher": "Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia", "authors": ["What| How", "for Whom"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Really Useful Knowledge - What, How.pdf", "dir_path": "What, How/Really Useful Knowledge (30)/", "size": 14339410}], "cover_url": "What, How/Really Useful Knowledge (30)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9788480264990"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "c01395b3-d07a-4d16-876d-69ee37bcc175": {"title": "Art in the Courtroom", "title_sort": "Art in the Courtroom", "pubdate": "1998-03-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "c01395b3-d07a-4d16-876d-69ee37bcc175", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Providing legal analysis and touching upon social history and art history themes, this work offers an objective review of five art trials. Spanning the last 20 years, specific areas of law are examined with each trial: First and Fifth Amendments, copyright law, contract law, valuation of art, and misrepresentation. Art, outside of the legal vacuum, has been embroiled in a battle initiated by social conservatives to promote decency. Three trials involving this struggle and the National Endowment of the Arts are analyzed. The valuation of art is examined in the context of Andy Warhol's estate and copyright law is considered because of the appropriation of contemporary images by Jeff Koons. Although each trial is reviewed distinctly, all are interwoven to present major issues relating to contemporary art. Entertaining aspects of each trial contribute to the understanding of art and law. For art students, copyright, contract and constitutional analysis in the context of actual hearings is an invaluable resource outlining afforded protections and options. To scholars interested in contemporary art and its encounters with the law, this text bridges the gap between two seemingly disparate worlds.</p>", "publisher": "Greenwood", "authors": ["Vilis R. Inde"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Art in the Courtroom - Vilis R. Inde.epub", "dir_path": "Vilis R. Inde/Art in the Courtroom (31)/", "size": 1918439}], "cover_url": "Vilis R. Inde/Art in the Courtroom (31)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "oasin", "code": "0275959716"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "4u31cP67sMIC"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780275959715"}, {"scheme": "asin", "code": "B000QCS75M"}, {"scheme": "guid", "code": "bfc0bbbafac1bd15b15ed2080d33b14c224b154"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "a5e8bb30-3b1d-4490-909f-6985c9d40eba": {"title": "No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism", "title_sort": "No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism", "pubdate": "2005-09-06 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "a5e8bb30-3b1d-4490-909f-6985c9d40eba", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>This is the first English translation of Daniel Gu\u00e9rin's monumental anthology of anarchism, originally published in French in four volumes. It details through a vast array of hitherto unpublished documents, letters, debates, manifestoes, reports, impassioned calls-to-arms, and reasoned analysis the history, organisation and practice of the movement. Readers will meet anarchism's theorists, advocates and activists; the great names and the obscure; towering legends and unsung heroes.</p>", "publisher": "AK Press", "authors": ["Daniel Gu\u00e9rin"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "No Gods No Masters_ An Anthology of Anarch - Daniel Guerin.epub", "dir_path": "Daniel Guerin/No Gods No Masters_ An Anthology of Anarchism (32)/", "size": 2645900}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "No Gods No Masters_ An Anthology of Anarch - Daniel Guerin.pdf", "dir_path": "Daniel Guerin/No Gods No Masters_ An Anthology of Anarchism (32)/", "size": 22667952}], "cover_url": "Daniel Guerin/No Gods No Masters_ An Anthology of Anarchism (32)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781904859253"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "d534a25d-9806-485e-a3b6-72a84b48626f": {"title": "The radiated book", "title_sort": "radiated book, The", "pubdate": "2016-08-01 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "d534a25d-9806-485e-a3b6-72a84b48626f", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>In 1919 the Mundaneum occupied half of the majestic Cinquantenaire building in Brussels. The ambitious project was imagined by Paul Otlet and Henri Lafontaine as a mix between documentation center, conference venue and educational display. \u201cThe Mundaneum is an Idea, an Institution, a Method, a Body of workmaterials and collections, a Building, a Network.\u201d (Paul Otlet, Monde)</p>\n\n<p>In 2013 a band of artists, archivists and activists set out to unravel the many implications of a statement that routinely compared the Mundaneum to \u201cGoogle on paper\u201d. Under the moniker Mondotheque they organised discussions, reflections and workshops in various locations. A Semantic MediaWiki functioned as a platform for writing, editing and bookdesign. The publication of Mondotheque::a radiating book creates a moment, an incision into this collaborative process. It is an invitation into the entanglements of knowledge infrastructures, geo-politics and local histories.</p></div>", "publisher": "Mondotheque", "authors": ["Matthew Fuller", "S\u00eenziana P\u0103ltineanu", "Michael Murtaugh", "Dennis Pohl", "ShinJoung Yeo", "Femke Snelting", "Natacha Roussel", "Dick Reckard", "Geraldine Ju\u00e1rez", "Tomislav Medak", "Marcell Mars", "Du\u0161an Barok", "Alexia de Visscher"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The radiated book - Matthew Fuller.pdf", "dir_path": "Matthew Fuller/The radiated book (33)/", "size": 39919850}], "cover_url": "Matthew Fuller/The radiated book (33)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng", "fra", "nld"]}, "226b1011-02ad-4a7b-aa07-54cb534831fd": {"title": "Skill in the History of Medicine and Science", "title_sort": "Skill in the History of Medicine and Science", "pubdate": "2015-07-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "226b1011-02ad-4a7b-aa07-54cb534831fd", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>Few historians would deny that skills are at the heart of modern medicine. Yet skill can\nprove troublesome to define. The content of what counts as a medical skill ranges widely\nacross different dimensions of the body and self, as through places, disciplines and phases\nof history. From the physician\u2019s touch in physical examination to the discriminating eye of\nthe histologist, from empathy in nursing to precision in surgery: all suppose and reproduce\na skilled practitioner. Despite or perhaps because of their abundance, skills have appeared\ntoo easily as a self-evident feature of medical history. Their ubiquity and the wide spectrum\nof concepts they assimilate have obstructed efforts to historicise them, or to explore the\nwider implications of their transience. Impossible to deny and yet notoriously hard to\ndefine, skills in medical history are everywhere and nowhere at once, persistent through its\nsources and yet rare as organising principles of its scholarship. The object of this volume\nis to address that asymmetry, and begin unsettling the self-evidence of skills by drawing\nthem into critical focus.</p>", "publisher": "Cambridge University", "authors": ["Nicholas Whitfield", "Thomas Schlich"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Skill in the History of Medicine and Scien - Nicholas Whitfield.pdf", "dir_path": "Nicholas Whitfield/Skill in the History of Medicine and Science (34)/", "size": 12375544}], "cover_url": "Nicholas Whitfield/Skill in the History of Medicine and Science (34)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "doi", "code": "10.1017/mdh.2015.42"}, {"scheme": "issn", "code": "0025-7273"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Medical History"}, "7ad9005e-b397-4486-99ac-a597d88749c7": {"title": "The Wheelwright's Shop", "title_sort": "Wheelwright's Shop, The", "pubdate": "2005-12-31 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "7ad9005e-b397-4486-99ac-a597d88749c7", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>\u2018The Wheelwright\u2019s Shop\u2019 was written by George Sturt (better known as George Bourne). This book contains passages selected and edited by A.F. Collins, who was an inspector of Handicraft and Science at Birmingham Educational Authority \u2013 as well as several black and white photographs illustrating the text. George Sturt (1863 - 1927) was an English writer on rural crafts and countryside affairs, who lived in the village of Farnham, Surrey all his life. He took over his father\u2019s \u2018Wheelwright Shop\u2019 upon the formers\u2019 death, and wrote many texts whilst simultaneously keeping up the business. This work contains chapters on buying, carting and converting timber, as well as \u2018wheel-stuff\u2019, \u2018hand-work\u2019, \u2018wagons\u2019 and \u2018learning the trade.\u2019 \u2018iron-work and jobbing\u2019 as well as the work of the Smith; \u2018putting on\u2019 and \u2018boxing on\u2019 are also included. It is essential reading for all those interested in rural crafts and the specifics of wood, iron and metal work.</p>", "publisher": "Read Books", "authors": ["George Sturt"], "formats": [{"format": "mobi", "file_name": "The Wheelwright's Shop - George Sturt.mobi", "dir_path": "George Sturt/The Wheelwright's Shop (35)/", "size": 810712}], "cover_url": "George Sturt/The Wheelwright's Shop (35)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B005WTOV4A"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "WS54BsTKwzwC"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0521091950"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781846641411"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "1cc3c8b8-027f-40a8-959f-bc3a7b380b0b": {"title": "Caf\u00e9 Society", "title_sort": "Caf\u00e9 Society", "pubdate": "2013-11-06 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "1cc3c8b8-027f-40a8-959f-bc3a7b380b0b", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>While tracing the historical emergence of the caf\u00e9 as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of caf\u00e9s, caf\u00e9 as surrogate office, and caf\u00e9 as site of exchange for news and views.</p>", "publisher": "Palgrave Macmillan", "authors": ["Aksel Tjora", "G. Scambler"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Cafe Society - Aksel Tjora.pdf", "dir_path": "Aksel Tjora/Cafe Society (36)/", "size": 1877544}], "cover_url": "Aksel Tjora/Cafe Society (36)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1137275928"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781137275929"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "df8c1315-0d8a-456c-966f-66a7a6405fc7": {"title": "Hammer Head", "title_sort": "Hammer Head", "pubdate": "2014-12-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "df8c1315-0d8a-456c-966f-66a7a6405fc7", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>A warm and inspiring book for anyone who has ever dreamed of changing tracks: the story of a young woman who quit her desk job to become a carpenter.<p>Nina MacLaughlin spent her twenties working at a Boston newspaper, sitting behind a desk and staring at a screen. Yearning for more tangible work, she applied for a job she saw on Craigslist&#8212;<i>Carpenter's Assistant: Women strongly encouraged to apply</i>&#8212;despite being a Classics major who couldn't tell a Phillips from a flathead screwdriver. She got the job, and in <i>Hammer Head</i> she tells the rich and entertaining story of becoming a carpenter.<p>Writing with infectious curiosity, MacLaughlin describes the joys and frustrations of making things by hand, reveals the challenges of working as a woman in an occupation that is 99 percent male, and explains how manual labor changed the way she sees the world. We meet her unflappable mentor, Mary, a petite but tough carpenter-sage (\"<i>Be smarter than the...", "publisher": "W. W. Norton", "authors": ["Nina MacLaughlin"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Hammer Head - Nina MacLaughlin.epub", "dir_path": "Nina MacLaughlin/Hammer Head (37)/", "size": 1144385}], "cover_url": "Nina MacLaughlin/Hammer Head (37)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780393246469"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "32d0913d-fdc8-4633-853b-f330c9416e4a": {"title": "Talking About Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job", "title_sort": "Talking About Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job", "pubdate": "1996-10-16 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "32d0913d-fdc8-4633-853b-f330c9416e4a", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers and shares vignettes from their daily lives. He characterizes their work as a continuous highly skilled improvisation within a triangular relationship of technician, customer, and machine. The work technicians do encompasses elements not contained in the official definition of the job yet vital to its success. Orr's analysis of the way repair people talk about their work reveals that talk is, in fact, a crucial dimension of their practice. Diagnosis happens through a narrative process, the creation of a coherent description of the troubled machine. The descriptions become the basis for technicians' discourse about their experience, and the circulation of stories among the technicians is the principal means by which they stay informed of the developing subtleties of machine behavior. Orr demonstrates that technical knowledge is a socially distributed resource stored and diffused primarily through an oral culture.Based on participant observation with copier repair technicians in the field and strengthened by Orr's own years as a technician, this book explodes numerous myths about technicians and suggests how technical work differs from other kinds of employment.</p>", "publisher": "Cornell University", "authors": ["Julian E. Orr"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Talking About Machines_ An Ethnography of - Julian E. Orr.pdf", "dir_path": "Julian E. Orr/Talking About Machines_ An Ethnography of a Modern Job (38)/", "size": 13443894}], "cover_url": "Julian E. Orr/Talking About Machines_ An Ethnography of a Modern Job (38)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0801483905"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780801432972"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Collection on Technology and Work"}, "e5f1f2fe-df9d-4cae-81b5-88cf64f8735a": {"title": "Custodians of Place: Governing the Growth and Development of Cities", "title_sort": "Custodians of Place: Governing the Growth and Development of Cities", "pubdate": "2009-03-12 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e5f1f2fe-df9d-4cae-81b5-88cf64f8735a", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p><em>Custodians of Place</em> provides a new theoretical framework that accounts for how different types of cities arrive at decisions about residential growth and economic development. Lewis and Neiman surveyed officials in hundreds of California cities of all sizes and socioeconomic characteristics to account for differences in local development policies. This book shows city governments at the center of the action in shaping their destinies, frequently acting as far-sighted trustees of their communities. They explain how city governments often can insulate themselves for the better from short-term political pressures and craft policy that builds on past growth experiences and future vision. Findings also include how conditions on the ground - local commute times, housing affordability, composition of the local labor force - play an important role in determining the approach a city takes toward growth and land use. What types of cities tend to aggressively pursue industrial or retail firms? What types of cities tend to favor housing over business development? What motivates cities to try to slow residential growth? \"Custodians of Place\" answers these and many other questions.</p>", "publisher": "Georgetown University", "authors": ["Paul G. Lewis", "Max Neiman"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Custodians of Place_ Governing the Growth - Paul G. Lewis.pdf", "dir_path": "Paul G. Lewis/Custodians of Place_ Governing the Growth and Development of Cities (39)/", "size": 7199995}], "cover_url": "Paul G. Lewis/Custodians of Place_ Governing the Growth and Development of Cities (39)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "TmBQDAAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1589012569"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781589012561"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "eea4337b-cd4d-46a2-88ba-7bd430f0ba81": {"title": "Manifesto For Maintenance Art 1969!", "title_sort": "Manifesto For Maintenance Art 1969!", "pubdate": "1969-12-09 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "eea4337b-cd4d-46a2-88ba-7bd430f0ba81", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Initially written as a proposal for an exhibition entitled Care, the Manifesto For Maintenance Art emphasizes maintenance\u2014keeping things clean, working and cared for\u2014as a creative strategy. The manifesto is formed of two parts. In part I, under the rubric 'Ideas' she makes a distinction between the two basic systems of 'Development' and 'Maintenance', where the former is associated with 'pure individual creation', 'the new', 'change' and the latter is tasked with 'keep the dust off the pure individual creation, preserve the new, sustain the change'. She asks, \"after the revolution, who\u2019s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?\". This contrasts with the modernist tradition in which the originality of an artist is foregrounded and the mundane material reality of an artist's everyday life is disregarded. \u201cAvant-garde art, which claims utter development, is infected by strains of maintenance ideas, maintenance activities, and maintenance materials\u2026\u201d</p>\n<p>The second part describes her proposal for the exhibition and is made up of three parts A) Part One: Personal, B) Part Two: General and C) Part Three: Earth Maintenance. She begins with the statement \u201cI am an artist. I am a woman. I am a wife. I am a mother. (Random order) I do a hell of a lot of washing, cleaning, cooking, renewing, supporting, preserving, etc. Also, (up to now separately) I \u2018do\u2019 Art. Now I will simply do these everyday things, and flush them up to consciousness, exhibit them, as Art [...] MY WORKING WILL BE THE WORK\u201d</p></div>", "publisher": "Samizdat", "authors": ["Mierle Laderman Ukeles"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Manifesto For Maintenance Art 1969! - Mierle Laderman Ukeles.pdf", "dir_path": "Mierle Laderman Ukeles/Manifesto For Maintenance Art 1969! (40)/", "size": 137189}], "cover_url": "Mierle Laderman Ukeles/Manifesto For Maintenance Art 1969! (40)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "8552def7-fd6a-4a0e-acea-30ffd1fb179e": {"title": "Out of Order: Understanding Repair and Maintenance", "title_sort": "Out of Order: Understanding Repair and Maintenance", "pubdate": "2007-05-10 08:33:56+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "8552def7-fd6a-4a0e-acea-30ffd1fb179e", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>This article seeks to demonstrate the centrality of maintenance and repair to an understanding of modern societies and, particularly, cities. Arguing that repair and maintenance activities present a kind of 'missing link' in social theory, which is usually overlooked or forgotten, the article begins by recalling Heidegger's concept of material things as being 'ready to hand'. The main elements of practices of repair and maintenance are then elaborated on so as to help establish the argument that, by focusing on failure and breakdown in technical artefacts and systems, their vital contribution can be brought to the fore. The article then moves on to suggest that prevailing cultural constructions, and imaginations, of the 'infrastructure' that sustains modern societies, actively work to push repair and maintenance activities beyond the attention of social science. To exemplify these arguments, the article explores in detail some of the repair and maintenance activities that sustain, first, the nexus between computer communications and electricity and, second, the system of automobility. The article concludes by excavating a politics of repair and maintenance in modern cities and societies.</p>", "publisher": "SAGE", "authors": ["Stephen Graham", "Nigel Thrift"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Out of Order_ Understanding Repair and Mai - Stephen Graham.pdf", "dir_path": "Stephen Graham/Out of Order_ Understanding Repair and Maintenance (41)/", "size": 155876}], "cover_url": "Stephen Graham/Out of Order_ Understanding Repair and Maintenance (41)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "doi", "code": "10.1177/0263276407075954"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Theory Culture Society"}, "6a6178ea-bee7-4195-9b1b-f356cb924670": {"title": "The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries", "title_sort": "Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries, The", "pubdate": "2011-09-08 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "6a6178ea-bee7-4195-9b1b-f356cb924670", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>In <em>The Problem with Work</em>, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, and the recognition of unpaid work as a valued form of labor, even they have tended to accept work as a naturalized or inevitable activity. Weeks argues that in taking work as a given, we have \u201cdepoliticized\u201d it, or removed it from the realm of political critique. Employment is now largely privatized, and work-based activism in the United States has atrophied. We have accepted waged work as the primary mechanism for income distribution, as an ethical obligation, and as a means of defining ourselves and others as social and political subjects. Taking up Marxist and feminist critiques, Weeks proposes a postwork society that would allow people to be productive and creative rather than relentlessly bound to the employment relation. Work, she contends, is a legitimate, even crucial, subject for political theory.</p>", "publisher": "Duke University", "authors": ["Kathi Weeks"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Problem With Work_ Feminism, Marxism, - Kathi Weeks.pdf", "dir_path": "Kathi Weeks/The Problem With Work_ Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (42)/", "size": 1188161}], "cover_url": "Kathi Weeks/The Problem With Work_ Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (42)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780822350965"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "kOWkuQAACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0822351129"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "adf06802-6545-4100-9386-4811d3f6a512": {"title": "More Work for Mother", "title_sort": "More Work for Mother", "pubdate": "1983-12-10 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "adf06802-6545-4100-9386-4811d3f6a512", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Shows how new, supposedly time-saving inventions have both increased the workload and improved the standard of living.</p>", "publisher": "Basic Books", "authors": ["Ruth Schwartz Cowan"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "More Work for Mother - Ruth Schwartz Cowan.pdf", "dir_path": "Ruth Schwartz Cowan/More Work for Mother (43)/", "size": 5634901}], "cover_url": "Ruth Schwartz Cowan/More Work for Mother (43)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780465047314"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "x8HuAAAAMAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0465047327"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "f93ba148-fa22-4522-9ec0-61b90c2d99ae": {"title": "The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy", "title_sort": "End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy, The", "pubdate": "2016-11-03 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "f93ba148-fa22-4522-9ec0-61b90c2d99ae", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the ebooks or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don't own those purchases, you merely license them. That means your ebook vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation -- as Amazon deleted Orwell's <em>1984</em> from the Kindles of surprised readers several years ago. These readers thought they owned their copies of <em>1984</em>. Until, it turned out, they didn't. In <em>The End of Ownership</em>, Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz explore how notions of ownership have shifted in the digital marketplace, and make an argument for the benefits of personal property.</p>\n<p>Of course, ebooks, cloud storage, streaming, and other digital goods offer users convenience and flexibility. But, Perzanowski and Schultz warn, consumers should be aware of the tradeoffs involving user constraints, permanence, and privacy. The rights of private property are clear, but few people manage to read their end user agreements. Perzanowski and Schultz argue that introducing aspects of private property and ownership into the digital marketplace would offer both legal and economic benefits. But, most important, it would affirm our sense of self-direction and autonomy. If we own our purchases, we are free to make whatever lawful use of them we please. Technology need not constrain our freedom; it can also empower us.</p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Aaron Perzanowski", "Jason Schultz"], "formats": [{"format": "mobi", "file_name": "The End of Ownership_ Personal Property in - Aaron Perzanowski.mobi", "dir_path": "Aaron Perzanowski/The End of Ownership_ Personal Property in the Digital Economy (44)/", "size": 1259885}], "cover_url": "Aaron Perzanowski/The End of Ownership_ Personal Property in the Digital Economy (44)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0262035014"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262035019"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B01MFFNYC4"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "The Information Society Series"}, "dfc829ad-cdd6-4508-8d57-f2fb1f469763": {"title": "Palimpsest", "title_sort": "Palimpsest", "pubdate": "2015-12-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "dfc829ad-cdd6-4508-8d57-f2fb1f469763", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia.<p>Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness. Portrayed in mythology as either a gift from heroes or a curse from the gods, it has been used as both an instrument of power and a channel of the divine; a means of social bonding and of individual self-definition. Now, as the revolution once wrought by the printed word gives way to the digital age, many fear that the art of writing, and the nuanced thinking nurtured by writing, are under threat. But writing itself, despite striving for permanence, is always in the midst of growth and transfiguration.<p>Celebrating the impulse to record, invent, and make one's mark, Matthew Battles reenchants the written word for all those susceptible to the power and beauty of writing in all of its forms.", "publisher": "W. W. Norton", "authors": ["Matthew Battles"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Palimpsest - Matthew Battles.epub", "dir_path": "Matthew Battles/Palimpsest (45)/", "size": 2289880}], "cover_url": "Matthew Battles/Palimpsest (45)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780393089516"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "612ce9b8-1361-47a7-81d0-cb2203cffc3e": {"title": "Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?", "title_sort": "Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?", "pubdate": "2005-07-31 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "612ce9b8-1361-47a7-81d0-cb2203cffc3e", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>The central question in political philosophy is whether political states have the right to coerce their constituents and whether citizens have a moral duty to obey the commands of their state. Christopher Heath Wellman and A. John Simmons defend opposing answers to this question. Wellman bases his argument on Samaritan obligations to perform easy rescues. Simmons counters that this, and all other attempts to explain our duty to obey the law, will fail.</p>", "publisher": "Cambridge University", "authors": ["Christopher Wellman", "John Simmons"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Is There a Duty to Obey the Law_ - Christopher Wellman.pdf", "dir_path": "Christopher Wellman/Is There a Duty to Obey the Law_ (46)/", "size": 4629533}], "cover_url": "Christopher Wellman/Is There a Duty to Obey the Law_ (46)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780521537841"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "kcmsQgAACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0521830974"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "3d5c3687-61c8-476a-8be5-1fcc07432cdf": {"title": "The Librarian", "title_sort": "Librarian, The", "pubdate": "2014-10-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:51.820514+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "3d5c3687-61c8-476a-8be5-1fcc07432cdf", "tags": [], "abstract": "If Ryu Murakami had written <i>War and Peace</i><br><br>As the introduction to this book will tell you, the books by Gromov, obscure and long forgotten propaganda author of the Soviet era, have such an effect on their readers that they suddenly enjoy supernatural powers. Understandably, their readers need to keep accessing these books at all cost and gather into groups around book-bearers, or, as they're called, librarians. Alexei, until now a loser, comes to collect an uncle's inheritance and unexpectedly becomes a librarian. He tells his extraordinary, unbelievable story.", "publisher": "Steerforth Press", "authors": ["Mikhail Elizarov"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Librarian - Mikhail Elizarov.epub", "dir_path": "Mikhail Elizarov/The Librarian (47)/", "size": 1161538}], "cover_url": "Mikhail Elizarov/The Librarian (47)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781782270843"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "069ddd26-7033-40cd-ab46-7e8fb300eddf": {"title": "Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice", "title_sort": "Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice", "pubdate": "2015-09-30 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "069ddd26-7033-40cd-ab46-7e8fb300eddf", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and theoretical dimensions are increasingly intertwined. Digital ethnography is central to our understanding of the social world; it can shape methodology and methods, and provides the technological tools needed to research society. The authoritative team of authors clearly set out how to research localities, objects and events as well as providing insights into exploring individuals' or communities' lived experiences, practices and relationships. The book: Defines a series of central concepts in this new branch of social and cultural research Challenges existing conceptual and analytical categories Showcases new and innovative methods Theorises the digital world in new ways Encourages us to rethink pre-digital practices, media and environments This is the ideal introduction for anyone intending to conduct ethnographic research in today's digital society.</p>", "publisher": "SAGE", "authors": ["Sarah Pink", "Heather Horst", "John Postill", "Larissa Hjorth", "Jo Tacchi", "Tania Lewis"], "formats": [{"format": "azw", "file_name": "Digital Ethnography_ Principles and Practi - Sarah Pink.azw", "dir_path": "Sarah Pink/Digital Ethnography_ Principles and Practice (48)/", "size": 1517820}], "cover_url": "Sarah Pink/Digital Ethnography_ Principles and Practice (48)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B01674D2FC"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "MqI4rgEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781473902374"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "8bcb1cf8-4184-4db0-8301-1483ce1b3647": {"title": "The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities", "title_sort": "Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities, The", "pubdate": "2016-04-10 05:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "8bcb1cf8-4184-4db0-8301-1483ce1b3647", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>from <a href=\"http://projectarclight.org/book\">http://projectarclight.org/book</a>:</p><p>From the tremendous video libraries of YouTube and the Internet Archive to the text collections of the HathiTrust and the Media History Digital Library, media historians today confront the challenge of engaging with an abundance of cultural works that have been transformed into data. What new skills, competencies, and tools do media historians and scholars need in an era of digital research?</p>\n<p>The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities seeks to answer this question\u2014and raise many more\u2014by examining what media historians are doing right now with digital tools and methods. Across seventeen chapters, contributing authors discuss the ways in which they are using or building digital technologies, assessing strengths and weaknesses, and responding to successes and failures. Topics explored include search, maps, big data, text mining, video analytics, databases, networks, and new forms of publication. All authors attempt to be reflexive about how the media of the twenty-first century shape our engagement with the past.</p>\n<p>By aggregating these perspectives, and including an index and a glossary of key terms, this collection seeks to be a \u201cguidebook\u201d that surveys what media historians are doing with digital tools and charts a course for how the field of media history might move forward in an ongoing dialogue with the digital humanities.</p></div>", "publisher": "REFRAME Books", "authors": ["Charles R. Acland", "Eric Hoyt"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Arclight Guidebook to Media History an - Charles R. Acland.epub", "dir_path": "Charles R. Acland/The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities (49)/", "size": 27346226}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Arclight Guidebook to Media History an - Charles R. Acland.pdf", "dir_path": "Charles R. Acland/The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities (49)/", "size": 33275890}], "cover_url": "Charles R. Acland/The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities (49)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "5c979323-8cb8-473f-81ff-47429a8bfaed": {"title": "The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-Of-Life", "title_sort": "Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-Of-Life, The", "pubdate": "2013-04-30 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:58.345018+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "5c979323-8cb8-473f-81ff-47429a8bfaed", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?  </p>\n<p>It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book reconstructs in detail the life of the monks with their obsessive attention to temporal articulation and to the Rule, to ascetic techniques and to liturgy. But Agamben's thesis is that the true novelty of monasticism lies not in the confusion between life and norm, but in the discovery of a new dimension, in which \"life\" as such, perhaps for the first time, is affirmed in its autonomy, and in which the claim of the \"highest poverty\" and \"use\" challenges the law in ways that we must still grapple with today.  </p>\n<p>How can we think a form-of-life, that is, a human life released from the grip of law, and a use of bodies and of the world that never becomes an appropriation? How can we think life as something not subject to ownership but only for common use?</p></div>", "publisher": "Stanford University", "authors": ["Giorgio Agamben"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Highest Poverty_ Monastic Rules and Fo - Giorgio Agamben.pdf", "dir_path": "Giorgio Agamben/The Highest Poverty_ Monastic Rules and Form-Of-Life (50)/", "size": 6106836}], "cover_url": "Giorgio Agamben/The Highest Poverty_ Monastic Rules and Form-Of-Life (50)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780804784054"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "CmpmMwEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "080478406X"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "50b9d412-3efd-436f-b93c-4006eb09824c": {"title": "The New Librarianship Field Guide", "title_sort": "New Librarianship Field Guide, The", "pubdate": "2016-05-12 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "50b9d412-3efd-436f-b93c-4006eb09824c", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities -- librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of <em>The Atlas of New Librarianship</em>, reminds librarians of their mission: to improve society by facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. In this book, he provides tools, arguments, resources, and ideas for fulfilling this mission. Librarians will be prepared to become radical positive change agents in their communities, and other readers will learn to understand libraries in a new way.</p>\n<p>The librarians of Ferguson, Missouri, famously became positive change agents in August 2014 when they opened library doors when schools were closed because of civil unrest after the shooting of an unarmed teen by police. Working with other local organizations, they provided children and their parents a space for learning, lunch, and peace. But other libraries serve other communities -- students, faculty, scholars, law firms -- in other ways. All libraries are about community, writes Lankes; that is just librarianship. </p>\n<p>In concise chapters, Lankes addresses the mission of libraries and explains what constitutes a library. He offers practical advice for librarian training; provides teaching notes for each chapter; and answers \"Frequently Argued Questions\" about the new librarianship.</p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["R. David Lankes"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The New Librarianship Field Guide - R. David Lankes.pdf", "dir_path": "R. David Lankes/The New Librarianship Field Guide (51)/", "size": 7420640}], "cover_url": "R. David Lankes/The New Librarianship Field Guide (51)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0262529084"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262529082"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "JqkGDAAAQBAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "e0c42216-6f58-407e-b688-d79b57644cfb": {"title": "The Atlas of New Librarianship", "title_sort": "Atlas of New Librarianship, The", "pubdate": "2011-04-03 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e0c42216-6f58-407e-b688-d79b57644cfb", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In <em>The Atlas of New Librarianship</em>, R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities. To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankes offers a map, a visual representation of the field that can guide explorations of it; more than 140 Agreements, statements about librarianship that range from relevant theories to examples of practice; and Threads, arrangements of Agreements to explain key ideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundations and skills and values. Agreement Supplements at the end of the book offer expanded discussions. Although it touches on theory as well as practice, the Atlas is meant to be a tool: textbook, conversation guide, platform for social networking, and call to action.</p>\n<p>Copublished with the Association of College &amp; Research Libraries.</p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["R. David Lankes"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Atlas of New Librarianship - R. David Lankes.pdf", "dir_path": "R. David Lankes/The Atlas of New Librarianship (52)/", "size": 62850713}], "cover_url": "R. David Lankes/The Atlas of New Librarianship (52)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "qJlSbwAACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0262015099"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262015097"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "e1d9c4fd-7ee0-475b-b548-421c956eb70c": {"title": "Reading and the Reference Librarian: The Importance to Library Service of Staff Reading Habits", "title_sort": "Reading and the Reference Librarian: The Importance to Library Service of Staff Reading Habits", "pubdate": "2003-11-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e1d9c4fd-7ee0-475b-b548-421c956eb70c", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merely expected to find it. Technological competency rather than knowledge has become the order of the day. In many respects, reference service has become a matter of typing search terms into a library's online catalog or a web search engine and providing the patron with the results of the search. Calling for a re-intellectualization of reference librarianship, this book suggests another approach to providing quality reference service - reading. The authors surveyed both academic reference librarians and public library reference personnel in the United States and Canada about their reading habits. From the 950 responses, the authors present findings about the extent to which librarians read newspapers, periodicals, fiction and nonfiction, and recount and analyze stories about how reading has made them better librarians. The authors also report that North American professors in the humanities and social sciences believe that the best reference librarians are those who have wide-ranging, subject-based knowledge as opposed to the type of process-based, functional knowledge that is increa</p>", "publisher": "McFarland", "authors": ["Juris Dilevko", "Lisa Gottlieb"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Reading and the Reference Librarian_ The I - Juris Dilevko.pdf", "dir_path": "Juris Dilevko/Reading and the Reference Librarian_ The Importance to Library Service of Staff Reading Habits (53)/", "size": 2326657}], "cover_url": "Juris Dilevko/Reading and the Reference Librarian_ The Importance to Library Service of Staff Reading Habits (53)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0786416521"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780786416523"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "4b385113-f3d7-4a49-8d13-5390a2077ce3": {"title": "Memory Practices in the Sciences", "title_sort": "Memory Practices in the Sciences", "pubdate": "2006-02-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "4b385113-f3d7-4a49-8d13-5390a2077ce3", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>The way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal, and social practices that surrounds it, inevitably affects the knowledge that we record. The ways we hold knowledge about the past\u2014in handwritten manuscripts, in printed books, in file folders, in databases\u2014shape the kind of stories we tell about that past. In this lively and erudite look at the relation of our information infrastructures to our information, Geoffrey Bowker examines how, over the past two hundred years, information technology has converged with the nature and production of scientific knowledge. His story weaves a path between the social and political work of creating an explicit, indexical memory for science\u2014the making of infrastructures\u2014and the variety of ways we continually reconfigure, lose, and regain the past.</p>\n<p>At a time when memory is so cheap and its recording is so protean, Bowker reminds us of the centrality of what and how we choose to forget. In <em>Memory Practices in the Sciences</em> he looks at three \"memory epochs\" of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and their particular reconstructions and reconfigurations of scientific knowledge. The nineteenth century's central science, geology, mapped both the social and the natural world into a single time package (despite apparent discontinuities), as, in a different way, did mid-twentieth-century cybernetics. Both, Bowker argues, packaged time in ways indexed by their information technologies to permit traffic between the social and natural worlds. Today's sciences of biodiversity, meanwhile, \"database the world\" in a way that excludes certain spaces, entities, and times. We use the tools of the present to look at the past, says Bowker; we project onto nature our modes of organizing our own affairs.</p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Geoffrey Bowker"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Memory Practices in the Sciences - Geoffrey Bowker.epub", "dir_path": "Geoffrey Bowker/Memory Practices in the Sciences (54)/", "size": 2844187}], "cover_url": "Geoffrey Bowker/Memory Practices in the Sciences (54)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B004C43R46"}, {"scheme": "oasin", "code": "0262025892"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "0262025892"}, {"scheme": "asin", "code": "B004C43R46"}, {"scheme": "guid", "code": "c5324e0c32eda9c957ee9c3342744cf977b1fda"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Inside Technology"}, "9fcb9338-bb55-4c80-8c06-abc53bbf1c87": {"title": "The Library in the Life of the User: Engaging With People Where They Live and Learn", "title_sort": "Library in the Life of the User: Engaging With People Where They Live and Learn, The", "pubdate": "2015-03-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "9fcb9338-bb55-4c80-8c06-abc53bbf1c87", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>This compilation provides a sequential overview of some of our user behavior research findings that articulate the need for the design of future library services to be all about the user.  </p><h4>Highlights:</h4><ul><li>People associate the library with books and do not consider the library in relation to online resources or reference services.</li><li>People may not think of using libraries to get their information because they do not know that the services exist and some of the existing services are not familiar or do not fit into their workflows.</li><li>The context and situation of the information need often dictates how people behave and engage with technology.</li><li>Engagement and relationship building in both the online and physical environments is important for the development of successful and effective services.</li></ul></div>", "publisher": "OCLC", "authors": ["Lynn Silipigni Connaway"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Library in the Life of the User_ Engag - Lynn Silipigni Connaway.pdf", "dir_path": "Lynn Silipigni Connaway/The Library in the Life of the User_ Engaging With People Where They Live and Learn (55)/", "size": 2105802}], "cover_url": "Lynn Silipigni Connaway/The Library in the Life of the User_ Engaging With People Where They Live and Learn (55)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781556535000"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "7mMTjwEACAAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "76b88300-2e6e-46cd-90f9-a22d60652d59": {"title": "You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia", "title_sort": "You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia", "pubdate": "2016-02-23 06:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "76b88300-2e6e-46cd-90f9-a22d60652d59", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>\"Knowledge is of two kinds,\" said Samuel Johnson in 1775. \"We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.\" Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries. <br>\n<em><br>\nYou Could Look It Up</em> chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From <em>The Code of Hammurabi</em>, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon almost two millennia before Christ to Pliny's <em>Natural History</em>; from the 11th-century Domesday Book recording land holdings in England to Abraham Ortelius's first atlas of the world; from Samuel Johnson's <em>A Dictionary of the English Language</em> to <em>The Whole Earth Catalog</em> to Google, Jack Lynch illuminates the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring impact on civilization. In the process, he offers new insight into the value of knowledge.</p><p>\n</p><p>**</p></div>", "publisher": "Bloomsbury", "authors": ["Jack Lynch"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "You Could Look It Up_ The Reference Shelf - Jack Lynch.epub", "dir_path": "Jack Lynch/You Could Look It Up_ The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia (56)/", "size": 168}], "cover_url": "Jack Lynch/You Could Look It Up_ The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia (56)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B015JJ8TP4"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "080277752X"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "aT6SCgAAQBAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "3d0b7fe8-1cee-4a92-ac5f-6e35d8be1497": {"title": "Books, Buildings and Social Engineering: Early Public Libraries in Britain From Past to Present", "title_sort": "Books, Buildings and Social Engineering: Early Public Libraries in Britain From Past to Present", "pubdate": "2009-06-27 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "3d0b7fe8-1cee-4a92-ac5f-6e35d8be1497", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>Public libraries have strangely never been the subject of an extensive design history. Consequently, this important and comprehensive book represents a ground-breaking socio-architectural study of pre-1939 public library buildings. A surprisingly high proportion of these urban civic buildings remain intact and present an increasingly difficult architectural problem for many communities. The book thus includes a study of what is happening to these historic libraries now and proposes that knowledge of their origins and early development can help build an understanding of how best to handle their future.</p>", "publisher": "Routledge", "authors": ["Alistair Black", "Simon Pepper", "Kaye Bagshaw"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Books, Buildings and Social Engineering_ E - Alistair Black.pdf", "dir_path": "Alistair Black/Books, Buildings and Social Engineering_ Early Public Libraries in Britain From Past to Present (57)/", "size": 16367073}], "cover_url": "Alistair Black/Books, Buildings and Social Engineering_ Early Public Libraries in Britain From Past to Present (57)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0754672077"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780415186049"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "33cd4e09-0d21-4705-9a44-dc626552f1a5": {"title": "Do Artifacts Have Politics?", "title_sort": "Do Artifacts Have Politics?", "pubdate": "1980-02-04 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "33cd4e09-0d21-4705-9a44-dc626552f1a5", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><a href=\"http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652\">http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652</a>\n\n<p>\"IN CONTROVERSIES ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY, there is no idea more pro-\nvocative than the notion that technical things have political qualities. At issue is\nthe claim that the machines, structures, and systems of modern material culture\ncan be accurately judged not only for their contributions of efficiency and pro-\nductivity, not merely for their positive and negative environmental side effects,\nbut also for the ways in which they can embody specific forms of power and\nauthority. Since ideas of this kind have a persistent and troubling presence in\ndiscussions about the meaning of technology, they deserve explicit attention.\"</p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Langdon Winner"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Do Artifacts Have Politics_ - Langdon Winner.pdf", "dir_path": "Langdon Winner/Do Artifacts Have Politics_ (58)/", "size": 1550166}], "cover_url": "Langdon Winner/Do Artifacts Have Politics_ (58)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "issn", "code": "00115266"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Daedalus"}, "7cbe0f18-00b4-4f15-8946-1985fb32dced": {"title": "Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University", "title_sort": "Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University", "pubdate": "2015-03-04 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "7cbe0f18-00b4-4f15-8946-1985fb32dced", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Since its inception, the research university has been the central institution of knowledge in the West. Today, however, its intellectual authority is being challenged on many fronts, above all by radical technological change. Organizing Enlightenment tells the story of how the university emerged in the early nineteenth century at a similarly fraught moment of cultural anxiety about revolutionary technologies and their disruptive effects on established institutions of knowledge.Late eighteenth-century Germans, troubled by a massive increase in the publication and availability of printed material, felt threatened by a veritable \"plague\" of books that circulated \"contagiously\" among the reading public. But deep concerns about what counted as authoritative knowledge, not to mention the fear of information overload, also made them uneasy, as they watched universities come under increasing pressure to offer more practical training and to justify their existence in the age of print. German intellectuals were the first to settle on the research university, and its organizing system of intellectual specialization, as the solution to these related problems. Drawing on the histories of science, the university, and print, as well as media theory and philosophy, Chad Wellmon explains how the research university and the ethic of disciplinarity it created emerged as the final and most lasting technology of the Enlightenment. Organizing Enlightenment reveals higher education\u2019s story as one not only of the production of knowledge but also of the formation of a particular type of person: the disciplinary self. In order to survive, the university would have to institutionalize a new order of knowledge, one that was self-organizing, internally coherent, and embodied in the very character of the modern, critical scholar.</p>", "publisher": "Johns Hopkins University", "authors": ["Chad Wellmon"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Organizing Enlightenment_ Information Over - Chad Wellmon.pdf", "dir_path": "Chad Wellmon/Organizing Enlightenment_ Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research Universi (59)/", "size": 1298444}], "cover_url": "Chad Wellmon/Organizing Enlightenment_ Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research Universi (59)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781421416151"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "9swMogEACAAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "87e05c0b-9f43-4bd3-aa15-2df9ad23834e": {"title": "Harold Innis's History of Communications: Paper and Printing - Antiquity to Early Modernity", "title_sort": "Harold Innis's History of Communications: Paper and Printing - Antiquity to Early Modernity", "pubdate": "2014-12-17 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "87e05c0b-9f43-4bd3-aa15-2df9ad23834e", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>For decades, media historians have heard of Harold Innis\u2019s unpublished manuscript exploring the history of communications\u2014but very few have had an opportunity to see it. In this volume, editors and Innis scholars William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer make widely accessible, for the first time, three core chapters from the legendary Innis manuscript.  </p><p>Here, Innis (1894-1952) examines the development of paper and printing from antiquity in Asia through to 16th century Europe. He demonstrates how the paper/printing nexus intersected with a broad range of other phenomena, including administrative structures, geopolitics, militarism, public opinion, aesthetics, cultural diffusion, religion, education, reception, production processes, technology, labor relations, and commerce, as well as the lives of visionary figures.  </p><p>Buxton, Cheney, and Heyer knit the chapters into a cohesive narrative and help readers navigate Innis\u2019s observations by summarizing the heavily detailed factual material that peppered the unpublished manuscript. They provide further context for Innis\u2019s arguments by adding annotations, references, and pertinent citations to his other writings. The end result is both a testament to Innis\u2019s status as a canonical figure in the study of communication and a surprisingly relevant contribution to how we might think about the current sea change in all aspects of social, cultural, political, and economic life stemming from the global shift to digital communication.</p></div>", "publisher": "Rowman & Littlefield", "authors": ["William J. Buxton", "Michael R. Cheney", "Paul Heyer", "John Durham Peters"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Harold Innis's History of Communications_ - William J. Buxton.pdf", "dir_path": "William J. Buxton/Harold Innis's History of Communications_ Paper and Printing - Antiquity to Early Modernity (60)/", "size": 2309028}], "cover_url": "William J. 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The notion that a free society should allow Klansmen, neo-Nazis, sundry extremists, and pornographers to spread their doctrines as freely as everyone else has come increasingly under fire. At the same time, in the wake of 9/11, the Right and the Left continue to wage war over the utility of an absolute vision of free speech in a time of increased national security. <em>Courting the Abyss</em> revisits the tangled history of free speech, finding resolutions to these debates hidden at the very roots of the liberal tradition.  </p>\n<p>A mesmerizing account of the role of public communication in the Anglo-American world, <em>Courting the Abyss</em> shows that liberty's earliest advocates recognized its fraternal relationship with wickedness and evil. While we understand freedom of expression to mean \"anything goes,\" John Durham Peters asks why its advocates so often celebrate a sojourn in hell and the overcoming of suffering. He directs us to such well-known sources as the prose and poetry of John Milton and the political and philosophical theory of John Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., as well as lesser-known sources such as the theology of Paul of Tarsus. In various ways they all, he shows, envisioned an attitude of self-mastery or self-transcendence as a response to the inevitable dangers of free speech, a troubled legacy that continues to inform ruling norms about knowledge, ethical responsibility, and democracy today.  </p>\n<p>A world of gigabytes, undiminished religious passion, and relentless scientific discovery calls for a fresh account of liberty that recognizes its risk and its splendor. Instead of celebrating noxious doctrine as proof of society's robustness, <em>Courting the Abyss</em> invites us to rethink public communication today by looking more deeply into the unfathomable mystery of liberty and evil.</p></div>", "publisher": "University Of Chicago", "authors": ["John Durham Peters"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Courting the Abyss_ Free Speech and the Li - John Durham Peters.epub", "dir_path": "John Durham Peters/Courting the Abyss_ Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition (61)/", "size": 4456966}], "cover_url": "John Durham Peters/Courting the Abyss_ Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition (61)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "asin", "code": "B004A16FJK"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "0226662748"}, {"scheme": "guid", "code": "b441f3bb31f2fad05a5ad9cd8055edff514e9e7f"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B004A16FJK"}, {"scheme": "oasin", "code": "0226662748"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "8f1dd834-0f3e-4bf6-9990-c6786f209be5": {"title": "From the Modernist Annex", "title_sort": "From the Modernist Annex", "pubdate": "2010-07-06 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "8f1dd834-0f3e-4bf6-9990-c6786f209be5", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlightenment, for formal education, and also for their careers. In Roffman\u2019s close readings of four modernist writers\u2014Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Marianne Moore, and Ruth Benedict\u2014she studied the that modernist women writers were simultaneously critical of and shaped by these institutions.</p>\n<p><em>From the Modernist Annex</em> offers new and critically significant ways of understanding these writers and their texts, the distribution of knowledge, and the complicated place of women in modernist institutions.</p></div>", "publisher": "University of Alabama", "authors": ["Karin Roffman"], "formats": [{"format": "azw", "file_name": "From the Modernist Annex - Karin Roffman.azw", "dir_path": "Karin Roffman/From the Modernist Annex (62)/", "size": 1235072}], "cover_url": "Karin Roffman/From the Modernist Annex (62)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "0817316981"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00PDLLBTK"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B00PDLLBTK"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "8bb759ca-b295-4ada-89d8-9aa8e619dc5b": {"title": "Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright", "title_sort": "Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright", "pubdate": "2010-04-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "8bb759ca-b295-4ada-89d8-9aa8e619dc5b", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Today, copyright is everywhere, surrounded by a thicket of no trespassing signs that mark creative work as private property. Caren Irr\u2019s <em>Pink Pirates</em> asks how contemporary novelists\u2014represented by Ursula Le Guin, Andrea Barrett, Kathy Acker, and Leslie Marmon Silko\u2014have read those signs, arguing that for feminist writers in particular copyright often conjures up the persistent exclusion of women from ownership. Bringing together voices from law schools, courtrooms, and the writer's desk, Irr shows how some of the most inventive contemporary feminist novelists have reacted to this history.\u00a0</p>\n<p>Explaining the complex, three-century lineage of Anglo-American copyright law in clear, accessible terms and wrestling with some of copyright law's most deeply rooted assumptions, Irr sets the stage for a feminist reappraisal of the figure of the literary pirate in the late twentieth century\u2014a figure outside the restrictive bounds of U.S. copyright statutes.\u00a0</p>\n<p>Going beyond her readings of contemporary women authors, Irr\u2019s exhaustive history of how women have fared under intellectual property regimes speaks to broader political, social, and economic implications and engages digital-era excitement about the commons with the most utopian and materialist strains in feminist criticism.</p></div>", "publisher": "University of Iowa", "authors": ["Caren Irr"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Pink Pirates_ Contemporary American Women - Caren Irr.epub", "dir_path": "Caren Irr/Pink Pirates_ Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright (63)/", "size": 1698371}], "cover_url": "Caren Irr/Pink Pirates_ Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright (63)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781587299124"}, {"scheme": "oasin", "code": "1587299127"}, {"scheme": "asin", "code": "B0078LPFH2"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "nyz3mAEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B0078LPFH2"}, {"scheme": "guid", "code": "6653c3a4f5efacb2921ff11816868ea5d968176f"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "8be2e3b8-27e2-488d-af55-5bc3cd19eb57": {"title": "Part of Our Lives: A Peoples History of the American Public Library", "title_sort": "Part of Our Lives: A Peoples History of the American Public Library", "pubdate": "2015-09-09 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "8be2e3b8-27e2-488d-af55-5bc3cd19eb57", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons tell a different story. In Part of Our Lives, Wayne A. Wiegand delves into the heart of why Americans love their libraries. The book traces the history of the public library, featuring records and testimonies from as early as 1850. Rather than analyzing the words of library founders and managers, Wiegand listens to the voices of everyday patrons who cherished libraries. Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, and biographies, Part of Our Lives paints a clear and engaging picture of Americans who value libraries not only as civic institutions, but also as public places that promote and maintain community. Whether as a public space, a place for accessing information, or a home for reading material that helps patrons make sense of the world around them, the public library has a rich history of meaning for millions of Americans. From colonial times through the recent technological revolution, libraries have continuously adapted to better serve the needs of their communities. Wiegand demonstrates that, although cultural authorities (including some librarians) have often disparaged reading books considered not serious, the commonplace reading materials users obtained from public libraries have had a transformative effect for many, including people such as Ronald Reagan, Bill Moyers, Edgwina Danticat, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sotomayor, and Oprah Winfrey. A bold challenge to conventional thinking about the American public library, Part of Our Lives is an insightful look into one of Americas most beloved cultural institutions.</p>", "publisher": "Oxford University", "authors": ["Wayne A. Wiegand"], "formats": [{"format": "azw3", "file_name": "Part of Our Lives_ A Peoples History of th - Wayne A. Wiegand.azw3", "dir_path": "Wayne A. Wiegand/Part of Our Lives_ A Peoples History of the American Public Library (64)/", "size": 3204036}], "cover_url": "Wayne A. 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While I don't share his conclusions about the potential for social movements to drive ambitious mitigation, this is a wise and important challenge from an elegant writer and original thinker. A critical intervention.\"\u2014<b>Naomi Klein</b>, author of <i>This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate</i></p><p> Coming home from the war in Iraq, US Army private Roy Scranton thought he'd left the world of strife behind. Then he watched as new...</p></div>", "publisher": "City Lights Publishers", "authors": ["Roy Scranton"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Learning to Die in the Anthropocene - Roy Scranton.epub", "dir_path": "Roy Scranton/Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (65)/", "size": 252644}], "cover_url": "Roy Scranton/Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (65)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780872866690"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "dae5d1a2-786d-43d4-84c5-ae3c6ada0f79": {"title": "A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books", "title_sort": "Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, A", "pubdate": "2012-05-27 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "dae5d1a2-786d-43d4-84c5-ae3c6ada0f79", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>When first published, A Gentle Madness astounded and delighted readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book. Written before the emergence of the Internet but newly updated for the 21st Century reader, A Gentle Madness captures that last moment in time when collectors pursued their passions in dusty bookshops and street stalls, high stakes auctions, and the subterfuge worthy of a true bibliomaniac. An adventure among the afflicted, A Gentle Madness is vividly anecdotal and thoroughly researched. Nicholas Basbanes brings an investigative reporter s heart to illuminate collectors past and present in their pursuit of bibliomania. Now a timeless classic of collecting, no lover of books can miss A Gentle Madness.</p>", "publisher": "Fine Books Press", "authors": ["Nicholas Basbanes"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "A Gentle Madness_ Bibliophiles, Bibliomane - Nicholas Basbanes.epub", "dir_path": "Nicholas Basbanes/A Gentle Madness_ Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (66)/", "size": 3910238}], "cover_url": "Nicholas Basbanes/A Gentle Madness_ Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (66)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780979949166"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B008B8WN6M"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B008B8WN6M"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "5c6a596a-3dbd-4184-8779-89262a93a3cd": {"title": "Future Libraries - Workshops Summary and Emerging Insights", "title_sort": "Future Libraries - Workshops Summary and Emerging Insights", "pubdate": "2015-07-01 14:40:02+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "5c6a596a-3dbd-4184-8779-89262a93a3cd", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Libraries are going through a renaissance, both in terms of the social infrastructure they provide and in terms of a diversification of the services and experiences offered. In corporate environments they are playing an increasingly important role in the provision of collaborate workspace and innovation. In communities they are evolving into hubs for education, health, entertainment and work.</p> \n<p>This report explores some of the key\ntrends shaping the future of public, academic and corporate libraries. It outlines the implications on future design, operation and user experience; and suggests what we may expect to see, feel and do in the library\nof the future.</p></div>", "publisher": "Arup University", "authors": ["Elisa Magnini", "Josef Hargrave", "Kim Sherwin"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Future Libraries - Workshops Summary and E - Elisa Magnini.pdf", "dir_path": "Elisa Magnini/Future Libraries - Workshops Summary and Emerging Insights (67)/", "size": 5403408}], "cover_url": "Elisa Magnini/Future Libraries - Workshops Summary and Emerging Insights (67)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "ba780c9d-e7c2-4d67-9b8a-c49afa21c5e4": {"title": "Postcolonial Piracy: Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South", "title_sort": "Postcolonial Piracy: Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South", "pubdate": "2014-12-17 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "ba780c9d-e7c2-4d67-9b8a-c49afa21c5e4", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marginalised populations to the cultural flows of global modernity. </p><p>Yet this access also engenders a pirate occupation of the modern: it ducks and deranges the globalised designs of property, capitalism and personhood set by the North. Positioning itself against Eurocentric critiques by corporate lobbies, libertarian readings or classical Marxist interventions, this volume offers a profound postcolonial revaluation of the social, epistemic and aesthetic workings of piracy. It projects how postcolonial piracy persistently negotiates different trajectories of property and self at the crossroads of the global and the local.</p></div>", "publisher": "Bloomsbury", "authors": ["Anja Schwarz", "Lars Eckstein"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Postcolonial Piracy_ Media Distribution an - Anja Schwarz.pdf", "dir_path": "Anja Schwarz/Postcolonial Piracy_ Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South (68)/", "size": 3203539}], "cover_url": "Anja Schwarz/Postcolonial Piracy_ Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South (68)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1472519426"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781472519429"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Theory for a Global Age"}, "60ad7f44-80be-4d4e-b4ba-0f5c0c12725e": {"title": "Letter from San Francisco: The Author vs The Library", "title_sort": "Letter from San Francisco: The Author vs The Library", "pubdate": "1996-10-14 00:30:20+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "60ad7f44-80be-4d4e-b4ba-0f5c0c12725e", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><div>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \u00a0</div><div><br></div><div>CONTACT: MARCIA SCHNEIDER\n\t\t\t\t\t\t415 557-4355</div><div><br></div><div>SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY CHALLENGES ACCURACY OF THE NEW YORKER'S \"AUTHOR VS. THE LIBRARY\"</div><div><br></div><div>San Francisco, October 11, 1996 - In the October 14, 1996 edition of the New\nYorker, novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker has published a diatribe against\nthe San Francisco Public Library. While purporting to write on a matter of\nnational significance, the increasing use of information technology in\nlibraries throughout the country and the impact of such technology on\ntraditional library services, the piece is in fact largely devoted to the\nlibrary's previously intended disposal of its card catalog, as well as its\nbook selection and weeding practices.</div><div><br></div><div>In fact, the San Francisco Public Library's policies regarding the card\ncatalog and book selection and weeding of its collection are completely in\nline with standard library practices throughout the nation. Any suggestions to\nthe contrary are simply wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>Baker's article contains a number of errors and false suppositions, in\naddition to many basic philosophical disagreements with the library. These\nerrors range from misnamings, (correct names and spellings, as well as\nmeasurements, such as linear miles, capacity of dump trucks, height of\nceilings, etc., appear to be a particular weakness of the writer), to false\nconclusions based on hearsay and incorrect information.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr. Baker's crusade against San Francisco's new Main Library ignores a simple\ntruth: the new library is exceedingly popular. The average number of daily\nvisitors, circulation, and the budget for new books and materials have all\nmore than doubled, and the number of new library cards issued each day has\nincreased 450% over the old Main Library. Far from undermining the new San\nFrancisco Main Library, technology is in part responsible for its\nextraordinary popularity. Children and teens flock there to use the computers,\nmultimedia programs and Internet access. The circulation of print materials\nhas risen in the branch libraries as well as the Main Library. The San\nFrancisco Public Library has undergone a renaissance in recent years, with\nlonger hours, more books, and more computers. It is a vital, dynamic\ninstitution, strongly supported by the people of San Francisco.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr. Baker appears to be particularly concerned with the Library Foundation of\nSan Francisco. Although the S.F. Public Library has a distinguished and active\nFriends of the Library organization, the library had no formal donor base to\nsupport a capital campaign prior to the formation of the Foundation. The\nFoundation was originally formed to raise the funds to furnish and equip the\nnew Main Library. Currently, an expanded mission statement will enable the\nFoundation to continue to raise funds for endowment purposes, branch library\nrenovations and improvements, the book budget, and other priorities set by the\nlibrary administration.</div><div><br></div><div>In a very brief period of time, the Library Foundation raised nearly $34\nmillion to support the new Main Library. Nearly 18,000 donors contributed to\nthe campaign, ranging from individuals, families, family foundations,\ncorporate donors, and foundations. Not one of these donors had the means or\ndesire to exert undue influence on the library, though Mr. Baker would have\nthe reader believe otherwise. The campaign was inclusive in the finest sense\nof the word - Chinese Americans, African Americans, gays and lesbians,\nFilipino Americans, the Latino/Hispanic community, children, seniors,\nenvironmentalists, history buffs, teens, literacy advocates,  people with\ndisabilities, and countless others, including corporations, who came together\nto support this library. San Francisco Public Library is proud of and thankful\nfor each one of these donors.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr. Baker asserts that the library punishes its internal critics. This is\npatently false. This library has a particularly outstanding history of\nsupporting intellectual freedom. Staff members who are critical of\nadministration policies regularly speak out at Library Commission meetings,\nand are not unknown to write articles for newspapers and speak out on matters\nthey disagree with on radio and even television. A small group of librarians\neven sponsored a talk by Mr. Baker in the library's own auditorium, in which\nMr. Baker indulged in highly critical  rhetoric against this library\nadministration. For months, a small and vocal group of his supporters has\nsubjected those in disagreement with him to verbal abuse and harassment at\nLibrary Commission meetings. And Mr. Baker wonders why he heard only from\nstaff who agreed with his ideas.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr. Baker insults not only this library and all its staff when he writes of\nthe library's collection development plan and book discard practices, but all\nlibraries across the country. San Francisco employs highly trained and skilled\nprofessional librarians, all of whom hold post graduate degrees in library\nscience, and many of whom have worked in their field of subject specialty for\ndecades. Library staff apply the same professional standards to weeding as\nthey do to materials selection. Nothing is discarded without serious\nevaluation based on established criteria, such as outdated information,\nmultiple copies, poor condition, or lack of demand.</div><div><br></div><div>It should be noted that in the year and a half prior to the move to the new\nMain Library, this library added more than five times as many books to its\ncollection as it withdrew. Over the past decade, on average the library system\nhas discarded approximately one percent annually from its collections, a\nfigure far lower than standard library practice.</div><div><br></div><div>Prior to the current library administration, 90% of whom assumed their\npositions after 1989, all library discards routinely were sent to landfill. It\nwas only due to the concerted efforts of this administration that two pieces\nof legislation were passed that enabled the library to offer books to the\nFriends for resale and to other community groups and individuals serving the\npublic good. It is disingenuous of Mr. Baker to imply otherwise.</div><div><br></div><div>Nicholson Baker has done a great disservice to the San Francisco Public\nLibrary and the people of San Francisco. He has insisted that the new library\nis smaller than the old one. To prove his point, he and others broke into the\nold Main Library to measure the shelves and subsequently published their\nerroneous results on the front page of a San Francisco daily newspaper.  In\nfact, the new Main Library has over nine miles more shelf space than  the old\nbuilding. Only when the library extended an invitation to the local press to\nmeasure the shelves for themselves did Baker admit that his figures were wrong\n(they were off by 25 miles).</div><div><br></div><div>All things considered, the San Francisco Public Library is pleased that our\nnew building was designed and built by architects, engineers, library\nprofessionals, and space planning and library moving specialists, rather than\nwriters of fiction.</div><div><br></div><div>Mr. Baker has implied that the librarians of the San Francisco Public Library\nhave shown poor judgment in selecting and discarding books. A group of six\nSFPL librarians, with a combined experience of 130 years of selecting and\nmaintaining library collections, disagreed, and took it upon themselves to\nrespond, writing to a San Francisco newspaper: \"Withdrawing material is a\nprofessional responsibility and an essential part of maintaining a viable\ncollection. Unfortunately, it is a responsibility that is often shirked,\npartly because librarians love books. Furthermore, because San Francisco\nPublic Library was perennially understaffed, first priority was given to\ndirect service, not to old books.\u00a0\n\n</div><div><br></div><div>'During the closure before our move, it was both natural and responsible for\nMain Library administration to encourage subject librarians to examine their\ncollections and withdraw appropriate materials rather than paying to have them\nmoved. Almost all of the volumes withdrawn from the collection prior to our\nmove were either duplicates or volumes so old and worn out that they were no\nlonger useable. In the latter case, replacements may be on order.</div><div><br></div><div>'There is a small group of library staff whose aim seems to be to foment\ndissension, whether it be over withdrawals, corporate donations, or the card\ncatalog (which, by the way, is only rarely asked for by the public.)\"\u00a0\n\n</div><div><br></div><div>Despite its overwhelming popularity, the new San Francisco Main Library is\ngoing through growing pains. It is dealing with an unprecedented and\nextraordinarily high volume of traffic. Budget problems have resulted from a\nprevious Library Commission's decision to implement more extended hours than\nrecommended by Library Administration. Union intransigence has prevented\nimplementation of a recommended new classification of library workers to\nshelve the books in a timely fashion.</div><div><br></div><div>The San Francisco Public Library now has in place a plan to deal immediately\nwith the issues most frustrating to delivery of good public service, including\nlong lines at service desks and the shelving backlog. The library is adapting\nto its budget limitations and anticipates closing this fiscal year with a\nbalanced budget.</div><div><br></div><div>In the meantime, patrons continue to flock to the library, proving that\ncomputers and books can co-exist, and they do at the new San Francisco Main\nLibrary. </div></div>", "publisher": "Cond\u00e9 Nast", "authors": ["Nicholson Baker"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Letter from San Francisco_ The Author vs T - Nicholson Baker.pdf", "dir_path": "Nicholson Baker/Letter from San Francisco_ The Author vs The Library (69)/", "size": 3454750}], "cover_url": "Nicholson Baker/Letter from San Francisco_ The Author vs The Library (69)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "New Yorker"}, "0d2c8ff2-527b-40dc-8d87-5b64763c55d3": {"title": "Civic Space/cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age", "title_sort": "Civic Space/cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age", "pubdate": "1999-06-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "0d2c8ff2-527b-40dc-8d87-5b64763c55d3", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Quintessentially American institutions, symbols of community spirit and the American faith in education, public libraries are ubiquitous in the United States. Close to a billion library visits are made each year, and more children join summer reading programs than little league baseball. Public libraries are local institutions, as different as the communities they serve. Yet their basic services, techniques, and professional credo are essentially similar; and they offer, through technology and cooperative agreements, myriad materials and information far beyond their own walls.  In \"Civic Space/Cyberspace,\" Redmond Kathleen Molz and Phyllis Dain assess the current condition and direction of the American public library. They consider the challenges and opportunities presented by new electronic technologies, changing public policy, fiscal realities, and cultural trends. They draw on site visits and interviews conducted across the country; extensive reading of reports, surveys, and other documents; and their long-standing interest in the library's place in the social and civic structure. The book uniquely combines a scholarly, humanistic, and historical approach to public libraries with a clear-eyed look at their problems and prospects, including their role in the emerging national information infrastructure.</p>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Redmond Kathleen Molz", "Phyllis Dain"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Civic Space_cyberspace_ The American Publi - Redmond Kathleen Molz.epub", "dir_path": "Redmond Kathleen Molz/Civic Space_cyberspace_ The American Public Library in the Information Age (70)/", "size": 1943641}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Civic Space_cyberspace_ The American Publi - Redmond Kathleen Molz.pdf", "dir_path": "Redmond Kathleen Molz/Civic Space_cyberspace_ The American Public Library in the Information Age (70)/", "size": 27757274}], "cover_url": "Redmond Kathleen Molz/Civic Space_cyberspace_ The American Public Library in the Information Age (70)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262133463"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "hibhAAAAMAAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "a4e0d33d-f818-42b3-9a67-376c20d5c457": {"title": "The Network Reshapes the Library: Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services and Networks", "title_sort": "Network Reshapes the Library: Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services and Networks, The", "pubdate": "2014-06-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "a4e0d33d-f818-42b3-9a67-376c20d5c457", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Since he began posting in 2003, Dempsey has used his blog to explore nearly every important facet of library technology, from the emergence of Web 2.0 as a concept to open source ILS tools and the push to web-scale library management systems. More than just a commentary on the issue of the moment, the more than 1,800 posts have offered thousands of readers valuable perspective and insight as well as a visionary approach to libraries' future. In a compendium that library planners, administrators, and technology staff will find endlessly stimulating, Varnum offers an expertly curated selection of entries from Dempsey's blog. Showing where libraries have been in the last decade and also where they're heading now, this book covers such keystone topics as</p><ul><li>Networked resources</li><li>Network organization</li><li>The research process and libraries' evolving role, featuring the seminal post \"In the Flow\"</li><li>Resource discovery</li><li>Library systems and tools such as search indices and OpenURL link resolvers</li><li>Data and metadata</li><li>Publishing and communication, including blogs, social media, and scholarly communication</li><li>Libraries, archives, museums, and galleries as \"memory institutions\"</li></ul><p>The book concludes with a selection of favorites hand-picked by Dempsey himself. As one university librarian put it, Dempsey's \"dual ability to explore an issue and to reveal the higher-order trends is spot-on for understanding our volatile environment.\" That unique and thoughtful analysis is on full display in this book.</p></div>", "publisher": "American Library Association", "authors": ["Lorcan Dempsey"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Network Reshapes the Library_ Lorcan D - Lorcan Dempsey.pdf", "dir_path": "Lorcan Dempsey/The Network Reshapes the Library_ Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services and Networks (71)/", "size": 1878961}], "cover_url": "Lorcan Dempsey/The Network Reshapes the Library_ Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services and Networks (71)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0838912338"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "qoZ0BAAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780838912331"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "43800cdd-ee56-4716-ab21-1f13b51f71a7": {"title": "German Essays on Film", "title_sort": "German Essays on Film", "pubdate": "2004-04-19 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "43800cdd-ee56-4716-ab21-1f13b51f71a7", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>This fascinating volume is for all serious students of European cinema as well as historians of Germany in the 20th century. \"German Essays on Film\" is divided into five parts: Late Wilhelmine Germany; Weimar Republic (1918-33); Inside the \"Third Reich\" (1933-45); Intellectuals in Exile; and Postwar Germany: since 1945. Among the writers, thinkers, filmmakers, and scholars anthologized are: Alfred D blin, Georg Luk cs, Claire Goll, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau, Joseph Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer, R. W. Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Gertrud Koch, and many others. The introduction by McCormick and Guenther-Pal along with generous headnotes help to put all these essays into historic perspective.</p>", "publisher": "Continuum", "authors": ["Alison Guenther-Pal"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "German Essays on Film - Alison Guenther-Pal.pdf", "dir_path": "Alison Guenther-Pal/German Essays on Film (72)/", "size": 17678474}], "cover_url": "Alison Guenther-Pal/German Essays on Film (72)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0826415075"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780826415066"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "German Library"}, "014b7534-857a-4c1d-896a-3f5c4b8a571a": {"title": "Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences", "title_sort": "Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences", "pubdate": "1999-06-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "014b7534-857a-4c1d-896a-3f5c4b8a571a", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include \"fainted in a bath,\" \"frighted,\" and \"itch\"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification -- the scaffolding of information infrastructures.</p><p>In <em>Sorting Things Out</em>, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis.</p><p>The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Much as an urban historian would review highway permits and zoning decisions to tell a city's story, the authors review archives of classification design to understand how decisions have been made. <em>Sorting Things Out</em> has a moral agenda, for each standard and category valorizes some point of view and silences another. Standards and classifications produce advantage or suffering. Jobs are made and lost; some regions benefit at the expense of others. How these choices are made and how we think about that process are at the moral and political core of this work. The book is an important empirical source for understanding the building of information infrastructures.</p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Geoffrey Bowker", "Susan Leigh Star"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Sorting Things Out_ Classification and Its - Geoffrey Bowker.pdf", "dir_path": "Geoffrey Bowker/Sorting Things Out_ Classification and Its Consequences (73)/", "size": 9056380}], "cover_url": "Geoffrey Bowker/Sorting Things Out_ Classification and Its Consequences (73)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0262522950"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "Fon7ngEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262024617"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "4a72fd3e-c43f-4cdb-9a9e-0bc397d01fa4": {"title": "The New Downtown Library: Designing With Communities", "title_sort": "New Downtown Library: Designing With Communities, The", "pubdate": "2007-02-22 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "4a72fd3e-c43f-4cdb-9a9e-0bc397d01fa4", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>The past twenty years have seen a building boom for downtown public libraries. From Brooklyn to Seattle, architects, civic leaders, and citizens in major U.S. cities have worked to reassert the relevance of the central library. While the libraries\u2019 primary functions\u2014as public spaces where information is gathered, organized, preserved, and made available for use\u2014have not changed over the years, the processes by which they accomplish these goals have. These new processes, and the public debates surrounding them, have radically influenced the utility and design of new library buildings. In The New Downtown Library, Shannon Mattern draws on a diverse range of sources to investigate how libraries serve as multiuse public spaces, anchors in urban redevelopment, civic icons, and showcases of renowned architects like Rem Koolhaas, Cesar Pelli, and Enrique Norton. Mattern\u2019s clear and careful analysis reveals the complexity of contemporary dialogues in library design, highlighting the roles that staff, the public, and other special interest groups play. Mattern also describes how the libraries manifest changing demographics, new ways of organizing collections and delivering media, and current philosophies of librarianship. By identifying unifying themes as well as examining the differences among various design projects, Mattern brings to light the social forces, as well as their architectural expressions, that form the essence of new libraries and their vital place in public life.Featured libraries are located in Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, and Toledo.Shannon Mattern is assistant professor of media studies and film at The New School.</p>", "publisher": "University of Minnesota", "authors": ["Shannon Mattern"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The New Downtown Library_ Designing With C - Shannon Mattern.pdf", "dir_path": "Shannon Mattern/The New Downtown Library_ Designing With Communities (74)/", "size": 41576887}], "cover_url": "Shannon Mattern/The New Downtown Library_ Designing With Communities (74)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780816648962"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "plxlioFhz4EC"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0816648964"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "08519a40-b5b4-4db8-b8e5-71b63052980e": {"title": "Book: A Futurist's Manifesto", "title_sort": "Book: A Futurist's Manifesto", "pubdate": "2012-02-18 21:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "08519a40-b5b4-4db8-b8e5-71b63052980e", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>The ground beneath the book publishing industry dramatically shifted in 2007, the year the Kindle and the iPhone debuted. Widespread consumer demand for these and other devices has brought the pace of digital change in book publishing from \"it might happen sometime\" to \"it's happening right now\"\u2014and it is happening faster than anyone predicted.</p><p>Yet this is only a transitional phase. <i>Book: A Futurist's Manifesto</i> is your guide to what comes next, when all books are truly digital, connected, and ubiquitous. Through this collection of essays from thought leaders and practitioners, you'll become familiar with a wide range of developments occurring in the wake of this digital book shakeup:</p><p></p><li>Discover new tools that are rapidly transforming how content is created, managed, and distributed<p></p></li><li>Understand the increasingly critical role that metadata plays in making book content discoverable in an era of abundance<p></p></li><li>Look inside some of the publishing projects...</li></div>", "publisher": "O'Reilly", "authors": ["Hugh McGuire"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Book_ A Futurist's Manifesto - Hugh McGuire.epub", "dir_path": "Hugh McGuire/Book_ A Futurist's Manifesto (75)/", "size": 6910632}, {"format": "mobi", "file_name": "Book_ A Futurist's Manifesto - Hugh McGuire.mobi", "dir_path": "Hugh McGuire/Book_ A Futurist's Manifesto (75)/", "size": 4619171}], "cover_url": "Hugh McGuire/Book_ A Futurist's Manifesto (75)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "e49b1a8b-b200-4472-8ab7-d0d4d80f0a88"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781449305598"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "f4df1296-c018-42fd-b2d9-a79f6c0b8140": {"title": "Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in Science", "title_sort": "Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in Science", "pubdate": "2002-11-28 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "f4df1296-c018-42fd-b2d9-a79f6c0b8140", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Since the 17th century our ideas of scientific authorship have expanded and changed dramatically. In this work, Mario Biagioli and Peter Galison have brought together historians of science, literary historians, and historians of the book. Together they track the changing nature and identity of the author in science, both historically and conceptually, from the emergence of scientific academies in the age of Galileo to concerns with large-scale multiauthorship and intellectual property rights in the age of cloning labs and pharmaceutical giants. How, for example, do we decide whether a chemical compound is discovered or invented? What does it mean to patent genetic material? Documenting the emergence of authorship in the late medieval period, authorship's limits and its fragmentation, Scientific Authorship offers a collective history of a complex relationship.</p>", "publisher": "Routledge", "authors": ["Mario Biagioli", "Peter Galison"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Scientific Authorship_ Credit and Intellec - Mario Biagioli.pdf", "dir_path": "Mario Biagioli/Scientific Authorship_ Credit and Intellectual Property in Science (77)/", "size": 7382922}], "cover_url": "Mario Biagioli/Scientific Authorship_ Credit and Intellectual Property in Science (77)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "-pG4sqfyvW0C"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0415942934"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780415942935"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "3a28f068-3cd8-4dae-84e4-73983d1a8335": {"title": "BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google", "title_sort": "BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google", "pubdate": "2015-05-04 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "3a28f068-3cd8-4dae-84e4-73983d1a8335", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.  </p><p>In <em>BiblioTech</em>, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to understand how to find and use the vast stores of information available online. And libraries, which play a crucial role in making these skills and information available, are at risk. In order to survive our rapidly modernizing world and dwindling government funding, libraries must make the transition to a digital future as soon as possible\u2014by digitizing print material and ensuring that born-digital material is publicly available online.  </p><p>Not all of these changes will be easy for libraries to implement. But as Palfrey boldly argues, these modifications are vital if we hope to save libraries and, through them, the American democratic ideal.</p></div>", "publisher": "Basic Books", "authors": ["John Palfrey"], "formats": [{"format": "azw3", "file_name": "BiblioTech_ Why Libraries Matter More Than - John Palfrey.azw3", "dir_path": "John Palfrey/BiblioTech_ Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google (78)/", "size": 396780}], "cover_url": "John Palfrey/BiblioTech_ Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google (78)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B00TT1VL8Q"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780465040605"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00TT1VL8Q"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "aefaa139-f78c-46bd-ae9f-1f6006446c29": {"title": "Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune", "title_sort": "Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune", "pubdate": "2015-04-06 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "aefaa139-f78c-46bd-ae9f-1f6006446c29", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p><strong>Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first century</strong>  </p><p>Kristin Ross\u2019s new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today\u2019s concerns\u2014internationalism, education, the future of labor, the status of art, and ecological theory and practice\u2014frame and inform her carefully researched restaging of the words and actions of individual Communards. This original analysis of an event and its centrifugal effects brings to life the workers in Paris who became revolutionaries, the significance they attributed to their struggle, and the elaboration and continuation of their thought in the encounters that transpired between the insurrection\u2019s survivors and supporters like Marx, Kropotkin, and William Morris.  </p><p>The Paris Commune was a laboratory of political invention, important simply and above all for, as Marx reminds us, its own \u201cworking existence.\u201d\u00a0<em>Communal Luxury</em> allows readers to revisit the intricate workings of an extraordinary experiment.</p></div>", "publisher": "Verso", "authors": ["Kristin Ross"], "formats": [{"format": "azw3", "file_name": "Communal Luxury_ The Political Imaginary o - Kristin Ross.azw3", "dir_path": "Kristin Ross/Communal Luxury_ The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (79)/", "size": 1038107}, {"format": "epub", "file_name": "Communal Luxury_ The Political Imaginary o - Kristin Ross.epub", "dir_path": "Kristin Ross/Communal Luxury_ The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (79)/", "size": 857924}], "cover_url": "Kristin Ross/Communal Luxury_ The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (79)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781781688397"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1781688397"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "258b6d47-5f27-4095-b394-a2fbd11ea227": {"title": "Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain", "title_sort": "Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain", "pubdate": "1994-06-15 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "258b6d47-5f27-4095-b394-a2fbd11ea227", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>This book discusses the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain and sets it in its European context. The American Revolution and the simultaneous demand for wider religious toleration at home challenged the principles of sovereignty and obligation that underpinned arguments about the character of the state. At stake was a fundamental challenge to the way in which politics was described. The Americans and their British supporters argued that individuals, by voting and thinking freely, ought to determine the \"common good.\" These influential ideas continue to resonate today in the principles of \"one man, one vote\" and \"freedom of thought.\"</p>", "publisher": "Cambridge University", "authors": ["Peter N. Miller"], "formats": [{"format": "djvu", "file_name": "Defining the Common Good_ Empire, Religion - Peter N. Miller.djvu", "dir_path": "Peter N. Miller/Defining the Common Good_ Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (80)/", "size": 2867465}], "cover_url": "Peter N. 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This book approaches this problem from the perspective of the challenge offered to inherited traditions of morality and social understanding by Bernard Mandeville, whose infamous paradoxical maxim \"private vices, public benefits\" profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, while his The Fable of the Bees had a decisive influence on David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant. Professor Hundert examines the sources and strategies of Mandeville's science of human nature and the role of his ideas in shaping eighteenth century economic, social and moral theories.</p>", "publisher": "Cambridge University", "authors": ["E. J. Hundert"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Enlightenment's Fable_ Bernard Mandevi - E. J. Hundert.epub", "dir_path": "E. J. Hundert/The Enlightenment's Fable_ Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society (81)/", "size": 677929}], "cover_url": "E. J. 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Davidson shows how our globalized societies of the present are the result of a contested, turbulent history marked by often forceful revolutions directed against old social orders, from the Dutch Revolt to the English and American Civil Wars and beyond.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>\u201cI was frankly poleaxed by this magnificent book. Davidson resets the entire debate on the character of revolutions: bourgeois, democratic, and socialist. He\u2019s sending me, at least, back to the library.\u201d \u2014MIKE DAVIS, author, <em>Planet of Slums</em>  </p><p>\"Davidson's book is one of immense and impressive erudition. His knowledge of the history of Marxist theory and historiography is as detailed as it is comprehensive, and must be well-nigh unrivalled. The endless, complex debates that characterize the Marxist tradition are distilled with clarity and illumination.\" \u2014JEREMY JENNINGS, <em>Times Literary Supplement</em>  </p><p>\" What should our conception of a bourgeois revolution be, if it is to enlighten rather than to mislead ? Neil Davidson\u2019s instructive and provocative answer is given through a history both of a set of concepts and of those social settings in which they found application.His book is an impressive contribution both to the history of ideas and to political philosophy.\u201d \u2014ALASDAIR MACINTYRE, author, <em>After Virtue</em>  </p><p>\"This is, quite simply, the finest book of its kind.\" \u2014<strong>Tony McKenna</strong>, <em>Marx and Philosophy Review of Books</em>  </p><p>\u201cNeil Davidson wends his way through the jagged terrain of a wide range of Marxist writings and debates to distill their lessons in what is unquestionably the most thorough discussion of the subject to date. If the paradox at the heart of the bourgeois revolutions was that the emergence of the modern bourgeois state had little to do with the agency of the bourgeoisie, then Davidson\u2019s study is by far the most nuanced and illuminating discussion of this complex fact.A brilliant and fascinating book, wide-ranging and lucidly written.\u201d \u2014JAIRUS BANAJI, author, <em>Theory as History</em>  </p><p>\"There are books which are of such kind that upon reading them, one immediately knows one is dealing with a future classic. Such a book is Neil Davidson\u2019s <em>How Revolutionary Were The Bourgeois Revolutions?</em>\"\u2014<strong>Matthijs Krul</strong>  </p><p>\u201c[This] is a monumental work. Neil Davidson has given us what is easily the most comprehensive account yet of the \u2018life and times\u2019 of the concept of \u2018bourgeois revolution.\u2019 . . . This would have been enough. However, Davidson has also provided us with a refined set of theoretical tools for understanding the often complex interactions between political revolutions which overturn state institutions and social revolutions which involve a more thoroughgoing transformation of social relations.\u201d<br>\u2014COLIN MOOERS, author, <em>The Making of Bourgeois Europe</em>  </p><p>\"This magisterial book is destined to be a key reference point in future debates on not only the transition from feudalism to capitalism, but the meaning of socialism in the 21st century. Davidson interweaves a detailed intellectual history of theories of revolution with a vivid retelling of a multitude of transformative social struggles.\"<br>\u2014TAD TIETZE, <em>Green Left Weekly</em>  </p><p>\"This is a book in the grand style...In addressing the question set by his title, Neil Davidson effortlessly displays analytical intelligence and erudition rare among historians of any persuasion. And the reader put off by the sheer size of the book will be reassured by Neil\u2019s easy, fluent style, plentifully interlarded with humour. If there were any doubts about Neil\u2019s calibre as a Marxist historian after his two books on Scottish history (which looms large in this work as well\u2014no one could come away from it without knowing it was written by a Scot), and his numerous articles, these have now been removed.\" \u2014ALEX CALLINICOS, <em>International Socialism</em>  </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Neil Davidson teaches at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow where he is the Vice-President of the local University and College Union branch. He is the author of <em>The Origins of Scottish Nationhood</em> (2000), <em>Discovering the Scottish Revolution</em> (2003), for which he was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize, and co-edited <em>Alasdair MacIntyre\u2019s Engagement With Marxism</em> (2008) and <em>Neoliberal Scotland</em> (2010). Davidson is on the Editorial Board of <em>International Socialism</em>.</p></div>", "publisher": "Haymarket Books", "authors": ["Neil Davidson"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revol - Neil Davidson.epub", "dir_path": "Neil Davidson/How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions_ (82)/", "size": 2075228}], "cover_url": "Neil Davidson/How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions_ (82)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "PVsJWvUVANcC"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B00BE65J5U"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781608462650"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "e8927b38-6eae-4551-be94-de6c9f820031": {"title": "The Crowd in the French Revolution", "title_sort": "Crowd in the French Revolution, The", "pubdate": "1967-12-30 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e8927b38-6eae-4551-be94-de6c9f820031", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>What kinds of people were in the crowds that stormed the Bastille, marched to Versailles to bring the king and queen back to Paris, overthrew the monarchy in August 1792, or impassively witnessed the downfall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor? Who led these crowds or mobilized them to action? What did they hope to achieve, and how far were their aims realized? Earlier historians have tended to view the revolutionary crowd as an abstraction--\"people\" or \"mob\" according to the writer's prejudice--often even as the personification of good or evil. Professor Rud\u00e9's book, published originally in 1959, makes a first attempt to bring objectively to life each of the important Parisian crowds between 1787 and 1795. Using police records and other contemporary research materials, the author identifies the social groups represented in them, contrasts the crowds with their political leaders, relates their activities to underlying economic and psychological tensions, and compares the Parisian crowd \"patterns\" to those of other popular movements in France and Britain during the 18th and early 19th centuries.</p>", "publisher": "Oxford University", "authors": ["George Rude"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Crowd in the French Revolution - George Rude.pdf", "dir_path": "George Rude/The Crowd in the French Revolution (83)/", "size": 42750271}], "cover_url": "George Rude/The Crowd in the French Revolution (83)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0195003705"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780195003703"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "5843c6d5-791a-4a5c-b897-8ce9f7e6aa13": {"title": "Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression", "title_sort": "Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression", "pubdate": "1996-01-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "5843c6d5-791a-4a5c-b897-8ce9f7e6aa13", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>In <em>Archive Fever</em>, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology--fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive impact of electronic media, particularly e-mail, which threaten to transform the entire public and private space of humanity. Plying this rich material with characteristic virtuosity, Derrida constructs a synergistic reading of archives and archiving, both provocative and compelling.  </p><p>\"Judaic mythos, Freudian psychoanalysis, and e-mail all get fused into another staggeringly dense, brilliant slab of scholarship and suggestion.\"--<em>The Guardian</em>  </p><p>\"[Derrida] convincingly argues that, although the archive is a public entity, it nevertheless is the repository of the private and personal, including even intimate details.\"--<em>Choice</em>  </p><p>\"Beautifully written and clear.\"--Jeremy Barris, <em>Philosophy in Review</em>  </p><p>\"Translator Prenowitz has managed valiantly to bring into English a difficult but inspiring text that relies on Greek, German, and their translations into French.\"--<em>Library Journal</em></p></div>", "publisher": "University Of Chicago", "authors": ["Jacques Derrida"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Archive Fever_ A Freudian Impression - Jacques Derrida.pdf", "dir_path": "Jacques Derrida/Archive Fever_ A Freudian Impression (84)/", "size": 5722263}], "cover_url": "Jacques Derrida/Archive Fever_ A Freudian Impression (84)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "6KNJmNkE11UC"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0226143678"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780226143361"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "a898b4b0-2773-4cad-8800-0de1760d9bab": {"title": "Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia", "title_sort": "Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia", "pubdate": "2010-08-26 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "a898b4b0-2773-4cad-8800-0de1760d9bab", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is built by a community--a community of<br>Wikipedians who are expected to \"assume good faith\" when interacting with one another. In<br><em>Good Faith Collaboration</em>, Joseph Reagle examines this unique collaborative<br>culture. Wikipedia, says Reagle, is not the first effort to create a freely shared, universal<br>encyclopedia; its early twentieth-century ancestors include Paul Otlet's <em>Universal<br>Repository</em> and H. G. Wells's proposal for a <em>World Brain</em>. Both these<br>projects, like Wikipedia, were fuelled by new technology--which at the time included index cards and<br>microfilm. What distinguishes Wikipedia from these and other more recent ventures is Wikipedia's<br>good-faith collaborative culture, as seen not only in the writing and editing of articles but also<br>in their discussion pages and edit histories. Keeping an open perspective on both knowledge claims<br>and other contributors, Reagle argues, creates an extraordinary collaborative potential. Wikipedia's<br>style of collaborative production has been imitated, analyzed, and satirized. Despite the social<br>unease over its implications for individual autonomy, institutional authority, and the character<br>(and quality) of cultural products, Wikipedia's good-faith collaborative culture has brought us<br>closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"[A] fascinating revelation about how Wikipedia is just one of several attempts at creating a universal encyclopedia.\" -- <strong> Jeff Kirchoff</strong>, <em>Rhizomes</em></p><p>\"Beyond doubt this is a text that captures the spirit of the Wikipedia enterprise; it is definitely an excellent read and an accomplished exercise of transparency.\" -- J<strong>os\u00e9-Carlos Redondo-Olmedilla</strong>, <em>The Information Society</em></p><p>\"[I] recommend it to the readers as not only serious, but also humorous and entertaining reading, well written and informative to many social and internet scholars.\" -- <strong>Professor Elena Maceviciute</strong>, <em>Information Research</em></p><p>\"For students of social phenomena, Reagle's history is a fascinating read, especially in light of Wikileaks...for anyone interested in starting a wiki, his descriptions of problems and solutions are invaluable.\" -- <strong>Bernice Glenn</strong>, * Computing Reviews*</p><p>\"Good Faith Collaboration sheds some much-needed light on one of the most influential resources available today. Joseph Reagle accurately captures the internal collaborative climate of 'good faith' in Wikipedia, and provides an excellent history of its progenitors like Nupedia.\" -- <strong>Jimmy Wales</strong>, Founder of Wikipedia</p><p>\"Joseph Reagle is one of a very few people who are both deeply engaged participants in online community and first-rate scholars of it. In Good Faith Collaboration he provides the best explanation to date of how a communally created encyclopedia went from 'crazy idea' to the most important reference work in the English language in less than ten years, and what Wikipedia's massive global experiment in its collaborative culture means for the future of ours.\" -- <strong>Clay Shirky</strong>, NYU, author of * Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations*</p><p>\"Ultimately, Reagle offers a compelling case that Wikipedia's most fascinating and unprecedented aspect isn't the encyclopedia itself -- rather, it's the collaborative culture that underpins it: brawling, self-reflexive, funny, serious, and full-tilt committed to the project, even if it means setting aside personal differences. Reagle's position as a scholar and a member of the community makes him uniquely situated to describe this culture.\" -- <strong>Cory Doctorow</strong>, * boingboing*</p><p>\"Joseph Reagle's account of what makes Wikipedia tick debunks the vision of a shining Alexandria gliding toward free and perfect knowledge and replaces it with something far more awe-inspiring: a humane, and human, enterprise that with each fitful back-and-forth elicits the best from those it draws in. In an era of polemic and cheap shots that some attribute largely to the Internet's influence, he shows how even those of wildly varying backgrounds who disagree intensely can see themselves as embarked on a common, ennobling mission grounded in respect and reason.\" -- <strong>Jonathan Zittrain</strong>, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Kennedy School, Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and author of <em>The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It</em></p><p>\"Wikipedia deserves to have its story intelligently told, and Joseph Reagle has done exactly that. Good Faith Collaboration is smart, accessible, and astutely observed. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to better understand how Wikipedia works, and why it matters.\" -- <strong>Sue Gardner</strong>, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.\u00a0</p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Joseph Michael Reagle Jr."], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Good Faith Collaboration_ The Culture of W - Joseph Michael Reagle Jr_.epub", "dir_path": "Joseph Michael Reagle Jr_/Good Faith Collaboration_ The Culture of Wikipedia (85)/", "size": 2241587}], "cover_url": "Joseph Michael Reagle Jr_/Good Faith Collaboration_ The Culture of Wikipedia (85)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "oasin", "code": "0262014475"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B004HD49OO"}, {"scheme": "guid", "code": "b541fa8418f772976771802e53151318988db86"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "0602011213"}, {"scheme": "asin", "code": "B004HD49OO"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "History and Foundations of Information Science"}, "382eadef-7163-4bd3-b2af-c6634e130832": {"title": "Human Information Retrieval", "title_sort": "Human Information Retrieval", "pubdate": "2009-09-24 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "382eadef-7163-4bd3-b2af-c6634e130832", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>Information retrieval in the age of Internet search engines has become part of ordinary discourse and everyday practice: \"Google\" is a verb in common usage. Thus far, more attention has been given to practical understanding of information retrieval than to a full theoretical account. In Human Information Retrieval, Julian Warner offers a comprehensive overview of information retrieval, synthesizing theories from different disciplines (information and computer science, librarianship and indexing, and information society discourse) and incorporating such disparate systems as WorldCat and Google into a single, robust theoretical framework. There is a need for such a theoretical treatment, he argues, one that reveals the structure and underlying patterns of this complex field while remaining congruent with everyday practice. Warner presents a labor theoretic approach to information retrieval, building on his previously formulated distinction between semantic and syntactic mental labor, arguing that the description and search labor of information retrieval can be understood as both semantic and syntactic in character. Warner's information science approach is rooted in the humanities and the social sciences but informed by an understanding of information technology and information theory. The chapters offer a progressive exposition of the topic, with illustrative examples to explain the concepts presented. Neither narrowly practical nor largely speculative, Human Information Retrieval meets the contemporary need for a broader treatment of information and information systems.\n\n</p>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Julian Warner"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Human Information Retrieval - Julian Warner.epub", "dir_path": "Julian Warner/Human Information Retrieval (86)/", "size": 2285353}], "cover_url": "Julian Warner/Human Information Retrieval (86)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "17IqmwEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B002Y5W1X8"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "0262013444"}, {"scheme": "oasin", "code": "0262013444"}, {"scheme": "guid", "code": "eb1232c2368979a9418381afba54965d66721cc"}, {"scheme": "asin", "code": "B002Y5W1X8"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "History and Foundations of Information Science"}, "4c7ef5d2-7c45-4467-badb-306007b112d7": {"title": "Information Beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle \u00c9poque", "title_sort": "Information Beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle \u00c9poque", "pubdate": "2014-03-27 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "4c7ef5d2-7c45-4467-badb-306007b112d7", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>This book analyses the dynamics of the emerging networks of individuals, organizations, technologies and publications by which means information was exchanged across and through all kinds of borders and boundaries in this period. It extends the frame within which historical discourse about information can take place by bringing together scholars not only from different disciplines but also from different national and linguistic backgrounds. It will be of interest to scholars and students of information history and the emergence of the information society as well as to social and cultural historians concerned with the late 19th and early 20th century.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>'Historians are showing that the globalization of information is not a unique historical feature of the contemporary era, but a recurrent construction possessing many facets and unsuspected properties - including a longstanding utopian element. The contributors to this fine collection unearth a revealing series of cultural, intellectual, and technological projects to universalize information systems during the decades before World War I and, in the process, give us new ways of understanding the lineages of our own time.' Dan Schiller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 'There is so much in this book - the complexity and range of ideas discussed here is remarkable, and it is all tremendously engaging.' Library and Information History </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>W. Boyd Rayward is Emeritus Professor at the Universities of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.\u00a0</p></div>", "publisher": "Ashgate", "authors": ["W. Boyd Rayward"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Information Beyond Borders_ International - W. Boyd Rayward.epub", "dir_path": "W. Boyd Rayward/Information Beyond Borders_ International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Epoque (87)/", "size": 1871595}], "cover_url": "W. Boyd Rayward/Information Beyond Borders_ International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Epoque (87)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781409442257"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00IT0DVRM"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B00IT0DVRM"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "38fb0fe8-40ea-4df1-aaaf-71d763cffdc6": {"title": "Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss", "title_sort": "Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss", "pubdate": "2014-05-15 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "38fb0fe8-40ea-4df1-aaaf-71d763cffdc6", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>In Information and Intrigue Colin Burke tells the story of one man's plan to revolutionize the world's science information systems and how science itself became enmeshed with ideology and the institutions of modern liberalism. In the 1890s, the idealistic American Herbert Haviland Field established the Concilium Bibliographicum, a Switzerland-based science information service that sent millions of index cards to American and European scientists. Field's radical new idea was to index major ideas rather than books or documents. In his struggle to create and maintain his system, Field became entangled with nationalistic struggles over the control of science information, the new system of American philanthropy (powered by millionaires), the politics of an emerging American professional science, and in the efforts of another information visionary, Paul Otlet, to create a pre-digital worldwide database for all subjects. World War I shuttered the Concilium, and postwar efforts to revive it failed. Field himself died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Burke carries the story into the next generation, however, describing the astonishingly varied career of Field's son, Noel, who became a diplomat, an information source for Soviet intelligence (as was his friend Alger Hiss), a secret World War II informant for Allen Dulles, and a prisoner of Stalin. Along the way, Burke touches on a range of topics, including the new entrepreneurial university, Soviet espionage in America, and further efforts to classify knowledge.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>Told through the lens of the work of a largely unrecognized American genius named Herbert Haviland Field, Colin Burke's new book ably recounts the story of the dawn of the information age, where greater access to information drove forward scientific developments to startling and unforeseen heights, and presaged the age of what we now refer to as 'Big Information,' where anyone anywhere with a laptop computer and an Internet connection can gain access to vast amounts of information. If you want to understand the genesis of today's global technological revolution, this book is essential reading.</p><p>(Matthew M. Aid, Intelligence historian and author of <em>The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency</em>)  </p><p>I confess that I had never heard of Herbert Haviland Field. Once I started to read the book I could not stop. The way Burke has integrated the personal lives of all these characters is amazing. It is the stuff of a classic novel, even while you know it is all historically accurate. For people like me who have admired the work of Paul Otlet it was eye-opening to learn of the connection between Field, the Concilium Bibliographicum, and the Mundaneum. It should become a must-read for all students of library and information science, not to mention the huge audience of intelligence analysts worldwide.</p><p>(Eugene Garfield, Chair Emeritus, Thomson Reuters IP &amp; Science (formerly Institute for Scientific Information), Philadelphia) </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Colin B. Burke is the author of several works on information and intelligence history, including <em>Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush</em>, <em>Ultra</em>, * and the Other Memex <em>and </em>The Secret in Building 26*. He lives in Maryland. </p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Colin B. Burke"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Information and Intrigue_ From Index Cards - Colin B. Burke.epub", "dir_path": "Colin B. Burke/Information and Intrigue_ From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss (88)/", "size": 1077573}], "cover_url": "Colin B. Burke/Information and Intrigue_ From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss (88)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B00KANM3DO"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00KANM3DO"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262323369"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "History and Foundations of Information Science"}, "1f9fbabe-9cdd-4a8e-8d01-4f251e99d38c": {"title": "Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data", "title_sort": "Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data", "pubdate": "2014-09-18 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "1f9fbabe-9cdd-4a8e-8d01-4f251e99d38c", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood as a mode of social positioning), and drawing on the work of the French documentalist Suzanne Briet, Day explores the understanding and uses of indexicality. He examines the transition as indexes went from being explicit professional structures that mediated users and documents to being implicit infrastructural devices used in everyday information and communication acts. Doing so, he also traces three epistemic eras in the representation of individuals and groups, first in the forms of documents, then information, then data. Day investigates five cases from the modern tradition of documentation. He considers the socio-technical instrumentalism of Paul Otlet, \"the father of European documentation\" (contrasting it to the hermeneutic perspective of Martin Heidegger); the shift from documentation to information science and the accompanying transformation of persons and texts into users and information; social media's use of algorithms, further subsuming persons and texts; attempts to build android robots -- to embody human agency within an information system that resembles a human being; and social \"big data\" as a technique of neoliberal governance that employs indexing and analytics for purposes of surveillance. Finally, Day considers the status of critique and judgment at a time when people and their rights of judgment are increasingly mediated, displaced, and replaced by modern documentary techniques.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>What is information, what is its power, and what are the sources of that power? Tracing the historical emergence of what he dubs the 'modern documentary tradition,' Ronald Day opens up an examination of the ways that information comes to be seen as standing for or even substituting for a world of human relations. In domains as disparate as android robotics and data mining, this powerful and thought-provoking analysis raises questions of tremendous significance both for scholars and society at large.</p><p>(Paul Dourish, Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine; author of <em>Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing</em>)  </p><p>Tracing the historical transformation of documentation to information, and information to data, Ronald Day reveals how the cultural relationship between people <em>and </em>documents has been overtaken by a data-driven view of people <em>as</em> documents. <em>Indexing It All</em> is an incisive challenge to information science from one of the field's best thinkers.</p><p>(Leah A. Lievrouw, Professor of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles)  </p><p><em>Indexing It All</em> recasts our understanding of the information age. Day lays bare the ways in which documentation work and algorithms, by indexing it all, increasingly reify our understanding of the written word and our lived experience. His is a necessary and eloquent critique.</p><p>(Joseph T. Tennis, Associate Professor, Information School, University of Washington, Seattle) </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Ronald E. Day is Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Library Science in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington.\u00a0</p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Ronald E. Day"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Indexing It All_ The Subject in the Age of - Ronald E. Day.epub", "dir_path": "Ronald E. 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Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age. </p><p>He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish\u2014and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia. Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's <em>Double Fold</em>, Basbanes's <em>A Gentle Madness</em>, Manguel's <em>A History of Reading</em>, and Winchester's <em>The Professor and the Madman</em>. 11 b/w illustrations.</p></div>", "publisher": "W. W. Norton", "authors": ["Matthew Battles"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Library_ An Unquiet History - Matthew Battles.epub", "dir_path": "Matthew Battles/Library_ An Unquiet History (90)/", "size": 747952}], "cover_url": "Matthew Battles/Library_ An Unquiet History (90)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "GlujQgAACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0393325644"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780393020298"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "836cb2ef-da32-4e95-b844-5bd036e7c817": {"title": "Property Is Theft!", "title_sort": "Property Is Theft!", "pubdate": "2011-04-11 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:43.746323+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "836cb2ef-da32-4e95-b844-5bd036e7c817", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>\"An indispensable source book for anyone interested in Proudhon's ideas and the origins of the socialist and anarchist movements in nineteenth-century Europe.\"\u2014Robert Graham, editor of <em>Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas</em></p><p>\"Iain McKay's introduction offers a sure-footed guide through the misconceptions surrounding Proudhon's thought.\"\u2014Mark Leier, author of <em>Bakunin: The Creative Passion</em></p><p>More influential than Karl Marx during his lifetime, Pierre-Joseph Proudon's work has long been out of print or unavailable in English. Iain McKay's comprehensive collection is a much-needed and timely historical corrective.</p><p><strong>Iain McKay</strong> is the editor of <em>An Anarchist FAQ</em>.</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1869) was one of the most important and influential political theorists of the 19th century. The first person to call himself an anarchist, he is the author of <em>What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government</em>; <em>The System of Economical Contradictions (or, the Philosophy of Misery)</em>; and <em>The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century</em>. \u00a0</p></div>", "publisher": "AK Press", "authors": ["Pierre-Joseph Proudhon"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Property Is Theft! - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.epub", "dir_path": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon/Property Is Theft! (91)/", "size": 1096371}], "cover_url": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon/Property Is Theft! (91)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B0052UMULK"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "1849350248"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "63accc11-890d-4a51-8984-2b65731e7f0f": {"title": "World Projects: Global Information Before World War I", "title_sort": "World Projects: Global Information Before World War I", "pubdate": "2014-12-29 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:10.258560+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "63accc11-890d-4a51-8984-2b65731e7f0f", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Markus Krajewski is emerging as a leading scholar in the field of media archaeology, which seeks to trace cultural history through the media networks that enable and structure it. In <em>World Projects</em> he opens a new portal into the history of globalization by examining several large-scale projects that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, shared a grand yet unachievable goal: bringing order to the world.</p><p>Drawing from a broad array of archival materials, Krajewski reveals how expanding commercial relations, growing international scientific agreements, and an imperial monopolization of the political realm spawned ambitious global projects. <em>World Projects </em>contends that the late nineteenth-century networks of cables, routes, and shipping lines\u2014of junctions, crossovers, and transfers\u2014merged into a \u201cmultimedia system\u201d that was a prerequisite for conceiving a world project. As examples, he presents the work of three big-thinking \u201cplansmiths,\u201d each of whose work mediates between two discursive fields: the chemist and natural philosopher Wilhelm Ostwald, who spent years promoting a \u201cworld auxiliary language\u201d and a world currency; the self-taught \u201cengineer\u201d and self-anointed authority on science and technology Franz Maria Feldhaus, who labored to produce an all-encompassing \u201cworld history of technology\u201d; and Walther Rathenau, who put economics to the service of politics and quickly transformed the German economy.</p><p>With a keen eye for the outlandish as well as the outsized, Krajewski shows how media, technological structures, and naked human ambition paved the way for global-scale ventures that together created the first \u201cworld wide web.\u201d</p></div>", "publisher": "University of Minnesota", "authors": ["Markus Krajewski"], "formats": [{"format": "azw3", "file_name": "World Projects_ Global Information Before - Markus Krajewski.azw3", "dir_path": "Markus Krajewski/World Projects_ Global Information Before World War I (92)/", "size": 1619332}], "cover_url": "Markus Krajewski/World Projects_ Global Information Before World War I (92)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780816683512"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00SXQ1XMW"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0816683514"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Electronic Mediations"}, "c09cff36-afe6-4c47-b234-6654cf284e85": {"title": "A History of Reading", "title_sort": "History of Reading, A", "pubdate": "1998-10-27 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "c09cff36-afe6-4c47-b234-6654cf284e85", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>In this marvelous book, acclaimed around the world, Alberto Manguel takes us on a fascinating exploration of what it means to be a reader of books. <i>A History of Reading</i> is a brilliant reminder of why we cherish the act of reading--despite distractions throughout the ages, from the Inquisition to the lures of cyberspace. He shows us what happens when we read; who we become; and how reading teaches us how to live. He reminds us that we live in books as well as among them--how we find our own stories in books, and traces of our lives. He shows us how our reading habits have developed over the centuries, and how, ever since humans first transcribed their thoughts and deeds on clay and papyrus, the act of reading is itself a part of being human.<br><br>Alberto Manguel is a lover of reading, and he brings a lover's delight and enthusiasm to his history of reading. His stories take us across a breathtaking range of time and experiences. From the invention of the reader to Pliny...", "publisher": "Knopf", "authors": ["Alberto Manguel"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "A History of Reading - Alberto Manguel.epub", "dir_path": "Alberto Manguel/A History of Reading (93)/", "size": 14613095}], "cover_url": "Alberto Manguel/A History of Reading (93)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "16113371"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780307364197"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "cc58c201-d124-47ad-aeff-eb42f05a27ce": {"title": "The Library at Night", "title_sort": "Library at Night, The", "pubdate": "2006-09-25 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "cc58c201-d124-47ad-aeff-eb42f05a27ce", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. \u201cLibraries,\u201d he says, \u201chave always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I\u2019ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.\u201d In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries.</p><p>Manguel, a guide of irrepressible enthusiasm, conducts a unique library tour that extends from his childhood bookshelves to the \u201ccomplete\u201d libraries of the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google. He ponders the doomed library of Alexandria as well as the personal libraries of Charles Dickens, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He recounts stories of people who have struggled against tyranny to preserve freedom of thought\u2014the Polish librarian who smuggled books to safety as the Nazis began their destruction of Jewish libraries; the Afghani bookseller who kept his store open through decades of unrest. Oral \u201cmemory libraries\u201d kept alive by prisoners, libraries of banned books, the imaginary library of Count Dracula, the library of books never written\u2014Manguel illuminates the mysteries of libraries as no other writer could. With scores of wonderful images throughout, <em>The Library at Night </em>is a fascinating voyage through Manguel\u2019s mind, memory, and vast knowledge of books and civilizations.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"In my personal library of imaginary places, and more specifically on the bookcases near my desk, I maintain a shelf reserved for brilliant readers. There's rarely any turnover. Borges, Calvino, Benjamin and Zweig (plus a few other steadfast patrons).\u00a0With Manguel's <em>The Library at Night</em>, that will clearly have to change.\"\u2014Allen Kurzweil, author of <em>The Grand Complication</em> and <em>A Case of Curiosities</em>  </p><p>(Allen Kurzweil)  </p><p>\u201cIn a good book, certain passages stand out because they are well written. In a great book, nothing stands out because nothing can. <em>The Library at Night</em> is one of those great books.\u201d\u2014<em>The Globe and Mail</em>  </p><p>(<em>Globe and Mail</em>)  </p><p>\"Alberto Manguel . . . the Argentine-born author and bibliophile celebrates books as brothers, as crucial companions for a lifetime.\"\u2014Julia Keller, <em>Chicago Tribune</em></p><p>(Julia Keller <em>Chicago Tribune</em> 2008-04-23)  </p><p>\"[A] deliciously rich and lavishly illustrated book of books. . . . [A] magical book.\"\u2014Jeff Simon, <em>The Buffalo News</em> (Editor's Choice)</p><p>(Jeff Simon <em>The Buffalo News</em> 2008-05-11)  </p><p>\"Manguel has assembled thumbnail biographies, entertaining anecdotes, close readings, and photographic documentation into a kind of commonplace book stitched together by his amiable prose. . . . <em>The Library at Night</em> . . . communicates the joy and the solace of being yourself a reader.\"\u2014Brian Sholis, <em>BookForum</em></p><p>(Brian Sholis <em>BookForum</em> 2008-04-01)  </p><p>\"In <em>The Library at Night</em>, Alberto Manguel . . . lovingly explores the nooks and crannies of this enchanted domain. To call Mr. Manguel a 'bookman' would be the grossest of understatements. He lives and breathes books.\"\u2014Eric Ormsby, <em>New York Sun</em></p><p>(Eric Ormsby <em>New York Sun</em> 2008-03-19)  </p><p>\"Alberto Manguel has brought out a richly enjoyable book, absolutely enthralling for anyone who loves to read and an inspiration for anybody who has ever dreamed of building a library of his or her own.\"\u2014Michael Dirda, <em>Washington Post Book World</em></p><p>(Michael Dirda <em>Washington Post Book World</em> 2008-04-06)  </p><p>\"The success of <em>The Library at Night</em> is the product of a mind made by reading, and the realization of its own essential argument: The library is a mirror in which we find ourselves and our world reflecting and interpenetrating.\"\u2014Matthew Battles, <em>Wilson Quarterly</em></p><p>(Matthew Battles <em>Wilson Quarterly</em> 2008-04-01)  </p><p>\"Books jump out of their jackets when Manguel opens them and dance in delight as they make contact with his ingenious, voluminous brain. He is not the keeper of a silent cemetery, but a master of bibliographical revels.\"\u2014Peter Conrad, <em>The Observer</em></p><p>(Peter Conrad <em>The Observer</em> 2008-04-27)  </p><p>\"To read this book is to be invited into a world in which books are both, luxury and necessity, destiny and serendipity, to experience that sweet moment when the world falls away and we are left\u00a0along with the words on the page.\"\u2014Susan Larson, <em>New Orleans</em><em> Times-Picayune</em></p><p>(Susan Larson <em>New Orleans Times-Picayune</em> 2008-04-21)  </p><p>\"A vivaciously erudite justification for society's inexorable efforts to collect, order and store information. . . . Book lovers will luxuriate in these earnest and impressively researched pages.\"\u2014Christine Thomas, <em>Miami Herald</em></p><p>(Christine Thomas <em>Miami Herald</em> 2008-04-27)  </p><p>\". . . a pleasure\u2014especially at this time of . . . internet related uncertainty for libraries. For those . . . who are distressed by the amnesia of the Web, this book is . . . an excellent example of how to rejuvenate the past and continue its conversations.\"\u2014Ben Carlson, <em>The Atlantic.com</em></p><p>(Ben Carlson <em>The Atlantic.com</em>)  </p><p>\u201cA bold undertaking . . . meditative, questing, and essayistic. . . . Manguel takes the broad sweep that his subject demands. \u00a0He is a humane and judicious commentator whose wide reading is matched\u2014something not always the case\u2014by broad sympathies. . . .<em>The Library at Night</em> remains a remarkable book\u2014remarkable above all for its openness to the possibilities that books hold out, and for the passion with which it tries to instill the same attitude in its readers.\u201d--John Gross, <em>New York Review of Books</em>  </p><p>(John Gross <em>New York Review of Books</em>)  </p><p>\"Like Montaigne's essays and Borges's fables, Manguel's ruminations on libraries are inviting, discursive, learned, playul, and imaginative.\"--Michael J. Ryan, <em>Papers of the Biliographical Society of America</em></p><p>(Michael J. Ryan <em>Papers of the Biliographical Society of America</em>) </p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"'... crowded with memorable tales of reading as rescue, as solace, as liberation, in times of want, fear or tyranny... The Library at Night revels in the physical pleasure of drifting and dipping through the Gutenberg galaxy of ink-on-paper books.' Boyd Tonkin interview with Alberto Manguel, The Independent 'Books jump out of their jackets when Manguel opens them and dance in delight as they make contact with his ingenious, voluminous brain. He is not the keeper of a silent cemetery, but a master of bibliographical revels.' Peter Conrad, The Observer\"\u00a0</p></div>", "publisher": "Yale University", "authors": ["Alberto Manguel"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Library at Night - Alberto Manguel.pdf", "dir_path": "Alberto Manguel/The Library at Night (94)/", "size": 2514089}], "cover_url": "Alberto Manguel/The Library at Night (94)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780300139143"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "2452483"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B001A1AW8S"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "3e747c13-41bf-4d73-a62e-c9b1a771dc83": {"title": "Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era", "title_sort": "Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era", "pubdate": "1999-02-15 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "3e747c13-41bf-4d73-a62e-c9b1a771dc83", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>This is a richly imaginative study of machines for writing and reading at the end of the nineteenth century in America. Its aim is to explore writing and reading as culturally contingent experiences, and at the same time to broaden our view of the relationship between technology and textuality.  </p><p>At the book\u2019s heart is the proposition that technologies of inscription are materialized theories of language. Whether they failed (like Thomas Edison\u2019s \u201celectric pen\u201d) or succeeded (like typewriters), inscriptive technologies of the late nineteenth century were local, often competitive embodiments of the way people experienced writing and reading. Such a perspective cuts through the determinism of recent accounts while arguing for an interdisciplinary method for considering texts and textual production.  </p><p>Starting with the cacophonous promotion of shorthand alphabets in postbellum America, the author investigates the assumptions\u2014social, psychic, semiotic\u2014that lie behind varying inscriptive practices. The \u201cgrooves\u201d in the book\u2019s title are the delicate lines recorded and played by phonographs, and readers will find in these pages a surprising and complex genealogy of the phonograph, along with new readings of the history of the typewriter and of the earliest silent films. Modern categories of authorship, representation, and readerly consumption emerge here amid the un- or sub-literary interests of patent attorneys, would-be inventors, and record producers. Modern subjectivities emerge both in ongoing social constructions of literacy and in the unruly and seemingly unrelated practices of American spiritualism, \u201cCoon\u201d songs, and Rube Goldberg-type romanticism.  </p><p>Just as digital networks and hypertext have today made us more aware of printed books as knowledge structures, the development and dissemination of the phonograph and typewriter coincided with a transformed awareness of oral and inscribed communication. It was an awareness at once influential in the development of consumer culture, literary and artistic experiences of modernity, and the disciplinary definition of the \u201chuman\u201d sciences, such as linguistics, anthropology, and psychology. Recorded sound, typescripts, silent films, and other inscriptive media are memory devices, and in today\u2019s terms the author offers a critical theory of ROM and RAM for the century before computers.</p></div>", "publisher": "Stanford University", "authors": ["Lisa Gitelman"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines_ Re - Lisa Gitelman.pdf", "dir_path": "Lisa Gitelman/Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines_ Representing Technology in the Edison Era (95)/", "size": 10268107}], "cover_url": "Lisa Gitelman/Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines_ Representing Technology in the Edison Era (95)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "4453259"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780804732703"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "e23AFq7uSMIC"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0804738726"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "e18079dd-c762-4395-8ec9-933e9d8b7118": {"title": "Always Already New: Media, History and the Data of Culture", "title_sort": "Always Already New: Media, History and the Data of Culture", "pubdate": "2006-02-15 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e18079dd-c762-4395-8ec9-933e9d8b7118", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p><strong>Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007.</strong>  </p><p>In <em>Always Already New</em>, Lisa Gitelman explores the newness of new media while she asks what it means to do media history. Using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks, Gitelman challenges readers to think about the ways that media work as the simultaneous subjects and instruments of historical inquiry. Presenting original case studies of Edison's first phonographs and the Pentagon's first distributed digital network, the ARPANET, Gitelman points suggestively toward similarities that underlie the cultural definition of records (phonographic and not) at the end of the nineteenth century and the definition of documents (digital and not) at the end of the twentieth. As a result, <em>Always Already New</em> speaks to present concerns about the humanities as much as to the emergent field of new media studies. Records and documents are kernels of humanistic thought, after all\u2014part of and party to the cultural impulse to preserve and interpret. Gitelman's argument suggests inventive contexts for \"humanities computing\" while also offering a new perspective on such traditional humanities disciplines as literary history.  </p><p>Making extensive use of archival sources, Gitelman describes the ways in which recorded sound and digitally networked text each emerged as local anomalies that were yet deeply embedded within the reigning logic of public life and public memory. In the end Gitelman turns to the World Wide Web and asks how the history of the Web is already being told, how the Web might also resist history, and how using the Web might be producing the conditions of its own historicity.</p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Lisa Gitelman"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Always Already New_ Media, History and the - Lisa Gitelman.pdf", "dir_path": "Lisa Gitelman/Always Already New_ Media, History and the Data of Culture (96)/", "size": 1438855}], "cover_url": "Lisa Gitelman/Always Already New_ Media, History and the Data of Culture (96)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "3_5oAAAAIAAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262072717"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "1158322"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0262572478"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "a9a2e6b6-8176-4fa2-b579-d15275b73e7c": {"title": "Fantasies of the Library", "title_sort": "Fantasies of the Library", "pubdate": "2015-02-01 22:39:04+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "a9a2e6b6-8176-4fa2-b579-d15275b73e7c", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">from <a href=\"http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13616\">http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13616<br></a></span></font><br><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cFantasies of the Library inaugurates the intercalations: paginated exhibition series. Virtually stacked alongside Anna-Sophie Springer\u2019s feature essay about unorthodox responses to the institutional ordering principles of book collections, the volume includes an interview with Rick Prelinger and Megan Shaw Prelinger of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco; reflections on the role of cultural memory and the archive by Hammad Nasar, Head of Research and Programmes at the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; a conversation with media theorist Joanna Zylinska about experiments on the intersections of curatorial practice and open source e-books; and a discussion between K\u2019s co-director Charles Stankievech and platform developer Adam Hyde on new approaches to open source publishing in science and academia. The photo essay, \u201cReading Rooms Reading Machines,\u201d presents views of unusual historical libraries next to works by artists such as Kader Attia, Andrew Beccone, Mark Dion, Rodney Graham, Katie Paterson, Veronika Spierenburg, Andrew Norman Wilson, and others.\u201d</span></font></div>", "publisher": "K. Verlag", "authors": ["Etienne Turpin"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Fantasies of the Library - Etienne Turpin.pdf", "dir_path": "Etienne Turpin/Fantasies of the Library (97)/", "size": 4456073}], "cover_url": "Etienne Turpin/Fantasies of the Library (97)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780993907401"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "25176816"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "cc49abcd-82f9-4a07-a682-5f319c2a4b4c": {"title": "The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork", "title_sort": "Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork, The", "pubdate": "2012-02-15 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:10.258560+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "cc49abcd-82f9-4a07-a682-5f319c2a4b4c", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Since the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds--radical and reactionary, professional and amateur--have been complaining about \"bureaucracy.\" But what, exactly, are they complaining about?</p><p>In <em>The Demon of Writing</em>, Ben Kafka offers a critical history and theory of one of the most ubiquitous, least understood forms of media: paperwork. States rely on records to tax and spend, protect and serve, discipline and punish. But time and again, this paperwork proves to be unreliable. Examining episodes that range from the story of a clerk who lost his job and then his mind in the French Revolution to an account of Roland Barthes's brief stint as a university administrator, Kafka reveals the powers, the failures, and even the pleasures of paperwork. Many of its complexities, he argues, have been obscured by the comic-paranoid style that characterizes much of our criticism of bureaucracy. Kafka proposes a new theory of what Karl Marx called the \"bureaucratic medium.\" Moving from Marx to Freud, he argues that this theory of paperwork must include both a theory of praxis and of parapraxis.</p></div>", "publisher": "Zone", "authors": ["Ben Kafka"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Demon of Writing_ Powers and Failures - Ben Kafka.pdf", "dir_path": "Ben Kafka/The Demon of Writing_ Powers and Failures of Paperwork (98)/", "size": 4372369}], "cover_url": "Ben Kafka/The Demon of Writing_ Powers and Failures of Paperwork (98)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "x6PwugAACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781935408260"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "15904345"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1935408267"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "2093ec56-a732-4e49-9912-1c707a0ec180": {"title": "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition", "title_sort": "Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition, The", "pubdate": "2008-08-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "2093ec56-a732-4e49-9912-1c707a0ec180", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force. But previous editions of the essay represent Pound's understanding-it is fair to say, his appropriation-of the text. Fenollosa's manuscripts, in the Beinecke Library of Yale University, allow us to see this essay in a different light, as a document of early, sustained cultural interchange between North Americaand East Asia.Pound's editing of the essay obscured two important features, here restored to view: Fenollosa's encounter with Tendai Buddhism and Buddhist ontology, and his concern with the dimension of sound in Chinese poetry.This book is the definitive critical edition of Fenollosa's important work. After a substantial Introduction, the text as edited by Pound is presented, together with his notes and plates. At the heart of the edition is the first full publication of the essay as Fenollosa wrote it, accompanied by the many diagrams, characters, and notes Fenollosa (and Pound) scrawled on the verso pages. Pound's deletions, insertions, and alterations to Fenollosa's sometimes ornate prose are meticulously captured, enabling readers to follow the quasi-dialogue between Fenollosa and his posthumous editor. Earlier drafts and related talks reveal the developmentof Fenollosa's ideas about culture, poetry, and translation. Copious multilingual annotation is an important feature of the edition.This masterfully edited book will be an essential resource for scholars and poets and a starting point for a renewed discussion of the multiple sources of American modernist poetry.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>How can we come to a new understanding of Chinese classical literature when our inherited view of it is so powerfully shaped and conditioned by a 'strong misreading,' which is a vital part of our own poetic language? This question afflicts Haun Saussy in his extraordinary introduction to a new critical edition of The Chines Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, which presents both the edited and original versions of Fenollosa's essay.</p><p>Scholarly edition that combines the first full publication of Fenollosa's essay as he wrote it, along with the 1919 version of the essay as altered by Ezra Pound.</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>ERNEST FRANCISCO FENOLLOSA </strong>(1853-1908) taught at the Imperial University of Tokyo. In 1890 he became Asian curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.   </p><p><strong>EZRA POUND</strong> (1884-1972) was a leading Modernist poet and the driving force behind Imagism and Vorticism.   </p><p><strong>HAUN SAUSSY</strong> is Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University.His books include <em>The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic</em> and *Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China. *  </p><p><strong>JONATHAN STALLING</strong> is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. He is a co-editor of T<em>he Chinese Written Character as aMedium for Poetry: A Critical Edition </em>(Fordham).   </p><p><strong>LUCAS KLEIN</strong> is a graduate student in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. \u00a0</p></div>", "publisher": "Fordham University", "authors": ["Ernest Fenollosa", "Ezra Pound", "Jonathan Stalling", "Lucas Klein", "Haun Saussy"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium - Ernest Fenollosa.epub", "dir_path": "Ernest Fenollosa/The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry_ A Critical Edition (99)/", "size": 905143}], "cover_url": "Ernest Fenollosa/The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry_ A Critical Edition (99)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "2480140"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780823228683"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B004FPYJLW"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B004FPYJLW"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "32ee490f-2364-4acc-97f1-864fda57d1e6": {"title": "From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts", "title_sort": "From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts", "pubdate": "2014-12-22 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "32ee490f-2364-4acc-97f1-864fda57d1e6", "tags": [], "abstract": "Electronic publishing has become an essential medium for the field of contemporary arts and design. While traditional models of art book publishing are becoming less and less viable for artists, writers, designers and publishers, periodicals like the , art and design blogs, and internet libraries such as  are widely read and discussed. \n\nIs electronic book technology really the way forward for these types of publications? Or does the answer lie in some hybrid form of publication, in which both print and electronic editions of the same basic content can be published in a parallel or complementary fashion?  And perhaps more importantly, what are the changes in workflow and design mentality that will need to be implemented in order to allow for such hybrid publications? \n\nThis Toolkit is meant for everyone working in art and design publishing. No specific expertise of digital technology, or indeed traditional publishing technology, is required. The Toolkit provides hands-on practical advice and tools, focusing on working solutions for low-budget, small-edition publishing. \n\nEverything in the Hybrid Publishing Toolkit is based on real-world projects with art and design publishers. Editorial scenarios include art and design catalogues and periodicals, research publications, and artists'/designer's books.", "publisher": "Institute of Network Cultures", "authors": ["DPT Collective", "Marc de Bruijn", "Liz Castro", "Florian Cramer", "Joost Kircz", "Silvio Lorusso", "Michael Murtaugh", "Pia Pol", "Miriam Rasch", "Margreet Riphagen"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "From Print to Ebooks_ a Hybrid Publishing - DPT Collective.epub", "dir_path": "DPT Collective/From Print to Ebooks_ a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts (100)/", "size": 5702684}], "cover_url": "DPT Collective/From Print to Ebooks_ a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts (100)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9789082234541"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "0bbcbdb9-7126-4a8a-86d9-5e462ac4b6c7": {"title": "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks", "title_sort": "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks", "pubdate": "2013-09-23 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:10.258560+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "0bbcbdb9-7126-4a8a-86d9-5e462ac4b6c7", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">\u201cAn absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics\u2014highly recommended.\u201d\u2014Maria Popova, Brain Pickings A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (\u2020)\u2014which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible\u2014or the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to chart the life and times of these enigmatic squiggles, both exotic (\u00b6) and everyday (&amp;). From the Library of Alexandria to the halls of Bell Labs, figures as diverse as Charlemagne, Vladimir Nabokov, and George W. Bush cross paths with marks as obscure as the interrobang (?) and as divisive as the dash (\u2014). Ancient Roman graffiti, Venetian trading shorthand, Cold War double agents, and Madison Avenue round out an ever more diverse set of episodes, characters, and artifacts. Richly illustrated, ranging across time, typographies, and countries, Shady Characters will delight and entertain all who cherish the unpredictable and surprising in the writing life.</p>", "publisher": "W. W. Norton", "authors": ["Keith Houston"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Shady Characters_ The Secret Life of Punct - Keith Houston.epub", "dir_path": "Keith Houston/Shady Characters_ The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks (101)/", "size": 3788169}], "cover_url": "Keith Houston/Shady Characters_ The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks (101)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "3R2SAAAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00CF2M96E"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780393241549"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "18431761"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "ad1424c0-8352-4205-a7ba-7cc7885a3dd1": {"title": "Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization", "title_sort": "Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization", "pubdate": "2009-05-10 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "ad1424c0-8352-4205-a7ba-7cc7885a3dd1", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond.  Examines the earliest evidence for writing in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, the origins of purely phonographic systems, and the mystery of alphabetic writing Includes discussions of Ancient Egyptian,Chinese, and Mayan writing Shows how the structures of writing served and do serve social needs and in turn create patterns of social behavior Clarifies the argument with many illustrations.</p>", "publisher": "Wiley", "authors": ["Barry B. Powell"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Writing_ Theory and History of the Technol - Barry B. Powell.pdf", "dir_path": "Barry B. Powell/Writing_ Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization (102)/", "size": 3391499}], "cover_url": "Barry B. Powell/Writing_ Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization (102)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781405162562"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "b6Gx-MwHvaoC"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "6485615"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "0292c7d0-090e-47db-8473-9c21ba46ee3b": {"title": "Files: Law and Media Technology", "title_sort": "Files: Law and Media Technology", "pubdate": "2008-04-06 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "0292c7d0-090e-47db-8473-9c21ba46ee3b", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are free to examine its fundamental influence on Western institutions. From a media-theoretical point of view, subject, state, and law reveal themselves to be effects of specific record-keeping and filing practices. Files are not simply administrative tools; they mediate and process legal systems. The genealogy of the law described in Vismann's Files ranges from the work of the Roman magistrates to the concern over one's own file, as expressed in the context of the files kept by the East German State Security. The book concludes with a look at the computer architecture in which all the stacks, files, and registers that had already created order in medieval and early modern administrations make their reappearance.</p>", "publisher": "Stanford University", "authors": ["Cornelia Vismann"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Files_ Law and Media Technology - Cornelia Vismann.pdf", "dir_path": "Cornelia Vismann/Files_ Law and Media Technology (103)/", "size": 8480212}], "cover_url": "Cornelia Vismann/Files_ Law and Media Technology (103)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "0lAOAQAAMAAJ"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "3201620"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780804751513"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "775a3a2c-8837-44c7-98b1-2bee8ea56521": {"title": "The Evolution of the Book", "title_sort": "Evolution of the Book, The", "pubdate": "1998-04-22 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "775a3a2c-8837-44c7-98b1-2bee8ea56521", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Distinguished scholar and library systems innovator Frederick Kilgour tells a five-thousand-year story in this exciting work, a tale beginning with the invention of writing and concluding with the emerging electronic book. Calling on a lifetime of interest in the growth of information technology, Kilgour brings a fresh approach to the history of the book, emphasizing in rich, authoritative detail the successive technological advances that allowed the book to keep pace with ever-increasing needs for information. Borrowing a concept from evolutionary theory--the notion of punctuated equilibria--to structure his account, Kilgour investigates the book's three discrete historical forms--the clay tablet, papyrus roll, and codex--before turning to a fourth, still evolving form, the cyber book, a version promising swift electronic delivery of information in text, sound, and motion to anyone at any time.  </p><p>The clay tablet, initially employed as a content descriptor for sacks of grain, proved inadequate to the growing need for commercial and administrative records. Its successor the papyrus roll was itself succeeded by the codex, a format whose superior utility and information capacity led to sweeping changes in the management of accumulated knowledge, the pursuit of learning, and the promulgation of religion. Kilgour throughout considers closely both technological change and the role this change played in cultural transformation. His fascinating account of the modern book, from Gutenberg's invention of cast-type printing five hundred years ago to the arrival of books displayed on a computer screen, spotlights the inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs who in creating the machinery of production and dissemination enabled the book to maintain its unique cultural power over time.  </p><p>Deft, provocative, and accessibly written, <em>The Evolution of the Book</em> will captivate book lovers as well as those interested in bibliographic history, the history of writing, and the history of technology.</p></div>", "publisher": "Oxford University", "authors": ["Frederick G. Kilgour"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Evolution of the Book - Frederick G. Kilgour.pdf", "dir_path": "Frederick G. Kilgour/The Evolution of the Book (104)/", "size": 12690843}], "cover_url": "Frederick G. Kilgour/The Evolution of the Book (104)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "Kl0ymQEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0195118596"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780195118599"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "1550580"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "544e8fba-3a53-46da-879c-d2504f34675d": {"title": "A Usable Collection: Essays in Honour of Jaap Kloosterman on Collecting Social History", "title_sort": "Usable Collection: Essays in Honour of Jaap Kloosterman on Collecting Social History, A", "pubdate": "2014-11-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "544e8fba-3a53-46da-879c-d2504f34675d", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>Established in 1935, the International Institute of Social History (IISH) is one of the world\u2019s leading research institutes focused on social history and holds one of the richest collections in the field. This volume brings together thirty-five essays in honor of the IISH\u2019s longtime director Jaap Kloosterman, who built the institute into a world leader in the field.\u00a0</p>", "publisher": "Amsterdam University", "authors": ["Aad Blok", "Jan Lucassen", "Huub Sanders"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "A Usable Collection_ Essays in Honour of J - Aad Blok.pdf", "dir_path": "Aad Blok/A Usable Collection_ Essays in Honour of Jaap Kloosterman on Collecting Social History (105)/", "size": 3801486}], "cover_url": "Aad Blok/A Usable Collection_ Essays in Honour of Jaap Kloosterman on Collecting Social History (105)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "9089646884"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9789089646880"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "20948631"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "ff0610e2-9fbf-4692-bf8c-f29d534ea851": {"title": "What is the History of Books?", "title_sort": "What is the History of Books?", "pubdate": "2007-10-02 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "ff0610e2-9fbf-4692-bf8c-f29d534ea851", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\"The esoteric elements of book history needed to be integrated into an overview that would\nshow how the parts could connect to form a whole\u2014or what I characterized as a communications circuit. The tendency toward fragmentation and specialization still exists.\u00a0<div><br></div><div>Another way to cope with it might be to urge book historians to confront three main questions:\n<div><ul><li>How do books come into being?\u00a0</li><li>How do they reach readers?\u00a0</li><li>What do readers make of them?</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>But to answer those questions, we need a conceptual strategy for bringing\nspecialized knowledge together and for envisioning the field as a whole.\nWhen I reflect on my own attempt to sketch such a strategy, I realize that it was\na response to the sense of interconnected problems that struck me much earlier,\nwhen I first began to work in a publisher\u2019s archives.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking backward from the\npresent also serves as a reminder that my essay of 1982does not do justice to theadvances in book history that occurred during the following quarter of a century.\n\nIt has been reprinted and debated often enough for its inadequacies to be visible.\"</div></div></div>", "publisher": "Cambridge University", "authors": ["Robert Darnton"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "What is the History of Books_ - Robert Darnton.pdf", "dir_path": "Robert Darnton/What is the History of Books_ (106)/", "size": 269394}], "cover_url": "Robert Darnton/What is the History of Books_ (106)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "doi", "code": "10.1017/S1479244307001370"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Modern Intellectual History"}, "90847622-2d83-4f6a-9208-ccddc77a8345": {"title": "The Vanished Library", "title_sort": "Vanished Library, The", "pubdate": "1990-08-28 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "90847622-2d83-4f6a-9208-ccddc77a8345", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">The Library of Alexandria, one of the wonders of the Ancient World, has haunted Western culture for over 2,000 years. The Ptolemaic kings of Egypt--successors of Alexander the Great--had a staggering ambition: to house all of the books ever written under one roof, and the story of the universal library and its destruction still has the power to move us.But what was the library, and where was it? Did it exist at all? Contemporary descriptions are vague and contradictory. The fate of the precious books themselves is a subject of endless speculation.Canfora resolves these puzzles in one of the most unusual books of classical history ever written. He recreates the world of Egypt and the Greeks in brief chapters that marry the craft of the novelist and the discipline of the historian. Anecdotes, conversations, and reconstructions give The Vanished Library the compulsion of an exotic tale, yet Canfora bases all of them on historical and literary sources, which he discusses with great panache. As the chilling conclusion to this elegant piece of historical detective work he establishes who burned the books.This volume has benefited from the collegial support of The Wake Forest University Studium. The Library of Alexandria, one of the wonders of the Ancient World, has haunted Western culture for over 2,000 years. The Ptolemaic kings of Egypt--successors of Alexander the Great--had a staggering ambition: to house all of the books ever written under one roof, and the story of the universal library and its destruction still has the power to move us.But what was the library, and where was it? Did it exist at all? Contemporary descriptions are vague and contradictory. The fate of the precious books themselves is a subject of endless speculation.Canfora resolves these puzzles in one of the most unusual books of classical history ever written. He recreates the world of Egypt and the Greeks in brief chapters that marry the craft of the novelist and the discipline of the historian. Anecdotes, conversations, and reconstructions give The Vanished Library the compulsion of an exotic tale, yet Canfora bases all of them on historical and literary sources, which he discusses with great panache. As the chilling conclusion to this elegant piece of historical detective work he establishes who burned the books.This volume has benefited from the collegial support of The Wake Forest University Studium.</p>", "publisher": "University of California", "authors": ["Luciano Canfora"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Vanished Library - Luciano Canfora.pdf", "dir_path": "Luciano Canfora/The Vanished Library (107)/", "size": 10094018}], "cover_url": "Luciano Canfora/The Vanished Library (107)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "q6NsoT1akU4C"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780520072558"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0520072553"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "1013347"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "b714e2b3-0bb0-421f-bc81-d5811b5fbdf7": {"title": "Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature", "title_sort": "Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature", "pubdate": "2014-09-21 21:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "b714e2b3-0bb0-421f-bc81-d5811b5fbdf7", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>This absorbing history by a brilliant scholar and writer deepens our understanding of how censorship works.</p><p>With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. </p><p>In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate culture of royal privilege. Even as the king's censors outlawed works by Voltaire, Rousseau, and other celebrated Enlightenment writers, the head censor himself incubated Diderot\u2019s great <em>Encyclopedie</em> by hiding the banned project\u2019s papers in his Paris townhouse. Relationships at court trumped principle in the Old Regime.</p><p>Shaken by the Sepoy uprising in 1857, the British Raj undertook a vast surveillance of every aspect of Indian life, including its literary output. Years later the outrage stirred by the British partition of Bengal led the Raj to put this knowledge to use. Seeking to suppress Indian publications that it deemed seditious, the British held hearings in which literary criticism led to prison sentences. Their efforts to meld imperial power and liberal principle fed a growing Indian opposition.</p><p>In Communist East Germany, censorship was a component of the party program to engineer society. Behind the unmarked office doors of Ninety Clara-Zetkin Street in East Berlin, censors developed annual plans for literature in negotiation with high party officials and prominent writers. A system so pervasive that it lodged inside the authors\u2019 heads as self-censorship, it left visible scars in the nation\u2019s literature.</p><p>By rooting censorship in the particulars of history, Darnton's revealing study enables us to think more clearly about efforts to control expression past and present.</p></div>", "publisher": "W. W. Norton", "authors": ["Robert Darnton"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Censors at Work_ How States Shaped Literat - Robert Darnton.epub", "dir_path": "Robert Darnton/Censors at Work_ How States Shaped Literature (108)/", "size": 793902}], "cover_url": "Robert Darnton/Censors at Work_ How States Shaped Literature (108)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780393242300"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00J8R3ENG"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "dw90AwAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "23216108"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0393242293"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "8606cb1a-af0d-4af1-be27-b437c6e034a2": {"title": "A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy", "title_sort": "Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy, A", "pubdate": "2009-10-25 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "8606cb1a-af0d-4af1-be27-b437c6e034a2", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most historians have been willing to recognize. In <em>A Revolution of the Mind</em>, Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, traces the philosophical roots of these ideas to what were the least respectable strata of Enlightenment thought--what he calls the Radical Enlightenment.</p><p>Originating as a clandestine movement of ideas that was almost entirely hidden from public view during its earliest phase, the Radical Enlightenment matured in opposition to the moderate mainstream Enlightenment dominant in Europe and America in the eighteenth century. During the revolutionary decades of the 1770s, 1780s, and 1790s, the Radical Enlightenment burst into the open, only to provoke a long and bitter backlash. <em>A Revolution of the Mind</em> shows that this vigorous opposition was mainly due to the powerful impulses in society to defend the principles of monarchy, aristocracy, empire, and racial hierarchy--principles linked to the upholding of censorship, church authority, social inequality, racial segregation, religious discrimination, and far-reaching privilege for ruling groups.</p><p>In telling this fascinating history, <em>A Revolution of the Mind</em> reveals the surprising origin of our most cherished values--and helps explain why in certain circles they are frequently disapproved of and attacked even today.</p></div>", "publisher": "Princeton University", "authors": ["Jonathan Israel"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "A Revolution of the Mind_ Radical Enlighte - Jonathan Israel.pdf", "dir_path": "Jonathan Israel/A Revolution of the Mind_ Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democrac (109)/", "size": 889785}], "cover_url": "Jonathan Israel/A Revolution of the Mind_ Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democrac (109)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780691142005"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "7140093"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "I86LmAEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0691142009"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "48d10215-8f6d-4e4a-bba7-4db535158aee": {"title": "Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752", "title_sort": "Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752", "pubdate": "2006-10-11 21:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "48d10215-8f6d-4e4a-bba7-4db535158aee", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling <em>Radical Enlightenment</em> , and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought.   </p><p>Israel traces many of the core principles of Western modernity to their roots in the social, political, and philosophical ferment of this period: the primacy of reason, democracy, racial equality, feminism, religious toleration, sexual emancipation, and freedom of expression. He emphasizes the dual character of the Enlightenment, and the bitter struggle between on the one hand a generally dominant, anti-democratic mainstream, supporting the monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical authority, and on the other a largely repressed democratic, republican, and \"materialist\" radical fringe. He also contends that the supposedly separate French, British, German, Dutch, and Italian enlightenments interacted to such a degree that their study in isolation gives a hopelessly distorted picture.  </p><p>A work of dazzling and highly accessible scholarship, <em>Enlightenment Contested</em> will be the definitive reference point for historians, philosophers, and anyone engaged with this fascinating period of human development.</p></div>", "publisher": "Oxford University", "authors": ["Jonathan Israel"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Enlightenment Contested_ Philosophy, Moder - Jonathan Israel.pdf", "dir_path": "Jonathan Israel/Enlightenment Contested_ Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 (110)/", "size": 5811938}], "cover_url": "Jonathan Israel/Enlightenment Contested_ Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 (110)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "7qAeKpIIxCsC"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0199541523"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780199541522"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "6078002"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "a92343e7-69ed-4788-9d5e-0439da7a8b43": {"title": "Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790", "title_sort": "Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790", "pubdate": "2011-08-10 21:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "a92343e7-69ed-4788-9d5e-0439da7a8b43", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>That the Enlightenment shaped modernity is uncontested. Yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the process of ideas from the political and social turmoil of the late eighteenth century to the present day. This is precisely what Jonathan Israel now does.   </p><p>In <em>Democratic Enlightenment</em>, Israel demonstrates that the Enlightenment was an essentially revolutionary process, driven by philosophical debate. The American Revolution and its concerns certainly acted as a major factor in the intellectual ferment that shaped the wider upheaval that followed, but the radical <em>philosophes</em> were no less critical than enthusiastic about the American model. From 1789, the General Revolution's impetus came from a small group of <em>philosophe-revolutionnaires</em>, men such as Mirabeau, Sieyes, Condorcet, Volney, Roederer, and Brissot. Not aligned to any of the social groups represented in the French National assembly, they nonetheless forged \"<em>la philosophie moderne</em>\"--in effect Radical Enlightenment ideas--into a world-transforming ideology that had a lasting impact in Latin America, Canada and eastern Europe as well as France, Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries. In addition, Israel argues that while all French revolutionary journals powerfully affirmed that <em>la philosophie moderne</em> was the main cause of the French Revolution, the main stream of historical thought has failed to grasp what this implies. Israel sets the record straight, demonstrating the true nature of the engine that drove the Revolution, and the intimate links between the radical wing of the Enlightenment and the anti-Robespierriste \"Revolution of reason.\"   </p><p>Acclaim for earlier volumes in the trilogy:  </p><p>\"His vast--and vastly impressive--book sets out to redefine the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. Magnificent and magisterialwill undoubtedly be one of the truly great historical works of the decade.\" -- <em>Sunday Telegraph</em>  </p><p>\"The scholarship is breathtaking. Israel has read everything, absorbed every nuance, followed up every byway.\" -- *New Statesman *  </p><p>\"An enormously impressive piece of scholarship. The breadth and depth of the author's reading are breathtaking and <em>Enlightenment Contested</em> is set to become the definitive work for philosophers as well as historians on this extraordinary period.\" -- <em>Tribune</em></p></div>", "publisher": "Oxford University", "authors": ["Jonathan Israel"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Democratic Enlightenment_ Philosophy, Revo - Jonathan Israel.pdf", "dir_path": "Jonathan Israel/Democratic Enlightenment_ Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790 (111)/", "size": 4860976}], "cover_url": "Jonathan Israel/Democratic Enlightenment_ Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790 (111)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "6NE8gZ2FIU0C"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780199548200"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "12352199"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0199668094"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "116c410e-1786-4b0b-8691-728fb434952f": {"title": "The Concept of World From Kant to Derrida", "title_sort": "Concept of World From Kant to Derrida, The", "pubdate": "2013-09-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:10.258560+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "116c410e-1786-4b0b-8691-728fb434952f", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>In the mid-eighteenth century metaphysics was broadly understood as the study of three areas of philosophical thought: theology, psychology and cosmology. This book examines the fortunes of the third of these formidable metaphysical concepts, the world.  </p><p>Sean Gaston provides a clear and concise account of the concept of world from the mid-eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, exploring its possibilities and limitations and engaging with current issues in politics and ecology. He focuses on the work of five principal thinkers: Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger and Derrida, all of whom attempt to establish new grounds for seeing the world as a whole. Gaston presents a critique of the self-evident use of the concept of world in philosophy and asks whether one can move beyond the need for a world-like vantage point to maintain a concept of world. From Kant to the present day this concept has been a problem for philosophy and it remains to be seen if we need a new Copernican revolution when it comes to the concept of world.</p></div>", "publisher": "Rowman & Littlefield", "authors": ["Sean Gaston"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Concept of World From Kant to Derrida - Sean Gaston.epub", "dir_path": "Sean Gaston/The Concept of World From Kant to Derrida (112)/", "size": 335981}], "cover_url": "Sean Gaston/The Concept of World From Kant to Derrida (112)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781783480012"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00IXL3U8W"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "17921994"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "Skx-nAEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1783480017"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "0e4f6ac0-5ef1-4a34-9793-8656b997bdfe": {"title": "What Is Documentation?: English Translation of the Classic French Text", "title_sort": "What Is Documentation?: English Translation of the Classic French Text", "pubdate": "2005-12-31 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "0e4f6ac0-5ef1-4a34-9793-8656b997bdfe", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Born in Paris in 1894, Suzanne Briet was active nationally and internationally in the development of what was then known as Documentation but would now be called Information Management or Information Science. In 1931, she participated in founding the Union Fran\u00e7aise des Organismes de Documentation (UFOD), the French analogue of the American Documentation Institute now called the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She was a leader in developing professional education for this new specialty and designed a plan for what would have been the first school of Documentation / Information Science worldwide, had it been established. In 1951, when a school of information science was finally established, Briet was the founding Director of Studies. She became Vice President of the International Federation for Documentation (FID) and acquired the nickname \"Madame Documentation.\"  </p><p><em>What is Documentation? * relates this fascinating story and includes the first English translation of Briet's remarkable manifesto on the nature of documentation, </em>Qu'est-ce que la documentation? * (Paris: EDIT, 1951). A pamphlet of 48 pages, Part I sought to push the boundaries of the field beyond texts to include any material form of evidence (\"Is a living animal a document? \" she asked). Part II argued that a new and distinct profession was emerging. Part III urged the societal need for new and active documentary services.   </p><p>This tract remains significant due to its continuing relevance towards understanding the nature, scope, and societal impacts of documents and documentation. Briet's modernist perspective, combined with semiotics, deserves attention now because it offers a sturdy and insightful alternative to the scientific, positivist view that has so dominated information science and which is increasingly questioned.</p></div>", "publisher": "Scarecrow Press", "authors": ["Suzanne Briet"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "What Is Documentation__ English Translatio - Suzanne Briet.pdf", "dir_path": "Suzanne Briet/What Is Documentation__ English Translation of the Classic French Text (113)/", "size": 2135404}], "cover_url": "Suzanne Briet/What Is Documentation__ English Translation of the Classic French Text (113)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0810851091"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "2253074"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "2yMQZJWeL2IC"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780810851092"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "97faf028-d521-4898-a281-46594ccbd110": {"title": "Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents", "title_sort": "Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents", "pubdate": "2014-03-27 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:10.258560+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "97faf028-d521-4898-a281-46594ccbd110", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p><em>Paper Knowledge</em> is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today, Lisa Gitelman thinks across the media that the document form has come to inhabit over the last 150 years, including letterpress printing, typing and carbon paper, mimeograph, microfilm, offset printing, photocopying, and scanning. Whether examining late nineteenth century commercial, or \"job\" printing, or the Xerox machine and the role of reproduction in our understanding of the document, Gitelman reveals a keen eye for vernacular uses of technology. She tells nuanced, anecdote-filled stories of the waning of old technologies and the emergence of new. Along the way, she discusses documentary matters such as the relation between twentieth-century technological innovation and the management of paper, and the interdependence of computer programming and documentation. <em>Paper Knowledge</em> is destined to set a new agenda for media studies.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"Lisa Gitelman's virtuosic excavation of media from the recent past replaces lofty generalizations about 'print culture' with a fine-grained sense of different technological and intellectual moments. Her historical narrative has something to teach not just about the past but also about the future, because her reconstructions of 'job' printing, microfilm, photocopying, and the PDF add up to a prehistory of what we now call the digital humanities, one that challenges not just received wisdom about the past but the media theory that underpins scholars' present-day practices.\"</p><p>(Leah Price, author of <em>How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain</em>)  </p><p>\u201cGitelman practices a kind of conceptual archeology without obeisance to the master, in an argument that stands well on its own. . . . By the time you reach the book's final chapter, on the rise of PDF, the relationship between the history of ground-level print culture and that of its Ivory Tower analog seem linked in so many suggestive ways that the advent of digital culture seems like just one part of an intricate pattern.\u201d</p><p>(Scott McLemee <strong>Inside Higher Ed</strong>)  </p><p>\u201cFour intriguing essays make up this tantalising and ambitious short book. . . . The strength of this bold volume is in its argument that we can learn a great deal if we focus, not only on what information they contain but what institutional and social function they serve; not what they\u2019re about but what they do.\u201d</p><p>(Colin Higgins <strong>Times Higher Education</strong>)  </p><p>\"In this thoroughly media archaeological book, Lisa Gitelman folds media history and discovers its edges by diving deep into the flatland of documents, reading technologies of duplication and dissemination from nineteenth-century 'job' printing to today's PDF. With implications for archival and information science, comparative media, digital humanities, and the history (and future) of texts, <em>Paper Knowledge</em> will be read, referenced, and reproduced\u2014which is exactly what we want our documents to do.\"</p><p>(Matthew Kirschenbaum, author of <em>Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination</em>)  </p><p>\"In all cases, Gitelman offers a meticulous reconstruction of the historical context of the media changes she foregrounds and in many regards this book is a real <em>Wunderkammer</em>. At the same time, however, the author always scrutinizes the past in order to show what it can mean for us today, and here the political dimension of the book comes to the fore. For <em>Paper Knowledge</em> is also a passionate discussion of what knowing and showing are about, namely the possibility to producing, sharing, debating knowledge in a society to opens this knowledge to all of its members and whose structure, thanks to technology, is no longer determined by those who know and show and those who don't.\"</p><p>(Jan Baetens <strong>Leonardo Reviews</strong>)  </p><p>\"A well-rounded exploration of publishing technology and how it transforms every aspect of our lives, from the way we are governed to the way we read books and news.\"</p><p>(Alexander von L'nen <strong>Somatosphere</strong>) </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Lisa Gitelman is Professor of English and of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the author of <em>Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture</em> and <em>Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era</em> and the editor of <em>\"Raw Data\" Is an Oxymoron</em> and <em>New Media, 1740\u20131915</em>.</p></div>", "publisher": "Duke University", "authors": ["Lisa Gitelman"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Paper Knowledge_ Toward a Media History of - Lisa Gitelman.pdf", "dir_path": "Lisa Gitelman/Paper Knowledge_ Toward a Media History of Documents (114)/", "size": 1350400}], "cover_url": "Lisa Gitelman/Paper Knowledge_ Toward a Media History of Documents (114)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "18492144"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780822356455"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "dXUlnwEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0822356570"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Sign, Storage, Transmission"}, "01df6af5-31a5-44a6-8170-65d190205bff": {"title": "The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future", "title_sort": "Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future, The", "pubdate": "2009-07-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "01df6af5-31a5-44a6-8170-65d190205bff", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Already, more books have been scanned and digitized than were housed in the great library in Alexandria. Is the printed book resilient enough to survive the digital revolution, or will it become obsolete? In this lasting collection of essays, Robert Darnton\u2014an intellectual pioneer in the field of this history of the book\u2014lends unique authority to the life, role, and legacy of the book in society.</p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Is the age of the printed book coming to an end? If history is any guide, notes Harvard University Library director Darnton, not any time soon. In this collection of previously published essays, an unashamed apology for the printed word, Darnton, an eloquent writer and one of the world's foremost historians of the book, offers a fascinating history of our literary past and a penetrating look at the disruptive forces shaping the future of publishing. Almost no topic is untouched, from the role of libraries to metadata, the print traditions of Europe, piracy old and new, Darnton's own forays into digital initiatives and the efficacy\u2014even the beauty\u2014of our changing literary landscape over centuries of development. This book clearly has a main character, however\u2014Google. The search giant appears often. While the individual essays are brief, in sum, the book offers a deep dive into the evolution of the written and published word. Darnton offers little cover from the winds of change, but for book lovers and publishing professionals he offers the comfort that comes from understanding the past, and hope, as he places the Internet among a litany of disruptive innovations the book has survived. <em>(Oct. 27)</em> <br>Copyright \u00a9 Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p><strong><em>Booklist</em></strong><br>\u201cHistorian and library director Darnton has written expansively and lucidly on the history of books and libraries. This collection of his influential essays from the past decade neatly encapsulates one significant part of his immense legacy and contribution to intellectual history. \u2026Every one of Darnton\u2019s essays reflects both his erudition and his good humor\u201d  </p><p><strong><em>BookPage</em></strong><br>\u201cThe stimulating and thought-provoking essays in <em>The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future</em> provide us with an excellent overview of where we have been and where we are likely to be headed.\u201d  </p><p><strong><em>Shelf Awareness</em></strong><br>\u201cIn this collection of well-informed essays, Robert Darnton, historian and director of the Harvard University Library, offers a decidedly open-minded perspective on some of the technological changes affecting the world of books and leads an insightful and learned discussion of topics that will appeal to more traditional bibliophiles.\u201d  </p><p><strong><em>The New Republic</em></strong><br>\u201cDarnton\u2019s volume is an informed and realistic guide to life in the first age of digital media. It argues convincingly that digitalization will create\u2014is already creating\u2014a new kind of enlightenment, if not a new Enlightenment\u2026It seems entirely possible that Darnton will show scholars how we can make the digital world our servant, instead of accepting it as our master, and use it not to undermine but to complement the old powers of narrative and argument.\u201d  </p><p><strong><em>Bookpage</em></strong><br>\u201cDarnton knows this territory as well as anyone and views the subject from a unique perspective\u2026Darnton\u2019s thoughtful and incisive essays on this important topic should be of interest to a wide range of book lovers.\u201d  </p><p><strong><em>The Scotsman</em></strong><br>\u201cDarnton\u2019s book ticks all the boxes. It looks nice. It smells nice. Its content is intelligent and forms a valuable primer to an increasingly important debate.\u201d  </p><p><strong><em>Times Higher Education Supplement</em></strong><br>\u201c(an) important and highly readable book.\u201d  </p><p><strong><em>Bookpage</em></strong><br>\u201cDarnton knows this territory as well as anyone and views the subject from a unique perspective\u2026Darnton\u2019s thoughtful and incisive essays on this important topic should be of interest to a wide range of book lovers.\u201d  </p><p><strong><em>School Library Journal</em></strong><br>\u201c<em>The Case for Books</em> breaks through the babble about books and offers concerned and curious librarians an intelligent and balanced response to the anti-Google claque while assuring readers that, to paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of the death of the book are greatly exaggerated.\u201d  </p><p><strong><em>The Nation</em></strong><br>\u201cA worthy guide to the tremors created by the Kindle and electronic reading\u201d</p></div>", "publisher": "PublicAffairs", "authors": ["Robert Darnton"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Case for Books_ Past, Present, and Fut - Robert Darnton.epub", "dir_path": "Robert Darnton/The Case for Books_ Past, Present, and Future (115)/", "size": 307030}], "cover_url": "Robert Darnton/The Case for Books_ Past, Present, and Future (115)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B002T5TLO0"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "158648902X"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "60eLZTNfi1kC"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B002T5TLO0"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "7852792"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "0bfc8b20-062c-4696-ad93-97a881ad8806": {"title": "Long Overdue Library Book: Stories Librarians Tell One Another", "title_sort": "Long Overdue Library Book: Stories Librarians Tell One Another", "pubdate": "2013-07-29 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "0bfc8b20-062c-4696-ad93-97a881ad8806", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>The Cake Pan Library Running a bookmobile in South Korea Peyton Place and Mom Blessing of the animals Earthquake These stories and more can be found in this lively collection of \"stories librarians tell each other\". The co-authors have gathered vignettes of different kinds of library service -- their own and colleagues from past decades and present them to you for your entertainment. Funny, sad, or a little strange and quirky, the one thing that all of the stories have in common is that each one involves a library or a librarian. You will also find photo-sketches of libraries from all over. You just might see your local library between these covers. You might also recognize yourself as the subject of one or more of the stories. But not to worry: no actual names of characters were used, so your secret is safe. Please enjoy this book and share it with others. The proceeds from sales will be distributed by the authors to deserving libraries to further their mission of public literacy.</p>", "publisher": "CreateSpace", "authors": ["Sandy M Bradley", "Elsa Pendleton"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Long Overdue Library Book_ Stories Librari - Sandy M Bradley.epub", "dir_path": "Sandy M Bradley/Long Overdue Library Book_ Stories Librarians Tell One Another (116)/", "size": 3280151}], "cover_url": "Sandy M Bradley/Long Overdue Library Book_ Stories Librarians Tell One Another (116)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1490572430"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "GLQgnwEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "18673923"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781490572437"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00GOG9JEW"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "64f23602-48fb-4ffb-b71a-84d1c288b4d2": {"title": "The Story of Libraries, Second Edition: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age", "title_sort": "Story of Libraries, Second Edition: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age, The", "pubdate": "2009-12-23 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "64f23602-48fb-4ffb-b71a-84d1c288b4d2", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>This work describes the crucial role libraries played in ancient Egypt, Han-dynasty China, the ancient Western Classical world (the great library of Alexandria, which was lost to us in stages over many years), the Baghdad of Harun-al-Rashid, and medieval and Renaissance Europe. It continues with the libraries of colonial America, the Library of Congress, university libraries, and today's large public library system. </p><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Libraries are significant on many levels. Their existence shows the depth and history of a people, culture, and nation, while their inclusiveness highlights the level of democracy that exists there. Fred Lerner's overview of the history of libraries sheds light on an invaluable part of human life often taken for granted: </p><blockquote><p>Though writing may have been invented to record land ownership and keep track of debts, it was not long before poets, priests, and prophets found other uses for it. My aim ... is to trace the evolution of libraries and to explore the role they played in society, from the invention of writing to our own day and beyond.</p></blockquote><p>He considers the Afro-Asian origins of the earliest libraries in Mesopotamia and in ancient Egypt, leading up to the glory of the Alexandria library. The book moves on, through classical Greece and the medieval institutions of Europe's Dark Ages to the Renaissance, in which Europeans benefited greatly from the collected scholarship of Islamic and Asian civilizations. Modern libraries like the United States Library of Congress, the British Library, and France's Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale are also examined, as well as the technological advances of the computer and the Internet, which will undoubtedly transform and expand the function of the library in the 21st century and beyond. <em>-- Eugene Holley Jr.</em></p><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>This is a popular history of libraries and librarianship from ancient times to the present. The author, a librarian who has previously written about science fiction, also includes some cautionary reflections on the future of libraries and digital technology. While similar to Michael H. Harris's History of Libraries in the Western World (Professional Reading, LJ 8/95), his book is not limited to the West. The fourth chapter surveys the history of writing, printing, and libraries in China, India, Korea, and Japan until the 18th or 19th century. In order to broaden his scope and keep the book relatively brief, however, Lerner provides less detail on such topics as the development of university libraries in Europe and North America. Both books have extensive bibliographies, but Harris incorporates more on the new history of the book. Less like a textbook, Lerner's work may appeal more to the general reader.?Thomas F. O'Connor, Manhattan Coll. Libs., New York<br>Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p></div>", "publisher": "Bloomsbury", "authors": ["Fred Lerner"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Story of Libraries, Second Edition_ Fr - Fred Lerner.pdf", "dir_path": "Fred Lerner/The Story of Libraries, Second Edition_ From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age (117)/", "size": 28478280}], "cover_url": "Fred Lerner/The Story of Libraries, Second Edition_ From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age (117)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0826429904"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "7624083"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780826429902"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "ULllKmxQc7EC"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "8dc7b8f1-db82-483d-8802-a74575dcfafe": {"title": "Radical Tactics of the Offline Library", "title_sort": "Radical Tactics of the Offline Library", "pubdate": "2014-06-12 15:55:38+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "8dc7b8f1-db82-483d-8802-a74575dcfafe", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">In Radical Tactics of the Offline Library Henry Warwick describes the future of the library as digital and offline. He observes the history of ancient libraries as copying centers and Sneakernet, and the function of Personal Portable Libraries in sharing knowledge and resisting proprietarian forces. In its most simple form it\u2019s a hard drive or USB stick containing a large collection of e-books, curated, archived, and indexed by an individual user. While P2P sharing sites and online libraries with downloadable e-books are precarious, a workaround is needed: abandoning the online for more secure offline transfer.</p>", "publisher": "Institute of Network Cultures", "authors": ["Henry Warwick"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Radical Tactics of the Offline Library - Henry Warwick.epub", "dir_path": "Henry Warwick/Radical Tactics of the Offline Library (118)/", "size": 2771672}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Radical Tactics of the Offline Library - Henry Warwick.pdf", "dir_path": "Henry Warwick/Radical Tactics of the Offline Library (118)/", "size": 855169}], "cover_url": "Henry Warwick/Radical Tactics of the Offline Library (118)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "22708422"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9789082234503"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "a0ac6e4e-bcb5-489f-a32f-861f069558e2": {"title": "The Public Library: A Photographic Essay", "title_sort": "Public Library: A Photographic Essay, The", "pubdate": "2014-04-07 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "a0ac6e4e-bcb5-489f-a32f-861f069558e2", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of newly discovered books. Today, the more than 17,000 libraries in America also function as de facto community centers offering free access to the internet, job-hunting assistance, or a warm place to take shelter. And yet, across the country, cities large and small are closing public libraries or curtailing their hours of operation. Over the last eighteen years, photographer Robert Dawson has crisscrossed the country documenting hundreds of these endangered institutions. <em>The Public Library</em> presents a wide selection of Dawson's photographs\u2014 from the majestic reading room at the New York Public Library to Allensworth, California's one-room Tulare County Free Library built by former slaves. Accompanying Dawson's revealing photographs are essays, letters, and poetry by some of America's most celebrated writers. A foreword by Bill Moyers and an afterword by Ann Patchett bookend this important survey of a treasured American institution.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"A book for anyone with a deep and abiding love of libraries. Dawson's latest project is a powerful argument for the continued relevance of our public libraries as information and community centers, even as libraries adapt to changing technological and budgetary landscapes.\" - Library Journal  </p><p>\"This collection of photographs and texts of and about libraries--grand or dead, faded or sumptuous--make up a narrative that combines the public sphere with private memory. Robert Dawson's work is an irrefutable argument for the preservation of public libraries. His book is profound and heartbreakingly beautiful.\" -- Toni Morrison  </p><p>\"This beautifully crafted book celebrates public libraries across the U.S. in both color and black and white images captured by photographer Dawson over an 18-year period. Artfully arranged in such chapters as 'Civic Memory and Identity' and 'Literature and Learning,' the book includes a foreword by Bill Moyers and an afterword by Ann Patchett.. Dawson goes beyond the physical structures and touches on how viscerally and nostalgically Americans feel about public libraries, and suggests that, as a culture, we depend on them more than we know.\" - Publishers Weekly  </p><p>\"The Public Library is absolutely wonderful in its entirety, at once an ode to the glory of our most democratic institutions and a culturally necessary prompt to defend them like we would defend our freedom to live, learn, and be-a freedom to which the library is our highest celebration.\" - Brain Pickings  </p><p>\"For book lovers, library denizens, and fans of architecture or Americana, The Public Library is a delight.\" - The Christian Science Monitor  </p><p>\"Dawson's project makes a powerful case for how public libraries serve communities in every corner of the country.\" - The New Yorker's Page Turner blog </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Robert Dawson's photographs have been recognized by a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. He is an instructor of photography at San Jose State University and Stanford University. </p></div>", "publisher": "Princeton University", "authors": ["Robert Dawson", "Ann Patchett", "Bill Moyers"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Public Library_ A Photographic Essay - Robert Dawson.epub", "dir_path": "Robert Dawson/The Public Library_ A Photographic Essay (119)/", "size": 14125434}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Public Library_ A Photographic Essay - Robert Dawson.pdf", "dir_path": "Robert Dawson/The Public Library_ A Photographic Essay (119)/", "size": 12951974}], "cover_url": "Robert Dawson/The Public Library_ A Photographic Essay (119)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781616892173"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "18296228"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00KDTVCQE"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "161689217X"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "25b29cb7-d86a-4415-a210-dfa7f474576d": {"title": "A4 and before: Towards a long history of paper sizes", "title_sort": "A4 and before: Towards a long history of paper sizes", "pubdate": "2009-06-18 09:47:26+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "25b29cb7-d86a-4415-a210-dfa7f474576d", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "", "authors": ["Robin Kinross"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "A4 and before_ Towards a long history of p - Robin Kinross.pdf", "dir_path": "Robin Kinross/A4 and before_ Towards a long history of paper sizes (120)/", "size": 924785}], "cover_url": "Robin Kinross/A4 and before_ Towards a long history of paper sizes (120)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "2d2d1b05-3588-41cf-b5c7-8b723ef36ff8": {"title": "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change", "title_sort": "Printing Press as an Agent of Change, The", "pubdate": "1980-09-29 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "2d2d1b05-3588-41cf-b5c7-8b723ef36ff8", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Originally published in two volumes in 1980, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is now issued in a paperback edition containing both volumes. The work is a full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change. Professor Eisenstein begins by examining the general implications of the shift from script to print, and goes on to examine its part in three of the major movements of early modern times - the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>'For fifteen years we have been waiting for a deep level-headed examination of the ways in which print transformed Europe. Elizabeth Eisenstein has written that book ... Eisenstein has an intimate familiarity with the great narrative of modern history since the 15th century. She boasts an unsurpassed feeling for the strengths and weaknesses of the ways in which historians have explained great changes. No mania to find laws or principles of universal validity drives her. She is not afraid of detail. Her eye for the telling oddity, the crucial contradiction, in enviable.' Commonweal  </p><p>'This is a good and important book ... the author's clear and forceful style makes it a pleasure to read ... Eisenstein is particularly illuminating and discriminating on the part played by the great sixteenth-century scholar-printers, such as the Estiennes, Oporinus, Plantin, in the emergence of ideals of religious tolerance and intellectual brotherhood ... She does give us a remarkably complete and highly critical survey of modern historical writing on humanism, the Reformation and science up to the eighteenth century.' The New York Review of Books  </p><p>'Her two volumes represent an extensive survey of the recent literature on the three intellectual and social movements of the period 1400-1700: the Italian Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. Ms. Eisenstein examines the major hypotheses as to their causes and progress, and reassesses them in terms of the impact of printing and its products.' The New Republic </p><h3>Book Description</h3><p>The first fully-documented historical analysis of the impact of the invention of printing upon European culture, and its importance as an agent of religious, political, social, scientific, and intellectual change. </p></div>", "publisher": "Cambridge University", "authors": ["Elizabeth L. Eisenstein"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change - Elizabeth L. Eisenstein.pdf", "dir_path": "Elizabeth L. Eisenstein/The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (121)/", "size": 17030260}], "cover_url": "Elizabeth L. Eisenstein/The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (121)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "WUVdAAAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "286525"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780521299558"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0521299551"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "e75e2f3c-15f9-4f7a-9acf-4d48185e2b48": {"title": "Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age", "title_sort": "Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age", "pubdate": "2014-03-25 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e75e2f3c-15f9-4f7a-9acf-4d48185e2b48", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>The dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history. From the archives of ancient Sumeria and the Library of Alexandria to the Library of Congress and Wikipedia, humanity has wrestled with the problem of harnessing its intellectual output. The timeless quest for wisdom has been as much about information storage and retrieval as creative genius.  </p><p>In <em>Cataloging the World</em>, Alex Wright introduces us to a figure who stands out in the long line of thinkers and idealists who devoted themselves to the task. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Paul Otlet, a librarian by training, worked at expanding the potential of the catalog card, the world's first information chip. From there followed universal libraries and museums, connecting his native Belgium to the world by means of a vast intellectual enterprise that attempted to organize and code everything ever published. Forty years before the first personal computer and fifty years before the first browser, Otlet envisioned a network of \"electric telescopes\" that would allow people everywhere to search through books, newspapers, photographs, and recordings, all linked together in what he termed, in 1934, a r\u00e9seau mondial--essentially, a worldwide web.  </p><p>Otlet's life achievement was the construction of the Mundaneum--a mechanical collective brain that would house and disseminate everything ever committed to paper. Filled with analog machines such as telegraphs and sorters, the Mundaneum--what some have called a \"Steampunk version of hypertext\"--was the embodiment of Otlet's ambitions. It was also short-lived. By the time the Nazis, who were pilfering libraries across Europe to collect information they thought useful, carted away Otlet's collection in 1940, the dream had ended. Broken, Otlet died in 1944.  </p><p>Wright's engaging intellectual history gives Otlet his due, restoring him to his proper place in the long continuum of visionaries and pioneers who have struggled to classify knowledge, from H.G. Wells and Melvil Dewey to Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson, Tim Berners-Lee, and Steve Jobs. Wright shows that in the years since Otlet's death the world has witnessed the emergence of a global network that has proved him right about the possibilities--and the perils--of networked information, and his legacy persists in our digital world today, captured for all time.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"The story of Paul Otlet (1868-1944), Belgian librarian and utopian visionary, who, long before the digital age, dreamed of a worldwide repository of media, accessible to all. As Wright explains in this shrewd, brisk biography, cataloging books was only one of Otlet's aims--he 'saw little distinction between creating a new classification of human knowledge and reorienting the world's political system.'... Wright ends his illuminating story in the present, where Otlet's thoughts about the connection of information to knowledge, and knowledge to insight, are still urgent.\" --<em>Kirkus</em> <em>Reviews</em></p><p>\"Alex Wright has placed Paul Otlet's life and work in up-to-this-minute context to bring us the illuminating biography of a pioneering information activist whose grand vision of a world of universal knowledge, freely available to all, is here to remind us that we would be foolish to settle for anything less.\" --George Dyson, author of <em>Turing's Cathedral</em></p><p>\"This wonderful, carefully researched, and well-written book draws us into the question: to what extent does the ambitious work of Paul Otlet make him the prophetic analog father of the Internet? Alex Wright is careful not to overstate the significance of Otlet. But the ambiguity of Otlet's influence, not to mention his long and eventful life and passionate dreams of world peace, in fact makes him more, not less, interesting.\" --Charles B. Strozier, Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center at The City University of New York, and author of <em>Heinz Kohut: The Making</em> <em>of a Psychoanalyst</em></p><p>\"Alex Wright's beautifully written book illuminates the life and work of Paul Otlet, one of a group of information theorists and utopians whose achievements during the early part of the last century prefigure the digital world, and whose innovation underpin the 'information society' in which we live. <em>Cataloging the World</em> is a lively, sympathetic but rigorous exploration of the ways in which what might seem merely of historical interest proves of immediate and engrossing relevance.\" --W. Boyd Rayward, University of Illinois and University of New South Wales</p><p>\"With profound insight, Alex Wright reveals that within the labyrinth of Paul Otlet's Mundaneum lies hidden an anticipation of the hyperlinked structure of today's Web. This is not only a captivating biography of Otlet's prophetic vision of a global networked information system but a vivid account of how similar systems took shape in the minds of Conrad Gessner, Leibniz, Vannevar Bush, Tim Berners-Lee, and many others.\" --Wouter Van Acker, Griffith University</p><p>\"Finally a historical study of the Information Age not starting with Vannevar Bush. Alex Wright's balanced study of Paul Otlet's dream to catalogue the world as one of the many successive projects of unifying knowledge on a global level is a joy to read after the autohagiographies of engineers that claimed their share in the 'invention' of the Internet and World Wide Web in purely computer-and-information-technical terms.\" --Dr. Charles van den Heuvel, University of Amsterdam</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Alex Wright</strong> is a professor of interaction design at the School of Visual Arts and a regular contributor to <em>The New York Times</em>. He is the author of <em>Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages</em>.  </p></div>", "publisher": "Oxford University", "authors": ["Alex Wright"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Cataloging the World_ Paul Otlet and the B - Alex Wright.pdf", "dir_path": "Alex Wright/Cataloging the World_ Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age (122)/", "size": 13198198}], "cover_url": "Alex Wright/Cataloging the World_ Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age (122)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0199931410"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "d84sAwAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780199931422"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "23029753"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "64c9d909-1642-4ac9-944d-e0095ade33d6": {"title": "The Universe of Information : The Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organisation", "title_sort": "Universe of Information : The Work of Paul Otlet for Documentation and International Organisation, The", "pubdate": "1975-05-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "64c9d909-1642-4ac9-944d-e0095ade33d6", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>A biographical study of the life and work of Paul Otlet (1868-1944) focusing on his work for documentation and the creation of a range of international organizations.<div><br></div><div>from\u00a0<a href=\"http://lis.sagepub.com.sci-hub.org/content/8/4/292\">http://lis.sagepub.com.sci-hub.org/content/8/4/292</a>:\u00a0\n</div><div><br></div><div>\"The author, basing himself on the voluminous documentation of the Otlet archives in Brussels and discussions with former assistants, like Georges Lorphevre, has built up in broad chronological order a biography of the first Utopian inter- nationalist of our times, covering more than 50 significant years. But Otlet was a very unique Utopian-he managed to achieve much in this fickle field but at the expense of misunderstandings, endless frustrations and enmities. He provided the ferment, the intellectual foundations and often the legal basis (statutes) for a large number of international ventures, which were either scores of years in advance of their times or formed and dragged along without the necessary support and effective management. None the less through his efforts a climate was created which kept internationalism before Governments, the academic world, the intellectuals, the librarians and documentalists.\"</div></div>", "publisher": "Published for International Federation for Documentation", "authors": ["W. Boyd Rayward"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Universe of Information _ The Work of - W. Boyd Rayward.pdf", "dir_path": "W. 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The conference papers explored the history and heritage of the nature, development, and influence of all types of science information systems world-wide. It was co-sponsored by ASIS, the ASIS SIG History and Foundations of Information Science (IG/HFIS), and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, This was the first conference to explore this topic, and this volume will be of great interest to both historians and current practitioners.</p>", "publisher": "Information Today", "authors": ["Mary Ellen Bowden", "Robert Virgil Williams"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on the - Mary Ellen Bowden.pdf", "dir_path": "Mary Ellen Bowden/Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems (124)/", "size": 4790399}], "cover_url": "Mary Ellen Bowden/Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems (124)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1573870803"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "dArhAAAAMAAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781573870801"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "407100"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "24ebb091-d15f-4a4b-8c52-b36a1a0d3483": {"title": "Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History and Cataloging", "title_sort": "Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History and Cataloging", "pubdate": "2010-04-01 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "24ebb091-d15f-4a4b-8c52-b36a1a0d3483", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>To say that graphic novels, comics, and other forms of sequential art have become a major part of popular culture and academia would be a vast understatement. Now an established component of library and archive collections across the globe, graphic novels are proving to be one of the last kinds of print publications actually gaining in popularity. Full of practical advice and innovative ideas for librarians, educators, and archivists, this book provides a wide-reaching look at how graphic novels and comics can be used to their full advantage in educational settings. Topics include the historically tenuous relationship between comics and librarians; the aesthetic value of sequential art; the use of graphic novels in library outreach services; collection evaluations for both American and Canadian libraries; cataloging tips and tricks; and the swiftly growing realm of webcomics.</p><h3>From Booklist</h3><p>Does the world really need another manifesto on graphic novels? Absolutely\u2014especially this engaging collection of essays from an array of established experts and aficionados featuring quotations, charts, graphs, statistics, insights, and thoughtful reflection. Twenty-nine very brief selections\u2014most under 10 pages\u2014address multiple aspects of this multifaceted genre, spanning basic background information, audiences, recommended titles, promotion of selections and programming, cataloging, and so on through philosophical musings on the ontology of comic-book art. Meticulously researched and referenced, this manual could easily become the standard introductory textbook for library science and university graphic-literature classes, and it will also be of interest to practicing professionals looking for collection-development and management tips. --Kathleen McBroom </p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"Rich...more data, coverage of academic libraries, and Canadian perspectives are collected here than in previous books on graphic novels in libraries...recommended for al.l\" --Library Journal  </p><p>\"Extremely well organized with rich content...excellent...highly recommended.\" --Reference &amp; User Services Quarterly  </p><p>\"Provides some scholarly analysis, making it worth considering as an introductory textbook.\" --American Libraries. </p></div>", "publisher": "McFarland", "authors": ["Robert G. Weiner"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and - Robert G. Weiner.pdf", "dir_path": "Robert G. Weiner/Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives_ Essays on Readers, Research, History and C (125)/", "size": 2685058}], "cover_url": "Robert G. Weiner/Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives_ Essays on Readers, Research, History and C (125)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "rvecmAEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "7894286"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0786443022"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780786443024"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "cc5be86a-7758-422c-acb9-f944997fd77b": {"title": "Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era", "title_sort": "Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era", "pubdate": "2013-12-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "cc5be86a-7758-422c-acb9-f944997fd77b", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>For the past few hundred years, Western cultures have relied on print. When writing was accomplished by a quill pen, inkpot, and paper, it was easy to imagine that writing was nothing more than a means by which writers could transfer their thoughts to readers. The proliferation of technical media in the latter half of the twentieth century has revealed that the relationship between writer and reader is not so simple. From telegraphs and typewriters to wire recorders and a sweeping array of digital computing devices, the complexities of communications technology have made mediality a central concern of the twenty-first century. </p><p>Despite the attention given to the development of the media landscape, relatively little is being done in our academic institutions to adjust. In <em>Comparative Textual Media</em>, editors N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman bring together an impressive range of essays from leading scholars to address the issue, among them Matthew Kirschenbaum on archiving in the digital era, Patricia Crain on the connection between a child\u2019s formation of self and the possession of a book, and Mark Marino exploring how to read a digital text not for content but for traces of its underlying code. </p><p>Primarily arguing for seeing print as a medium along with the scroll, electronic literature, and computer games, this volume examines the potential transformations if academic departments embraced a media framework. Ultimately, <em>Comparative Textual Media</em> offers new insights that allow us to understand more deeply the implications of the choices we, and our institutions, are making. </p><p>Contributors: Stephanie Boluk, Vassar College; Jessica Brantley, Yale U; Patricia Crain, NYU; Adriana de Souza e Silva, North Carolina State U; Johanna Drucker, UCLA; Thomas Fulton, Rutgers U; Lisa Gitelman, New York U; William A. Johnson, Duke U; Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, U of Maryland; Patrick LeMieux; Mark C. Marino, U of Southern California; Rita Raley, U of California, Santa Barbara; John David Zuern, U of Hawai\u2018i at M\u0101noa.****</p><hr><p>**</p><p>**</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>N. Katherine Hayles is professor of literature at Duke University. She is author of several books, including <em>How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics</em> and *Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. *  </p></div>", "publisher": "University of Minnesota", "authors": ["N. Katherine Hayles", "Jessica Pressman"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Comparative Textual Media_ Transforming th - N. Katherine Hayles.epub", "dir_path": "N. Katherine Hayles/Comparative Textual Media_ Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era (126)/", "size": 2168755}], "cover_url": "N. Katherine Hayles/Comparative Textual Media_ Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era (126)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "17802033"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00H28XHPI"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B00H28XHPI"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781452940595"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "acf5ae72-2407-40af-9b23-276ce5dd175a": {"title": "A Brief History of Curating", "title_sort": "Brief History of Curating, A", "pubdate": "2011-11-28 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "acf5ae72-2407-40af-9b23-276ce5dd175a", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>Part of JRP|Ringier's innovative <em>Documents</em> series, published with Les Presses du R\u00e9el and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the various biennales and fairs--with pioneering curators Anne D'Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten and Harald Szeemann. Speaking of Szeemann on the occasion of this legendary curator's death in 2005, critic Aaron Schuster summed up, \"the image we have of the curator today: the curator-as-artist, a roaming, freelance designer of exhibitions, or in his own witty formulation, a 'spiritual guest worker'... If artists since Marcel Duchamp have affirmed selection and arrangement as legitimate artistic strategies, was it not simply a matter of time before curatorial practice--itself defined by selection and arrangement--would come to be seen as an art that operates on the field of art itself?\" This is the ebook edition of <em>A Brief History of Curating,</em> originally published in print form in October, 2008.  </p>", "publisher": "JRP|Ringier", "authors": ["Hans Ulrich Obrist", "Walter Hopps", "Pontus Hulten"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "A Brief History of Curating - Hans Ulrich Obrist.pdf", "dir_path": "Hans Ulrich Obrist/A Brief History of Curating (127)/", "size": 1164554}], "cover_url": "Hans Ulrich Obrist/A Brief History of Curating (127)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B0067EVQ6A"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "16390114"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9783037642641"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "f964fd71-9f61-48f2-b482-fbf898db6bc3": {"title": "How the Page Matters", "title_sort": "How the Page Matters", "pubdate": "2012-11-04 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "f964fd71-9f61-48f2-b482-fbf898db6bc3", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>From handwritten texts to online books, the page has been a standard interface for transmitting knowledge for over two millennia. It is also a dynamic device, readily transformed to suit the needs of contemporary readers. In <em>How the Page Matters</em>, Bonnie Mak explores how changing technology has affected the reception of visual and written information.</p><p>Mak examines the fifteenth-century Latin text <em>Controversia de nobilitate</em> in three forms: as a manuscript, a printed work, and a digital edition. Transcending boundaries of time and language, <em>How the Page Matters</em> connects technology with tradition using innovative new media theories. While historicizing contemporary digital culture and asking how on-screen combinations of image and text affect the way conveyed information is understood, Mak's elegant analysis proves both the timeliness of studying interface design and the persistence of the page as a communication mechanism.</p></div>", "publisher": "University of Toronto", "authors": ["Bonnie Mak"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "How the Page Matters - Bonnie Mak.pdf", "dir_path": "Bonnie Mak/How the Page Matters (128)/", "size": 2646794}], "cover_url": "Bonnie Mak/How the Page Matters (128)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "barnesnoble", "code": "w/how-the-page-matters-bonnie-mak/1029299098"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "16235420"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781442615359"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Studies in Book and Print Culture"}, "0e40fcb4-2e07-46ea-89b2-2246c1a41ec0": {"title": "Digital Memory and the Archive", "title_sort": "Digital Memory and the Archive", "pubdate": "2012-12-20 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "0e40fcb4-2e07-46ea-89b2-2246c1a41ec0", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and other computer files are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for the instantaneous cataloging and preservation of data, from music, photographs, and videos to personal information gathered by social media sites.</p><p>In this digital landscape, the archival-oriented media theories of Wolfgang Ernst are particularly relevant. <em>Digital Memory and the Archive</em>, the first English-language collection of the German media theorist\u2019s work, brings together essays that present Ernst\u2019s controversial materialist approach to media theory and history. His insights are central to the emerging field of media archaeology, which uncovers the role of specific technologies and mechanisms, rather than content, in shaping contemporary culture and society.</p><p>Ernst\u2019s interrelated ideas on the archive, machine time and microtemporality, and the new regimes of memory offer a new perspective on both current digital culture and the infrastructure of media historical knowledge. For Ernst, different forms of media systems\u2014from library catalogs to sound recordings\u2014have influenced the content and understanding of the archive and other institutions of memory. At the same time, digital archiving has become a contested site that is highly resistant to curation, thus complicating the creation and preservation of cultural memory and history. *  </p><p>*</p><p>**</p></div>", "publisher": "University of Minnesota", "authors": ["Wolfgang Ernst"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Digital Memory and the Archive - Wolfgang Ernst.pdf", "dir_path": "Wolfgang Ernst/Digital Memory and the Archive (129)/", "size": 4353129}], "cover_url": "Wolfgang Ernst/Digital Memory and the Archive (129)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "barnesnoble", "code": "w/digital-memory-and-the-archive-wolfgang-ernst/1110199170"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "13795329"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780816677672"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0816677670"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "2c44bb32-25b4-4bd0-8ffe-fab7a2584f8b": {"title": "The Art of Memory", "title_sort": "Art of Memory, The", "pubdate": "1966-01-27 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "2c44bb32-25b4-4bd0-8ffe-fab7a2584f8b", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century  </p><p>In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>The ancient Greeks, to whom a trained memory was of vital importance - as it was to everyone before the invention of printing - created an elaborate memory system, based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind. Inherited and recorded by the Romans, this art of memory passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, at the Renaissance, and particularly by the strange and remarkable genius, Giordano Bruno. Such is the main theme of Frances Yates's unique and brilliant book, in the course of which she sheds light on such diverse subjects as Dante's Divine Comedy, the form of the Shakespearian theatre and the history of ancient architecture. Aside from its intrinsic fascination, The Art of Memory is an invaluable contribution to aesthetics and psychology, and to the history of philosophy, of science and of literature. </p><h3>From the Inside Flap</h3><p><em>The Art of Memory</em> is the classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page. In it, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.</p></div>", "publisher": "Ark Paperbacks", "authors": ["Frances Amelia Yates"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Art of Memory - Frances Amelia Yates.pdf", "dir_path": "Frances Amelia Yates/The Art of Memory (130)/", "size": 5907985}], "cover_url": "Frances Amelia Yates/The Art of Memory (130)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "GfpSPwAACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780226950013"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "071265545X"}, {"scheme": "barnesnoble", "code": "w/art-of-memory-frances-a-yates/1116994498"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "245831"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "1a7808c9-3293-4252-89cb-a3f2873203bc": {"title": "Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading", "title_sort": "Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading", "pubdate": "2013-08-05 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "1a7808c9-3293-4252-89cb-a3f2873203bc", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p><strong>A groundbreaking vision on the future of reading, from an early innovator on Amazon's Kindle team.</strong></p><ul><li>Is digital the death knell for print?</li><li>Or will it reinvigorate the written word? </li><li>What will happen to bookstores, book browsing, libraries, even autographs? </li><li>Will they die out\u2014or evolve into something new? </li></ul><p>In <em>Burning the Page, </em>digital pioneer Jason Merkoski charts the ebook revolution's striking impact on the ways in which we create, discover, and share ideas. From the sleek halls of Silicon Valley to the jungles of Southeast Asia, Merkoski explores how ebooks came to be and predicts innovative and interactive ways digital content will shape our lives. Throughout, you are invited to continue the conversation online and help shape this exciting new world of \"Reading 2.0.\"</p><p>For those who love books, collect books, own an e-reader, vow <em>never</em> to own one, or simply want to know where books are headed, this is a crucial guide to both the future of reading and to our digital culture as a whole.</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Jason Merkoski was a development manager, product manager, and the first technology evangelist at Amazon. He helped to invent technology used in today's eBooks and was a member of the launch team for each of the first three Kindle devices. Trained in theoretical math at MIT, he worked for almost two decades in telecommunications and e-commerce with America's biggest online retailers, and he's worked with publishers large and small to shape the future of eBooks. As a digital pioneer, he wrote and published the first online eBook in the 1990s. As a futurist, he's equally at home in Seattle or Silicon Valley, although he's drawn to the high desert of New Mexico, where he can string up his hammock and stare into the clouds and ancient petroglyphs. </p></div>", "publisher": "Sourcebooks", "authors": ["Jason Merkoski"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Burning the Page_ The eBook Revolution and - Jason Merkoski.epub", "dir_path": "Jason Merkoski/Burning the Page_ The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading (131)/", "size": 376818}], "cover_url": "Jason Merkoski/Burning the Page_ The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading (131)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781402288838"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1402288832"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00BEXP52K"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "17408411"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "a09e1315-5b7b-4355-9760-4afc195626f5": {"title": "Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World", "title_sort": "Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World", "pubdate": "2001-10-27 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "a09e1315-5b7b-4355-9760-4afc195626f5", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p class=\"description\"></p><p>Like the printing press, typewriter, and computer, paper has been a \ncrucial agent for the dissemination of information. This engaging book \npresents an important new chapter in paper\u2019s history: how its use in \nIslamic lands during the Middle Ages influenced almost every aspect of \nmedieval life. Focusing on the spread of paper from the early eighth \ncentury, when Muslims in West Asia acquired Chinese knowledge of paper \nand papermaking, to five centuries later, when they transmitted this \nknowledge to Christians in Spain and Sicily, the book reveals how paper \nutterly transformed the passing of knowledge and served as a bridge \nbetween cultures.</p> <p>Jonathan Bloom traces the earliest history of \npaper\u2014how it was invented in China over 2,000 years ago, how it entered \nthe Islamic lands of West Asia and North Africa, and how it spread to \nnorthern Europe. He explores the impact of paper on the development of \nwriting, books, mathematics, music, art, architecture, and even cooking.\n And he discusses why Europe was so quick to adopt paper from the \nIslamic lands and why the Islamic lands were so slow to accept printing \nin return. Together the beautifully written text and delightful \nillustrations (of papermaking techniques and the many uses to which \npaper was put) give new luster and importance to a now-humble material.</p></div>", "publisher": "Yale University", "authors": ["Jonathan M. Bloom"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Paper Before Print_ The History and Impact - Jonathan M. Bloom.pdf", "dir_path": "Jonathan M. Bloom/Paper Before Print_ The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World (132)/", "size": 9656755}], "cover_url": "Jonathan M. Bloom/Paper Before Print_ The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World (132)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "barnesnoble", "code": "w/paper-before-print-jonathan-m-bloom/1113006486"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "519253"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780300089554"}, {"scheme": "ozon", "code": "6197182"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "d90e4dab-8b7b-4cf1-a084-3cd46d995b27": {"title": "Copyright and Mass Digitization", "title_sort": "Copyright and Mass Digitization", "pubdate": "2013-03-20 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "d90e4dab-8b7b-4cf1-a084-3cd46d995b27", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>In an age where works are increasingly being used, not only as works in the traditional sense, but also as carriers of data from which information may be automatically extracted for various purposes, Borghi and Karapapa consider whether mass digitisation is consistent with existing copyright principles, and ultimately whether copyright protection needs to be redefined, and if so how?<br></p><p>The work considers the activities involved in the process of mass digitization identifying impediments to the increasing number of such projects such as the inapplicability of copyright exceptions, difficulties in rights clearance, and the issue of 'orphan' and out-of-print works.<br></p><p>It goes on to examine the concept of 'use' of works in light of mass digital technologies and how it impinges on copyright law and principles; for example considering whether scanning and using optical character recognition in mass digital projects qualify as transformative use, or whether text mining on digitial repositories should be a permitted activity. These issues are considered in the context of both European and US law. Consideration is also given to mass digitization in the wider context of 'law and technology', comparing mass digitization issues with those of genetic databases, online privacy and data protection.<br></p><p>Illustrating how mass digitization unveils a number of unsettled theoretical issues within copyright, the book proposes a new regulatory framework for the use of works in the context of emerging technologies, providing a new rights-based approach to dealing with copyright.</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Maurizio Borghi</strong> is senior lecturer in intellectual property law at Brunel University Law School and director of the Centre for Intellectual Property, internet and Media. Prior to joining Brunel in 2007, he has been a researcher in cultural legal studies and philosophy at Bocconi University of Milan, and a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the executive committee of ISHTIP, the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property.<br></p><p><strong>Stavroula Karapapa</strong> is senior lecturer in law at the School of Law, University of Reading and an advocate at the Athens Bar, specializing in Intellectual Property and Internet law. Her research interests focus on the intersection of law and technology with particular emphasis on copyright.<br></p></div>", "publisher": "Oxford University", "authors": ["Maurizio Borghi", "Stavroula Karapapa"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Copyright and Mass Digitization - Maurizio Borghi.epub", "dir_path": "Maurizio Borghi/Copyright and Mass Digitization (133)/", "size": 409588}], "cover_url": "Maurizio Borghi/Copyright and Mass Digitization (133)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780199664559"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0199664552"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00CJ6QP70"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "o7SAMAEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "17218853"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "8b7036df-54e9-4dbc-a300-a297696a71b9": {"title": "Illuminations", "title_sort": "Illuminations", "pubdate": "1970-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "8b7036df-54e9-4dbc-a300-a297696a71b9", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. <em>Illuminations </em>includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study \"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,\" an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history.<br></p><p>Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) rank among the most quietly influential of the post-war era, though only since his death has Benjamin achieved the fame and critical currency outside his native Germany accorded him by a select few during his lifetime. Now he is widely held to have possessed one of the most acute and original minds of the Central European culture decimated by the Nazis. Illuminations contains his two most celebrated essays, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust and an anatomy of his own obsession, book collecting. The essay is Benjamin's domain; those collected in this now legendary volume offer the best possible access to his singular and significant achievement. In a stimulating introduction, Hannah Arendt reveals how Benjamin's life and work are a prism to his times, and identifies him as possessing the rare ability to think poetically. </p><h3>Language Notes</h3><p>Text: English, German (translation) </p></div>", "publisher": "Schocken", "authors": ["Walter Benjamin"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Illuminations - Walter Benjamin.epub", "dir_path": "Walter Benjamin/Illuminations (134)/", "size": 1032236}], "cover_url": "Walter Benjamin/Illuminations (134)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0805202412"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "2725"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "AFJ7dvSdXPgC"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780805202410"}, {"scheme": "barnesnoble", "code": "w/illuminations-walter-benjamin/1100623658"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "e5430105-f62a-40d4-8f57-60cd5eeba03c": {"title": "Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, First Update Supplement", "title_sort": "Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, First Update Supplement", "pubdate": "2005-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e5430105-f62a-40d4-8f57-60cd5eeba03c", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>This reader-friendly supplement collects the latest advancements and research on new processes, developments, and technologies for the dissemination, access, and analysis of information-serving as a stand-alone source for anyone requiring an instant update on the many innovations in library science and information acquisition that have taken place over the past few years. This invaluable supplement offers new material on library operations, information access and processing, and information literacy. It contains resources for a solid understanding of the current state of library and information science in the 21st Century.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>\u2026guided by an editorial advisory board that reads like a who's who in library and information science, the new ELIS2 brings the well-known resource into the electronic age with outstanding essays by leading experts in the digital library services.<br>Library Journal </p></div>", "publisher": "CRC Press", "authors": ["Miriam Drake"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sc - Miriam Drake.pdf", "dir_path": "Miriam Drake/Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, First Update Supplement (135)/", "size": 13698526}], "cover_url": "Miriam Drake/Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, First Update Supplement (135)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0824742591"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "433471"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "b9tdjofCdK4C"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780849338946"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "54afe64b-0714-48ea-a86f-759b9f5b2016": {"title": "History of American Library Science: Its Origins and Early Development", "title_sort": "History of American Library Science: Its Origins and Early Development", "pubdate": "2009-06-30 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "54afe64b-0714-48ea-a86f-759b9f5b2016", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>Abstract<div><br></div><div>The narrow purpose of this entry is threefold:</div><div>1) to identify the key events and players in the origin and early development of the discipline of library science in the United States (and perhaps North America more generally, but certainly not Europe, much less India, other than to mention its origins in Germany);</div><div><br></div><div>2) to describe the intellectual foundations and history for the discipline of library science as developed at the University of Chicago\u2019s GLS; and</div><div><br></div><div>3) to briefly identify the knowledge and skills as well as values associated with this emergent field. Strictly speaking, therefore, it is not a discourse on computer science, informatics, information science, information studies, or for that matter, the history of librarianship nor books and libraries; neither is it a history of literary endeavors, printing, writing, or scholarly communication per se, but rather it is an introductory orientation to a highly specialized field of knowledge.</div></div>", "publisher": "CRC Press", "authors": ["John Richardson"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "History of American Library Science_ Its O - John Richardson.pdf", "dir_path": "John Richardson/History of American Library Science_ Its Origins and Early Development (136)/", "size": 117719}], "cover_url": "John Richardson/History of American Library Science_ Its Origins and Early Development (136)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Encyclopedia of Library & Information Science"}, "374b38ff-741a-4809-a7ba-a21e2b34f5d8": {"title": "Libraries and Founders of Libraries", "title_sort": "Libraries and Founders of Libraries", "pubdate": "1997-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "374b38ff-741a-4809-a7ba-a21e2b34f5d8", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>This comprehensive volume, first published in 1864, covers the history of libraries from classical times to the nineteenth century, principally in England but also further afield. The author was an influential figure in the founding of municipal libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and regarded access to good libraries as crucial to education and civilisation. He emphasises the importance of individual collectors in the building of great libraries, and examines the personal holdings of many writers and scholars as well as members of royal families, the aristocracy, and clergy. Some of these are well known, others less commonly encountered in surveys of library history. Edwards also discusses the subsequent history of these collections, their dispersal or incorporation into other libraries. Other important topics covered by Edwards include the development and organisation of the State Paper Office and Public Records Office from the medieval period onwards.</p><h3>Book Description</h3><p>This 1864 book examines the evolution of libraries in England and elsewhere, from antiquity to the mid-nineteenth century. It discusses the importance of influential individual collectors, and the subsequent history of their libraries, as well as the development of public record collections housing official documents of national importance. </p></div>", "publisher": "Cambridge University", "authors": ["Edward Edwards"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Libraries and Founders of Libraries - Edward Edwards.pdf", "dir_path": "Edward Edwards/Libraries and Founders of Libraries (137)/", "size": 9258621}], "cover_url": "Edward Edwards/Libraries and Founders of Libraries (137)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1108010520"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "CBdyRzJoXwIC"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781108010528"}, {"scheme": "barnesnoble", "code": "w/libraries-and-founders-of-libraries-edward-edwards/1100181649"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "13832942"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "7e4becdd-a3f3-47ef-948b-eac7c609b61f": {"title": "The Embedded Librarian: Innovative Strategies for Taking Knowledge Where It's Needed", "title_sort": "Embedded Librarian: Innovative Strategies for Taking Knowledge Where It's Needed, The", "pubdate": "2011-12-31 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "7e4becdd-a3f3-47ef-948b-eac7c609b61f", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Here is the first comprehensive survey of the growing practice of 'embedded librarianship' a strategic model for placing information professionals into partnerships with the individuals and working groups that depend upon their knowledge and expertise. David Shumaker looks at implementations in all types of organizations, identifies the characteristics of successful embedded librarians, and explains how information professionals in public, academic, school, medical, law, and other specialized library settings are using embedded librarianship principles to enhance their work and careers.<br></p><p>In demonstrating the value of information professionals to a broad range of knowledge-intensive projects, <em>The Embedded Librarian</em> is an important book for managers and executives involved in team building. In addition, its wealth of practical coverage and analysis, case studies, templates, and exercises make the book an invaluable resource for library school students, practicing librarians who wonder if an embedded role is right for them, and current embedded librarians who want to be ready for new opportunities in this exciting area of library work.<br></p></div>", "publisher": "Information Today", "authors": ["David Shumaker"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Embedded Librarian_ Innovative Strateg - David Shumaker.pdf", "dir_path": "David Shumaker/The Embedded Librarian_ Innovative Strategies for Taking Knowledge Where It's Needed (138)/", "size": 3056802}], "cover_url": "David Shumaker/The Embedded Librarian_ Innovative Strategies for Taking Knowledge Where It's Needed (138)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1573874523"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781573874526"}, {"scheme": "barnesnoble", "code": "w/the-embedded-librarian-david-shumaker/1111915935"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "CqlTLwEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "15711009"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "6467bc81-07f0-4e86-b78d-dac2a5a5f885": {"title": "Free Books for All: The Public Library Movement in Ontario, 1850-1930", "title_sort": "Free Books for All: The Public Library Movement in Ontario, 1850-1930", "pubdate": "1994-01-08 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "6467bc81-07f0-4e86-b78d-dac2a5a5f885", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p><em>Free Books for All</em> provides a detailed and reflective account of the people. groups, communities, and ideas that shaped library development in the decades between 1850 and 1930, from Egerton Ryerson to George Locke, from Mechanics Institutes to renovated Carnegie libraries. A chronological narrative, lively writings by the people involved, tables, maps, graphs, and period photographs combine to tell the stories of the librarians, trustees, educators, politicians, and library users who contributed to Ontario's early public library system.</p><p>The book brings to life a fascinating period of library history. The movement to use the power of local governments to furnish rate-supported library service for citizens was a successful Victorian and Edwardian thrust. Today, more than 500 public libraries span the province, serving as intermediary points between authors and readers and providing a wide scope of information and programming services for educational and recreational purposes.</p><p>The libraries themselves are, in part, a tribute to the men and women who worked tirelessly to promote library service before 1930. This new study will deepen our understanding of the people and processes that established the foundation for modern public library service in Ontario and Canada.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>Lorne Bruce...is one of Canada\u2019s finest library historians. With exemplary scholarship and impeccable logic, he has marshalled a vast array of contemporary accounts from books, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, archives, and government publications to describe how Ontario acquired the finest library system in Canada...Anyone involved with or concerned about Canada\u2019s public libraries needs to read <em>Free Books for All</em>. (Peter McNally <em>Quill and Quire</em>)<br></p><p>Bruce relies on a prodigious amount of original research and his judgements are measured and thoughtful...<em>Free Books for All</em> makes an important contribution to the scholarly history of Canadian libraries. (H. Graham Rawlinson <em>CBRA</em>)<br></p><p>Bruce has crafted a well-written examination of the topic...the author has provided a study that helps to shed light on an important development in Canadian society and, as such, it would be a valuable addition to any library\u2019s history collection. (Daniel German <em>Feliciter</em>) </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Author Lorne Bruce has worked as chief librarian at Hanover and King Township public libraries and is currently a collection development librarian at the McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph. He is the author of a number of journal articles and monograph publications on public library history in Ontario and elsewhere.</p></div>", "publisher": "Dundurn", "authors": ["Lorne Bruce"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Free Books for All_ The Public Library Mov - Lorne Bruce.pdf", "dir_path": "Lorne Bruce/Free Books for All_ The Public Library Movement in Ontario, 1850-1930 (139)/", "size": 24092827}], "cover_url": "Lorne Bruce/Free Books for All_ The Public Library Movement in Ontario, 1850-1930 (139)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "ouknFjTBd_AC"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781554881703"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "17045351"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1550022059"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "e2b3205b-8150-4cfd-a0bb-1eca494ff9e1": {"title": "Equity and Excellence in the Public Library", "title_sort": "Equity and Excellence in the Public Library", "pubdate": "2007-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e2b3205b-8150-4cfd-a0bb-1eca494ff9e1", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>This important volume by one of the leading scholars in the field examines and discusses how library professionals can meet the demands of policy makers to open up the public library service without destroying it. Based on a critical literature review, a survey of library professionals and consultations with stakeholders in the service, the book discusses the challenges involved in providing a library service which prioritizes equity and social inclusion and at the same time attempts to promote and maintain high intellectual and ethical standards. The author goes on to assess how those responsible for library services around the world deal with this dilemma and celebrate its possibilities.</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Bob Usherwood is Emeritus Professor of Librarianship in the Department of Information Studies, The University of Sheffield, UK. A former President of the Library Association, he has authored over 200 publications, and his major books have been translated into Korean, Russian and Portuguese. He has also carried out research and consultancy for a number of national and international organizations. </p></div>", "publisher": "Ashgate", "authors": ["Bob Usherwood"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Equity and Excellence in the Public Librar - Bob Usherwood.pdf", "dir_path": "Bob Usherwood/Equity and Excellence in the Public Library (140)/", "size": 2075036}], "cover_url": "Bob Usherwood/Equity and Excellence in the Public Library (140)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "barnesnoble", "code": "w/equity-and-excellence-in-the-public-library-bob-usherwood/1012386221"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "3330090"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "ANiZXtnBTc0C"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0754648060"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780754648062"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "20c1c956-5ced-4bad-850a-73569b5dab86": {"title": "Public Library Services for the Poor: Doing All We Can", "title_sort": "Public Library Services for the Poor: Doing All We Can", "pubdate": "2010-04-04 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "20c1c956-5ced-4bad-850a-73569b5dab86", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Among public institutions, the library has great potential for helping the poor and disenfranchised. For many, the library is the only refuge for information, literacy, entertainment, language skills, employment help, free computer use and even safety and shelter. Experts Glen and Leslie Holt, with decades of service to inner city communities between them, challenge librarians to do more for poor people. While recognizing the financial crunch libraries are under, the authors offer concrete advice about programs and support for this unique group, showing you how to<br></p><ul><li>Train staff to meet the unique needs of the poor, including youth </li><li>Cooperate with other agencies in order to form partnerships and collaborations that enrich library services to the poor and homeless</li><li>Find help, financial and other, for your library</li></ul><p>This ground-breaking work demonstrates how five Key Action Areas adopted by the ALA Council (Diversity, Equity of Access, Education and Continuous Learning, Intellectual Freedom, and 21st Century Literacy) apply especially to this disadvantaged population, and motivates librarians to use creative solutions to meet their needs.</p><h3>From Booklist</h3><p>This book, based on the authors\u2019 30 years of combined experience developing programs at St. Louis Public Library, addresses the ways that public libraries can help the poor and working poor. Divided into three parts\u2014\u201cThink and Plan,\u201d \u201cAct,\u201d and \u201cBig Challenges\u201d\u2014the chapters cover such topics as understanding professional attitudes about poverty, overcoming barriers that keep the poor from using the library, developing programs and services from which the poor can benefit, and collaborating with other agencies. Special concerns such as homelessness are also addressed. Theory is combined with practice through the use of examples from Enoch Pratt Free Library, St. Louis Public Library, and others. This is a useful tool to help libraries reach an often misunderstood part of the service population. --Patricia Hogan </p><h3>Review</h3><p>At a time when the news is full of stories of people resorting to their public libraries during the economic downturn and of libraries experiencing drastically declining budgets, this book could not be more useful or necessary, with its thoughtful theoretical and practical advice for providing public library services to the poor. --Library Journal<br></p><p>Almost all employees in public libraries interact with people in poverty on a daily basis, and in our current economy, the population of homeless and poor citizens continues to grow. Instead of simply tolerating this population, we have the chance to empower these individuals and form connections that will make the library an essential part of their lives. This book will provide inspiration as well as practical tools and suggestions for librarians or administrators who want to do all they can to provide services to the poor. This book would be a useful addition to any public library professional development collection. --Voice of Youth Advocates<br></p><p>Almost all employees in public libraries interact with people in poverty on a daily basis, and in our current economy, the population of homeless and poor citizens continues to grow. Instead of simply tolerating this population, we have the chance to empower these individuals and form connections that will make the library an essential part of their lives. This book will provide inspiration as well as practical tools and suggestions for librarians or administrators who want to do all they can to provide services to the poor. This book would be a useful addition to any public library professional development collection. --Voice of Youth Advocates </p></div>", "publisher": "Amer Library Assn Editions", "authors": ["Leslie Edmonds Holt", "Glen E. Holt"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Public Library Services for the Poor_ Doin - Leslie Edmonds Holt.pdf", "dir_path": "Leslie Edmonds Holt/Public Library Services for the Poor_ Doing All We Can (141)/", "size": 775106}], "cover_url": "Leslie Edmonds Holt/Public Library Services for the Poor_ Doing All We Can (141)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "8503210"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "7yPMW3n1qYYC"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780838910504"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0838910505"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "510a03c3-018c-4b30-94a5-6ed0e595952f": {"title": "Library Services to the Incarcerated: Applying the Public Library Model in Correctional Facility Libraries", "title_sort": "Library Services to the Incarcerated: Applying the Public Library Model in Correctional Facility Libraries", "pubdate": "2006-08-29 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "510a03c3-018c-4b30-94a5-6ed0e595952f", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Learn how to provide exemplary library service to individuals in prison or jail, by applying the public library model when working with inmate populations. These authors, a jail librarian and an outreach librarian, offer a wealth of insights and ideas, answering questions about facilities and equipment, collection development, services and programming; computers and the Internet; managing human resources, including volunteers and inmate workers; budgeting and funding; and advocacy within the facility and in the community. The approach is practical and down-to-earth, with numerous examples and anecdotes to illustrate concepts.</p><p>More than 2 million adults are serving time in correctional facilities, and hundreds of thousands of youth are in juvenile detention centers. There are more than 1,300 prisons and jails in the United States, and about a third as many juvenile detention centers. Inmates, as much or more than the general population, need information and library services. They represent one of the most challenging and most grateful populations you, as a librarian, can work with. This book is intended to aid librarians whose responsibilities include serving the incarcerated, either as full-time jail or prison librarians, or as public librarians who provide outreach services to correctional facilities. It is also of interest to library school students considering careers in prison librarianship. The authors, a jail librarian and an outreach librarian, show how you can apply the public library model to inmate populations, and provide exemplary library service. They offer a wealth of ideas, answering questions about facilities and equipment, collection development, services and programming; computers and the Internet; managing human resources, including volunteers and inmate workers; budgeting and funding; and advocacy within the facility and in the community. The approach is practical and down-to-earth, with numerous examples and anecdotes to illustrate ideas.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"The authors\u2026.[o]ffer a down-to-earth approach to their subject, providing an enlightening view of the correctional library environment by discussing not just the library, but the incarceration system as a whole. Librarians can achieve excellence in service by applying the public library model to the jail or prison environment, placing an emphasis on equitable access for all. The book is an interesting and informative commentary on the world of the correctional library, and, with its anecdotes and wise counsel, it is not only practical and useful, it is also entertaining\u2026.This book is an informative and valuable resource for any librarian who may find him or herself working in a correctional facility, or who may be contemplating a career move to this field. It offers a wealth of helpful advice on how to succeed in the prison environment, and the authors' realistic approach and inclusion of ample illustrations make it especially appealing.\"</p><ul><li></ul><p>Journal of Access Services</p><p>\"It is not strictly a how-to manual. The conceptual back-story is full of energy, passion and conviction. It's about ethics and integrity, about being true to libraries and librarianship. The authors confront the most important ethical question of all--access\u2026.This book could help correctional administrators to appreciate the value of the library, recognize the value added to the culture of the facility by library programs, and support the enthusiasm of a librarian's effort to get to yes.\"</p><ul><li></ul><p>The Corrections Professional</p><p>\"<em>Library Services to the Incarcerated: Applying the Public Library Model in Correctional Facility LibrarieS\u226a/i&gt; should be of interest not only to prison librarians, but also to public libraians who deal with ex-offenders and with the population as a whole since this book deals with issues that have broader public implications. In addition, the book is truly entertaining, informational, and inspirational as it shows how prison librarians honor ALA's highest ideals while abiding by the correctional facility rules\u2026.The descriptive nature of the book makes it a wonderful resource for anyone considering working in a prison\u2026.While working with the incarcerated does seem challenging, the practical, down-to-earth tone of the book does successfully sell this career path to those who desire an interesting and varied work day.\"</em></p><ul><li><ul><li></ul></li></ul><p>Colorado Association of Libraries</p><p>*</p><p>*</p><h3>Book Description</h3><p>Learn how to provide exemplary service to incarcerated individuals in prisons, jails, and youth detention centers.</p><p>*</p></div>", "publisher": "Libraries Unlimited", "authors": ["Sheila Clark", "Erica MacCreaigh"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Library Services to the Incarcerated_ Appl - Sheila Clark.pdf", "dir_path": "Sheila Clark/Library Services to the Incarcerated_ Applying the Public Library Model in Correctional Facilit (142)/", "size": 922772}], "cover_url": "Sheila Clark/Library Services to the Incarcerated_ Applying the Public Library Model in Correctional Facilit (142)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781591582908"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1591582903"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "858569"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "N2bgv2u8LG4C"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "b47664d9-1362-430a-9557-6ec2c2cd9b71": {"title": "Reinvention of the Public Library for the 21st Century", "title_sort": "Reinvention of the Public Library for the 21st Century", "pubdate": "1998-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "b47664d9-1362-430a-9557-6ec2c2cd9b71", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Challenges faced by public libraries as they approach the next century are addressed in this collection. Using recent literature and interviews with distinguished library directors, articles cover strategic and technological issues, such as fund-raising, pursuit of a community-based mission, combination of old and new media, application of appropriate technology, and collaboration with other libraries and community agencies.</p><h3>From Booklist</h3><p>Unable to find an adequate textbook for the course he was teaching, Whitesides decided to have the class create one that emphasized the public library as it enters the twenty-first century. It starts with a chapter on previous public library history and continues with others that provide starting points for discussing situations and problems facing the public library as it enters the next century. Particular topics include relating the values of the past to the present, the public library as \"place,\" library people (i.e., librarians, paraprofessionals, trustees, and volunteers), support for the public library, the role of technology, and service to special populations. An appendix considers the outlook for 13 U.S. public libraries. Textbook it may be, but any public librarian who will be part of the \"reinvention\" of the twenty-first-century public library may find it valuable. <em>Edward Swanson</em></p></div>", "publisher": "Libraries Unlimited", "authors": ["William L. Whitesides"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Reinvention of the Public Library for the - William L. Whitesides.epub", "dir_path": "William L. Whitesides/Reinvention of the Public Library for the 21st Century (143)/", "size": 671209}], "cover_url": "William L. Whitesides/Reinvention of the Public Library for the 21st Century (143)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "4196327"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "156308628X"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "156308628X"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "5c645eef-432b-40e8-b8b7-58653a2c8bf7": {"title": "The Library: An Illustrated History", "title_sort": "Library: An Illustrated History, The", "pubdate": "2009-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "5c645eef-432b-40e8-b8b7-58653a2c8bf7", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p><strong>A comprehensive and fascinating study discusses libraries from ancient Babylon to colonial America, the Renaissance to cyberspace.</strong></p><p>Throughout the history of the world, libraries have been constructed, burned, discovered, raided, and cherished\u2014and the treasures they've housed have evolved from early stone tablets to the mass-produced, bound paper books of our present day. <em>The Library</em> invites you to enter the libraries of ancient Greece, early China, Renaissance England, and modern-day America, and speaks to the book lover in all of us. Incorporating beautiful illustrations, insightful quotations, and many marvelous mysteries of libraries\u2014their books, patrons, and keepers\u2014this book is certain to provide you with a wealth of knowledge and enjoyment. 80 full-color and 20 black-and-white photographs</p><h3>Review</h3><p>This may be the most beautiful book and the saddest that a bibliophile will ever read. Most beautiful because it s illustrated on nearly every page with paintings, drawings, and photographs of libraries around the world. Saddest because so many of those libraries have, over the centuries, been sacked, bombed, or burned ... The Library should be in the hands of every elected official (including school board members) and voter who is even thinking about defunding or closing a library or shortening its hours. Keep our libraries open! We need them! --Feathered Quill Book Reviews<br></p><p>A useful background textbook for library students, advocates, and professionals alike. --C&amp;RL News<br></p><p>While this handsome edition would make an excellent gift for any booklover, it would also be a fine addition to a college or university collection: as the life cycle of information continues to undergo rapid mutations, reading about the transformative history of libraries and information delivery has never been more important - or more enjoyable. --ACRL Washington Newsletter<br></p><p>A useful background textbook for library students, advocates, and professionals alike. --C&amp;RL News<br></p><p>While this handsome edition would make an excellent gift for any booklover, it would also be a fine addition to a college or university collection: as the life cycle of information continues to undergo rapid mutations, reading about the transformative history of libraries and information delivery has never been more important - or more enjoyable. --ACRL Washington Newsletter </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Stuart A. P. Murray</strong>\u00a0has been an author and editor for almost thirty years, specializing in American history.\u00a0The author of thirty-four books, including the award-winning <em>America\u2019s Song: The Story of \u201cYankee Doodle,\u201d</em> and books on the American Revolution, the Civil War and the Vietnam War. He lives in Petersburgh, NY.<br></p><p><strong>Nicholas A. Basbanes</strong> is the author of the bestselling book on book collecting,\u00a0<em>A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books</em>.<br></p><p>Donald G. Davies, JR., editor of <em>Libraries &amp; Culture</em>, is the author of several books and serves as emeritus professor at the University of Texas, School of Information. Previously, Dr. Davis worked in the University of California, Berkeley Library. </p></div>", "publisher": "Skyhorse Publishing", "authors": ["Stuart A. P. Murray", "Donald G. Davis Jr.", "Nicholas A. Basbanes"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Library_ An Illustrated History - Stuart A. P. Murray.epub", "dir_path": "Stuart A. P. Murray/The Library_ An Illustrated History (144)/", "size": 64851081}], "cover_url": "Stuart A. P. Murray/The Library_ An Illustrated History (144)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1616084537"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "14567576"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781616084530"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "YC7pkQEACAAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "cbd0c9fb-b310-4846-b73d-99fcc09d62f2": {"title": "History of Libraries in the Western World", "title_sort": "History of Libraries in the Western World", "pubdate": "1984-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "cbd0c9fb-b310-4846-b73d-99fcc09d62f2", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>This edition of the \"History of Libraries in the Western World\" represents a substantial revision of the earlier edition, taking into account the \"information revolution\" that has swept the West since 1945 and the political revolution that swept across Europe beginning in 1986. In addition, recent scholarship has been incorporated throughout the text, with special emphasis on the work centered around the \"new history of the book.\" The bibliographies at the end of each of the twelve chapters have been thoroughly revised to reflect the very considerable new work on library and book history.</p><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>This latest update is a succinct and readable account of the development of libraries within the context of Western civilization. Divided as before into three sections covering the ancient world, the medieval period, and the modern era, Harris's account is well organized and informative. This edition includes recent developments such as the reunification of Germany. The European treatment emphasizes Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, with little mention of Scandinavia, Iberia, or eastern Europe except Russia. U.S. libraries form the bulk of the American chapters, with nods to Canada and Latin America. The text is expanded from the 1984 compact edition (Professional Reading, LJ 8/84) but is shorter than the 1976 third revised edition; the typography is much improved. There are good reading lists for each chapter but no footnotes or complete bibliography. Recommended.?Elizabeth Brice, Miami Univ. Libs., Oxford, Ohio<br>Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>Harris creates...understanding of the progression [of libraries and their continual adaptation] by placing these developments within the context of social and political climates. He doesn't overlook the influence of class and wealth on libraries, nor does he ignore contributions made by women and minority groups. It is a credit to Harris' writing that the book is spiced with excerpts, anecdotes, and wisdoms recorded by ancient and modern librarians. The updated bibliographies...extend its use beyond the covers...this well researched and long standing work on library history...[is] an essential purchase... (<em>Public Library Quarterly</em> )<br></p><p>This edition is a substantial revision of the 1976 version. (<em>Jal Guide To Professional Literature</em> )<br></p><p>...the best and most readable all-purpose survey history of western libraries that has ever been produced... (<em>Collection Management</em> )<br></p><p>...places developments in library history within a larger social context.<br></p><p>...the fact that it has reached a fourth edition suggests a life of some utility. There is little more to be said. The tour is conducted by a conventional guide well primed with dates, names, and (highly condensed) social background... (<em>Library Review</em> )<br></p><p>Harris creates...understanding of the progression [of libraries and their continual adaptation] by placing these developments within the context of social and political climates. He doesn't overlook the influence of class and wealth on libraries, nor doeshe ignore contributions made by women and minority groups. It is a credit to Harris' writing that the book is spiced with excerpts, anecdotes, and wisdoms recorded by ancient and modern librarians. The updated bibliographies...extend its use beyond the covers...this well researched and long standing work on library history...[is] an essential purchase..... (<em>Public Library Quarterly</em> )<br></p><p>Themes are well identified and discussed: detail of places, persons and dates is provided in appropriate quantity. The chronological balance of the book is, as ever, a judicious one, with nearly half devoted to ancient and medieval libraries. (Paul Sturges ) </p></div>", "publisher": "Scarecrow Press", "authors": ["Michael H. Harris"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "History of Libraries in the Western World - Michael H. Harris.epub", "dir_path": "Michael H. Harris/History of Libraries in the Western World (145)/", "size": 956800}, {"format": "htmlz", "file_name": "History of Libraries in the Western World - Michael H. Harris.htmlz", "dir_path": "Michael H. Harris/History of Libraries in the Western World (145)/", "size": 936431}, {"format": "mobi", "file_name": "History of Libraries in the Western World - Michael H. Harris.mobi", "dir_path": "Michael H. Harris/History of Libraries in the Western World (145)/", "size": 3040037}, {"format": "zip", "file_name": "History of Libraries in the Western World - Michael H. Harris.zip", "dir_path": "Michael H. Harris/History of Libraries in the Western World (145)/", "size": 14332991}], "cover_url": "Michael H. Harris/History of Libraries in the Western World (145)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "1969499"}, {"scheme": "asin", "code": "B00332EVB6"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B00332EVB6"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "zSjhAAAAMAAJ"}, {"scheme": "oasin", "code": "081082972X"}, {"scheme": "guid", "code": "9ffc17be1504e808f7266230c8d3ed79"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780810829725"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "06f15a1f-f74a-457c-97f9-36ca12af08e0": {"title": "Ancient Libraries", "title_sort": "Ancient Libraries", "pubdate": "2013-06-09 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "06f15a1f-f74a-457c-97f9-36ca12af08e0", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. But books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.</p><h3>Book Description</h3><p>Opens a window onto the book cultures of antiquity, challenging old myths, presenting new research and exploring the implications for ancient science. Examines ancient libraries in the context of cultures of collection and display and reveals their complex relationship with private collections of books. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Jason K\u00f6nig is Senior Lecturer in Greek at the University of St Andrews. He works broadly on the Greek literature and culture of the Roman Empire. He is author of Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire (2005) and Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (2012) and editor, jointly with Tim Whitmarsh, of Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire (2007).<br></p><p>Katerina Oikonomopoulou is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the programme 'Medicine of the Mind, Philosophy of the Body: Discourses of Health and Well-Being in the Ancient World' at the Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin. She is co-editor, with Frieda Klotz, of The Philosopher's Banquet: Plutarch's 'Table Talk' in the Intellectual Culture of the Roman Empire (2011).<br></p><p>Greg Woolf is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews. He currently holds a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship and is editor of the Journal of Roman Studies. His books include Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (1998), Et tu Brute: The Murder of Julius Caesar and Political Assassination (2006), Tales of the Barbarians: Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West (2011) and Rome: An Empire's Story (2012). He has also edited volumes on literacy, on the city of Rome and on Roman religion and has published widely on ancient history and Roman archaeology. </p></div>", "publisher": "Cambridge University", "authors": ["Jason K\u00f6nig", "Katerina Oikonomopoulou", "Greg Woolf"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Ancient Libraries - Jason Konig.pdf", "dir_path": "Jason Konig/Ancient Libraries (146)/", "size": 6373781}], "cover_url": "Jason Konig/Ancient Libraries (146)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781107012561"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1107012562"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "17473017"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "ec4de3ed-d19e-4473-9130-6a6219e93254": {"title": "The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians: A Profession Apart", "title_sort": "Age Demographics of Academic Librarians: A Profession Apart, The", "pubdate": "1999-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "ec4de3ed-d19e-4473-9130-6a6219e93254", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians: A Profession Apart discusses the current demographics of librarianship in North America and examines how a huge retiree rate will affect the profession. With the average age of librarians increasing dramatically since 1990, this book examines the changes that will have to take place in your library, such as recruiting, training, and working with a smaller staff. The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians provides you with insights on how to make your library\u2019s transition easier when several of your colleagues leave your library. <br></p><p>Valuable and intelligent, The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians discusses trends through easy-to-read charts, tables, and comprehensive data analysis. Exploring possible reasons for the anomalies of this trend, this book explores several surprising facts, such as:<br></p><ul><li>16 percent of the 1995 American Research Libraries population of librarians will retire by the year 2000, another 16 percent between 2000 and 2005, 24 percent between 2005 and 2010, and 27 percent between 2010 and 2030, leaving the ARL lacking seasoned librarians </li><li>the number of ARL cataloging librarians are decreasing, but the number of reference librarians seems to be increasing </li><li>54 percent of all ARL librarians who have twenty or more years of professional experience have worked at only one library in the course of their careers </li><li>Canadian ARL librarians are older than their United States counterparts </li><li>in 1990, 48 percent of ARL librarians were 45 years old or older; in 1994, the number increased to 58 percent<br></li></ul><p>The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians provides you with valuable insight into the unusual shape and movement of the academic librarian age profile as well as some speculation on its possible effects so you can predict how it will affect your library in the future and help you prepare to take preventative actions.</p></div>", "publisher": "Routledge", "authors": ["Stanley Wilder"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Age Demographics of Academic Librarian - Stanley Wilder.pdf", "dir_path": "Stanley Wilder/The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians_ A Profession Apart (147)/", "size": 2505269}], "cover_url": "Stanley Wilder/The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians_ A Profession Apart (147)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0789008408"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "1730014"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "SdXenPjDBIIC"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780789008404"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "839b5b7d-7c2d-4ab3-96e2-02c40b88e98d": {"title": "The Big Archive: Art From Bureaucracy", "title_sort": "Big Archive: Art From Bureaucracy, The", "pubdate": "2008-08-21 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:10.258560+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "839b5b7d-7c2d-4ab3-96e2-02c40b88e98d", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, the archive's content stands as a quasi-objective correlative of the \"living\" past. Twentieth-century art made use of the archive in a variety of ways--from what Spieker calls Marcel Duchamp's \"anemic archive\" of readymades and El Lissitzky's Demonstration Rooms to the compilations of photographs made by such postwar artists as Susan Hiller and Gerhard Richter. In The Big Archive, Sven Spieker investigates the archive--as both bureaucratic institution and index of evolving attitudes toward contingent time in science and art--and finds it to be a crucible of twentieth-century modernism. Dadaists, constructivists, and Surrealists favored discontinuous, nonlinear archives that resisted hermeneutic reading and ordered presentation. Spieker argues that the use of archives by such contemporary artists as Hiller, Richter, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Walid Raad, and Boris Mikhailov responds to and continues this attack on the nineteenth-century archive and its objectification of the historical process. Spieker considers archivally driven art in relation to changing media technologies--the typewriter, the telephone, the telegraph, film. And he connects the archive to a particularly modern visuality, showing that the avant-garde used the archive as something of a laboratory for experimental inquiries into the nature of vision and its relation to time. The Big Archive offers us the first critical monograph on an overarching motif in twentieth-century art.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"In this diligent and engaging study, Sven Spieker charts the hidden dimensions of the archive as both depository of actual material and the organizing fantasy and principle underwriting many of the West's bureaucratic and artistic practices. Get lost in this book and emerge from it triumphantly, having gleaned from it a host of otherwise unavailable and probing insights into the connections between our age's obsession with memory, its institutions, and modernist art.\"Ulrich Baer, Professor of Comparative and German Literature at New York University, author of Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma (MIT Press) and editor of 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11</p><p>\"The Big Archive features an impressive cast of characters: Sigmund Freud, Marchel Duchamp, Alexandr Rodchenko, Andy Warhol, Sophie Calle---all masterfully catalogued and filed into Sven Spieker's meta-archival project. This original and carefully crafted book reveals the extent to which modernity produced and was produced by archival technologies ranging from Wunderblocks to typewriters, from boites-en-valise to filing cabinets. Required reading for scholars working in the fields of psychoanalysis, media theory, and conceptual art.\"--Ruben Gallo, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University</p><p>(Ruben Gallo )<br></p><p>\"This well informed and densely written book succeeds in transforming our notion of archive--from a rationally organized space in which monotonous, boring collections of documents are kept, to a place full of dark mysteries, hidden chaos and unexpected adventures. This non-fictional version of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose is indispensable reading for artists and scholars.\" --Boris Groys, Professor of Philosophy and Art Theory at the Academy for Design in Karlsruhe, Germany, Global Professor at New York University, and author of Art Power</p><p>(Boris Groys )<br></p><p>\" <em>The Big Archive</em> features an impressive cast of characters: Sigmund Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Alexandr Rodchenko, Andy Warhol, Sophie Calle all masterfully catalogued and filed into Sven Spieker\"s meta-archival project. This original and carefully crafted book reveals the extent to which modernity produced and was produced by archival technologies ranging from Wunderblocks to typewriters, from <em>boites-en-valise</em> to filing cabinets. Required reading for scholars working in the fields of psychoanalysis, media theory, and conceptual art.\" <strong>Ruben Gallo </strong>, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University</p><p>\" <em>The Big Archive</em> is a wonderfully erudite study of the avant-garde\"s anti-archival strategies that aim to subvert the structure and function of its nineteenth-century \"hybrid institution.\" Spieker\"s arguments are often beguilingly clever, at times devilishly so.\" Craig Leonard Prefix Photo</p><p>\"This well informed and densely written book succeeds in transforming our notion of archive from a rationally organized space in which monotonous, boring collections of documents are kept, to a place full of dark mysteries, hidden chaos and unexpected adventures. This non-fictional version of Umberto Eco's <em>The Name of the Rose</em> is indispensable reading for artists and scholars.\" <strong>Boris Groys </strong>, Professor of Philosophy and Art Theory at the Academy for Design in Karlsruhe, Germany, Global Professor at New York University, and author of <em>Art Power</em></p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Sven Spieker teaches in the Comparative Literature Program and the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the editor of <em>ARTMargins,</em> an online journal devoted to Central and Eastern European visual culture. </p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Sven Spieker"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Big Archive_ Art From Bureaucracy - Sven Spieker.pdf", "dir_path": "Sven Spieker/The Big Archive_ Art From Bureaucracy (148)/", "size": 8696592}], "cover_url": "Sven Spieker/The Big Archive_ Art From Bureaucracy (148)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "4077897"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262195706"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0262195704"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "636430dd-0503-49ca-afc6-2179495b3797": {"title": "The Library of Babel", "title_sort": "Library of Babel, The", "pubdate": "1996-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "636430dd-0503-49ca-afc6-2179495b3797", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. But the detailed, evocative etchings by Erik Desmazieres provide a perfect counterpoint to the visionary prose. Like Borges, Desmazieres has created his own universe, his own definition of the meaning, topography and geography of the Library of Babel. Printed together, with the etchings reproduced in fine-line duotone, text and art unite to present an artist's book that belongs in the circle of Borges's sacrosanct Crimson Hexagon - \"books smaller than natural books, books omnipotent, illustrated, and magical.\"</p>", "publisher": "David R. Godine", "authors": ["Jorge Luis Borges"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges.pdf", "dir_path": "Jorge Luis Borges/The Library of Babel (149)/", "size": 1031124}], "cover_url": "Jorge Luis Borges/The Library of Babel (149)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "dJVdAAAAMAAJ"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "172366"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "156792123X"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781567921236"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "6d0fbe48-7f13-4ad2-b361-ae614782ba5b": {"title": "The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System", "title_sort": "Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, The", "pubdate": "2005-05-09 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "6d0fbe48-7f13-4ad2-b361-ae614782ba5b", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p><em>The Anarchist in the Library</em> is the first guide to one of the most important cultural and economic battlegrounds of our increasingly plugged-in world. Siva Vaidhyanathan draws the struggle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of the twenty-first century: anarchy or oligarchy, total freedom vs. complete control. His acclaimed book explores topics from unauthorized fan edits of <em>Star Wars</em> to terrorist organizations\u2019 reliance on \u201cleaderless resistance,\u201d from Napster to Total Information Awareness to flash mobs.</p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>This relatively brief book tackles an expansive topic: Internet technology and its effect on our social, political and cultural future. For cultural historian and media scholar Vaidhyanathan (<em>Copyrights and Copywrongs</em>), the digital revolution is about far more than downloading music. Weaving an array of historical examples with prescient analysis, Vaidhyanathan takes the Internet battles common to most readers today-e.g., the well-publicized efforts of the recording industry to stop file-sharing; the practices of those who share music online-to craft a treatise on how technology highlights the eternal cultural struggle between \"oligarchy and anarchy.\" He discusses the evolution of copyright law in the digital realm, and looks provocatively at the political contributions of such technology and the evolution of nation-states in the digital world, at times painting a truly Orwellian vision of how our future might turn out. For example, digital networks now erase borders for commercial gain as well as for piracy, and at the same time such networks, as illustrated by the war on terror, are elusive and ungovernable. Where, how and on what principles do we draw the lines? Vaidhyanathan refrains from offering any quick-fix solutions, instead arguing that the friction between anarchy and the desire for control now highlighted by technology is an essential element in the creation of culture. Vaidhyanathan is a brilliant thinker and an energetic writer. But the sweeping scope of this book, and its vague, theoretical and at times academic slant may leave readers more confused then enlightened. Then again, welcome to the digital world. <br>Copyright \u00a9 Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"A must-read...A complex and wonderful book.\" -- <em>librarian.net</em><br></p><p>\"As readable as it is wide-ranging.\" -- <strong>Slashdot</strong><br></p><p>\"As readable as it is wide-ranging.\" -- <em>Slashdot</em><br></p><p>\"Erudite, eloquent, imaginative, and personable all at once.\" -- <em>Eric Alterman</em><br></p><p>\"Offer[s] compelling views of the controversies surrounding the control of information--of culture, really--in the digital age.\" -- <em>Salon.com</em><br></p><p>\"Offer[s] compelling views of the controversies surrounding the control of information-of culture, really-in the digital age.\" -- <em>Salon.com</em><br></p><p>\"Vaidhyanathan eloquently raises awareness of a fundamental crisis in contemporary culture.\" -- <strong>Choice</strong><br></p><p>\"Vaidhyanathan is a brilliant thinker and an energetic writer.\" -- <strong>Publishers Weekly</strong><br></p><p>\"Weaves together a thousand threads into a rich and convincing story about just what's at stake in the digital age.\" -- <em>Lawrence Lessig</em></p></div>", "publisher": "Basic Books", "authors": ["Siva Vaidhyanathan"], "formats": [{"format": "mobi", "file_name": "The Anarchist in the Library_ How the Clas - Siva Vaidhyanathan.mobi", "dir_path": "Siva Vaidhyanathan/The Anarchist in the Library_ How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real Wor (150)/", "size": 571096}], "cover_url": "Siva Vaidhyanathan/The Anarchist in the Library_ How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real Wor (150)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B007WSNUM8"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780465089857"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "322377"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0465089852"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "1c56970f-a6d5-401b-a166-a4fa627151af": {"title": "E-Publishing and Digital Libraries: Legal and Organizational Issues", "title_sort": "E-Publishing and Digital Libraries: Legal and Organizational Issues", "pubdate": "2010-10-29 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:01.628008+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "1c56970f-a6d5-401b-a166-a4fa627151af", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Digital libraries collect, manage, and preserve electronic expressions of knowledge on any subject and in any type or format. Consequently, the creation of a digital library presupposes the respect of the legal norms which govern the pre-existing materials included in the database. </p><p>E-Publishing and Digital Libraries: Legal and Organizational Issues provides a comprehensive overview of the organizational and legal issues concerning digital libraries. It includes 24 contributions from world-renowned specialists in digital libraries. This premier reference source is a must-have for researchers and professionals in the field of ICTs and its various disciplines, including library, education, computer science and management, as well as experts in the field of law.</p><h3>About the Author</h3><h6>#########################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################</h6></div>", "publisher": "IGI Global", "authors": ["Ioannis Iglezakis", "Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou", "Sarantos Kapidakis"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "E-Publishing and Digital Libraries_ Legal - Ioannis Iglezakis.pdf", "dir_path": "Ioannis Iglezakis/E-Publishing and Digital Libraries_ Legal and Organizational Issues (151)/", "size": 5627133}], "cover_url": "Ioannis Iglezakis/E-Publishing and Digital Libraries_ Legal and Organizational Issues (151)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "9766794"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1609600312"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781609600310"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "1f4e4c9d-5c3e-4bad-8df0-5877bca8c1ea": {"title": "Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking", "title_sort": "Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking", "pubdate": "2012-11-24 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:01.628008+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "1f4e4c9d-5c3e-4bad-8df0-5877bca8c1ea", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source software (F/OSS) movement in the United States and Europe, Coding Freedom details the ethics behind hackers' devotion to F/OSS, the social codes that guide its production, and the political struggles through which hackers question the scope and direction of copyright and patent law. In telling the story of the F/OSS movement, the book unfolds a broader narrative involving computing, the politics of access, and intellectual property. E. Gabriella Coleman tracks the ways in which hackers collaborate and examines passionate manifestos, hacker humor, free software project governance, and festive hacker conferences. Looking at the ways that hackers sustain their productive freedom, Coleman shows that these activists, driven by a commitment to their work, reformulate key ideals including free speech, transparency, and meritocracy, and refuse restrictive intellectual protections. Coleman demonstrates how hacking, so often marginalized or misunderstood, sheds light on the continuing relevance of liberalism in online collaboration.</p>", "publisher": "Princeton University", "authors": ["Gabriella Coleman"], "formats": [{"format": "mobi", "file_name": "Coding Freedom_ The Ethics and Aesthetics - Gabriella Coleman.mobi", "dir_path": "Gabriella Coleman/Coding Freedom_ The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (152)/", "size": 1144084}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Coding Freedom_ The Ethics and Aesthetics - Gabriella Coleman.pdf", "dir_path": "Gabriella Coleman/Coding Freedom_ The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (152)/", "size": 6648657}], "cover_url": "Gabriella Coleman/Coding Freedom_ The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (152)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781400845293"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "YAls7CTGC8EC"}, {"scheme": "casanova", "code": "43133.1354278271"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "16417857"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "358e017b-6003-4e7f-8fb4-238ef7792ead": {"title": "The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuries", "title_sort": "Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuries, The", "pubdate": "1994-02-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "358e017b-6003-4e7f-8fb4-238ef7792ead", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Between the end of the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century, what methods were used to monitor and control the increasing number of texts\u2014from the early handwritten books to the later, printed volumes\u2014that were being put into circulation?<br></p><p>In <em>The Order of Books</em>, Chartier examines the different systems required to regulate the world of writing through the centuries, from the registration of titles to the classification of works. The modern world has, he argues, directly inherited the products of this labor: the basic principle of referring to texts, the dream of a universal library, real or imaginary, containing all the works ever written, and the emergence of a new definition of the book leading to some of the innovations that transformed the relationship of the reader to the text.<br></p><p><em>The Order of Books</em> will be welcomed by students and researchers of cultural history, and the history of reading in particular.<br></p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"Always thoughtful, analytically avant-garde without being trendy, <em>The Order of Books</em> is a <em>tour de force</em> not only in the cultural history of the book, but also in cultural history at the very point where it intersects with theory.\"\u2014Orest Ranum, Johns Hopkins University</p><h3>Language Notes</h3><p>Text: English (translation)<br>Original Language: French </p></div>", "publisher": "Polity", "authors": ["Roger Chartier"], "formats": [{"format": "djvu", "file_name": "The Order of Books_ Readers, Authors, and - Roger Chartier.djvu", "dir_path": "Roger Chartier/The Order of Books_ Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuri (153)/", "size": 2051091}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Order of Books_ Readers, Authors, and - Roger Chartier.pdf", "dir_path": "Roger Chartier/The Order of Books_ Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuri (153)/", "size": 6474969}], "cover_url": "Roger Chartier/The Order of Books_ Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuri (153)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0804722676"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "DPBjQgAACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780804722674"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "791999"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "aa258d4a-8503-4a18-9a46-b6d3c06d37d2": {"title": "The Social Life of Information", "title_sort": "Social Life of Information, The", "pubdate": "1997-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "aa258d4a-8503-4a18-9a46-b6d3c06d37d2", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>To see the future we can build with information technology, we must look beyond mere information to the social context that creates and gives meaning to it. For years, pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate the need for almost everything - from travel to supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. Individual users, however, tend to be more sceptical. Beaten down by info-glut and exasperated by computer systems fraught with software crashes, viruses, and unintelligible error messages, they find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid help us to see through frenzied visions of the future to the real forces for change in society.They argue that the gap between digerati hype and end-user gloom is largely due to the 'tunnel vision' that information-driven technologies breed. We've become so focused on where we think we ought to be - a place where technology empowers individuals and obliterates social organizations - that we often fail to see where we're really going and what's helping us get there. We need, they argue, to look beyond our obsession with information and individuals to include the critical social networks of which these are always a part. Drawing from rich learning experiences at Xerox PARC, from examples such as IBM, Chiat/Day Advertising, and California's 'Virtual University', and from historical, social, and cultural research, the authors sharply challenge the futurists' sweeping predictions.They explain how many of the tools, jobs, and organizations seemingly targeted for future extinction in fact provide useful social resources that people will fight to keep. Rather than aiming technological bullets at these 'relics', we should instead look for ways that the new world of bits can learn from and complement them. Arguing elegantly for the important role that human sociability plays, even - perhaps especially - in the world of bits, \"The Social Life of Information\" gives us an optimistic look beyond the simplicities of information and individuals. It shows how a better understanding of the contribution that communities, organizations, and institutions make to learning, working and innovating can lead to the richest possible use of technology in our work and everyday lives.</p><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>How many times has your PC crashed today? While Gordon Moore's now famous law projecting the doubling of computer power every 18 months has more than borne itself out, it's too bad that a similar trajectory projecting the reliability and usefulness of all that power didn't come to pass, as well. Advances in information technology are most often measured in the cool numbers of megahertz, throughput, and bandwidth--but, for many us, the experience of these advances may be better measured in hours of frustration.</p><p>The gap between the hype of the Information Age and its reality is often wide and deep, and it's into this gap that John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid plunge. Not that these guys are Luddites--far from it. Brown, the chief scientist at Xerox and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and Duguid, a historian and social theorist who also works with PARC, measure how information technology interacts and meshes with the social fabric. They write, \"Technology design often takes aim at the surface of life. There it undoubtedly scores lots of worthwhile hits. But such successes can make designers blind to the difficulty of more serious challenges--primarily the resourcefulness that helps embed certain ways of doing things deep in our lives.\"</p><p>The authors cast their gaze on the many trends and ideas proffered by infoenthusiasts over the years, such as software agents, \"still a long way from the predicted insertion into the woof and warp of ordinary life\"; the electronic cottage that Alvin Toffler wrote about 20 years ago and has yet to be fully realized; and the rise of knowledge management and the challenges it faces trying to manage how people actually work and learn in the workplace. Their aim is not to pass judgment but to help remedy the tunnel vision that prevents technologists from seeing larger the social context that their ideas must ultimately inhabit. <em>The Social Life of Information</em> is a thoughtful and challenging read that belongs on the bookshelf of anyone trying to invent or make sense of the new world of information. <em>--Harry C. Edwards</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>From the chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and a research specialist in cultural studies at UC-Berkeley comes a treatise that casts a critical eye at all the hype surrounding the boom of the information age. The authors' central complaint is that narrowly focusing on new ways to provide information will not create the cyber-revolution so many technology designers have visualized. The problem (or joy) is that information acquires meaning only through social context. Brown and Duguid add a humanist spin to this idea by arguing, for example, that \"trust\" is a deep social relation among people and cannot be reduced to logic, and that a satisfying \"conversation\" cannot be held in an Internet chat room because too much social context is stripped away and cannot be replaced by just adding more information, such as pictures and biographies of the participants. From this standpoint, Brown and Duguid contemplate the future of digital agents, the home office, the paperless society, the virtual firm and the online university. Though they offer many insightful opinions, they have not produced an easy read. As they point out, theirs is \"more a book of questions than answers\" and they often reject \"linear thinking.\" Like most futurists, they are fond of long neologisms, but they are given to particularly unpronounceable ones like \"infoprefixification\" (the tendency to put \"info\" in front of words). The result is an intellectual gem in which the authors have polished some facets and, annoyingly, left others uncut. (Mar.) <br>Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p></div>", "publisher": "Harvard University", "authors": ["John Seely Brown", "Paul Duguid"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Social Life of Information - John Seely Brown.epub", "dir_path": "John Seely Brown/The Social Life of Information (154)/", "size": 652083}], "cover_url": "John Seely Brown/The Social Life of Information (154)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "D-WjL_HRbNQC"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780875847627"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "238129"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0875847625"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "e17639ea-3f11-41a4-b10d-3b786eb4c3c0": {"title": "Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings", "title_sort": "Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings", "pubdate": "1964-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:01.628008+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e17639ea-3f11-41a4-b10d-3b786eb4c3c0", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Jorge Luis Borges' \"Labyrinths\" is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers. This \"Penguin Modern Classics\" edition is edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, with an introduction by James E. Irby and a preface by Andre Maurois. Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated \"Library of Babel\", whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist, 'Funes the Memorious' the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life, and 'Pierre Menard, Author of the \"Quixote\"', in which a French poet makes it his life's work to create an identical copy of \"Don Quixote\". In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time, identity and imagination. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He has a reasonable claim, along with Kafka and Joyce, to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. If you enjoyed \"Labyrinths\", you might like Franz Kafka's \"Metamorphosis and Other Stories\", also available in \"Penguin Modern Classics\". \"His is the literature of eternity\". (Peter Ackroyd, \"The Times\"). \"One of the towering figures of literature in Spanish\". (James Woodall, \"Guardian\"). \"Probably the greatest twentieth-century author never to win the Nobel Prize\". (\"Economist\").</p><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>If Jorge Luis Borges had been a computer scientist, he probably would have invented hypertext and the World Wide Web. </p><p>Instead, being a librarian and one of the world's most widely read people, he became the leading practitioner of a densely layered imaginistic writing style that has been imitated throughout this century, but has no peer (although Umberto Eco sometimes comes close, especially in <em>Name of the Rose</em>). </p><p>Borges's stories are redolent with an intelligence, wealth of invention, and a tight, almost mathematically formal style that challenge with mysteries and paradoxes revealed only slowly after several readings. Highly recommended to anyone who wants their imagination and intellect to be aswarm with philosophical plots, compelling conundrums, and a wealth of real and imagined literary references derived from an infinitely imaginary library. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>'Classic' Borges...blazing with the imaginative, the philosophical, the mysterious...in a mixture of dreamworlds, fantasy, and life's labyrinths. -- <em>Jeri Lynn Crippen, </em>Lovin' Life<em>, 1 October 2004</em></p></div>", "publisher": "New Directions", "authors": ["Jorge Luis Borges"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Labyrinths_ Selected Stories and Other Wri - Jorge Luis Borges.pdf", "dir_path": "Jorge Luis Borges/Labyrinths_ Selected Stories and Other Writings (155)/", "size": 909602}], "cover_url": "Jorge Luis Borges/Labyrinths_ Selected Stories and Other Writings (155)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780811200127"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0811200124"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "17717"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "f8974e9d-5f70-42b8-97f8-b6a56b44b779": {"title": "The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel", "title_sort": "Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, The", "pubdate": "2008-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "f8974e9d-5f70-42b8-97f8-b6a56b44b779", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>\"The Library of Babel\" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in <em>The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel</em>, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature.<br></p><p>Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning <em>G\u00f6del, Escher, Bach</em>, this original and imaginative book sheds light on one of Borges' most complex, richly layered works. Bloch begins each chapter with a mathematical idea--combinatorics, topology, geometry, information theory--followed by examples and illustrations that put flesh on the theoretical bones. In this way, he provides many fascinating insights into <em>Borges' Library</em>. He explains, for instance, a straightforward way to calculate how many books are in the Library--an easily notated but literally unimaginable number--and also shows that, if each book were the size of a grain of sand, the entire universe could only hold a fraction of the books in the Library. Indeed, if each book were the size of a proton, our universe would still not be big enough to hold anywhere near all the books.<br></p><p>Given Borges' well-known affection for mathematics, this exploration of the story through the eyes of a humanistic mathematician makes a unique and important contribution to the body of Borgesian criticism. Bloch not only illuminates one of the great short stories of modern literature but also exposes the reader--including those more inclined to the literary world--to many intriguing and entrancing mathematical ideas.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"Mr. Bloch, professor of mathematics at Wheaton College, has woven an elegant, ingenious, scholarly interpretation of Borges's text that contradicts the disingenuous 'unimaginable' of his title.\"--<em>New York Sun</em></p><p>\"For the reader of Borges, some of Bloch's observations may offer a useful new way of engaging with the themes of the fiction.\" -- <em>American Scientist</em></p><p>\"You need no advanced mathematics to understand 'The Library of Babel' but chances are good that if you like the story, you'll enjoy Professor Bloch's excursions.\" -- <em>Mathematical Association of America Review</em></p><p>\"Given Borges' well-known affection for mathematics, this exploration of the story through the eyes of a humanistic mathematician makes a unique and important contribution to the body of Borgesian criticism. Bloch not only illuminates one of the great short stories of modern literature, but also exposes the reader - including those more inclined to the literary world - to many intriguing and entrancing mathematical ideas.\"--<em>Mathematical Reviews</em></p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>William Goldbloom Bloch</strong> is Professor of Mathematics at Wheaton College.<br></p></div>", "publisher": "Oxford University", "authors": ["William Goldbloom Bloch"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Li - William Goldbloom Bloch.pdf", "dir_path": "William Goldbloom Bloch/The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel (156)/", "size": 2554200}], "cover_url": "William Goldbloom Bloch/The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel (156)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0195334574"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "ebILwSGlUlgC"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780195334579"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "2066384"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "6a7487b6-6ea5-4b51-824d-c613ea3e31fd": {"title": "World Brain", "title_sort": "World Brain", "pubdate": "1994-09-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "6a7487b6-6ea5-4b51-824d-c613ea3e31fd", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.196969985961914px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); \">from\u00a0<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_brain\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_brain</a><br><br><b style=\"font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; \">World Brain</b></span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.196969985961914px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; \">\u00a0is a collection of essays and addresses the English\u00a0</span><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction\" title=\"Science fiction\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.196969985961914px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">science fiction</a><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.196969985961914px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; \">\u00a0pioneer,\u00a0</span><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_reform\" title=\"Social reform\" class=\"mw-redirect\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.196969985961914px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">social reformer</a><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.196969985961914px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; \">, evolutionary biologist and historian\u00a0</span><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells\" title=\"H. G. Wells\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.196969985961914px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">H. G. Wells</a><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.196969985961914px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; \">\u00a0written during the period 1936-38. Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the world brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent \"World Encyclopaedia\" that could help\u00a0</span><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_citizen\" title=\"World citizen\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.196969985961914px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">world citizens</a><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.196969985961914px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; \">\u00a0make the best use of universal information resources and make the best contribution to world peace.</span></div>", "publisher": "", "authors": ["Herbert George Wells"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "World Brain - Herbert George Wells.pdf", "dir_path": "Herbert George Wells/World Brain (157)/", "size": 1312287}], "cover_url": "Herbert George Wells/World Brain (157)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "Q6rZAAAAMAAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "7079ba04-d5c0-4ec6-84e9-9ae01d1470e9": {"title": "World Brain: The Idea of Permanent World Encyclopedia", "title_sort": "World Brain: The Idea of Permanent World Encyclopedia", "pubdate": "0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "7079ba04-d5c0-4ec6-84e9-9ae01d1470e9", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "", "authors": ["Herbert George Wells"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "World Brain_ The Idea of Permanent World E - Herbert George Wells.pdf", "dir_path": "Herbert George Wells/World Brain_ The Idea of Permanent World Encyclopedia (158)/", "size": 55358}], "cover_url": "Herbert George Wells/World Brain_ The Idea of Permanent World Encyclopedia (158)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "89834b7d-fbbe-4e4f-bfb7-f0f620b9f8d1": {"title": "Piracy: the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates", "title_sort": "Piracy: the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates", "pubdate": "2009-01-15 07:45:53+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "89834b7d-fbbe-4e4f-bfb7-f0f620b9f8d1", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>The recording industry's panic over illegal downloads is nothing new; a century ago, London publishers faced a similar crisis when pirate editions of sheet music were widely available at significantly less cost. Similarly, the debate over pharmaceutical patents echoes an 18th-century dispute over the origins of Epsom salt. These are just two of the historical examples that Johns (_The Nature of the Book_) draws upon as he traces the tensions between authorized and unauthorized producers and distributors of books, music, and other intellectual property in British and American culture from the 17th century to the present. Johns's history is liveliest when it is rooted in the personal\u2014the 19th-century renegade bibliographer Samuel Egerton Brydges, for example, or the jazz and opera lovers who created a thriving network of bootleg recordings in the 1950s\u2014but the shifting theoretical arguments about copyright and authorial property are presented in a cogent and accessible manner. Johns's research stands as an important reminder that today's intellectual property crises are not unprecedented, and offers a survey of potential approaches to a solution. 40 b&amp;w illus. <em>(Feb.) </em> <br>Copyright \u00a9 Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>\"In his invaluable book <em>Piracy</em>, Adrian Johns argues that the tendency of intellectual property battles to undermine privacy is not new. On the contrary, Johns . . . argues that ever since the medieval and Enlightenment eras, corporations have tried to defend their economic interests by searching for intellectual piracy in the private sphere of people''s homes. He says that all of our current debates about intellectual piracy\u2014from Google''s efforts to create a universal digital library to the fight over how vigorous patents should be\u2014have antecedents in the copyright wars of earlier eras.\"\u2014Jeffrey Rosen, <em>Washington Post</em>  </p><p>(Jeffrey Rosen <em>Washington Post</em> )  </p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s easy to assume, amid all the brouhaha about intellectual property, illegal downloading, and the internet in general, that the question of piracy was born with the web browser. But as long as there have been ideas, people have been accused of stealing them. In this detail-packed biography of fakery, science historian Adrian Johns describes one of the earliest attempts to protect authors\u2019 rights\u2014a vellum-bound book registry in the Stationer\u2019s Hall in 17th century London\u2014and examines everything from the Victorian crusade against the patent, to the radio pirates of the 1920s, to the telephone phreakers of the 1970s and the computer hackers of today. Piracy is not new, he concludes, but we are due for a revolution in intellectual property, and science may be its ideal breeding ground.\u201d\u2014_Seed_  </p><p>(_Seed_ )  </p><p>\u201cWhile the rise of the Internet has given it new dimensions, the concept of intellectual piracy has existed for centuries, and the disputes of previous eras have much in common with those of our own time. In a new book, _Piracy, <em>Adrian Johns details the long history of the term and its battles, arguing that those who would shape the future of intellectual property should first understand its past.\u201d\u2014</em>Inside Higher Education_  </p><p>(_Inside Higher Education_ )  </p><p>\u201cJohns makes a bold claim: disputes over intellectual piracy have touched on so many crucial issues of creativity and commerce, identity and invention, science and society, that tracing them amounts to \u2018a history of modernity from askance.\u2019 . . . More generally, <em>Piracy</em> shows us how the very notion of intellectual property\u2014and its sharp division into the fields of patent and copyright\u2014was created in response to specific pressures and so could be modified dramatically or even abolished. . . . \u2018We are constantly trying to shoehorn problems into an intellectual framework designed 150 years ago in a different world.\u2019\u201d\u2014Matthew Reisz, <em>Times Higher Education</em>  </p><p>(_Times Higher Education_ )  </p><p>\"Adrian Johns argues that piracy is a cultural force that has driven the development of intellectual-property law, politics, and practices. As copying technologies have advanced, from the invention of printing in the sixteenth century to the present, acts of piracy have shaped endeavours from scientific publishing to pharmaceuticals and software. . . . Johns suggests, counter-intuitively, that piracy can promote the development of technology. The resulting competition forces legitimate innovators to manoeuvre for advantage\u2014by moving quickly, using technical countermeasures or banding together and promoting reputation as an indicator of quality, such as through trademarks. . . . The exclusive rights granted by intellectual-property laws are always being reshaped by public opinion, and accused pirates have lobbied against these laws for centuries.\"\u2014Michael Gollin, <em>Nature</em></p><p>(Michael Gollin <em>Nature</em> ) </p></div>", "publisher": "University Of Chicago", "authors": ["Adrian Johns"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Piracy_ the intellectual property wars fro - Adrian Johns.epub", "dir_path": "Adrian Johns/Piracy_ the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates (159)/", "size": 5253960}], "cover_url": "Adrian Johns/Piracy_ the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates (159)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "6990457"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780226401188"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "d5741963-80ab-449c-b676-aac601c27d12": {"title": "Imagine there is no copyright and no cultural conglomorates too", "title_sort": "Imagine there is no copyright and no cultural conglomorates too", "pubdate": "2009-01-19 01:34:34+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "d5741963-80ab-449c-b676-aac601c27d12", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><div>Institute of Network Cultures</div><div>phone: +3120 5951863</div><div>fax: +3120 5951840</div><div>email: info@networkcultures.org</div><div>web: http://www.networkcultures.org</div><div>This publication is available through various print on demand services.</div><div>For more information, and a freely downloadable pdf:</div><div>http://networkcultures.org/theoryondemand.</div><div>This publication is licensed under the Creative Commons</div><div>Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works 3.0 Netherlands License.</div><div><br></div></div>", "publisher": "Institute of Network Cultures", "authors": ["Joost Smiers", "Marieke Van Schijndel"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Imagine there is no copyright and no cultu - Joost Smiers.pdf", "dir_path": "Joost Smiers/Imagine there is no copyright and no cultural conglomorates too (160)/", "size": 1291656}], "cover_url": "Joost Smiers/Imagine there is no copyright and no cultural conglomorates too (160)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "11987129"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9789078146094"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "9461e079-8617-45c0-b09f-a1137a0661ea": {"title": "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity", "title_sort": "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity", "pubdate": "2001-08-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "9461e079-8617-45c0-b09f-a1137a0661ea", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Copyright reflects far more than economic interests. Embedded within conflicts over royalties and infringement are cultural values\u2014about race, class, access, ownership, free speech, and democracy\u2014which influence how rights are determined and enforced. Questions of legitimacy\u2014of what constitutes \u201cintellectual property\u201d or \u201cfair use,\u201d and of how to locate a precise moment of cultural creation\u2014have become enormously complicated in recent years, as advances in technology have exponentially increased the speed of cultural reproduction and dissemination.</p><p>In <strong>Copyrights and Copywrongs</strong>, Siva Vaidhyanathan tracks the history of American copyright law through the 20th century, from Mark Twain\u2019s vehement exhortations for \u201cthick\u201d copyright protection, to recent lawsuits regarding sampling in rap music and the \u201cdigital moment,\u201d exemplified by the rise of Napster and MP3 technology. He argues persuasively that in its current punitive, highly restrictive form, American copyright law hinders cultural production, thereby contributing to the poverty of civic culture.</p><p>In addition to choking cultural expression, recent copyright law, Vaidhyanathan argues, effectively sanctions biases against cultural traditions which differ from the Anglo-European model. In African-based cultures, borrowing from and building upon earlier cultural expressions is not considered a legal trespass, but a tribute. Rap and hip hop artists who practice such \u201cborrowing\u201d by sampling and mixing, however, have been sued for copyright violation and forced to pay substantial monetary damages. Similarly, the oral transmission of culture, which has a centuries-old tradition within African American culture, is complicated by current copyright laws. How, for example, can ownership of music, lyrics, or stories which have been passed down through generations be determined? Upon close examination, strict legal guidelines prove insensitive to the diverse forms of cultural expression prevalent in the United States, and reveal much about the racialized cultural values which permeate our system of laws. Ultimately, copyright is a necessary policy that should balance public and private interests but the recent rise of \u201cintellectual property\u201d as a concept have overthrown that balance. Copyright, Vaidhyanathan asserts, is policy, not property.</p><p>Bringing to light the republican principles behind original copyright laws as well as present-day imbalances and future possibilities for freer expression and artistic equity, this volume takes important strides towards unraveling the complex web of culture, law, race, and technology in today's global marketplace.</p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Vaidyanathan, a professor at the School of Information Studies of the University of Wisconsin and frequent NPR commentator, details the specious ideological evolution of copyright from a set of loose policies intended to encourage cultural expression into a form of property law (now codified in the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 2000) that functions as a seal on creative works. In prose remarkably free of legal and academic jargon, Vaidyanathan begins with a concise, well-paced history of copyright from the framing of the Constitution through the literary world of Mark Twain and the advent of music sampling. The book is surprisingly entertaining, as Vaidyanathan deftly weaves a wide array of episodes from popular culture into a cogent examination of both the creative process and the laws and commercial interests that process dovetails with, then closes with a synthesis and a stern warning for the digital age. Through a combination of copyright laws, contract law and technological controls, Vaidyanathan asserts that corporate control over the use of software, digital music, images, films, books and academic materials. But copyright law, he argues, was designed to be flexible, and this elasticity is essential for the cultural vibrancy and political balance of our democracy. The argument is compelling. In the age of Napster, digital piracy may be the cause c\u201al\u0160bre, but this well-crafted and important book shows that there are graver concerns for the public in the entertainment industry's effort to tighten its grip on intellectual property. (Oct.)Forecast: Copyright used to be of interest only to a gaggle of Hollywood lawyers, but with the advent of technologies like Napster, it has become an issue of major importance to many more. This book is simply the best on the subject to date, and it should receive widespread attention. Random House is publishing a book on a similar subject by the Microsoft trial expert Lawrence Lessig in November, which will only further heighten interest.</p><p>Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.</p><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>The author, a media scholar and cultural historian, presents a reasoned and compelling argument for \"thin\" copyright policy. Vaidhyanathan traces the evolution of copyright law, arguing that it has come to restrict creativity and enjoin cultural expression that arises outside of white American and European traditions. He begins his look at the history of the law with the story of Mark Twain's call for perpetual copyright and its influence on the current author-centered view of the rights to creative works. He continues with interesting examples of recent contests involving property rights to film and music, the details of which illustrate the tangle of interests that is created by law, technology, and culture. Well researched and thoughtfully presented, this is important for most academic and public libraries and essential reading for the library community. Joan Pedzich, Harris Beach LLP, Rochester, NY <br>Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p></div>", "publisher": "NYU", "authors": ["Siva Vaidhyanathan"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Copyrights and Copywrongs_ The Rise of Int - Siva Vaidhyanathan.pdf", "dir_path": "Siva Vaidhyanathan/Copyrights and Copywrongs_ The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (161)/", "size": 13219386}], "cover_url": "Siva Vaidhyanathan/Copyrights and Copywrongs_ The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (161)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780814788066"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0814788068"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "yuDgAAAAMAAJ"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "2034665"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "2a1cb896-9ce0-40a5-9b64-bf9ca7b1e2e7": {"title": "Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age", "title_sort": "Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age", "pubdate": "2012-02-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "2a1cb896-9ce0-40a5-9b64-bf9ca7b1e2e7", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>An in-depth exploration of digital culture and its dissemination, <em>Sharing</em> offers a counterpoint to the dominant view that file sharing is piracy. Instead, Philippe Aigrain looks at the benefits of file sharing, which allows unknown writers and artists to be appreciated more easily. Concentrating not only on the cultural enrichment caused by widely shared digital media, <em>Sharing </em>also discusses new financing models that would allow works to be shared freely by individuals without aim at profit. Aigrain carefully balances the needs to support and reward creative activity\u00a0with a suitable respect for the cultural\u00a0common good and\u00a0proposes a new interpretation of\u00a0the digital landscape.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>\u201cPhilippe Aigrain\u00a0writes a brave book, venturing out into difficult territory. He articulates the value of sharing and collaboration in the Internet age; he\u00a0explains why - contrary to what is generally stated - non-commercial sharing of\u00a0cultural works by individuals is a widely beneficial practice. Most importantly, he explores what can be done in practice to sustain creativity in the new digital landscape.\u201d\u2014Charles Nesson, William F. Weld Professor of Law, Harvard Law School</p><p>(Charles Nesson, William F. Weld Professor of Law <em>Harvard Law School</em> ) </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Philippe Aigrain </strong>is the CEO of Sopinspace <strong>-</strong> Society for Public Information Spaces and one of the founders of La Quadrature du Net. <strong>Suzanne Aigrain </strong>is lecturer in astrophysics at Oxford University and a fellow of All Souls College.</p></div>", "publisher": "Amsterdam University", "authors": ["Philippe Aigrain"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Sharing_ Culture and the Economy in the In - Philippe Aigrain.pdf", "dir_path": "Philippe Aigrain/Sharing_ Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age (162)/", "size": 1755196}], "cover_url": "Philippe Aigrain/Sharing_ Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age (162)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "9089643850"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "13226623"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "5_6wBl9TWNQC"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9789089643858"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "7b9057ab-2da4-40c9-89dd-086a2ac2167a": {"title": "Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929", "title_sort": "Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929", "pubdate": "2002-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:10.258560+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "7b9057ab-2da4-40c9-89dd-086a2ac2167a", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-century Swiss polymath who described a new method of processing data: to cut up a sheet of handwritten notes into slips of paper, with one fact or topic per slip, and arrange as desired. In the late eighteenth century, the card catalog became the librarian's answer to the threat of information overload. Then, at the turn of the twentieth century, business adopted the technology of the card catalog as a bookkeeping tool. Krajewski explores this conceptual development and casts the card file as a \"universal paper machine\" that accomplishes the basic operations of Turing's universal discrete machine: storing, processing, and transferring data. In telling his story, Krajewski takes the reader on a number of illuminating detours, telling us, for example, that the card catalog and the numbered street address emerged at the same time in the same city (Vienna), and that Harvard University's home-grown cataloging system grew out of a librarian's laziness; and that Melvil Dewey (originator of the Dewey Decimal System) helped bring about the technology transfer of card files to business.</p>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Markus Krajewski"], "formats": [{"format": "mobi", "file_name": "Paper Machines_ About Cards & Catalogs, 15 - Markus Krajewski.mobi", "dir_path": "Markus Krajewski/Paper Machines_ About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 (163)/", "size": 2810720}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Paper Machines_ About Cards & Catalogs, 15 - Markus Krajewski.pdf", "dir_path": "Markus Krajewski/Paper Machines_ About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 (163)/", "size": 5711545}], "cover_url": "Markus Krajewski/Paper Machines_ About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 (163)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "12829225"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262015899"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "y3UwKT7ddPIC"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "History and Foundations of Information Science"}, "b9188294-696f-48c9-b609-d7f7c5398726": {"title": "The Googlization of Everything: And Why We Should Worry", "title_sort": "Googlization of Everything: And Why We Should Worry, The", "pubdate": "2010-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:06.366307+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "b9188294-696f-48c9-b609-d7f7c5398726", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><h3>From the Inside Flap</h3><p>\"Eloquent and urgent public thinking of the rarest kind, on a subject with the most encompassing implications for our world. Please read it today.\"- Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude<br></p><p>\"While there have been other books chronicling the company's amazing rise, I know of none that looks so broadly and smartly, soberly but entertainingly, at the implications of this giant new global fact of life. Siva Vaidhyanathan has set the table brilliantly for one of the most important conversations of the early 21st century.\"- Kurt Andersen, author of Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America and radio host, Studio 360<br></p><p>\"Vaidhyanathan is everything you could want in a cultural critic: funny, fantastically readable, and insightful as hell. It's always a treat when a new Vaidhyanathan comes out.\"--Cory Doctorow, author of <em>For the Win</em> and co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) <br></p><p>\"Siva Vaidhyanathan's lively, thoughtful, and wide-ranging book makes clear, in detail, how Google is reshaping the way we live and work. He finds much to admire, but also challenges us to not only use Google's services, but to go beyond them to create a new and genuinely democratic information order.\"--Anthony Grafton, author of <em>Codex in Crisis </em><br></p><p>\"A provocative and irreverent book that aims to knock the Google-dust out of our eyes and teach us to be much more aware of the ruthless logic of Google's growing power over how we view information and understand our world.\"- Pamela Samuelson, Berkeley Law School<br></p><p>\"This is a critically important book because it's really about the Googlization of All of Us. This is a brilliant meditation on technology, information, and consumer inertia, as well as an ambitious challenge to change how, where, why, and what we Google. Vaidhyanathan forces us to think long and hard about taking responsibility for what we all know and how we know it.\"--Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor of <em>Slate Magazine</em><br></p><p>\"This is such an important book--courageous and wise, with not an ounce of blather or hyperbole. Vaidhyanathan reminds us that 'We are not Google's customers: we are its products,' and then explores the many profound implications of this reality. It's going to be a long Age of Google, and we're going to need this book throughout.\" - David Shenk, author of Data Smog and The Genius in All of Us<br></p><p>\"A powerful and gripping tour de force. Siva Vaidhyanathan uses Google to examine our capacity for blind faith and to worship innovation as an end in itself. You cannot read this book and remain unstirred.\"-Tim Wu, author of <em>The Master Switch</em> and Professor, Columbia Law School<br></p><p>\"This is an important and timely topic, and Vaidhyanathan's head and heart are in the right place to guide the public through the thickets of 'googlization'.\"--Paul Duguid, co-author of <em>The Social Life of Information</em><br></p><p>\"Finely written and engaging, this is a book for anyone who has used Google.\"--Toby Miller, author of <em>Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention</em></p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Siva Vaidhyanathan</strong> is the Robertson Family Professor of Media Studies and Law and Chair of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, and the author of <em>Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity</em> and <em>The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System</em>. </p></div>", "publisher": "University of California", "authors": ["Siva Vaidhyanathan"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Googlization of Everything_ And Why We - Siva Vaidhyanathan.pdf", "dir_path": "Siva Vaidhyanathan/The Googlization of Everything_ And Why We Should Worry (164)/", "size": 858617}], "cover_url": "Siva Vaidhyanathan/The Googlization of Everything_ And Why We Should Worry (164)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "12846507"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0520272897"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780520272897"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "1X6tcZRKzPAC"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "c1d93bda-928d-4d99-9478-5fc3d3b77001": {"title": "Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge", "title_sort": "Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge", "pubdate": "2005-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:06.366307+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "c1d93bda-928d-4d99-9478-5fc3d3b77001", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><h3>From Booklist</h3><p><em>Starred Review</em> From Europe's point of view, Google's proposal to digitize the contents of America's leading libraries raises questions beyond the copyright issues that presently beleaguer the project. This brief salvo from the president of France's Bibliotheque Nationale challenges directly Google's assertion that its venture offers a source of universal knowledge. Jeanneney finds such a claim spurious and utopian. For by the very nature of the library collections that Google proposes to put online, American and British works will dominate, leaving behind that portion of the world's hundred million books not in English. Moreover, the character of digital search engines necessarily ranks results according to algorithms that reflect prejudices that lack universal validity. This quarrel is at least as ancient within librarianship as card catalogs. Jeanneney believes that Google's retrievals as presently constituted pass to the reader the merely noetic, not truly the intelligent, insightful, thoughtful, and genuinely helpful information implied by the notion of universal knowledge. Google's commercial status also troubles Jeanneney, for the commoditization of information by a single corporation inevitably subjects it to sale and to control by a less-benign owner. <em>Mark Knoblauch</em><br><em>Copyright \u00a9 American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p><h3>Review</h3><p>\u201cJean-No\u00ebl Jeanneney is horrified when he imagines how our children might come to see the world: Will future generations think no great books have been written in a language other than English? And even worse: Will they see history only through American eyes?<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The president of the French national library has made himself the frontman in what he sees as a struggle to save cultural diversity. In the postmodern world, the battleground is the internet. Here, search engines determine what tomorrow''s generations will click on, learn and think.\u201d--<em>Financial Times</em><br></p><p>(<em>Financial Times</em> )<br></p><p>\"A take on world Googleization you''re not likely to get from your broker. . . . [Jeanneney] brings his own high-wattage bulb to enlighten us. Be thankful we didn''t ban French fries, French wine, and this very illuminating French book.\"--Carlin Romano, <em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em><br></p><p>(Carlin Romano <em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em> )<br></p><p>\u201cProvides a crucial dissenting opinion. . . . The Google war chest has all but secured dominance over smaller library efforts, like the author\u2019s own project to digitize the French national collection. History judges societies by how they treat their most disadvantaged members. This book asks only that the Google economy be held to the same standard.\u201d\u2014David Ng, <em>Forbes</em><br></p><p>(David Ng <em>Forbes</em> )<br></p><p>\"Whether Google maintains its hegemony in the realm of book digitization or in fact a robust non-Anglo-American challenger emerges to contest it, designers of the next big digital library will benefit from a careful reading\u00a0of the big objections of this slim volume.\"</p><p>(Henry Lowood <em>Technology and Culture</em> )<br></p><p>\"A work that not only addresses a critical issue but articulates practical proposals that can, and should, command the attention of cultural policy-makers and decision-makers everywhere. It is also essential reading for the wider public. The issue is about which principles . . . should guide the processes of digitising the world''s literary heritage.\"</p><p>(Colin Nettelbeck <em>Australian Book Review</em> ) </p></div>", "publisher": "University Of Chicago", "authors": ["Jean-noel Jeanneney", "Ian C. Wilson", "Teresa Lavender Fagan"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge - Jean-noel Jeanneney.pdf", "dir_path": "Jean-noel Jeanneney/Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge (165)/", "size": 921997}], "cover_url": "Jean-noel Jeanneney/Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge (165)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0226395774"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780226395777"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "191669"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "rc19MRhlUEgC"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "8f1f2301-0023-4b21-ab6a-87c0f8b762fb": {"title": "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies", "title_sort": "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies", "pubdate": "2011-04-24 22:20:31+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "8f1f2301-0023-4b21-ab6a-87c0f8b762fb", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><div>http://piracy.ssrc.org</div><div><br></div></div>", "publisher": "Social Science Research Council", "authors": ["Joe Karaganis"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies - Joe Karaganis.pdf", "dir_path": "Joe Karaganis/Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (166)/", "size": 29099716}], "cover_url": "Joe Karaganis/Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (166)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "11724200"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780984125746"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "c630cedc-571e-4715-994a-ec5cebd2f1d3": {"title": "The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclop\u00e9die, 1775-1800", "title_sort": "Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclop\u00e9die, 1775-1800, The", "pubdate": "1979-03-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "c630cedc-571e-4715-994a-ec5cebd2f1d3", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Darnton's history of the Encyclop\u00e9die is such an occasion. The author explores some fascinating territory in the French genre of histoire du livre, and at the same time he tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing. This is cultural history on a broad scale, a history of the process of civilization.In tracing the publishing story of Diderot's Encyclop\u00e9die, Darnton uses new sources--the papers of eighteenth-century publishers--that allow him to respond firmly to a set of problems long vexing historians. He shows how the material basis of literature and the technology of its production affected the substance and diffusion of ideas. He fully explores the workings of the literary market place, including the roles of publishers, book dealers, traveling salesmen, and other intermediaries in cultural communication. How publishing functioned as a business, and how it fit into the political as well as the economic systems of prerevolutionary Europe are set forth. The making of books touched on this vast range of activities because books were products of artisanal labor, objects of economic exchange, vehicles of ideas, and elements in political and religious conflict.The ways ideas traveled in early modern Europe, the level of penetration of Enlightenment ideas in the society of the Old Regime, and the connections between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution are brilliantly treated by Darnton. In doing so he unearths a double paradox. It was the upper orders in society rather than the industrial bourgeoisie or the lower classes that first shook off archaic beliefs and took up Enlightenment ideas. And the state, which initially had suppressed those ideas, ultimately came to favor them. Yet at this high point in the diffusion and legitimation of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution erupted, destroying the social and political order in which the Enlightenment had flourished.Never again will the contours of the Enlightenment be drawn without reference to this work. Darnton has written an indispensable book for historians of modern Europe.</p>", "publisher": "Harvard University", "authors": ["Robert Darnton"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Business of Enlightenment_ A Publishin - Robert Darnton.pdf", "dir_path": "Robert Darnton/The Business of Enlightenment_ A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie, 1775-1800 (167)/", "size": 39749902}], "cover_url": "Robert Darnton/The Business of Enlightenment_ A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie, 1775-1800 (167)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780674087859"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "785498"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "187f5738-20fd-40de-91ce-77612287aeeb": {"title": "Living With Google", "title_sort": "Living With Google", "pubdate": "2008-01-22 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:06.366307+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "187f5738-20fd-40de-91ce-77612287aeeb", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>Journal of Library Administration, Volume 47 Issue 1 &amp; 2 2008<div><br></div><div>ISSN: 1540-3564 (electronic) 0193-0826 (paper)\u00a0\n</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g903853051</div><div><br></div></div>", "publisher": "Routledge", "authors": ["Unknown"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Living With Google - Unknown.pdf", "dir_path": "Unknown/Living With Google (168)/", "size": 1084368}], "cover_url": "Unknown/Living With Google (168)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "issn", "code": "1540-3564"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Journal of Library Administration"}, "7095e55b-74e8-404c-8688-afb6d2910894": {"title": "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood", "title_sort": "Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, The", "pubdate": "2011-02-28 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:06.366307+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "7095e55b-74e8-404c-8688-afb6d2910894", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div class=\"user_annotations\"><p>James Gleick, the author of the best sellers <em>Chaos</em> and <em>Genius,</em> now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era\u2019s defining quality\u2014the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. <br><br>The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.<br><br>And then the information age arrives. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And we sometimes feel we are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. <em>The Information</em> is the story of how we got here and where we are heading.</p><p><em>From the Hardcover edition.</em></p><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p><strong>Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2011</strong>: In a sense, <em>The Information</em> is a book about everything, from words themselves to talking drums, writing and lexicography, early attempts at an analytical engine, the telegraph and telephone, ENIAC, and the ubiquitous computers that followed. But that's just the \"History.\" The \"Theory\" focuses on such 20th-century notables as Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener, Alan Turing, and others who worked on coding, decoding, and re-coding both the meaning and the myriad messages transmitted via the media of their times. In the \"Flood,\" Gleick explains genetics as biology's mechanism for informational exchange--Is a chicken just an egg's way of making another egg?--and discusses self-replicating memes (ideas as different as earworms and racism) as information's own evolving meta-life forms. Along the way, readers learn about music and quantum mechanics, why forgetting takes work, the meaning of an \"interesting number,\" and why \"[t]he bit is the ultimate unsplittable particle.\" What results is a visceral sense of information's contemporary precedence as a way of understanding the world, a physical/symbolic palimpsest of self-propelled exchange, the universe itself as the ultimate analytical engine. If Borges's \"Library of Babel\" is literature's iconic cautionary tale about the extreme of informational overload, Gleick sees the opposite, the world as an endlessly unfolding opportunity in which \"creatures of the information\" may just recognize themselves. --<em>Jason Kirk</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Starred Review. In 1948, Bell Laboratories announced the invention of the electronic semiconductor and its revolutionary ability to do anything a vacuum tube could do but more efficiently. While the revolution in communications was taking these steps, Bell Labs scientist Claude Shannon helped to write a monograph for them, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, in which he coined the word bit to name a fundamental unit of computer information. As bestselling author Gleick (Chaos) astutely argues, Shannon's neologism profoundly changed our view of the world; his brilliant work introduced us to the notion that a tiny piece of hardware could transmit messages that contained meaning and that a physical unit, a bit, could measure a quality as elusive as information. Shannon's story is only one of many in this sprawling history of information. With his brilliant ability to synthesize mounds of details and to tell rich stories, Gleick leads us on a journey from one form of communicating information to another, beginning with African tribes' use of drums and including along the way scientists like Samuel B. Morse, who invented the telegraph; Norbert Wiener, who developed cybernetics; and Ada Byron, the great Romantic poet's daughter, who collaborated with Charles Babbage in developing the first mechanical computer. Gleick's exceptional history of culture concludes that information is indeed the blood, the fuel, and the vital principle on which our world runs.</p></div>", "publisher": "Vintage", "authors": ["James Gleick"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Information_ A History, a Theory, a Fl - James Gleick.epub", "dir_path": "James Gleick/The Information_ A History, a Theory, a Flood (169)/", "size": 2004920}, {"format": "mobi", "file_name": "The Information_ A History, a Theory, a Fl - James Gleick.mobi", "dir_path": "James Gleick/The Information_ A History, a Theory, a Flood (169)/", "size": 2434406}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Information_ A History, a Theory, a Fl - James Gleick.pdf", "dir_path": "James Gleick/The Information_ A History, a Theory, a Flood (169)/", "size": 5336924}], "cover_url": "James Gleick/The Information_ A History, a Theory, a Flood (169)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "617JSFW0D2kC"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "10161008"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B004DEPHUC"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "1400096235"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "e66f526b-65df-413f-929b-26f6bf58e7d8": {"title": "The Future of The Book", "title_sort": "Future of The Book, The", "pubdate": "1947-01-20 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e66f526b-65df-413f-929b-26f6bf58e7d8", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "", "authors": ["El Lissitsky"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Future of The Book - El Lissitsky.pdf", "dir_path": "El Lissitsky/The Future of The Book (170)/", "size": 71564}], "cover_url": "El Lissitsky/The Future of The Book (170)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "New Left Review"}, "f2c6a789-abff-44d5-a8d1-4e4d73483e29": {"title": "For the good of the net: The Pirate Bay as strategic sovereign", "title_sort": "For the good of the net: The Pirate Bay as strategic sovereign", "pubdate": "2009-01-27 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "f2c6a789-abff-44d5-a8d1-4e4d73483e29", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>\"In this essay I will argue that as peer-to-peer (p2p)-based file-sharing increasingly becomes the norm for media acquisition among the general Internet public, entities such as The Pirate Bay and associated quasi-institutional entities such as Piratbyr\u00e5n, Zeropaid, TorrentFreak, etc. have begun to appear less as a reactive force (i.e. \u2018breaking the rules\u2019) and more as a proactive one (\u2018setting the rules\u2019). In providing platforms for sharing and for voicing dissent towards the established entertainment industry, the increasing autonomy gained by these piratical actors becomes more akin to the concept of \u2018positive liberty\u2019 than to a purely \u2018negative,\u2019 reactive one. 1 Rather than complain about the conservatism of established forms of distribution they simply create new, alternative ones. Entities such as The Pirate Bay can thus be said to have effectively had the \u2018upper hand\u2019 in the conflict over the future of copyright and digital distribution. They increasingly set the terms with regard to establishing not only technical protocols for distribution but also codes of behaviour and discursive norms. The entertainment industry is then forced to react to these terms. In this sense, the likes of The Pirate Bay become \u2013 in the language of French philosopher Michel de Certeau (1984) \u2013 strategic rather than tactical. With this, however, comes the added problem of becoming exposed by their opponents as visible perpetrators of particular acts. The strategic sovereignty of sites such as The Pirate Bay makes them appear to be the reason for the wider change in media distribution, not just an incidental side-effect of it.\"</p></div>", "publisher": "Open Humanities Press", "authors": ["Jonas Andersson"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "For the good of the net_ The Pirate Bay as - Jonas Andersson.pdf", "dir_path": "Jonas Andersson/For the good of the net_ The Pirate Bay as strategic sovereign (171)/", "size": 382807}], "cover_url": "Jonas Andersson/For the good of the net_ The Pirate Bay as strategic sovereign (171)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Culture Machine"}, "ec2a0b48-8e75-4b26-b3ef-1b05151998fe": {"title": "Culture Machine Vol10.2009 - Doing it for ourselves: The Pirate Bay as strategic sovereign", "title_sort": "Culture Machine Vol10.2009 - Doing it for ourselves: The Pirate Bay as strategic sovereign", "pubdate": "2011-01-25 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "ec2a0b48-8e75-4b26-b3ef-1b05151998fe", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "", "authors": ["Jonas Andersson"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Culture Machine Vol10.2009 - Doing it for - Jonas Andersson.epub", "dir_path": "Jonas Andersson/Culture Machine Vol10.2009 - Doing it for ourselves_ The Pirate Bay as strategic sovereign (172)/", "size": 355011}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Culture Machine Vol10.2009 - Doing it for - Jonas Andersson.pdf", "dir_path": "Jonas Andersson/Culture Machine Vol10.2009 - Doing it for ourselves_ The Pirate Bay as strategic sovereign (172)/", "size": 213380}], "cover_url": "Jonas Andersson/Culture Machine Vol10.2009 - Doing it for ourselves_ The Pirate Bay as strategic sovereign (172)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "6a3f43d8-750d-4074-8517-83794edb483f": {"title": "Art Power", "title_sort": "Art Power", "pubdate": "2008-03-29 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:28:01.628008+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "6a3f43d8-750d-4074-8517-83794edb483f", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of\u00a0global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the\u00a0distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's\u00a0fiats of inclusion and exclusion.In Art Power, Groys examines modern and\u00a0contemporary art according to its ideological function. Art, Groys writes, is produced and brought\u00a0before the public in two ways -- as a commodity and as a tool of political propaganda. In the\u00a0contemporary art scene, very little attention is paid to the latter function. Arguing for the\u00a0inclusion of politically motivated art in contemporary art discourse, Groys considers art produced\u00a0under totalitarianism, Socialism, and post-Communism. He also considers today's mainstream Western\u00a0art -- which he finds behaving more and more according the norms of ideological propaganda: produced\u00a0and exhibited for the masses at international exhibitions, biennials, and festivals. Contemporary\u00a0art, Groys argues, demonstrates its power by appropriating the iconoclastic gestures directed\u00a0against itself -- by positioning itself simultaneously as an image and as a critique of the image.In Art Power, Groys examines this fundamental appropriation that produces theparadoxical object of the modern artwork.</p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Boris Groys"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Art Power - Boris Groys.pdf", "dir_path": "Boris Groys/Art Power (173)/", "size": 899189}], "cover_url": "Boris Groys/Art Power (173)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "2496618"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262072922"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B002VBX93Q"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "2ca69911-3f0b-44f0-b70c-d4ddf14d9ba0": {"title": "Theory of the Avant-Garde", "title_sort": "Theory of the Avant-Garde", "pubdate": "1984-09-17 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:25:40.606415+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "2ca69911-3f0b-44f0-b70c-d4ddf14d9ba0", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Suggests a theory of art, tests against the French and German avant-garde movements of the twenties, and discusses hermeneutics, ideology, aesthetic categories, and the autonomy of art.</p></div>", "publisher": "University of Minnesota", "authors": ["Peter Burger"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Theory of the Avant-Garde - Peter Burger.pdf", "dir_path": "Peter Burger/Theory of the Avant-Garde (174)/", "size": 12648830}], "cover_url": "Peter Burger/Theory of the Avant-Garde (174)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780816610686"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0816610681"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Theory and History of Literature"}, "bbec33e7-3d8d-46de-88fd-029531f79763": {"title": "On the New", "title_sort": "On the New", "pubdate": "0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:25:40.606415+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "bbec33e7-3d8d-46de-88fd-029531f79763", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p><i>On the New</i> looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of Boris Groys's investigation which aims to map the uncharted territory of what constitutes artistic innovation and what processes underpin its recognition and appropriation.", "publisher": "Verso Books", "authors": ["Boris Groys"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "On the New - Boris Groys.epub", "dir_path": "Boris Groys/On the New (175)/", "size": 729751}], "cover_url": "Boris Groys/On the New (175)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "fd436260-f310-4a20-98b1-f297d80a3d59": {"title": "Library as Infrastructure", "title_sort": "Library as Infrastructure", "pubdate": "2017-05-10 15:52:52+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:25:40.606415+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "fd436260-f310-4a20-98b1-f297d80a3d59", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "", "authors": ["Shannon Mattern"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Library as Infrastructure - Shannon Mattern.pdf", "dir_path": "Shannon Mattern/Library as Infrastructure (176)/", "size": 329665}], "cover_url": "Shannon Mattern/Library as Infrastructure (176)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": [], "series": "Encyclopedic Storage"}, "70173973-603f-4dca-ae75-83ab662681de": {"title": "The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz", "title_sort": "Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz, The", "pubdate": "2016-01-04 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:25:40.606415+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "70173973-603f-4dca-ae75-83ab662681de", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright infringement shocked the nation and the world. </p>\n<p>Here for the first time in print is revealed the quintessential Aaron Swartz: besides being a technical genius and a passionate activist, he was also an insightful, compelling, and cutting essayist. With a technical understanding of the Internet and of intellectual property law surpassing that of many seasoned professionals, he wrote thoughtfully and humorously about intellectual property, copyright, and the architecture of the Internet. He wrote as well about unexpected topics such as pop culture, politics both electoral and idealistic, dieting, and lifehacking. Including three in-depth and previously unpublished essays about education, governance, and cities,The Boy Who Could Change the World contains the life's work of one of the most original minds of our time.</p></div>", "publisher": "The New Press", "authors": ["Aaron Swartz"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Boy Who Could Change the World_ The Wr - Aaron Swartz.epub", "dir_path": "Aaron Swartz/The Boy Who Could Change the World_ The Writings of Aaron Swartz (177)/", "size": 1350690}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Boy Who Could Change the World_ The Wr - Aaron Swartz.pdf", "dir_path": "Aaron Swartz/The Boy Who Could Change the World_ The Writings of Aaron Swartz (177)/", "size": 2022141}], "cover_url": "Aaron Swartz/The Boy Who Could Change the World_ The Writings of Aaron Swartz (177)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781620970768"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "TGE5CwAAQBAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "afc56899-f91b-4ba7-a11f-dcd7a53c5735": {"title": "In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism", "title_sort": "In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism", "pubdate": "2015-09-01 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:25:40.606415+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "afc56899-f91b-4ba7-a11f-dcd7a53c5735", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>\"There has been an epochal shift: the possibility of a global climate crisis is now upon us. Pollution, the poison of pesticides, the exhaustion of natural resources, falling water tables, growing social inequalities - these are all problems that can no longer be treated separately. The effects of global warming have a cumulative impact, and it is not a matter of a crisis that will pass before everything goes back to normal. Our governments are totally incapable of dealing with the situation. Economic warfare obliges them to stick to the goal of irresponsible, even criminal, economic growth, whatever the cost. It is no surprise that people were so struck by the catastrophe in New Orleans. The response of the authorities - to abandon the poor while the rich were able to take shelter is a symbol of the coming barbarism.\"</p></div>", "publisher": "Open Humanities Press", "authors": ["Isabelle Stengers"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "In Catastrophic Times_ Resisting the Comin - Isabelle Stengers.pdf", "dir_path": "Isabelle Stengers/In Catastrophic Times_ Resisting the Coming Barbarism (178)/", "size": 1153232}], "cover_url": "Isabelle Stengers/In Catastrophic Times_ Resisting the Coming Barbarism (178)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "0oXRjgEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781785420092"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1785420097"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "38a50427-a4c3-4b90-b921-c3a6718c60fb": {"title": "Public Library", "title_sort": "Public Library", "pubdate": "2015-05-27 22:43:30+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:48.357997+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "38a50427-a4c3-4b90-b921-c3a6718c60fb", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><div><p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: BitstreamVeraSansMono, Consolas, monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px; widows: 1;\"><em>A public library is:</em></p><ul style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: BitstreamVeraSansMono, Consolas, monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px; widows: 1;\"><li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><em>free access to books for every member of society</em></li><li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><em>library catalog</em></li><li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><em>librarian</em></li></ul><p title=\"Joseph Beuys\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: BitstreamVeraSansMono, Consolas, monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px; widows: 1;\"><em>With books ready to be shared, meticulously cataloged, everyone is a librarian.</em></p><p title=\"Joseph Beuys\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: BitstreamVeraSansMono, Consolas, monospace; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px; widows: 1;\"><em>When everyone is librarian, library is everywhere.</em></p></div><a href=\"https://www.memoryoftheworld.org\">Memory of the World</a></div>", "publisher": "Multimedijalni institut & WHW", "authors": ["Tomislav Medak", "McKenzie Wark", "Paul Otlet", "Marcell Mars", "Manar Zarroug"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Public Library - Tomislav Medak.pdf", "dir_path": "Tomislav Medak/Public Library (179)/", "size": 1320889}], "cover_url": "Tomislav Medak/Public Library (179)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9789535595137"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "f4a8c24a-071f-4080-bea4-97eadb849c93": {"title": "Stories and threads: Perspectives on Art Archives", "title_sort": "Stories and threads: Perspectives on Art Archives", "pubdate": "2023-02-10 12:37:37+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:25:40.606415+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "f4a8c24a-071f-4080-bea4-97eadb849c93", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Archives, above all else, are durational; formed and shaped by the cir- cumstances of their production and transformed by the contexts of their engagement and interpretation. The following texts present a se- ries of perspectives on art archives, authored by those connected to the activities of the Archive Group of L\u2019Internationale, and yet within this commissioning framework, those who approach the archive with different professional backgrounds, research interests and reasons for their engagement.</p>\n<p>Art archives are complicated by issues of the visual and the publication presents various texts structured along a series of five key threads. Our objective with approaching the publication in this way was to open up the subject of art archives for further discussion and analysis, which as the following texts show, sometimes leads to more questions than answers. The archive is both a repository for stories and in turn, different stories are told about the archive. The assumed authority of the document as record is questioned and the answers have sometimes slipped forward into new questions, propelled by curi- osity and differing experience. Contemporary art archives are complex spaces of engagement with multiple agents, from the archivist and the librarian to the researcher, from the curator to the artist, from the ac- tivist to the student, etc. and it is through their collaboration and coop- eration that the archive becomes meaningful. This publication aims to draw out these meanings, presenting them as perspectives on contem- porary art archives in the present moment.</p></div>", "publisher": "L\u2019Internationale Online", "authors": ["Sara Buraya Boned", "Jennifer Fitzgibbon", "Sezin Romi"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Stories and threads_ Perspectives on Art A - Sara Buraya Boned.pdf", "dir_path": "Sara Buraya Boned/Stories and threads_ Perspectives on Art Archives (180)/", "size": 11249660}], "cover_url": "Sara Buraya Boned/Stories and threads_ Perspectives on Art Archives (180)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9789152713426"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "1e8785e4-1ed3-43a9-8f99-e748e22bede3": {"title": "An open letter to America\u2019s publishers from ALA President Maureen Sullivan", "title_sort": "open letter to America\u2019s publishers from ALA President Maureen Sullivan, An", "pubdate": "2012-09-27 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:25:40.606415+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "1e8785e4-1ed3-43a9-8f99-e748e22bede3", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>from <a href=\"https://www.ala.org/news/2012/09/open-letter-america%E2%80%99s-publishers-ala-president-maureen-sullivan\"><span style=\"color: #2980b9\">https://www.ala.org/news/2012/09/open-letter-america%E2%80%99s-publishers-ala-president-maureen-sullivan</span></a></p>\n<p>Publishers, libraries and other entities have worked together for centuries to sustain a healthy reading ecosystem \u2014 celebrating our society\u2019s access to the complete marketplace of ideas. Given the obvious value of libraries to publishers, it simply does not add up that any publisher would continue to lock out libraries. It doesn\u2019t add up for me, it doesn\u2019t add up for ALA\u2019s 60,000 members, and it definitely doesn\u2019t add up for the millions of people who use our libraries every month.</p>\n<p>America\u2019s libraries have always served as the \u201cpeople\u2019s university\u201d by providing access to reading materials and educational opportunity for the millions who want to read and learn but cannot afford to buy the books they need. Librarians have a particular concern for vulnerable populations that may not have any other access to books and electronic content, including individuals and families who are homebound or low-income. To deny these library users access to e-books that are available to others \u2014 and which libraries are eager to purchase on their behalf \u2014 is discriminatory.</p></div>", "publisher": "American Library Association", "authors": ["Maureen Sullivan"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "An open letter to America's publishers fro - Maureen Sullivan.pdf", "dir_path": "Maureen Sullivan/An open letter to America's publishers from ALA President Maureen Sullivan (181)/", "size": 68484}], "cover_url": "Maureen Sullivan/An open letter to America's publishers from ALA President Maureen Sullivan (181)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "54f8cd3d-f203-48ca-bbb2-cd31c335e312": {"title": "Local Maximum: On Popular Technical Pedagogy", "title_sort": "Local Maximum: On Popular Technical Pedagogy", "pubdate": "2022-12-05 09:38:50+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:25:40.606415+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "54f8cd3d-f203-48ca-bbb2-cd31c335e312", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "What, How and From Whom", "authors": ["Pirate Care"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Local Maximum_ On Popular Technical Pedago - Pirate Care.pdf", "dir_path": "Pirate Care/Local Maximum_ On Popular Technical Pedagogy (182)/", "size": 143542}], "cover_url": "Pirate Care/Local Maximum_ On Popular Technical Pedagogy (182)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses and Tools"}, "d38e1f04-5722-4c48-b890-1cb9225a1ed6": {"title": "What is critical about critical librarianship?", "title_sort": "What is critical about critical librarianship?", "pubdate": "2019-04-08 13:14:02+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:25:40.606415+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "d38e1f04-5722-4c48-b890-1cb9225a1ed6", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Library work structures intellectual worlds as library workers collect, organize, make accessible, and preserve materials for use. This work is not neutral. Libraries, like all institutions, are produced in and through systems marked by racism, patriarchy, and capitalist modes of production. Critical librarianship offers a framework for thinking about our work that asks how library structures came to be and what ideologies underpin them. Viewing librarianship through this frame allows us to imagine new and better worlds on our way to making them.</p></div>", "publisher": "Cambridge University", "authors": ["Emily Drabinski"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "What is critical about critical librarians - Emily Drabinski.pdf", "dir_path": "Emily Drabinski/What is critical about critical librarianship_ (183)/", "size": 517972}], "cover_url": "Emily Drabinski/What is critical about critical librarianship_ (183)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "doi", "code": "10.1017/alj.2019.3"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Art Libraries Journal"}, "ea1da76c-7012-4636-922c-83e92250fbf8": {"title": "Wasting Time on the Internet", "title_sort": "Wasting Time on the Internet", "pubdate": "2016-08-22 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:54.988544+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "ea1da76c-7012-4636-922c-83e92250fbf8", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Using clear, readable prose, conceptual artist and poet Kenneth Goldsmith\u2019s manifesto shows how our time on the internet is not really wasted but is quite productive and creative as he puts the experience in its proper theoretical and philosophical context.</p>\n<p>Kenneth Goldsmith wants you to rethink the internet. Many people feel guilty after spending hours watching cat videos or clicking link after link after link. But Goldsmith sees that \u201cwasted\u201d time differently. Unlike old media, the internet demands active engagement\u2014and it\u2019s actually making us more social, more creative, even more productive.</p>\n<p>When Goldsmith, a renowned conceptual artist and poet, introduced a class at the University of Pennsylvania called \u201cWasting Time on the Internet\u201d, he nearly <em>broke</em> the internet. The <em>New Yorker</em>, the <em>Atlantic</em>, the <em>Washington Post</em>, Slate, Vice, <em>Time</em>, CNN, the <em>Telegraph</em>, and many more, ran articles expressing their shock, dismay, and, ultimately, their curiosity. Goldsmith\u2019s ideas struck a nerve, because they are brilliantly subversive\u2014and endlessly shareable.</p>\n<p>In <em>Wasting Time on the Internet</em>, Goldsmith expands upon his provocative insights, contending that our digital lives are remaking human experience. When we\u2019re \u201cwasting time,\u201d we\u2019re actually creating a culture of collaboration. We\u2019re reading and writing more\u2014and quite differently. And we\u2019re turning concepts of authority and authenticity upside-down. The internet puts us in a state between deep focus and subconscious flow, a state that Goldsmith argues is ideal for creativity. Where that creativity takes us will be one of the stories of the twenty-first century.</p></div>", "publisher": "Harper Collins", "authors": ["Kenneth Goldsmith"], "formats": [{"format": "azw", "file_name": "Wasting Time on the Internet - Kenneth Goldsmith.azw", "dir_path": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Wasting Time on the Internet (184)/", "size": 494596}], "cover_url": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Wasting Time on the Internet (184)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B018QM3IWK"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0062416472"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "JhBQjgEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780062416476"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "bf4dfe3a-35d2-42cf-989f-991667a7ee00": {"title": "Kenneth Goldsmith: Theory", "title_sort": "Kenneth Goldsmith: Theory", "pubdate": "2015-06-22 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:12.850328+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "bf4dfe3a-35d2-42cf-989f-991667a7ee00", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>\"I used to be an artist; then I became a poet; then a writer. Now when asked, I simply refer to myself as a word processor,\" Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) writes in <em>Theory</em>. The acclaimed conceptual poet, who is the founder and editor of UbuWeb, a professor of Uncreative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania and the former host of a weekly radio show at WFMU, was also appointed MoMA's very first Poet Laureate in 2013. Goldsmith may be a word processor, but he has also proven to be a highly influential literary figure over the past two decades. His latest publication, <em>Theory</em>, is a series of 500 texts-from poems to aphoristic thoughts to short stories-published on 500 sheets of paper and gathered unbound as a paper ream. This artist's book is the first of Goldsmith's publications to consolidate his diverse practices-from the radio to the Internet to his \"uncreative\" writing-in a single volume.</p>", "publisher": "Jean Bo\u00eete \u00c9ditions", "authors": ["Kenneth Goldsmith"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Kenneth Goldsmith_ Theory - Kenneth Goldsmith.pdf", "dir_path": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Kenneth Goldsmith_ Theory (185)/", "size": 400146}], "cover_url": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Kenneth Goldsmith_ Theory (185)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9782365680103"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "2365680100"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "0eddcefb-63cb-40fc-b97c-cebd42a4c7e0": {"title": "Fidget", "title_sort": "Fidget", "pubdate": "1994-01-17 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:12.850328+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "0eddcefb-63cb-40fc-b97c-cebd42a4c7e0", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Writer Kenneth Goldsmith's transcription of every movement made by his body during 13 hours on Bloomsday (June 16) 1997. Hypnotic, strangely compelling and disorienting at the same time; you'll never think of your body in the same way again. Originally commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art as a collaboration with vocalist Theo Bleckman. (Afterword by Marjorie Perloff.)</p>", "publisher": "Coach House", "authors": ["Kenneth Goldsmith"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Fidget - Kenneth Goldsmith.epub", "dir_path": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Fidget (186)/", "size": 1734338}, {"format": "mobi", "file_name": "Fidget - Kenneth Goldsmith.mobi", "dir_path": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Fidget (186)/", "size": 155060}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Fidget - Kenneth Goldsmith.pdf", "dir_path": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Fidget (186)/", "size": 261013}], "cover_url": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Fidget (186)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B005GEZNF2"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "8U1N-x4zwRUC"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781770560642"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B005GEZNF2"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "a1970caa-9e36-4a8b-86b3-314741edd584": {"title": "Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation", "title_sort": "Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation", "pubdate": "2014-05-21 03:44:06+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:12.850328+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "a1970caa-9e36-4a8b-86b3-314741edd584", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>from\u00a0http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11740<br><br>What is uncreative writing? What can writing learn from visual art? How \ndoes one write through art and culture? What is language and how should \none speak (of) it in this digital age? How have the current \ntechnological developments shaped the contemporary scene and sense of \npoetics, aesthetics, and poetry pedagogy? What is conceptual writing and\n its relation to the international avant-garde movement? And after all, \nwhat is poetry? These are some of the questions addressed by Kenneth \nGoldsmith in the interview with Francisco Roman Guevara. This discussion\n \u2013 candid and provocative \u2013 is a helpful introduction to the ideas of a \nmost significant \u201cwriterly\u201d voice in the contemporary space of literary \nand cultural studies.</div>", "publisher": "De La Salle University", "authors": ["Kenneth Goldsmith", "Francisco Roman Guevara"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation - Kenneth Goldsmith.pdf", "dir_path": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation (187)/", "size": 1079271}], "cover_url": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation (187)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9789715555968"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "7531e958-720c-4878-86d8-14c3c304b5ed": {"title": "Seven American Deaths and Disasters", "title_sort": "Seven American Deaths and Disasters", "pubdate": "2013-03-11 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:33.494077+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "7531e958-720c-4878-86d8-14c3c304b5ed", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In <strong><em>Seven American Deaths and Disasters</em></strong>, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of passionate description. Taking its title from the series of Andy Warhol paintings by the same name, Goldsmith recasts the mundane as the iconic, creating a series of prose poems that encapsulate seven pivotal moments in recent American history: the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and John Lennon assassinations, the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the Columbine shootings, 9/11, and the death of Michael Jackson. While we've become accustomed to watching endless reruns of these tragic spectacles\u2014often to the point of clich\u00e9\u2014once rendered in text, they become unfamiliar, and revealing new dimensions emerge. Impartial reportage is revealed to be laced with subjectivity, bias, mystery, second-guessing, and, in many cases, white-knuckled fear. Part nostalgia, part myth, these words render pivotal moments in American history through the communal lens of media.</p></div>", "publisher": "powerHouse Books", "authors": ["Kenneth Goldsmith"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Seven American Deaths and Disasters - Kenneth Goldsmith.epub", "dir_path": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Seven American Deaths and Disasters (188)/", "size": 2890577}], "cover_url": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Seven American Deaths and Disasters (188)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00CRH2XR2"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1576876365"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "16071842"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "y_O8MgEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781576876367"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "cc74769c-2df1-4dd0-91af-ea4c4d89de0f": {"title": "I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews", "title_sort": "I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews", "pubdate": "2004-07-06 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:33.494077+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "cc74769c-2df1-4dd0-91af-ea4c4d89de0f", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>The Question-and-Answer interview was one of Andy Warhol's favorite communication vehicles, so much so that he named his own magazine after the form. Yet, never before has anyone published a collection of interviews that Warhol himself gave. I'll Be Your Mirror contains more then thirty conversations revealing this unique and important artist. Each piece presents a different facet of the Sphinx-like Warhol's ever-evolving personality. Writer Kenneth Goldsmith provides context and provenance for each selection. Beginning in 1962 with a notorious interview in which Warhol literally begs the interviewer to put words into his mouth, the book covers Warhol's most important artistic period during the '60s. As Warhol shifts to filmmaking in the '70s, this collection explores his emergence as socialite, scene-maker, and trendsetter; his influential Interview magazine; and the Studio 54 scene. In the 80s, his support of young artists like Jean-Michel Basquait, his perspective on art history and the growing relationship to technology in his work are shown. Finally, his return to religious imagery and spirituality are available in an interview conducted just months before his death. Including photographs and previous unpublished interviews, this collage of Warhol showcases the artist's ability to manipulate, captivate, and enrich American culture.</p><p>**</p></div>", "publisher": "Da Capo Press", "authors": ["Kenneth Goldsmith"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "I'll Be Your Mirror_ The Selected Andy War - Kenneth Goldsmith.epub", "dir_path": "Kenneth Goldsmith/I'll Be Your Mirror_ The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews (189)/", "size": 2446250}], "cover_url": "Kenneth Goldsmith/I'll Be Your Mirror_ The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews (189)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780786713646"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "48672"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B009W73NW4"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "078671364X"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "e77833be-f352-4e17-bb3f-15b2708f602f": {"title": "Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing", "title_sort": "Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing", "pubdate": "2011-01-16 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:33.494077+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e77833be-f352-4e17-bb3f-15b2708f602f", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">Charles Bernstein has described conceptual \"poetry pregnant with thought.\" Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors such s Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp through major avant-garde groups of the past century, including Dada, Oulipo, Fluxus, and language poetry, to name just a few. The works of more than a hundred writers from Aasprong to Zykov demonstrate a remarkable variety of new ways of thinking about the nature of texts, information, and art, using found, appropriated, and randomly generated texts to explore the possibilities of non-expressive language.</p>", "publisher": "Northwestern University", "authors": ["Craig Dworkin", "Kenneth Goldsmith"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Against Expression_ An Anthology of Concep - Craig Dworkin.pdf", "dir_path": "Craig Dworkin/Against Expression_ An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (190)/", "size": 17744930}], "cover_url": "Craig Dworkin/Against Expression_ An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (190)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "9333970"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0810127113"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780810127111"}, {"scheme": "barnesnoble", "code": "w/against-expression-craig-dworkin/1111385727"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "DPsjmpV_DWYC"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "9a684413-af5a-476b-8f8c-21588706f8ce": {"title": "Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age", "title_sort": "Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age", "pubdate": "2011-09-19 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-06 23:27:33.494077+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "9a684413-af5a-476b-8f8c-21588706f8ce", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reconceive creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. Confronted with an unprecedented amount of texts and language, writers have the opportunity to move beyond the creation of new texts and manage, parse, appropriate, and reconstruct those that already exist. </p><p>In addition to explaining his concept of uncreative writing, which is also the name of his popular course at the University of Pennsylvania, Goldsmith reads the work of writers who have taken up this challenge. Examining a wide range of texts and techniques, including the use of Google searches to create poetry, the appropriation of courtroom testimony, and the possibility of robo-poetics, Goldsmith joins this recent work to practices that date back to the early twentieth century. Writers and artists such as Walter Benjamin, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Andy Warhol embodied an ethos in which the construction or conception of a text was just as important as the resultant text itself. By extending this tradition into the digital realm, uncreative writing offers new ways of thinking about identity and the making of meaning.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>Brilliant and elegant insight into the exact relation of contemporary literary practices and broader cultural changes, explaining how the technologies of distributed digital media exemplified by the World Wide Web have made possible the flourishing of a particular type of literature.</p><p>(Professor Craig Dworkin, author of <em>The Consequence of Innovation: Twenty-First-Century Poetics</em> )<br></p><p>What Goldsmith argues has significant implications for the world of poetry, poetics, and pedagogy. His book contains brilliant moments of exegesis and archival documentation, and its keen attention to, knowledge about, and currency in artistic practice makes it as much a user's manual as a scholar's tome.</p><p>(Adalaide Morris, The University of Iowa )<br></p><p>In these witty, intelligent essays, Goldsmith brings his encyclopedic knowledge of radical artistic practice to bear on how the rise of the internet has irrevocably changed, or should irrevocably change, our existing conceptions of poetry. Goldsmith's practice as artist and critic is deeply interesting. His book is sure to generate lively debate among poets, artists, literary historians, and media theorists.</p><p>(Sianne Ngai, University of California, Los Angeles )<br></p><p>Multimedia artist and executive manager of words, Goldsmith writes a provocative manifesto for writing in the digital era, with a treasure trove of ideas, techniques, and examples that allow us to make it new -- again!</p><p>(Marcus Boon, author of <em>In Praise of Copying</em> )<br></p><p>\"\u2026a fascinating collection of essays\u2026\"</p><p>(<em>Phi Beta Kappa</em> 3/8/12)<br></p><p>Goldsmith achieves a very difficult feat with this book: he writes lucidly about complex and avant-garde ideas. As a result, he opens up a vital debate for anyone who cares about literature, between notions of traditional creative writing and the set of practices he labels \"uncreative writing\".</p><p>(Douglas Cowie <em>Times Higher Education</em> 11/3/2011)<br></p><p>Selected writers and their practices are reviewed in a series of accessible essays perfect for college-level writers.</p><p>(<em>Midwest Book Review</em> 1/1/2012) </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Kenneth Goldsmith is the author of ten books of poetry and founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb (ubu.com). He is the coeditor of <em>Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing</em> and the editor of <em>I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews</em>, which was the basis for an opera, \"Trans-Warhol,\" that premiered in Geneva in March of 2007. An hour-long documentary of his work, <em>Sucking on Words</em>, premiered at the British Library. He teaches writing at The University of Pennsylvania and is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive.</p></div>", "publisher": "Columbia University", "authors": ["Kenneth Goldsmith"], "formats": [{"format": "mobi", "file_name": "Uncreative Writing_ Managing Language in t - Kenneth Goldsmith.mobi", "dir_path": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Uncreative Writing_ Managing Language in the Digital Age (191)/", "size": 1767252}], "cover_url": "Kenneth Goldsmith/Uncreative Writing_ Managing Language in the Digital Age (191)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0231149913"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780231149914"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B005ZHBVCO"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "10593419"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "6ce5bcd6-1aeb-4e9d-8938-40286132c5e4": {"title": "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation", "title_sort": "Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, The", "pubdate": "2023-09-04 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2023-11-07 10:51:24.322527+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "6ce5bcd6-1aeb-4e9d-8938-40286132c5e4", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>From the introduction:</p>\n<blockquote>This is a book for people who want to destroy Big Tech. </blockquote>\n<blockquote>It\u2019s not a book for people who want to tame Big Tech. There\u2019s no fixing Big Tech. </blockquote>\n<blockquote>It\u2019s not a book for people who want to get rid of technology itself. Technology isn\u2019t the problem. Stop thinking about what technology does and start thinking about who technology does it to and who it does it for. </blockquote>\n<blockquote>This is a book about the thing Big Tech fears the most: technology operated by and for the people who use it. </blockquote>\n<blockquote>Today\u2019s tech barons aren\u2019t evil geniuses. </blockquote>\n<blockquote>They\u2019re not \u201cevil\u201d\u2014their ambitions to world domination are neither novel nor especially grandiose. The founders of the fallen tech giants of yesteryear\u2014Altavista and DEC and Sun Microsystems and Commodore\u2014all wanted the same thing. The difference is, they didn\u2019t get it. </blockquote>\n<blockquote>They\u2019re also not geniuses. The reason the tech industry spent generations churning as new companies and systems supplanted the old was that in the olden days, we enforced competition rules that ensured this would happen. We used to ban companies from buying their competitors and from creating vertical monopolies. </blockquote>\n<blockquote>The new crop of leaders aren\u2019t being displaced, but it\u2019s not due to their incredible leadership and vision.</blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0</p></div>", "publisher": "Verso", "authors": ["Cory Doctorow"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Internet Con_ How to Seize the Means o - Cory Doctorow.epub", "dir_path": "Cory Doctorow/The Internet Con_ How to Seize the Means of Computation (192)/", "size": 319182}], "cover_url": "Cory Doctorow/The Internet Con_ How to Seize the Means of Computation (192)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "QXTOEAAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781804291245"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1804291242"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "928ef092-e715-4092-b670-85b284971728": {"title": "The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained", "title_sort": "Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained, The", "pubdate": "2007-11-30 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:05:54.141682+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "928ef092-e715-4092-b670-85b284971728", "tags": ["Drama", "General"], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Alfred Jarry is regarded as one of the founders of modern avant-garde theatre\u2014 \u201cDada, Surrealism, Pataphysics, Theatre of Cruelty, the Absurd\u2014all owe a debt to Jarry.\u201d (Encore) This volume contains his three classic Ubu texts: Ubu Roi, Ubu Cocu and Ubu Encha\u00een\u00e9. Through the lucid translations of Connolly and Taylor, the reader comes to realize that the violent and loathsome Ubu is Jarry\u2019s dark metaphor for man in the modern age. As Ubu himself said, \u201cWe shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well.\u201d</p></div>", "publisher": "Grove/Atlantic, Inc.", "authors": ["Alfred Jarry"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Ubu Plays_ Includes_ Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuck - Alfred Jarry.epub", "dir_path": "Alfred Jarry/The Ubu Plays_ Includes_ Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained (194)/", "size": 650870}], "cover_url": "Alfred Jarry/The Ubu Plays_ Includes_ Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained (194)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780802199058"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "8SmDS-bfHqkC"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "9991efa0-9142-4128-8fdc-4d387986c7b3": {"title": "Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art", "title_sort": "Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art", "pubdate": "2017-12-31 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:17:09.473124+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "9991efa0-9142-4128-8fdc-4d387986c7b3", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>One of the most important movements in twenty-first century literature is the emergence of conceptual writing. By knowingly drawing on the histories of art and literature, conceptual writing upended traditional categorical conventions.</p>\n<p>Postscript is the first collection of writings on the subject of conceptual writing by a diverse field of scholars in the realms of art, literature, media, as well as the artists themselves. Using new and old technology, and textual and visual modes including appropriation, transcription, translation, redaction, and repetition, the contributors actively challenge the existing scholarship on conceptual art. Rather than segregating the work of visual artists from that of writers we are shown the ways in which conceptual art is, and remains, a mutually supportive interaction between the arts.</p></div>", "publisher": "University of Toronto Press", "authors": ["Andrea Andersson"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Postscript_ Writing After Conceptual Art - Andrea Andersson.pdf", "dir_path": "Andrea Andersson/Postscript_ Writing After Conceptual Art (195)/", "size": 26306945}], "cover_url": "Andrea Andersson/Postscript_ Writing After Conceptual Art (195)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781442649842"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1442649844"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "RRBaDwAAQBAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "d58111ca-b288-4245-831b-2132b109cfec": {"title": "2 Ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais D'Elle", "title_sort": "2 Ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais D'Elle", "pubdate": "1971-01-01 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:29:43.509212+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "d58111ca-b288-4245-831b-2132b109cfec", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "Seuil/Avant-scene", "authors": ["Jean-Luc Godard"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "2 Ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais D'Elle - Jean-Luc Godard.pdf", "dir_path": "Jean-Luc Godard/2 Ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais D'Elle (196)/", "size": 5929453}], "cover_url": "Jean-Luc Godard/2 Ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais D'Elle (196)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "B000ZLQ3SM"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "37b4f288-f166-4f7e-a11b-6bbf701421c7": {"title": "Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life", "title_sort": "Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life", "pubdate": "2015-08-20 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:32:03.476685+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "37b4f288-f166-4f7e-a11b-6bbf701421c7", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figure in Paris\u2014but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than his literary achievements. A century later, Jarry is firmly established as one of the leading figures of the artistic avant-garde. </p>\n<p>Even so, most people today tend to think of Alfred Jarry only as the author of the play <em>Ubu Roi,</em> and of his life as a string of outlandish \u201cubuesque\u201d anecdotes, often recounted with wild inaccuracy. In this first full-length critical biography of Jarry in English, Alastair Brotchie reconstructs the life of a man intent on inventing (and destroying) himself, not to mention his world, and the \u201cphilosophy\u201d that defined their relation. </p>\n<p>Brotchie alternates chapters of biographical narrative with chapters that connect themes, obsessions, and undercurrents that relate to the life. The anecdotes remain, and are even augmented: Jarry's assumption of the \u201cubuesque,\u201d his inversions of everyday behavior (such as eating backward, from cheese to soup), his exploits with gun and bicycle, and his herculean feats of drinking. But Brotchie distinguishes between Jarry's purposely playing the fool and deeper nonconformities that appear essential to his writing and his thought, both of which remain a vital subterranean influence to this day. </p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Alastair Brotchie"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Alfred Jarry_ A Pataphysical Life - Alastair Brotchie.pdf", "dir_path": "Alastair Brotchie/Alfred Jarry_ A Pataphysical Life (197)/", "size": 15274494}], "cover_url": "Alastair Brotchie/Alfred Jarry_ A Pataphysical Life (197)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "or34DwAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0262528436"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262528436"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "55d0d17d-9622-42ce-9067-2c039198d96c": {"title": "This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom", "title_sort": "This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom", "pubdate": "2019-03-05 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:35.445839+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "55d0d17d-9622-42ce-9067-2c039198d96c", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>A profound, original, and accessible book that offers a new secular vision of how we can lead our lives. Ranging from fundamental existential questions to the most pressing social issues of our time, This Life shows why our commitment to freedom and democracy should lead us beyond both religion and capitalism.</p>\n<p>In this groundbreaking book, the philosopher Martin H\u00e4gglund challenges our received notions of faith and freedom. The faith we need to cultivate, he argues, is not a religious faith in eternity but a secular faith devoted to our finite life together. He shows in turn that all spiritual questions of freedom are inseparable from economic and material conditions. What ultimately matters is how we treat one another in this life and what we do with our time together.</p>\n<p>H\u00e4gglund develops new existential and political principles, while transforming our understanding of spiritual life. His critique of religion takes us to the heart of what it means to...</p></div>", "publisher": "Knopf Doubleday", "authors": ["Martin H\u00e4gglund"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "This Life_ Secular Faith and Spiritual Fre - Martin Hagglund.epub", "dir_path": "Martin Hagglund/This Life_ Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom (198)/", "size": 1252418}], "cover_url": "Martin Hagglund/This Life_ Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom (198)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "64dc5013-0595-4105-884b-fe572ce5948c": {"title": "Church time and merchant time in the Middle Ages", "title_sort": "Church time and merchant time in the Middle Ages", "pubdate": "1970-07-31 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:35.498256+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "64dc5013-0595-4105-884b-fe572ce5948c", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "SAGE", "authors": ["Jacques Le Goff"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Church time and merchant time in the Middl - Jacques Le Goff.pdf", "dir_path": "Jacques Le Goff/Church time and merchant time in the Middle Ages (199)/", "size": 1126836}], "cover_url": "Jacques Le Goff/Church time and merchant time in the Middle Ages (199)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "doi", "code": "10.1177/05390184700090041"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Social Science Information"}, "5b6bba41-5671-4680-8916-44144e823d3e": {"title": "Momo", "title_sort": "Momo", "pubdate": "2005-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:35.576166+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "5b6bba41-5671-4680-8916-44144e823d3e", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>At the edge of the city, in the ruins of an old amphitheatre, there lives a little homelss girl called Momo. Momo has a special talent which she uses to help all her friends who come to visit her. Then one day the sinister men in grey arrive and silently take over the city. Only Momo has the power to resist them, and with the help of Professor Hora and his strange tortoise, Cassiopeia, she travels beyond the boundaries of time to uncover their dark secrets.</p></div>", "publisher": "Puffin", "authors": ["Michael Ende"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Momo - Michael Ende.epub", "dir_path": "Michael Ende/Momo (200)/", "size": 331837}, {"format": "mobi", "file_name": "Momo - Michael Ende.mobi", "dir_path": "Michael Ende/Momo (200)/", "size": 344760}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Momo - Michael Ende.pdf", "dir_path": "Michael Ende/Momo (200)/", "size": 402986}], "cover_url": "Michael Ende/Momo (200)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "3522177509"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "MH6MEAAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9783522177504"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "410efd79-8e0a-44fd-b517-ad39ed90565e": {"title": "Roland Barthes and the Idiorrhythms - Part 1", "title_sort": "Roland Barthes and the Idiorrhythms - Part 1", "pubdate": "2019-12-12 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:35.625887+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "410efd79-8e0a-44fd-b517-ad39ed90565e", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>from <a href=\"http://rhuthmos.eu/spip.php?article2484\">http://rhuthmos.eu/spip.php?article2484</a>:</p>\n<p>\u00a0</p>\n<p>\u00a0</p></div>", "publisher": "Rhuthmos", "authors": ["Pascal Michon"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Roland Barthes and the Idiorrhythms - Part - Pascal Michon.pdf", "dir_path": "Pascal Michon/Roland Barthes and the Idiorrhythms - Part 1 (201)/", "size": 92433}], "cover_url": "Pascal Michon/Roland Barthes and the Idiorrhythms - Part 1 (201)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "e7b7a033-78fa-46ef-9ae2-647b649d03b9": {"title": "The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College De France (1977-1978)", "title_sort": "Neutral: Lecture Course at the College De France (1977-1978), The", "pubdate": "2007-12-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:35.690130+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e7b7a033-78fa-46ef-9ae2-647b649d03b9", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>\"I define the Neutral as that which outplays the paradigm, or rather I call Neutral everything that baffles paradigm.\"</p>\n<p>\u00a0</p>\n<p>With these words, Roland Barthes describes a concept that profoundly shaped his work and was the subject of a landmark series of lectures delivered in 1978 at the Coll\u00e8ge de France, just two years before his death. Not published in France until 2002, and appearing in English for the first time, these creative and engaging lectures deepen our understanding of Roland Barthes's intellectual itinerary and reveal his distinctive style as thinker and teacher. The Neutral ( le neutre), as Barthes describes it, escapes or undoes the paradigmatic binary oppositions that structure and produce meaning in Western thought and discourse. These binaries are found in all aspects of human society ranging from language to sexuality to politics. For Barthes, the attempt to deconstruct or escape from these binaries has profound ethical, philosophical, and linguistic implications. The Neutral is comprised of the prewritten texts from which Barthes lectured and centers around 23 \"figures,\" also referred to as \"traits\" or \"twinklings,\" that are possible embodiments of the Neutral (sleep, silence, tact, etc.) or of the anti-Neutral (anger, arrogance, conflict, etc.). His lectures draw on a diverse set of authors and intellectual traditions, including Lao-tzu, Tolstoy, German mysticism, classical philosophy, Rousseau, Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and John Cage. Barthes's idiosyncratic approach to his subjects gives the lectures a playful, personal, and even joyous quality that enhances his rich insights. </p>\n<p>In addition to his reflections on a variety of literary and scholarly works, Barthes's personal convictions and the events of his life shaped the course and content of the lectures. Most prominently, as Barthes admits, the recent death of his mother and the idea of mourning shape several of his lectures.</p></div>", "publisher": "Columbia University", "authors": ["Roland Barthes"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Neutral_ Lecture Course at the College - Roland Barthes.pdf", "dir_path": "Roland Barthes/The Neutral_ Lecture Course at the College De France (1977-1978) (202)/", "size": 10242873}], "cover_url": "Roland Barthes/The Neutral_ Lecture Course at the College De France (1977-1978) (202)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "GiP8wAEACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780231134057"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "035342c5-3a8e-4cdd-abc5-49f4f89c46fd": {"title": "The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming", "title_sort": "One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming, The", "pubdate": "2009-06-01 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:35.748597+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "035342c5-3a8e-4cdd-abc5-49f4f89c46fd", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Call it \u201cZen and the Art of Farming\u201d or a \u201cLittle Green Book,\u201d Masanobu Fukuoka\u2019s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book \u201cis valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture.\u201d Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror nature\u2019s own laws. Over the next three decades he perfected his so-called \u201cdo-nothing\u201d technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. </p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, dedicated to slow food or simply looking to live a healthier life, you will find something here\u2014you may even be moved to start a revolution of your own.</p></div>", "publisher": "New York Review", "authors": ["Masanobu Fukuoka"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The One-Straw Revolution_ An Introduction - Masanobu Fukuoka.pdf", "dir_path": "Masanobu Fukuoka/The One-Straw Revolution_ An Introduction to Natural Farming (203)/", "size": 3258187}], "cover_url": "Masanobu Fukuoka/The One-Straw Revolution_ An Introduction to Natural Farming (203)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781590173138"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "fYHGYhVXNbwC"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "9f1f3735-5f9e-48ef-8a25-001771ddc917": {"title": "How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces", "title_sort": "How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces", "pubdate": "2013-01-07 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:35.832790+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "9f1f3735-5f9e-48ef-8a25-001771ddc917", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to life. The Neutral preceded this work, containing Barthes's challenge to the classic oppositions of Western thought and his effort to establish new pathways of meaning. How to Live Together predates both of these achievements, a series of lectures exploring solitude and the degree of contact necessary for individuals to exist and create at their own pace. A distinct project that sets the tone for his subsequent lectures, How to Live Together is a key introduction to Barthes's pedagogical methods and critical worldview. </p>\n<p>In this work, Barthes focuses on the concept of \"idiorrhythmy,\" a productive form of living together in which one recognizes and respects the individual rhythms of the other. He explores this phenomenon through five texts that represent different living spaces and their associated ways of life: \u00c9mile Zola's Pot-Bouille, set in a Parisian apartment building; Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, which takes place in a sanatorium; Andr\u00e9 Gide's La S\u00e9questr\u00e9e de Poitiers, based on the true story of a woman confined to her bedroom; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, about a castaway on a remote island; and Pallidius's Lausiac History, detailing the ascetic lives of the desert fathers. As with his previous lecture books, How to Live Together exemplifies Barthes's singular approach to teaching, in which he invites his audience to investigate with him -- or for him -- and wholly incorporates his listeners into his discoveries. Rich with playful observations and suggestive prose, How to Live Together orients English-speaking readers to the full power of Barthes's intellectual adventures.</p></div>", "publisher": "Columbia University", "authors": ["Roland Barthes"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "How to Live Together_ Novelistic Simulatio - Roland Barthes.pdf", "dir_path": "Roland Barthes/How to Live Together_ Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces (204)/", "size": 45263947}], "cover_url": "Roland Barthes/How to Live Together_ Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces (204)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "OVKrAgAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780231136167"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "defe8fe9-64db-4dc7-9a3f-1af4c4d83dfa": {"title": "The Philological Apparatus: Science, Text, and Nation in the Nineteenth Century", "title_sort": "Philological Apparatus: Science, Text, and Nation in the Nineteenth Century, The", "pubdate": "2021-05-18 00:07:29+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:35.879060+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "defe8fe9-64db-4dc7-9a3f-1af4c4d83dfa", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Philology haunts the humanities, through both its defendants and its detractors. This article examines the construction of philology as the premier science of the long nineteenth century in Europe. It aims to bring the history of philology up to date by taking it seriously as a science and giving it the kind of treatment that has dominated the history of science for the last generation: to reveal how practices, instruments, and cooperation create visions of timeless knowledge. This historical inquiry therefore asks how one modality of textual interpretation could morph into an integrated system of knowledge production, which ostensibly explained the whole human world. Ultimately, it advances a central argument: philology operated as a relational network, one that concealed diversity and disunity, projected unity and stability, and seemed to rise above the material conditions of its own making. The article scrutinizes the composition of philology as a heterogeneous ensemble, the functioning of philology comparable to other sciences, whether human or natural, and the historical contingency in the articulation of philology.</p></div>", "publisher": "University Of Chicago", "authors": ["Paul Michael Kurtz"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Philological Apparatus_ Science, Text, - Paul Michael Kurtz.pdf", "dir_path": "Paul Michael Kurtz/The Philological Apparatus_ Science, Text, and Nation in the Nineteenth Century (205)/", "size": 4799180}], "cover_url": "Paul Michael Kurtz/The Philological Apparatus_ Science, Text, and Nation in the Nineteenth Century (205)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "doi", "code": "10.1086/714541"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Critical Inquiry"}, "e4a9ff08-5b5b-4998-afd5-f310db52aa81": {"title": "Commandments in the Atomic Age", "title_sort": "Commandments in the Atomic Age", "pubdate": "1957-07-14 20:44:51+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:35.934811+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "e4a9ff08-5b5b-4998-afd5-f310db52aa81", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Your second thought after awakening should run: \u2018The possibility of the Apocalypse is our work. But we know not what we are doing\u2019. We really don\u2019t know, nor do they who control the Apocalypse: for they too are \u2018we\u2019, they too are fundamentally incompetent. That they too are incompetent, is certainly not their fault; rather the consequence of a fact for which neither they nor we can be held responsible: the effect of the daily growing gap between our two faculties; between our actions and our imagination; of the fact, that we are unable to conceive what we can construct; to mentally reproduce what we can produce; to realize the reality which we can bring into being.</p></div>", "publisher": "Monthly Review Press", "authors": ["G\u00fcnther Anders"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Commandments in the Atomic Age - Gunther Anders.pdf", "dir_path": "Gunther Anders/Commandments in the Atomic Age (206)/", "size": 2153373}], "cover_url": "Gunther Anders/Commandments in the Atomic Age (206)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Burning Conscience"}, "05a92c82-7581-40ee-8db1-c3a78c05b0a8": {"title": "Academic paywalls mean publish and perish", "title_sort": "Academic paywalls mean publish and perish", "pubdate": "2012-10-01 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:35.985600+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "05a92c82-7581-40ee-8db1-c3a78c05b0a8", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>from <a href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/10/2/academic-paywalls-mean-publish-and-perish\">https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/10/2/academic-paywalls-mean-publish-and-perish:</a></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u00a0</span></p>\n<p>On July 19, 2011, Aaron Swartz, a computer programmer and activist, was arrested for downloading 4.8 million academic articles. The articles constituted nearly the entire catalogue of JSTOR, a scholarly research database. Universities that want to use JSTOR are charged as much as $50,000 in annual subscription fees.</p>\n<p>Individuals who want to use JSTOR must shell out an average of $19 per article. The academics who write the articles are not paid for their work, nor are the academics who review it. The only people who profit are the 211 employees of JSTOR.</p>\n<p>Swartz thought this was wrong. The paywall, he argued, constituted \u201cprivate theft of public culture\u201d. It hurt not only the greater public, but also academics who must \u201cpay money to read the work of their colleagues\u201c.</p></div>", "publisher": "Al Jazeera", "authors": ["Sarah Kendzior"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Academic paywalls mean publish and perish - Sarah Kendzior.pdf", "dir_path": "Sarah Kendzior/Academic paywalls mean publish and perish (207)/", "size": 37237}], "cover_url": "Sarah Kendzior/Academic paywalls mean publish and perish (207)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "c50ee5cd-1ce8-4f8d-bf0d-f35a06286bda": {"title": "Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices", "title_sort": "Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices", "pubdate": "2012-04-16 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.037220+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "c50ee5cd-1ce8-4f8d-bf0d-f35a06286bda", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>from <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices\">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices:</a></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u00a0</span></p>\n<p>\u00a0 </p>\n<p>\"The system is absurd, and it is inflicting terrible damage on libraries. One year's subscription to The Journal of Comparative Neurology costs the same as 300 monographs. We simply cannot go on paying the increase in subscription prices. In the long run, the answer will be open-access journal publishing, but we need concerted effort to reach that goal.\"</p></div>", "publisher": "The Guardian", "authors": ["Ian Sample"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Harvard University says it can't afford jo - Ian Sample.pdf", "dir_path": "Ian Sample/Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices (208)/", "size": 25615}], "cover_url": "Ian Sample/Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices (208)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "54acdb15-0a78-43ff-b26f-6802076a2b53": {"title": "Equaliberty: Political Essays", "title_sort": "Equaliberty: Political Essays", "pubdate": "2014-02-20 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.090218+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "54acdb15-0a78-43ff-b26f-6802076a2b53", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings together essays by \u00c9tienne Balibar, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time. The book is organized around equaliberty, a term coined by Balibar to connote the tension between the two ideals of modern democracy: equality (social rights and political representation) and liberty (the freedom citizens have to contest the social contract). He finds the tension between these different kinds of rights to be ingrained in the constitution of the modern nation-state and the contemporary welfare state. At the same time, he seeks to keep rights discourse open, eschewing natural entitlements in favor of a deterritorialized citizenship that could be expanded and invented anew in the age of globalization. Deeply engaged with other thinkers, including Arendt, Ranci\u00e8re, and Laclau, he posits a theory of the polity based on social relations. In Equaliberty Balibar brings both the continental and analytic philosophical traditions to bear on the conflicted relations between humanity and citizenship.</p></div>", "publisher": "Duke University", "authors": ["\u00c9tienne Balibar"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Equaliberty_ Political Essays - Etienne Balibar.pdf", "dir_path": "Etienne Balibar/Equaliberty_ Political Essays (209)/", "size": 1877095}], "cover_url": "Etienne Balibar/Equaliberty_ Political Essays (209)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780822377221"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "v8sjAwAAQBAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "cc308c6e-1291-45d0-b0b6-a76fe451ac6d": {"title": "UXN Design", "title_sort": "UXN Design", "pubdate": "2022-02-21 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.143480+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "cc308c6e-1291-45d0-b0b6-a76fe451ac6d", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>from <a href=\"https://100r.co/site/uxn_design.html\">https://100r.co/site/uxn_design.html</a>:</p>\n<p>\u00a0</p>\n<p>As it stands today, modern software is built with extreme short-sightedness, designed to be run on disposable electronics and near impossible to maintain. We decided to not participate. Our aim is to create a machine that focuses on answering the handful of little tasks we need, which is centered around building playful audio/visual experiences. </p></div>", "publisher": "Samizdat", "authors": ["Hundredrabbits"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "UXN Design - Hundredrabbits.pdf", "dir_path": "Hundredrabbits/UXN Design (210)/", "size": 200646}], "cover_url": "Hundredrabbits/UXN Design (210)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "72ba94a9-5e33-4015-ad8d-3e9518d3624d": {"title": "Notes on the Inexact Sciences", "title_sort": "Notes on the Inexact Sciences", "pubdate": "2022-11-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.197771+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "72ba94a9-5e33-4015-ad8d-3e9518d3624d", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Popular wisdom warns us against premature optimization. And yet, in a quest for public legitimacy and tidy problem domains, many fields discourage vitally necessary descriptive and conceptual work in favor of statistical analysis and laboratory experiments. Topics of unprecedented complexity are tackled using rote, mechanical approaches, by researchers who routinely fail to realize how much linguistic and conceptual clarification is a precondition of headway. Meanwhile, sociological and professional incentives prevent the sorts of synthetic work that might de-provincialize researchers' theories, and initiate exactly those conceptual refactorings which would advance the discipline.</p></div>", "publisher": "Seeds of Science", "authors": ["Suspended Reason"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Notes on the Inexact Sciences - Suspended Reason.pdf", "dir_path": "Suspended Reason/Notes on the Inexact Sciences (211)/", "size": 860379}], "cover_url": "Suspended Reason/Notes on the Inexact Sciences (211)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "doi", "code": "10.53975/u60q-i1jd"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Seeds of Science"}, "6d236977-7b2f-487f-96a9-a86246e40b51": {"title": "Strange Tools", "title_sort": "Strange Tools", "pubdate": "0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.245541+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "6d236977-7b2f-487f-96a9-a86246e40b51", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves</p>\n<p>In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva No\u00eb raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, No\u00eb offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.</p></div>", "publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux", "authors": ["Alva No\u00eb"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Strange Tools - Alva Noe.epub", "dir_path": "Alva Noe/Strange Tools (212)/", "size": 378064}], "cover_url": "Alva Noe/Strange Tools (212)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781429945257"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "d660314d-3c9e-46be-8d72-903139646227": {"title": "Existential Monday", "title_sort": "Existential Monday", "pubdate": "2016-04-26 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.317834+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "d660314d-3c9e-46be-8d72-903139646227", "tags": [], "abstract": "<p>Benjamin Fondane&#8212;who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges's friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitz&#8212;was an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every border, \"a torture and a spur.\" Poet, critic, man of the theater, movie director, Fondane was the most daring of the existentialists, a metaphysical anarchist, affirming individual against those great abstractions that limit human freedom&#8212;the State, History, the Law, the Idea.<br> <br> <i>Existential Monday</i>, the first selection of his philosophical work to appear in English, includes four of Fondane's most thought-provoking and important texts, \"Existential Monday and the Sunday of History,\" \"Preface for the Present Moment,\" \"Man Before History\" (co-translated by Andrew Rubens), and \"Boredom.\" Here Fondane, until now little-known except to specialists, emerges as one of the...", "publisher": "New York Review Books", "authors": ["Benjamin Fondane"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Existential Monday - Benjamin Fondane.epub", "dir_path": "Benjamin Fondane/Existential Monday (213)/", "size": 911234}], "cover_url": "Benjamin Fondane/Existential Monday (213)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781590178997"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "acd60323-8616-421c-814e-042469b457b4": {"title": "Science and an African Logic", "title_sort": "Science and an African Logic", "pubdate": "2001-12-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.387809+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "acd60323-8616-421c-814e-042469b457b4", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Does 2 + 2 = 4? Ask almost anyone and they will unequivocally answer yes. A basic equation such as this seems the very definition of certainty, but is it? </p>\n<p>In this captivating book, Helen Verran addresses precisely that question by looking at how science, mathematics, and logic come to life in Yoruba primary schools. Drawing on her experience as a teacher in Nigeria, Verran describes how she went from the radical conclusion that logic and math are culturally relative, to determining what Westerners find so disconcerting about Yoruba logic, to a new understanding of all generalizing logic. She reveals that in contrast to the one-to-many model found in Western number systems, Yoruba thinking operates by figuring things as wholes and their parts. Quantity is not absolute but always relational. Certainty is derived not from abstract logic, but from cultural practices and associations. </p>\n<p>A powerful story of how one woman's investigation in this everday situation led to extraordinary conclusions about the nature of numbers, generalization, and certainty, this book will be a signal contribution to philosophy, anthropology of science, and education.</p>\n<p>From the Inside Flap</p>\n<p>Does 2 + 2 = 4? Ask almost anyone and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. A basic equation such as this seems the very definition of certainty, but how is this so? </p>\n<p>In this captivating book, Helen Verran addresses precisely that question by looking at how science, mathematics, and logic come to life in Yoruba primary schools. Drawing on her experience as a teacher in Nigeria, Verran describes how she went from the radical conclusion that logic and math are culturally relative, to determining what Westerners find so disconcerting about Yoruba logic and to a new understanding of all generalizing logic. She reveals that in contrast to the one-to-many model found in Western number systems, Yoruba thinking operates by figuring things as wholes and their parts. Quantity is not absolute but always relational. Certainty derives not from abstract logic, but from cultural practice and association. </p>\n<p>A powerful story of how one woman's investigation into an everyday African situation led to extraordinary conclusions about the nature of numbers, generalization, and certainty, this book will be a signal contribution to philosophy, anthropology of science, and education.</p></div>", "publisher": "University Of Chicago", "authors": ["Helen Verran"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Science and an African Logic - Helen Verran.pdf", "dir_path": "Helen Verran/Science and an African Logic (214)/", "size": 19508736}], "cover_url": "Helen Verran/Science and an African Logic (214)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0226853918"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780226853918"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "Pruf2NEVuGMC"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "7382d6a6-4889-4c5b-a0e7-422b4711d439": {"title": "The Gulag Archipelago", "title_sort": "Gulag Archipelago, The", "pubdate": "2018-11-02 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.438700+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "7382d6a6-4889-4c5b-a0e7-422b4711d439", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner\u2019s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner\u2019s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">After serving as a decorated captain in the Soviet Army during World War II, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) was sentenced to prison for eight years for criticizing Stalin and the Soviet government in private letters. Solzhenitsyn vaulted from unknown schoolteacher to internationally famous writer in 1962 with the publication of his novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. The writer's increasingly vocal opposition to the regime resulted in another arrest, a charge of treason, and expulsion from the USSR in 1974, the year The Gulag Archipelago, his epic history of the Soviet prison system, first appeared in the West.</span></p></div>", "publisher": "Random House", "authors": ["Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.epub", "dir_path": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn/The Gulag Archipelago (215)/", "size": 2791117}], "cover_url": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn/The Gulag Archipelago (215)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781448128624"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "47a5f6a0-a9eb-410e-8fe3-8988956bd265": {"title": "Kolyma Tales", "title_sort": "Kolyma Tales", "pubdate": "1995-01-31 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.517418+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "47a5f6a0-a9eb-410e-8fe3-8988956bd265", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours. This new enlarged edition combines two collections previously published in the United States as Kolyma Tales and Graphite. </p>\n<p>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700\u00a0titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the\u00a0series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date\u00a0translations by award-winning translators.</p></div>", "publisher": "Penguin Publishing Group", "authors": ["Varlam Shalamov"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Kolyma Tales - Varlam Shalamov.epub", "dir_path": "Varlam Shalamov/Kolyma Tales (216)/", "size": 411863}], "cover_url": "Varlam Shalamov/Kolyma Tales (216)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780140186956"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "25807208-5997-4c19-a2ce-e3373d85b681": {"title": "The Care Manifesto", "title_sort": "Care Manifesto, The", "pubdate": "0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.573503+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "25807208-5997-4c19-a2ce-e3373d85b681", "tags": [], "abstract": "<b>We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?</b><br>The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care&#8212;childcare, healthcare, elder care&#8212;to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way.<br>The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring world. The authors want to reimagine the role of care in our everyday lives, making it the organising principle in every dimension and at every scale of life. We are all dependent on each other, and only by nurturing these interdependencies can we cultivate a world in which each and every one of us can not only live but thrive.<br><i>The Care Manifesto</i> demands that we must put care at the heart of the state and the economy. A caring government must promote collective joy, not the satisfaction of individual desire. This means the transformation of how we organise work through...", "publisher": "Verso Books", "authors": ["The Care Collective", "Jamie Hakim", "Jo Littler", "Catherine Rottenberg", "Lynne Segal"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Care Manifesto - The Care Collective.epub", "dir_path": "The Care Collective/The Care Manifesto (217)/", "size": 170600}], "cover_url": "The Care Collective/The Care Manifesto (217)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "0750c384-bb4e-4e0e-8a22-f533d19a9f9e": {"title": "Die Antiquiertheit Des Menschen", "title_sort": "Antiquiertheit Des Menschen, Die", "pubdate": "1961-12-14 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.621413+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "0750c384-bb4e-4e0e-8a22-f533d19a9f9e", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "C. H. Beck", "authors": ["G\u00fcnther Anders"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Die Antiquiertheit Des Menschen - Gunther Anders.pdf", "dir_path": "Gunther Anders/Die Antiquiertheit Des Menschen (218)/", "size": 5551072}], "cover_url": "Gunther Anders/Die Antiquiertheit Des Menschen (218)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["deu"]}, "35348ff7-26d2-42df-9a19-9b9332c7808f": {"title": "Radiation and Revolution", "title_sort": "Radiation and Revolution", "pubdate": "2020-10-01 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.680506+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "35348ff7-26d2-42df-9a19-9b9332c7808f", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>In <em>Radiation and Revolution</em> political theorist and anticapitalist activist Sabu Kohso uses the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster to illuminate the relationship between nuclear power, capitalism, and the nation-state. Combining an activist's commitment to changing the world with a theorist's determination to grasp the world in its complexity, Kohso outlines how the disaster is not just a pivotal event in postwar Japan; it represents the epitome of the capitalist-state mode of development that continues to devastate the planet's environment. Throughout, he captures the lived experiences of the disaster's victims, shows how the Japanese government's insistence on nuclear power embodies the constitution of its regime under the influence of US global strategy, and considers the future of a radioactive planet driven by nuclearized capitalism. As Kohso demonstrates, nuclear power is not a mere source of energy\u2014it has become the organizing principle of the global order and the most effective way to simultaneously accumulate profit and govern the populace. For those who aspire to a world free from domination by capitalist nation-states, Kohso argues, the abolition of nuclear energy and weaponry is imperative.</p>\n<h3>About the Author</h3>\n<p>Sabu Kohso is a writer, editor, translator, and activist and the author of several books in Japanese.</p></div>", "publisher": "Duke University Press", "authors": ["Sabu Kohso"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Radiation and Revolution - Sabu Kohso.pdf", "dir_path": "Sabu Kohso/Radiation and Revolution (219)/", "size": 12027189}], "cover_url": "Sabu Kohso/Radiation and Revolution (219)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781478009948"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "dea14d7a-710b-45d6-8834-71179b843c27": {"title": "Technopolitics of the future", "title_sort": "Technopolitics of the future", "pubdate": "2022-10-19 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.739091+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "dea14d7a-710b-45d6-8834-71179b843c27", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "nettime-l", "authors": ["Brian Holmes"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Technopolitics of the future - Brian Holmes.pdf", "dir_path": "Brian Holmes/Technopolitics of the future (220)/", "size": 44559}], "cover_url": "Brian Holmes/Technopolitics of the future (220)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "060880ec-6b04-4da4-9d5b-4bfb13d57755": {"title": "How to Build Your Own Living Structures", "title_sort": "How to Build Your Own Living Structures", "pubdate": "1974-01-06 01:45:19+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.835838+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "060880ec-6b04-4da4-9d5b-4bfb13d57755", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "Harmony Books", "authors": ["Ken Isaacs"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "How to Build Your Own Living Structures - Ken Isaacs.pdf", "dir_path": "Ken Isaacs/How to Build Your Own Living Structures (221)/", "size": 52256115}], "cover_url": "Ken Isaacs/How to Build Your Own Living Structures (221)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"]}, "0abc1c4a-9653-4647-b334-3a8b6f18ded1": {"title": "Fake AI", "title_sort": "Fake AI", "pubdate": "2021-10-06 13:30:28+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.910886+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "0abc1c4a-9653-4647-b334-3a8b6f18ded1", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Contributors (alphabetically): Razvan Amironesei, Aparna Ashok, Abeba Birhane, Crofton Black, Favour Borokini, Corinne Cath, Emily Denton, Serena Dokuaa Oduro, Alex Hanna, Adam Harvey, Fieke Jansen, Frederike Kaltheuner, Gemma Milne, Arvind Narayanan, Hilary Nicole, Ridwan Oloyede, Tulsi Parida, Aidan </p>\n<p>Peppin, Deborah Raji, Alexander Reben, Andrew Smart, Andrew Strait, James Vincent</p></div>", "publisher": "Meatspace Press", "authors": ["Frederike Kaltheuner"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Fake AI - Frederike Kaltheuner.pdf", "dir_path": "Frederike Kaltheuner/Fake AI (222)/", "size": 22161035}], "cover_url": "Frederike Kaltheuner/Fake AI (222)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781913824037"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "43b849fe-0852-452f-b8df-05c1863cb36c": {"title": "CAPS LOCK: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and How to Escape From It", "title_sort": "CAPS LOCK: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and How to Escape From It", "pubdate": "2021-11-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:36.993597+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "43b849fe-0852-452f-b8df-05c1863cb36c", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Our current economic system could not exist without the number systems, coins, banknotes, documents, advertisements, interfaces, typefaces and information graphics that graphic designers have helped to create. Even speculative design and social design play their part in fueling the economic system. Capitalism has brought tremendous wealth, but it has not done so evenly. Extreme income inequality and environmental destruction is the price future generations have to pay for unbridled economic growth. The question is whether ethical graphic design is even possible under such conditions.<br><em>CAPS LOCK</em> uses clear language and visual examples to show how graphic design and capitalism are inextricably linked. By sharing examples of radical design practices that challenge the supremacy of the market, it hopes to inspire a different kind of graphic design.</p></div>", "publisher": "Valiz", "authors": ["Ruben Pater"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "CAPS LOCK_ How Capitalism Took Hold of Gra - Ruben Pater.pdf", "dir_path": "Ruben Pater/CAPS LOCK_ How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and How to Escape From It (223)/", "size": 28602425}], "cover_url": "Ruben Pater/CAPS LOCK_ How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and How to Escape From It (223)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9789492095817"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "0b98e871-3ca5-4243-97c4-d3069b01e579": {"title": "Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States", "title_sort": "Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States", "pubdate": "2011-06-20 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.052650+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "0b98e871-3ca5-4243-97c4-d3069b01e579", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>This book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Situating the Gulf within the evolution of capitalism at a global scale, it presents a novel theoretical interpretation of this important region of the Middle East political economy.</p></div>", "publisher": "Palgrave Macmillan", "authors": ["Adam Hanieh"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab Stat - Adam Hanieh.pdf", "dir_path": "Adam Hanieh/Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States (224)/", "size": 3236870}], "cover_url": "Adam Hanieh/Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States (224)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780230110779"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "75b9cb8d-c08f-49b1-8618-4a0b5209a815": {"title": "Methodological Nationalism and Beyond: Nation-State Building, Migration and the Social Sciences", "title_sort": "Methodological Nationalism and Beyond: Nation-State Building, Migration and the Social Sciences", "pubdate": "2002-12-04 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.114893+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "75b9cb8d-c08f-49b1-8618-4a0b5209a815", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "Global Networks", "authors": ["Andreas Wimmer", "Nina Glick Schiller"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Methodological Nationalism and Beyond_ Nat - Andreas Wimmer.pdf", "dir_path": "Andreas Wimmer/Methodological Nationalism and Beyond_ Nation-State Building, Migration and the Social Sciences (225)/", "size": 220398}], "cover_url": "Andreas Wimmer/Methodological Nationalism and Beyond_ Nation-State Building, Migration and the Social Sciences (225)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "issn", "code": "1470-2266"}], "languages": [], "series": "Global Networks"}, "5ab99689-92d5-4632-84c2-47fbdbcfbbd5": {"title": "After Modernity: Citizenship Beyond the Nation State?", "title_sort": "After Modernity: Citizenship Beyond the Nation State?", "pubdate": "0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.177799+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "5ab99689-92d5-4632-84c2-47fbdbcfbbd5", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Increasing numbers of people live and work abroad as non-nationals, while states filter and categorise residents and their rights in ever more complex ways. What does citizenship mean for the millions of people in Europe who are migrants of some form or another? If democracy stays cast in its national mould, the path ahead in the 21st century may be one of exclusion and disenfranchisement. Unless, that is, citizenship can be reimagined.</p></div>", "publisher": "Green European Foundation", "authors": ["Aleksandra Savanovi\u0107"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "After Modernity_ Citizenship Beyond the Na - Aleksandra Savanovic.pdf", "dir_path": "Aleksandra Savanovic/After Modernity_ Citizenship Beyond the Nation State_ (226)/", "size": 93118}], "cover_url": "Aleksandra Savanovic/After Modernity_ Citizenship Beyond the Nation State_ (226)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "issn", "code": "2684-4486"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Green European Journal"}, "51d4be77-2196-44e1-8103-b0c186896fc4": {"title": "Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy", "title_sort": "Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy", "pubdate": "2020-03-23 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.241526+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "51d4be77-2196-44e1-8103-b0c186896fc4", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p><em>Hacked Transmissions</em> is a pioneering exploration of how social movements change across cycles of struggle and alongside technology. Weaving a rich fabric of local and international social movements and media practices, politicized hacking, and independent cultural production, it takes as its entry point a multiyear ethnography of Telestreet, a network of pirate television channels in Italy that combined emerging technologies with the medium of television to challenge the media monopoly of tycoon-turned-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. </p>\n<p>Street televisions in Italy represented a unique experiment in combining old and new media to forge grassroots alliances, fight social isolation, and build more resilient communities. Alessandra Renzi digs for the roots of Telestreet in movements of the 1970s and the global activism of the 1990s to trace its transformations in the present work of one of the network\u2019s more active nodes, insu^tv, in Naples. In so doing, she offers a comprehensive account of transnational media activism, with particular attention to the relations among groups and projects, their modes of social reproduction, the contexts giving rise to them, and the technology they adopt\u2014from zines and radios to social media. <em>Hacked Transmissions</em> is also a study in method, providing examples of co-research between activist researchers and social movements, and a theoretical framework that captures the complexities of grassroots politics and the agency of technology. </p>\n<p>Providing a rare and timely glimpse into a key activist/media project of the twenty-first century, <em>Hacked Transmissions</em> marks a vital contribution to debates in a range of fields, including media and communication studies, anthropology, science and technology studies, social movements studies, sociology, and cultural theory.</p></div>", "publisher": "University of Minnesota", "authors": ["Alessandra Renzi"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Hacked Transmissions_ Technology and Conne - Alessandra Renzi.pdf", "dir_path": "Alessandra Renzi/Hacked Transmissions_ Technology and Connective Activism in Italy (227)/", "size": 1464511}], "cover_url": "Alessandra Renzi/Hacked Transmissions_ Technology and Connective Activism in Italy (227)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781517903268"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "589c2639-6c66-432e-94eb-8b85f33342a6": {"title": "The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View", "title_sort": "Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View, The", "pubdate": "2002-06-16 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.299766+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "589c2639-6c66-432e-94eb-8b85f33342a6", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>In <em>The Origin of Capitalism</em>, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late and localized product of very specific historical conditions, which required great transformations in social relations and in the relationship between humans and nature. </p>\n<p>This new edition is substantially revised and expanded, with extensive new material on imperialism, anti-Eurocentric history, capitalism and the nation-state, and the differences between capitalism and non-capitalist commerce. The author traces links between the origin of capitalism and contemporary conditions such as \u2018globalization\u2019, ecological degradation, and the current agricultural crisis.</p></div>", "publisher": "Verso", "authors": ["Ellen Meiksins Wood"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Origin of Capitalism_ A Longer View - Ellen Meiksins Wood.pdf", "dir_path": "Ellen Meiksins Wood/The Origin of Capitalism_ A Longer View (228)/", "size": 4544246}], "cover_url": "Ellen Meiksins Wood/The Origin of Capitalism_ A Longer View (228)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781786630681"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "b3c023f9-11c5-4a7f-9cea-90a7a30e44fe": {"title": "Smrt joj dobro pristaje", "title_sort": "Smrt joj dobro pristaje", "pubdate": "1997-12-03 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.406956+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "b3c023f9-11c5-4a7f-9cea-90a7a30e44fe", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "", "authors": ["Boris Groys"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Smrt joj dobro pristaje - Boris Groys.pdf", "dir_path": "Boris Groys/Smrt joj dobro pristaje (230)/", "size": 58532}], "cover_url": "Boris Groys/Smrt joj dobro pristaje (230)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["hrv"]}, "119e83e3-0c4d-4266-b195-412ef909a4cd": {"title": "Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios", "title_sort": "Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios", "pubdate": "2022-07-28 20:55:19+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.493368+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "119e83e3-0c4d-4266-b195-412ef909a4cd", "tags": [], "abstract": "", "publisher": "National Academy of Sciences", "authors": ["Luke Kemp", "Chi Xu", "Joanna Depledge", "Kristie L. 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Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this dialectic has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors illustrate how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual blinders and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing during all that time? If agriculture and cities did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organizations did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more open to playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and begins to imagine new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.</p></div>", "publisher": "Picador", "authors": ["David Graeber", "David Wengrow"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Dawn of Everything_ A New History of H - David Graeber.epub", "dir_path": "David Graeber/The Dawn of Everything_ A New History of Humanity (233)/", "size": 5703540}], "cover_url": "David Graeber/The Dawn of Everything_ A New History of Humanity (233)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781250858801"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "99e2f386-69cf-49ae-bfcf-4ba0e83aa26f": {"title": "The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era", "title_sort": "Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era, The", "pubdate": "2015-01-02 12:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.670033+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "99e2f386-69cf-49ae-bfcf-4ba0e83aa26f", "tags": ["politicisingpiracy"], "abstract": "", "publisher": "", "authors": ["Vincent Larivi\u00e8re", "Stefanie Haustein", "Philippe Mongeon"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in th - Vincent Lariviere.pdf", "dir_path": "Vincent Lariviere/The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era (234)/", "size": 2528939}], "cover_url": "Vincent Lariviere/The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era (234)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "doi", "code": "10.1371/journal.pone.0127502"}], "languages": []}, "5654b50b-c0a1-44ab-813e-ebaa7689edb8": {"title": "Sci-Hub Ordered to Pay $15 Million in Piracy Damages", "title_sort": "Sci-Hub Ordered to Pay $15 Million in Piracy Damages", "pubdate": "2017-06-23 11:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.731559+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "5654b50b-c0a1-44ab-813e-ebaa7689edb8", "tags": ["politicisingpiracy"], "abstract": "", "publisher": "", "authors": ["TorrentFreak"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Sci-Hub Ordered to Pay $15 Million in Pira - TorrentFreak.pdf", "dir_path": "TorrentFreak/Sci-Hub Ordered to Pay $15 Million in Piracy Damages (235)/", "size": 100958}], "cover_url": "TorrentFreak/Sci-Hub Ordered to Pay $15 Million in Piracy Damages (235)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": [], "series": "Torrentfreak"}, "4f5d4d0e-7957-4993-b36b-5f0f1c53113e": {"title": "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto", "title_sort": "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto", "pubdate": "2008-01-02 12:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.786601+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "4f5d4d0e-7957-4993-b36b-5f0f1c53113e", "tags": ["politicisingpiracy"], "abstract": "", "publisher": "", "authors": ["Aaron Swartz"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto - Aaron Swartz.pdf", "dir_path": "Aaron Swartz/Guerilla Open Access Manifesto (236)/", "size": 49558}], "cover_url": "Aaron Swartz/Guerilla Open Access Manifesto (236)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "zkey", "code": "B53JZ465"}, {"scheme": "zkey_file", "code": "9T78ENNB"}], "languages": []}, "4d2fd77b-f2e5-414c-864b-a18ffc1466ba": {"title": "Sci-Hub Tears Down Academia's \"Illegal\" Copyright Paywalls", "title_sort": "Sci-Hub Tears Down Academia's \"Illegal\" Copyright Paywalls", "pubdate": "2015-06-27 11:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.840141+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "4d2fd77b-f2e5-414c-864b-a18ffc1466ba", "tags": ["politicisingpiracy"], "abstract": "", "publisher": "", "authors": ["TorrentFreak"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Sci-Hub Tears Down Academia's _Illegal_ Co - TorrentFreak.pdf", "dir_path": "TorrentFreak/Sci-Hub Tears Down Academia's _Illegal_ Copyright Paywalls (237)/", "size": 198224}], "cover_url": "TorrentFreak/Sci-Hub Tears Down Academia's _Illegal_ Copyright Paywalls (237)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": [], "series": "Torrentfreak"}, "11191685-8c1d-4444-8b59-9454a3db7b24": {"title": "The Server: A Media History From the Present to the Baroque", "title_sort": "Server: A Media History From the Present to the Baroque, The", "pubdate": "2018-06-18 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.922065+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "11191685-8c1d-4444-8b59-9454a3db7b24", "tags": ["LibrariesForeshadowed", "Library", "Netculture"], "abstract": "<p>Though classic servants like the butler or the governess have largely vanished, the Internet is filled with servers: web, ftp, mail, and others perform their daily drudgery, going about their business noiselessly and unnoticed. Why then are current\u2011day digital drudges called servers? Markus Krajewski explores this question by going from the present back to the Baroque to study historical aspects of service through various perspectives, be it the servants\u2019 relationship to architecture or their function in literary or scientific contexts. At the intersection of media studies, cultural history, and literature, this work recounts the gradual transition of agency from human to nonhuman actors to show how the concept of the digital server stems from the classic role of the servant.</p>", "publisher": "Yale University", "authors": ["Markus Krajewski"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "The Server_ A Media History From the Prese - Markus Krajewski.epub", "dir_path": "Markus Krajewski/The Server_ A Media History From the Present to the Baroque (238)/", "size": 14254580}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "The Server_ A Media History From the Prese - Markus Krajewski.pdf", "dir_path": "Markus Krajewski/The Server_ A Media History From the Present to the Baroque (238)/", "size": 4721345}], "cover_url": "Markus Krajewski/The Server_ A Media History From the Present to the Baroque (238)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "iR9dDwAAQBAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780300180817"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0300180810"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "bf0360e2-13e5-4032-8bb2-6df972ff3f81": {"title": "Image-Music-Text", "title_sort": "Image-Music-Text", "pubdate": "1978-06-30 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:37.981480+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "bf0360e2-13e5-4032-8bb2-6df972ff3f81", "tags": ["Literary Criticism", "Semiotics & Theory", "Performing Arts", "General"], "abstract": "<div><p>These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces \"Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative\" and \"The Death of the Author\" are also included.</p>\n<p>**</p></div>", "publisher": "Hill and Wang", "authors": ["Roland Barthes", "Stephen Heath"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "Image-Music-Text - Roland Barthes.epub", "dir_path": "Roland Barthes/Image-Music-Text (239)/", "size": 1062248}, {"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Image-Music-Text - Roland Barthes.pdf", "dir_path": "Roland Barthes/Image-Music-Text (239)/", "size": 5243887}], "cover_url": "Roland Barthes/Image-Music-Text (239)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0374521360"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780374521363"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "JXT6DQg_WUwC"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "63ecb924-0253-4724-a2fc-96b8d3dd06b1": {"title": "24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep", "title_sort": "24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep", "pubdate": "2013-06-03 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:38.075790+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "63ecb924-0253-4724-a2fc-96b8d3dd06b1", "tags": ["Economics", "Goodreads"], "abstract": "<div><p><em>24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep</em>\u00a0explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political expression, damaging the fabric of everyday life.  </p><p>Jonathan Crary examines how this interminable non-time blurs any separation between an intensified, ubiquitous consumerism and emerging strategies of control and surveillance. He describes the ongoing management of individual attentiveness and the impairment of perception within the compulsory routines of contemporary technological culture. At the same time, he shows that human sleep, as a restorative withdrawal that is intrinsically incompatible with 24/7 capitalism, points to other more formidable and collective refusals of world-destroying patterns of growth and accumulation.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>\u201cA fascinating short book.\u201d\u2014 <em>New York Times Magazine<br></em><br>\u201cA dark, brilliant book\u201d\u2014Michael Hardt, <em>Artforum<br></em><br>\u201cA polemic as finely concentrated as a line of pure cocaine\u201d\u2014<em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em>  </p><p>\u201cA humane &amp; bracingly splenetic counterblast.\u201d\u2014Steven Poole,\u00a0<em>New Statesman<br></em><br>\u201c<em>24/7</em>\u00a0is the capstone of Crary\u2019s archeology of the spectacle and arguably the most significant of the lot. It\u2019s informed by the erudition of one of the most thorough and original researchers on the planet. The vast bodies of knowledge Crary seamlessly weaves together in\u00a0<em>24/7</em>\u00a0is reminiscent of the work of Michel Foucault\u2026[and] marked by a moral passion that fuels Crary\u2019s polemic and underscores what\u2019s at stake, specifically the future of the human being in both the physical and emotional sense. Plus, it\u2019s eminently readable.\u201d\u2014<em>PopMatters</em>  </p><p>\"The 24/7 phantasmagoria of digital exchange impresses the commodity deep into the body\u2019s tissues, leaving only sleep as a partial respite. Jonathan Crary updates Marcuse\u2019s\u00a0<em>One Dimensional Man</em>\u00a0with a vigilant critique of the totality of the seemingly eternal present of this pseudo-world.\"<br>\u2014McKenzie Wark, author of\u00a0<em>The Spectacle of Disintegration</em>  </p><p>\"Crary\u2019s polemic against the demands of 24/7 capitalism brilliantly illuminates the devastating effects of our changed temporality. Enjoined to constant productivity, we consume ourselves, our world, and our capacity collectively to imagine a common future. This is a crucial commentary on the format and tempo of contemporary life.\"\u2014Jodi Dean, author of\u00a0<em>The Communist Horizon</em>  </p><p>\u201c[An] intelligent and intriguing discussion of how modern monopoly capitalism insinuates itself into the most intimate aspects of our lives\u2026<em>24/7</em>\u00a0is a masterful exploration of the place of the human individual, their dreams and the future of the species in today\u2019s age of nonstop neoliberal capitalism and its multitude of manifestations.\u201d\u2014<em>CounterPunch</em><br><em>\u00a0</em> <br>\u201cCrary makes a smart argument \u2026 astute and far-seeing\u201d \u2013 Erwin Montgomery and Christine Baumgarthuber,<em>\u00a0The New Inquiry</em></p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Jonathan Crary</strong> is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. His books include <em>Techniques of the Observer</em> and <em>Suspensions of Perception</em>. </p></div>", "publisher": "Verso", "authors": ["Jonathan Crary"], "formats": [{"format": "epub", "file_name": "24_7_ Late Capitalism and the Ends of Slee - Jonathan Crary.epub", "dir_path": "Jonathan Crary/24_7_ Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (241)/", "size": 193525}], "cover_url": "Jonathan Crary/24_7_ Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (241)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "16284965"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9781781683118"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "1781680930"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "dLPU_AiSMgoC"}, {"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "B00DQAQZMI"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "aad3b19a-e270-4ecb-a209-7af75af0da9f": {"title": "Relational Aesthetics", "title_sort": "Relational Aesthetics", "pubdate": "1998-01-01 23:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 15:44:38.114762+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "aad3b19a-e270-4ecb-a209-7af75af0da9f", "tags": ["Art", "Goodreads"], "abstract": "<p class=\"description\">\"Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.\" - product description.</p>", "publisher": "Les Presses du R\u00e9el", "authors": ["Nicolas Bourriaud"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Relational Aesthetics - Nicolas Bourriaud.pdf", "dir_path": "Nicolas Bourriaud/Relational Aesthetics (242)/", "size": 1128559}], "cover_url": "Nicolas Bourriaud/Relational Aesthetics (242)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "GAxhQgAACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "amazon", "code": "2840660601"}, {"scheme": "goodreads", "code": "75263"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9782840660606"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "b2405b66-cdef-43a1-85f5-b0effdd421a9": {"title": "Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century", "title_sort": "Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century", "pubdate": "2024-01-15 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-07 16:52:43.901322+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "b2405b66-cdef-43a1-85f5-b0effdd421a9", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>How to level up to the next transformative phase of publishing\u2014with a critical methodology that transcends the dichotomy of paper and digital media production. </p>\n<p>Publishing is experiencing one of the most transformative phases in its history. In <em>Tactical Publishing</em> , a sequel to <em>Post-Digital Print</em> , Alessandro Ludovico explores the forces driving this historical phase, highlighting the tremendous opportunities it presents. Our task, he believes, is to develop an alternative publishing system that transcends the dichotomy between paper and digital media. He focuses first on the two activities on which publishing is premised\u2014reading and writing (with an emphasis onwriting machines and post-truth in the latter)\u2014and then deconstructs the concept, proposing alternative strategies inspired by recent practices and unconventional uses of technology. </p>\n<p>Ludovico shows how the radical and strategic use of print in the past can serve as the basis for our transition to the next phase of publishing. He argues that the new ecology of publishing should be based on three main elements: the stimulation of our senses, the role of software in forming the publishing infrastructure, and the importance of archives. During this transition from the current post-digital phase to the next phase, independent publishers and artists, as well as readers and machines, will enable new structures and actions that realize the potential of publishing and the preservation of content, thereby enriching social practices. The author also considers the crucial social role played by new forms of libraries, as artists and publishers shape the coming publishing world in its various manifestations. Combining analytical accounts of tactical strategies with examples from artworks and experimental practices, the book concludes with a manifesto for publishing in the twenty-first century and an appendix with a selection of one hundred publications representing the \u201cperiodic table\u201d of future publishing.</p></div>", "publisher": "MIT", "authors": ["Alessandro Ludovico"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Tactical Publishing_ Using Senses, Softwar - Alessandro Ludovico.pdf", "dir_path": "Alessandro Ludovico/Tactical Publishing_ Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century (244)/", "size": 4238964}], "cover_url": "Alessandro Ludovico/Tactical Publishing_ Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century (244)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "amazon", "code": "0262542056"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780262542050"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "_CycEAAAQBAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "5567caf9-c5ef-494e-ac45-1a03cb28669a": {"title": "The Complete Stories. Vol. 2", "title_sort": "Complete Stories. Vol. 2, The", "pubdate": "1990-01-02 07:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-08 10:08:38.898136+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "5567caf9-c5ef-494e-ac45-1a03cb28669a", "tags": ["Literature"], "abstract": "<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>This collection of 40 stories, ranging from the mundane to the inspired, offers a sufficient variety to tempt both the newcomer and the devoted fan. The difficulties of day-to-day life for settlers on the planet Mars are revealed in the classic \"The Martian Way.\" When an isolationist Earth government suddenly declares that it is cutting back on the water necessary for the Spacers to survive, these rugged pioneers must find the future on their own. Asimov's world-controlling super-computer Multivac appears in \"The Life and Times of Multivac.\" Although this man-made intelligence nurtures the tiny population of humans that survived the catastrophes of the 20th century, its good deeds are met with resentment. But when the computer is tricked into short-circuiting, the dazed humans aren't prepared to handle the responsibility of their own lives. Salvation, however, rests in the hands of Asimov's robots: devoted, patient, almost loving servants. In the award-winning \"The Bicentennial Man,\" a robot who is accidentally endowed with artistic ability is treated as a freak by his human betters, yet he spends his entire existence seeking only one thing: human form. <br>Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>This ongoing effort to collect all the stories of sf's most prolific writer contains 40 samples of Asimov's talent, including \"The Martian Way\" and \"The Bicentennial Man.\"<br>Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p></div>", "publisher": "Doubleday Books", "authors": ["Isaac Asimov"], "formats": [{"format": "mobi", "file_name": "The Complete Stories. Vol. 2 - Isaac Asimov.mobi", "dir_path": "Isaac Asimov/The Complete Stories. Vol. 2 (246)/", "size": 1673473}], "cover_url": "Isaac Asimov/The Complete Stories. Vol. 2 (246)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "mobi-asin", "code": "82406248-7811-4a2b-940e-c8b459a34c24"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9780385420792"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "c28856e6-9ad1-487f-aa4c-5f6cadf326c9": {"title": "Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture", "title_sort": "Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture", "pubdate": "2023-06-13 09:33:09+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-08 16:02:48.170093+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "c28856e6-9ad1-487f-aa4c-5f6cadf326c9", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Permacomputing is a nascent concept and a community of practice centred around design principles that embrace limits and constraints as a positive thing in computational culture, and on creativity with scarce computational resources. As a result, permacomputing aims to provide a countervoice to digital practices that promote maximisation, hyper-consumption and waste. It seeks to encourage practices as an applied critique of contemporary computer technology that privileges maximalist aesthetics where more pixels, more frame rate, more computation and more power equals more potential at any cost and without any consequences. We believe that such a critical practice can be relevant to artists, designers and cultural practitioners working with computer and network technology who are interested in engaging with environmental issues. This is particularly relevant given the tendency in art, design and cultural production to rely on tools and techniques designed to maximise productivity and mass consumption. In this paper, we argue for the potential of permacomputing as a rich framework for exploring creative design constraints building on a long history of applying constraints in art, design and cultural practices. Because of the need to reconfigure the modes of production and organisation within computational practices, this calls for a different understanding of aesthetics, one that goes beyond the formal evaluation of how things look, but addresses how aesthetics can also be systems of relations, sensing and making sense that are already present in the process of making. We will also discuss the challenges faced by permacomputing practitioners, such as the complicated link with retro-computing, post-digital culture and nostalgia, as well as the problem of constraints in relation to the aesthetisation of poverty, and more generally what it means to work with self-imposed limits in a more privileged socioeconomic context.</p></div>", "publisher": "Association for Computing Machinery", "authors": ["Aymeric Mansoux", "Brendan Howell", "Du\u0161an Barok", "Ville-Matias Heikkil\u00e4"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Permacomputing Aesthetics_ Potential and L - Aymeric Mansoux.pdf", "dir_path": "Aymeric Mansoux/Permacomputing Aesthetics_ Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and (247)/", "size": 1615844}], "cover_url": "Aymeric Mansoux/Permacomputing Aesthetics_ Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and (247)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "doi", "code": "10.21428/bf6fb269.6690fc2e"}], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "Ninth Computing within Limits"}, "31088c2a-75e6-4b1a-ad9f-f193bc66ee50": {"title": "Digital Folklore", "title_sort": "Digital Folklore", "pubdate": "2009-07-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-08 16:50:25.877833+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "31088c2a-75e6-4b1a-ad9f-f193bc66ee50", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div><p>Technical innovations shape only a small part of computer and network culture. It doesn't matter much who invented the microprocessor, the mouse, TCP/IP or the World Wide Web; nor does it matter what ideas were behind these inventions. What matters is who uses them. Only when users start to express themselves with these technical innovations do they truly become relevant to culture at large.</p>\n\n<p>Users' endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, photos of cute kittens and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media.</p>\n\n<p>As the first book of its kind, this reader contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typo-nihilism, memes, teapots, penis enlargement \u2026</p></div>", "publisher": "Merz & Solitude", "authors": ["Dragan Espenschied", "Olia Lialina"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Digital Folklore - Dragan Espenschied.pdf", "dir_path": "Dragan Espenschied/Digital Folklore (248)/", "size": 28335854}], "cover_url": "Dragan Espenschied/Digital Folklore (248)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "google", "code": "LDiGQgAACAAJ"}, {"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9783937982250"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "f9692b25-944c-4057-b86a-fe648ca56cc1": {"title": "Turing Complete User: Resisting Alienation in Human Computer Interaction", "title_sort": "Turing Complete User: Resisting Alienation in Human Computer Interaction", "pubdate": "2021-04-14 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-08 16:54:28.990758+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "f9692b25-944c-4057-b86a-fe648ca56cc1", "tags": [], "abstract": "Around 2010, the field of human-computer interaction and the IT industry at large started to invest in reforming their terminology: banning some words and reversing the meanings of others to camouflage the widening gap between users and developers, to smooth the transition from personal computers to \u201cdumb terminals\u201d, from servers to \u201cbuckets\u201d, from double-clicking to saying \u201cOK, Google\u201d. Computer users also learnt to talk, loud and clear, to be understood by Siri, Alexa, Google Glass, HoloLens, and other products that perform both listening and answering. Maybe it is exactly this amalgamation of input and output into a \u201cconversation\u201d that defines the past decade, and it will be the core of HCI research in the years to come. Who is scripting the conversations with these invisible ears and mouths? How can users control their lines? When hardware and software dissolve into anthropomorphic forms and formless \u201cexperiences\u201d, words stop being mere names and metaphors. They do not only appeal to the imagination and give shape to invisible products. Words themselves become interfaces \u2013 and every change in vocabulary matters.", "publisher": "arthistoricum.net", "authors": ["Olia Lialina"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Turing Complete User_ Resisting Alienation - Olia Lialina.pdf", "dir_path": "Olia Lialina/Turing Complete User_ Resisting Alienation in Human Computer Interaction (249)/", "size": 15051793}], "cover_url": "Olia Lialina/Turing Complete User_ Resisting Alienation in Human Computer Interaction (249)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [{"scheme": "isbn", "code": "9783985010714"}, {"scheme": "google", "code": "3MvRzgEACAAJ"}], "languages": ["eng"]}, "1a85ddbc-dedc-412c-a52c-c2537da440e0": {"title": "Entering the Flow: Museum between Archive and Gesamtkunstwerk", "title_sort": "Entering the Flow: Museum between Archive and Gesamtkunstwerk", "pubdate": "2013-03-31 22:00:00+00:00", "last_modified": "2024-04-09 09:06:16.519987+00:00", "library_uuid": "ac501a78-a016-4eb7-be86-7c9b2de41350", "librarian": "glassblower", "_id": "1a85ddbc-dedc-412c-a52c-c2537da440e0", "tags": [], "abstract": "<div>\n<p>Traditionally, the main occupation of art was to resist the flow of time. Public art museums and big private art collections were created to select certain objects\u2014the artworks\u2014take them out of private and public use, and therefore immunize them against the destructive force of time. Thus, our art museums became huge garbage cans of history in which things were kept and exhibited that had no use anymore in real life: sacral images of past religions or status objects of past lifestyles. During a long period of art history, artists also participated in this struggle against the destructive force of time. They wanted to create artworks that would be able to transcend time by embodying eternal ideals of beauty or, at least, by becoming the medium of historical memory, by acting as witnesses to events, tragedies, hopes, and projects that otherwise would have been forgotten. In this sense, artists and art institutions shared a fundamental project to resist material destruction and historical oblivion.</p>\n<p>Art museums, in their traditional format, were based on the concept of a universal art history. Accordingly, their curators selected artworks that seemed to be of universal relevance and value. These selective practices, and especially their universalist claims, have been criticized in recent decades in the name of the specific cultural identities that they ignored and even suppressed. We no longer believe in universalist, idealist, transhistorical perspectives and identities. The old, materialist way of thinking let us accept only roles rooted in the material conditions of our existence: national-cultural and regional identities, or identities based on race, class, and gender. And there are a potentially infinite number of such specific identities because the material conditions of human existence are very diverse and are permanently changing. However, in this case, the initial mission of the art museum to resist time and become a medium of mankind\u2019s memory reaches an impasse: if there is a potentially infinite number of identities and memories, the museum dissolves because it is incapable of including all of them.</p></div>", "publisher": "e-flux", "authors": ["Boris Groys"], "formats": [{"format": "pdf", "file_name": "Entering the Flow_ Museum between Archive - Boris Groys.pdf", "dir_path": "Boris Groys/Entering the Flow_ Museum between Archive and Gesamtkunstwerk (250)/", "size": 8748721}], "cover_url": "Boris Groys/Entering the Flow_ Museum between Archive and Gesamtkunstwerk (250)/cover.jpg", "identifiers": [], "languages": ["eng"], "series": "e-flux"}}