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From Writing To Computersby Julian Warner
Routledge 1994; US$ 230.00Warner takes as his central theme the issue of a unifying intellectual principle to connect books and computers. Throughout the approach is based on semiotics but also draws on linguistics, informat- ion science, philosophy and automata studies. more...
Maurice Line by Mike McGrath
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 199.00Maurice Line?s first article (1952) was, in retrospect very unexpectedly, on cataloguing ? ?The classification and arrangement of music scores?. It was an excellent discussion of a difficult practical problem, and showed signs of iconoclasm even then. more...
Lost Librariesby James Raven
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 100.00This volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. more...
Ida Leeson - A Lifeby Sylvia Martin
Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 21.78Ida Leeson was no ordinary librarian. At a time when only men rose to such positions in the Australian library world, she won an epic struggle to become Mitchell Librarian - a position previously held only by men. more...
Dictionary of Information and Library Managementby A&C Black
A&C Black 2006; US$ 12.99Covers all aspects of librarianship and information and knowledge management. Designed to equip the trainee librarian or information management student with core industry terminology, this dictionary includes over 6,000 terms connected with information management, classification, cataloguing and electronic knowledge management. more...
Magnificent Obsessionby Brian H. Fletcher
Allen & Unwin 2007; US$ 43.60An impeccably researched and well-written history of the Mitchell Library, this is also the fascinating story of the man whose personal collection of Australiana became, in effect, Australia's memory bank. more...
Memory's Libraryby Jennifer Summit
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 27.50In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries.... more...
Global Library and Information Scienceby Ismail Abdullahi
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 140.00This book presents international librarianship and library science through insightful and well written chapters contributed by experts and scholars from six regions of the world. The role of public, academic, special, school libraries, as well as library and information science education are presented from the early development to the present time. Its lively, readable approach will help the reader to understand librarianship in Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America.Edited by Ismail Abdullahi, Professor of Global Library and Information Science, this book is a must-read by library science students and teachers, librarians, and anyone interested in Global Librarianship. more...
The Idea of the Library in the Ancient Worldby Yun Lee Too
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 90.00In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject up till now. In fact, the library is a complex institution with many different forms. It can be a building with books, but it can also be individual people, or the individual books themselves. In antiquity, the library's functions are numerous: as an instrument of power, of memory,of which it has various modes; as an articulation of a political ideal, an art gallery, a place for sociality. Too indirectly raises important conceptual questions about the contemporary library, bringing to these the insights that a study of antiquity can offer. more...
Inside, Outside, and Onlineby Chrystie Hill
ALA Editions 2009; US$ 38.00Whatever your role, and whatever size or type of library, the principles outlined here can support anyone working to build a strong community of engaged, interested, and satisfied library users. more...