With textbook readers and digital downloads proliferating, it is
easy to imagine a time when printed books will vanish. Such
forecasts miss the mark, argue Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles.
Future bookshelves will not be wholly virtual, and libraries will
thrive although in a variety of new social, cultural, and
architectural forms. Schnapp and Battles combine deep study of the
library s history with a record of institutional and technical
innovation at metaLAB, a research group at the forefront of the
digital humanities. They gather these currents in The Library
Beyond the Book," exploring what libraries have been in the past to
speculate on what they will become: hybrid places that intermingle
books and ebooks, analog and digital formats, paper and pixels.
Libraries have always been mix-and-match spaces, and remix is
their most plausible future scenario. Speculative and provocative,
The Library Beyond the Book" explains book culture for a world
where the physical and the virtual blend with ever increasing
intimacy."
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!