Author : Robert Perks
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 0415133521
Arranged in five thematic parts, "The Oral History Reader" covers key debates in the post-war development of oral history.
Author : Jason König
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1107244587
The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, 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.
Author : Maurice Bernard Line
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781857390827
Author : Hugh A. Taylor
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2003-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0585478953
Hugh A. Taylor is one of the most important thinkers in the English-speaking world of archives. A retired civil servant and archival educator, he was named to the prestigious Order of Canada, his nation's highest civilian award. The fifteen essays in this volume are presented in chronological order so that readers may appreciate the broadening evolution and rich interconnections in Taylor's thought as these occurred over more than three decades. These essays link archives to social life and contemporary ideas. Long before postmodern scholars' recent fascination with 'the archive,' Taylor was intent on constructing archives anew, imagining them as places where archivists connect their records with social issues, with new media and technologies, with the historical tradition of archives, with the earth's ecological systems, and with broader spiritual meaning. Also included are two original essays by editors Terry Cook and Gordon Dodds.
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Page : 614 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art libraries
ISBN :
Author : Australian Society of Archivists. Conference
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Richard J. Cox
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Annotation A response to the book that generated wide-scale public discussion and controversy about libraries and archives.
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Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Information science
ISBN :
Author : National Archives of Canada
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Archives
ISBN :
Author : William Sims Bainbridge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401703604
M. C. Roco and W.S. Bainbridge In the early decades of the 21st century, concentrated efforts can unify science based on the unity of nature, thereby advancing the combination of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and new technologies based in cognitive science. With proper attention to ethical issues and societal needs, converging in human abilities, societal technologies could achieve a tremendous improvement outcomes, the nation's productivity, and the quality of life. This is a broad, cross cutting, emerging and timely opportunity of interest to individuals, society and humanity in the long term. The phrase "convergent technologies" refers to the synergistic combination of four major "NBIC" (nano-bio-info-cogno) provinces of science and technology, each of which is currently progressing at a rapid rate: (a) nanoscience and nanotechnology; (b) biotechnology and biomedicine, including genetic engineering; (c) information technology, including advanced computing and communications; (d) cognitive science, including cognitive neuroscience. Timely and Broad Opportunity. Convergence of diverse technologies is based on material unity at the nanoscale and on technology integration from that scale.
