Library of walls : the Library of Congress and the contradictions of information society /

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In Library of Walls, Samuel Collins engages the heterogeneities of information society at the Library of Congress through ethnographic fieldwork, suggesting that information society is best understood at the locus of conflicting modalities imbricating text, space, work and life. During the 1990'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Collins, Samuel Gerald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Duluth, Minn. : Litwin Books, 2009.
Temas:
Library of Congress.
Library of Congress. > National Digital Library Program.
Library of Congress > Information technology.
Library of Congress
Library of Congress. > National Digital Library Program
Washington (D.C.) > Library of Congress.
Information society > United States.
National libraries > United States.
Digital libraries > United States.
Société de l'information > États-Unis.
Bibliothèques nationales > États-Unis.
Bibliothèques virtuelles > États-Unis.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > Administration & Management.
Digital libraries
Information society
Information technology
National libraries
Elektronische Bibliothek
Informationsgesellschaft
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : if on a winter's night a reader
  • Anthropology and the imperial archive
  • From knowledge machines to information scapes : tracing the library's places and non-places
  • Ghosts in the information machine
  • "Getting the champagne out of the bottle and into the six-pack : laying the foundations for the virtual library and the LC
  • Corporeal work at the virtual library : research and scholarship for a new age
  • Conclusion : the American pastoral revisited.

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