The Library Beyond the Book

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2014
Contributors Author: Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Author: Matthew Battles
Language
Number of Pages
167 pp.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
City
Cambridge, MA
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ISBN
9780674725034
Annotation
Considers past uses of libraries to inform discussion of possible scenarios for libraries of the future Contents: Steampunk to scrolls: Melvil Dewey, time traveller / cartoon by Joe Altieri The library beyond the book Prospects Windows Book Bookshelf Card Catalog Carrel Copy Station Librarian Library Card Reference Desk Scenarios Living Mausoleum Neocloister Database Accumulibrary Programmable Library Libraries of the Here and Now So... Endnotes Cold Storage (visual verbal essay)