The Great Digitization And The Quest To Know Everything
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The Great Digitization And The Quest To Know Everything
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Author : Lucien X. Polastron
language : en
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Release Date : 2009-03-02
The Great Digitization And The Quest To Know Everything written by Lucien X. Polastron and has been published by Inner Traditions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-02 with Social Science categories.
Examines the pitfalls, perils, and promises offered by the digitization of books • Reveals the danger digitized books pose to the very idea of “free” reading • Poses the questions society should be asking itself before heedlessly embracing this brave new world The digitization of books is an immense blessing for the exchange and diffusion of knowledge, enabling access in even the most remote locations. Yet this new technology has awakened perils as dangerous as those that reduced libraries to ashes in ancient Alexandria and modern Nazi Germany. The very force that makes it possible for books to reach a global audience also has the power to hold them hostage and even destroy their integrity in a manner that is unprecedented. Books on Fire author Lucien Polastron points out that the dematerialization of knowledge raises new legal challenges about the quality and authenticity of information. Attempts to create a virtual library are changing the very nature of reading, which has been marked by the act of physically holding and moving forward through an author’s work rather than viewing a series of sound bite length snippets. The transfer of the traditional paper book into a searchable entity on the computer represents a revolution even more dramatic than the one triggered by Gutenberg’s printing press. This revolution is akin to the replacement of the scroll by the codex, which likewise changed the way humans could receive information and structure their thoughts. Yet despite its broad easy access, the profiteers of this new commercial domain may render the very idea of “free” reading obsolete. Polastron poses questions others are ignoring in a headlong rush to embrace what is still a very ambiguous future.
Are Libraries Obsolete
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Author : Mark Y. Herring
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-23
Are Libraries Obsolete written by Mark Y. Herring and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The digital age has transformed information access in ways that few ever dreamed. But the afterclap of our digital wonders has left libraries reeling as they are no longer the chief contender in information delivery. The author gives both sides--the web aficionados, some of them unhinged, and the traditional librarians, some blinkered--a fair hearing but misconceptions abound. Internet be-all and end-all enthusiasts are no more useful than librarians who urge fellow professionals to be all things to all people. The American Library Association, wildly democratic at its best and worst, appears schizophrenic on the issue, unhelpfully. "My effort here," says the author, "is to talk about the elephant in the room." Are libraries obsolete? No! concludes the author (also). The book explores how libraries and librarians must and certainly can continue to be relevant, vibrant and enduring.
Challenging The Phenomena Of Technology
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Author : M. Hayler
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-05-07
Challenging The Phenomena Of Technology written by M. Hayler and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-07 with Science categories.
What is 'technology'? What does it help us to do? What does it force us to consider about our experience of being in the world? In Challenging the Phenomena of Technology, technology is positioned as an experience with specific features, rather than as a class of objects, and this enables a reflection on the ways in which amateurs and experts interact with the artefacts that all humans rely upon. Using e-readers, such as the Kindle and iPad, as a case study, Hayler argues that the use of technology is both more complicated and more human than public discussion often gives it credit for, forcing us to consider its impacts on perception, cognition, and what it means to know anything at all.
Along Came Google
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Author : Deanna Marcum
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-21
Along Came Google written by Deanna Marcum and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital library Libraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of authors and publishers, and whether a powerful corporation should be the conveyor of such a fundamental public good. Along Came Google traces the history of Google's book digitization project and its implications for us today. Deanna Marcum and Roger Schonfeld draw on in-depth interviews with those who both embraced and resisted Google's plans, from librarians and technologists to university leaders, tech executives, and the heads of leading publishing houses. They look at earlier digital initiatives to provide open access to knowledge, and describe how Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made the case for a universal digital library and drew on their company's considerable financial resources to make it a reality. Marcum and Schonfeld examine how librarians and scholars organized a legal response to Google, and reveal the missed opportunities when a settlement with the tech giant failed. Along Came Google sheds light on the transformational effects of the Google Books project on scholarship and discusses how we can continue to think imaginatively and collaboratively about expanding the digital availability of knowledge.
Library Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Library Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Libraries categories.
Along Came Google
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Author : Deanna Marcum
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-09
Along Came Google written by Deanna Marcum and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-09 with Education categories.
An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital library Libraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of authors and publishers, and whether a powerful corporation should be the conveyor of such a fundamental public good. Along Came Google traces the history of Google's book digitization project and its implications for us today. Deanna Marcum and Roger Schonfeld draw on in-depth interviews with those who both embraced and resisted Google's plans, from librarians and technologists to university leaders, tech executives, and the heads of leading publishing houses. They look at earlier digital initiatives to provide open access to knowledge, and describe how Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made the case for a universal digital library and drew on their company's considerable financial resources to make it a reality. Marcum and Schonfeld examine how librarians and scholars organized a legal response to Google, and reveal the missed opportunities when a settlement with the tech giant failed. Along Came Google sheds light on the transformational effects of the Google Books project on scholarship and discusses how we can continue to think imaginatively and collaboratively about expanding the digital availability of knowledge.
Digitized
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Author : Peter J. Bentley
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2012-03-22
Digitized written by Peter J. Bentley and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-22 with Computers categories.
There's a hidden science that affects every part of your life. You are fluent in its terminology of email, WiFi, social networking, and encryption. You use its results when you make a telephone call, access the Internet, use any factory-produced product, or travel in any modern car. The discipline is so new that some prefer to call it a branch of engineering or mathematics. But it is so powerful and world-changing that you would be hard-pressed to find a single human being on the planet unaffected by its achievements. The science of computers enables the supply and creation of power, food, water, medicine, transport, money, communication, entertainment, and most goods in shops. It has transformed societies with the Internet, the digitization of information, mobile phone networks and GPS technologies. Here, Peter J. Bentley explores how this young discipline grew from its theoretical conception by pioneers such as Turing, through its growth spurts in the Internet, its difficult adolescent stage where the promises of AI were never achieved and dot-com bubble burst, to its current stage as a (semi)mature field, now capable of remarkable achievements. Charting the successes and failures of computer science through the years, Bentley discusses what innovations may change our world in the future.
The Writers Directory
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Writers Directory written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Authors, American categories.
Collections Vol 14 N1
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Author : Juilee Decker
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-08-15
Collections Vol 14 N1 written by Juilee Decker and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Four articles cover archival practices at a small liberal arts college, repatriation of sacred objects, emergence of the African art collection at The Kreeger Museum, and exhibit creation process at The Rockefeller Archive Center.
Linguistische Kulturanalyse
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Author : Juliane Schröter
language : de
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-05-20
Linguistische Kulturanalyse written by Juliane Schröter and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-20 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Die linguistische Kulturanalyse ist eine relativ junge Ausprägung sprachwissenschaftlicher Forschung, die sich derzeit zunehmend etabliert. Sie geht von der Annahme aus, dass sich Sprachliches und Kulturelles gegenseitig hervorbringen, und untersucht dieses Verhältnis theoretisch und empirisch. Der Band Linguistische Kulturanalyse versammelt 17 Beiträge, die sich einerseits mit grundlegenden kulturanalytischen Konzepten und Annahmen auseinandersetzen und andererseits das Potenzial der linguistischen Kulturanalyse an lexikalischen, morphosyntaktischen, praktikenbezogenen, textuellen und diskursiven Beispielen des Sprachgebrauchs veranschaulichen. Damit stellt der Band den State of the Art der linguistischen Kulturanalyse dar und entwirft zugleich deren Zukunftsperspektiven.