Library of Walls: The Library of Congress and the Contradictions of Information Society - Brossura

Collins, Samuel Gerald

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ISBN 10: 0980200423 ISBN 13: 9780980200423

Casa editrice: Litwin Books Llc, 2009

Riassunto

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's, the Library of Congress was beset with challenges to its traditional roles in cataloging and scholarship while at the same time re-inventing itself as a library "without walls." The "order of books" was threatened on several fronts: in the explosive growth of accessions, in the challenges of online materials and different container types, and in fundamental disagreements about the role of the Library vis-à-vis the nation. But rather than analyze these as separate etiologies, Collins sees them as the expression of an inherently Janus-faced information society that limits information and forecloses debate even as it multiplies avenues of access. Collins considers multiple sites at the Library-its spaces, its artifacts and organization-as contested sites where varied actors negotiate information, knowledge and nation amidst an institution whose own shifting priorities synecdochally mirror the ambiguities and unease of contemporary society.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Litwin Books Llc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0980200423
• ISBN 13: 9780980200423
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 201
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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