Library of walls [electronic resource] : the Library of Congress and the contradictions of information society / by Samuel Gerald Collins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Duluth, Minn. : Litwin Books, 2009.Description: xi, 201 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 025.1/97573 22
LOC classification:
  • Z733.U6 C593 2009eb
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Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-195) and index.

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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