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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462810403321

Autore

Woodward Jeannette A

Titolo

The transformed library [[electronic resource]] : e-books, expertise, and evolution / / Jeannette Woodward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Ill., : ALA Editions, c2013

ISBN

0-8389-9628-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Disciplina

020

Soggetti

Libraries - Aims and objectives

Libraries - Forecasting

Libraries and electronic publishing

Libraries - Information technology

Libraries and the Internet

Librarians - Effect of technological innovations on

Library science - Philosophy

Libraries and society

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: GUTENBERG MEETS KINDLE; Chapter 2: LIBRARIES VS. E-PUBLISHERS; Chapter 3: THE AGE OF HIGH ANXIETY; Chapter 4: THE LIBRARY IN CYBERSPACE; Chapter 5: WILL THE COFFEE SHOP SAVE US?; Chapter 6: LIBRARY CAREERS THAT WON'T GO AWAY; Chapter 7: SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES; Chapter 8: SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIES; Chapter 9: SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES; Conclusion; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This wide-ranging survey takes stock of our institutions'' strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, analyzing how libraries and the very concept of librarianship have been comprehensively transformed over the past few decades.



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Record Nr.

UNISA996389705403316

Autore

Struther William <1578-1633.>

Titolo

A looking glasse for princes and people [[electronic resource] ] : Delivered in a sermon of thankesgiving for the birth of the hopefull Prince Charles. And since augmented with allegations and historicall remarkes. Together with a vindication of princes from Popish tyranny. By M. William Struther preacher at Edinburgh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Printed at Edinburgh, : By the heires of Andro Hart, 1632

Descrizione fisica

[8], 111, [1]; [16], 180 p

Soggetti

Sermons, English - 17th century

Popes - Primacy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A looking glasse for princes and popes" has separate dated title page, register and pagination.

Variant: title has "Together with a vindication of princes, &c.".

Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0055