From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure : access to information in the networked world / / Christine L. Borgman

• Autore: Borgman Christine L. <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, 2003, c2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 025.5/24
• Soggetto topico: Information superhighway; Digital libraries; Libraries - Special collections - Electronic information resources; Information superhighway - United States; Digital libraries - United States
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - The Premise and the Promise of a Global Information Infrastructure -- 2 - Is It Digital or Is It a Library? Digital Libraries and Information Infrastructure -- 3 - Access to Information -- 4 - Books, Bytes, and Behavior -- 5 - Why Are Digital Libraries Hard to Use? -- 6 - Making Digital Libraries Easier to Use -- 7 - Whither, or Wither, Libraries? -- 8 - Acting Locally, Thinking Globally -- 9 - Toward a Global Digital Library: Progress and Prospects -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Sir Ranulph Fiennes can trace his lineage back to Charlemagne and he's related to Jane Austen. Eustache Fiennes fought for William the Conqueror ndash; but other Fiennes' were on Harold's side. One of his relatives, Geoffrey de Saye, was at the signing of the Magna Carta. Thomas Fiennes sat on the Jury at Anne Boleyn's trial, and was later hanged for deer poaching.Celia Fiennes wrote a journal of her horseback exploration of England and inspired the nursery rhyme 'Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross to see a Fiennes [fine] lady upon a white horse'. Ranulph's grandfather, was a fur trapper, a Canadian Mountie and later served as Private Secretary to Winston Churchill. Ranulph's father was killed in Italy in 1943, four months before he was born.MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN is Sir Ranulph's personal expedition to trace the roots of this extraordinary family, which has been intimately involved in the major events of English history. His often eccentric ancestors have been an inspiration for his own life of adventure, and this personal history reveals another side to Ranulph himself.Abridged.
• Titolo autorizzato: From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure
• ISBN: 0-262-25028-4; 1-282-09611-7; 0-262-25577-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910960693103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Digital libraries and electronic publishing.