The Library Beyond the Book (metaLABprojects) - Softcover

Schnapp, Jeffrey T.; Battles, Matthew

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9780674725034: The Library Beyond the Book (metaLABprojects)
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ISBN 10: 0674725034 ISBN 13: 9780674725034
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2014

Synopsis

With textbook readers and digital downloads proliferating, it is easy to imagine a time when printed books will vanish. Such forecasts miss the mark, argue Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles. Future bookshelves will not be wholly virtual, and libraries will thrive―although in a variety of new social, cultural, and architectural forms. Schnapp and Battles combine deep study of the library’s history with a record of institutional and technical innovation at metaLAB, a research group at the forefront of the digital humanities. They gather these currents in The Library Beyond the Book, exploring what libraries have been in the past to speculate on what they will become: hybrid places that intermingle books and ebooks, analog and digital formats, paper and pixels.

Libraries have always been mix-and-match spaces, and remix is their most plausible future scenario. Speculative and provocative, The Library Beyond the Book explains book culture for a world where the physical and the virtual blend with ever increasing intimacy.

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About the Authors

Jeffrey T. Schnapp is the faculty director of metaLAB at Harvard University and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Matthew Battles is Associate Director of metaLAB at Harvard University.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674725034
ISBN 13 
9780674725034
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
176
Rating
  • 3.41 out of 5 stars
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