Author: Henry Benjamin WheatleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indexers
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
What is an Index?
Author: Henry Benjamin WheatleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indexers
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Science
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.
What is an Index? A Few Notes on Indexes and Indexers
Author: Henry B. WheatleyMemory's Library
Author: Jennifer SummitPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226781720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.
Information
Author: Ann BlairPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691179549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
"Information technology shapes nearly every part of modern life, and debates about information--its meaning, effects, and applications--are central to a range of fields, from economics, technology, and politics to library science, media studies, and cultural studies. This rich, unique resource traces the history of information with an approach designed to draw connections across fields and perspectives, and provide essential context for our current age of information. Clear, accessible, and authoritative, the book opens with a series of articles that provide a narrative history of information from premodern practices to twenty-first-century information culture. This section focuses on major developments in the creation, storage, search, exchange, management, and manipulation of information, as well as the many meanings and uses of information over time. Coverage spans Europe, North America, and many other places and periods, including the medieval Islamic world and early modern East Asia, as well as the emergence of global networks. A second, alphabetical section includes more than 100 concise articles that cover specific concepts (e.g., data, intellectual property, privacy); formats and genres (books, databases, maps, newspapers, scrolls, social media); people (archivists, diplomats and spies, readers, secretaries, teachers); practices (censorship, forecasting, learning, surveilling, translating); processes (digitization, quantification, storage and search); systems (bureaucracy, platforms, telecommunications); technologies (algorithms, cameras, computers), and much more. The book concludes with an informative glossary, defining terms from "analog/digital" to "World Wide Web.""--
Publications
Author: League of NationsThe Wilson Bulletin
Author: The Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages (1590-1634)
Author: Michiel van GroesenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047432630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
This book deals with the De Bry collection of voyages, one of the most monumental publications of Early Modern Europe. It analyzes the textual and iconographic changes the De Bry publishing family made to travel accounts describing Asia, Africa and the New World. It discusses this editorial strategy in the context of the publishing industry around 1600, investigating the biography of the De Brys, the publications of the Frankfurt firm, and the making of the collection, as well as its reception by Iberian inquisitors and seventeenth-century readers across the Old World. The book draws on a wide variety of primary sources, and is hence important for historians, book historians, and art historians interested in the development of Europe's overseas empires.
Cyclopaedia Bibliographica
Author: James DarlingCyclopaedia Bibliographica
Author: James Darling (Publisher)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description