Library of walls : the Library of Congress and the contradictions of information society / by Samuel Gerald Collins

Author:: Collins, Samuel Gerald
Published:: Duluth, Minn. : Litwin Books, 2009.
Copyright Date:: ©2008
Physical Description:: xi, 201 pages ; 23 cm

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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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ISBN:

9780980200423 (alk. paper)
0980200423 (alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-195) and index.

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