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From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure : access to information in the networked world / Christine L. Borgman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borgman, Christine L., 1951-
- Series:
- Digital libraries and electronic publishing.
- Digital libraries and electronic publishing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information superhighway.
- Digital libraries.
- Libraries--Special collections--Electronic information resources.
- Libraries.
- Information superhighway--United States.
- Digital libraries--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2003, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communications equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to information for all? Will it replace libraries and publishers? How can computers and information systems be made easier to use? What are the tradeoffs between tailoring information systems to user communities and standardizing them to interconnect with systems designed for other communities, cultures, and languages?" "This book takes a close look at these and other questions of technology, behavior, and policy surrounding the GII.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-262-25028-4
- 1-282-09611-7
- 0-262-25577-4
- OCLC:
- 666931956
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