Browsing by Subject "Library"

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    • Benjamin's library: modernity, nation, and the Baroque 

      Benjamin, Walter; Benjamin, Walter; Newman, Jane O (Cornell University Press, 2011)
      InBenjamin's Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin's notoriously opaque work,Origin of the German Tragic Dramathat systematically attends to its place in discussions ...

    • Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age 

      Wright, Alex (Oxford University Press, 2014)
      The dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history. From the archives of ancient Sumeria and the Library of Alexandria to the Library of Congress and Wikipedia, humanity has wrestled with the problem of ...

    • Lessons in Library Leadershi p. A Primer for Library Managers and Unit Leaders 

      Halaychik, Corey (Chandos Pub (Oxford) Ltd, 2016)
      Lessons in Library Leadership: A Primer for Library Managers and Unit Leaders takes on the topic of management positions within libraries and how many of them are filled by candidates with no formalized training. This lack ...

    • The Oxford Guide to Library Research 

      Mann, Thomas (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has ...

    • Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library 

      Wiegand, Wayne A. (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once ...