Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Studies

Conflicts and wars, and more specifically the 2011 Revolution in Egypt, have brought to light the worrying question of the preservation of the cul...

Before the Museums Came: A Social History of the Fine Arts in the Twin Cities gives an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of Minneapolis and...

This book covers the basics of semantic web technologies and indexing languages, and describes their contribution to improve methods of formal know...

This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors f...

This book contains a plethora of different viewpoints and research results from all over the world, bringing them together to provide a global pers...

This volume comprises contributions of three conferences, on legal deposit in a digital environment, on web harvesting and archiving as well as new...

Initiatives at a cross-cultural level, where libraries, museums and archives work together in creating digital libraries, and making their cultural...

The papers collected in this volume discuss descriptive methods and present conclusions relevant for the history of the book production and recepti...

In recent years the library community has seen a renewed interest in library architecture and design. This is due to the change of focus from conte...

Marketing the 21st century library and information organization to its new age customers using Web 2.0 tools is a hot topic. These proceedings focu...

In this increasingly regulated, but contested, climate, teacher education has become a field of study separate from the study of learning or teachi...

Band 5/2 der Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert behandelt vornehmlich Verlage der DDR. Er schließt damit an den ersten...

Throughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most c...

Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and ...

Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and con...

The first substantial Mexican colonial art historiography in English, this book examines the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico as a sym...