The Resource The great digitization : and the quest to know everything, Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham
The great digitization : and the quest to know everything, Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham
Resource Information
The item The great digitization : and the quest to know everything, Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The great digitization : and the quest to know everything, Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- From the Publisher: TECHNOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY. The digitization of books is an immense blessing for the exchange and diffusion of knowledge, enabling access in even the most remote locations. Yet this new technology has awakened perils as dangerous as those that reduced libraries to ashes in ancient Alexandria and modern Nazi Germany. The very force that makes it possible for books to reach a global audience also has the power to hold them hostage and destroy their integrity in a manner that is unprecedented. Books on Fire author Lucien Polastron points out that the dematerialization of knowledge raises new legal challenges about the quality and authenticity of information. Attempts to create a virtual library are changing the very nature of reading, which has been marked by the act of physically holding and moving forward through an author's work rather than viewing a series of sound bite length snippets. The transfer of the traditional paper book into a searchable entity on the computer represents a revolution even more dramatic than the one triggered by Gutenberg's printing press. This revolution is akin to the replacement of the scroll by the codex, which likewise changed the way humans could receive information and structure their thoughts. Yet despite its broad easy access, the profiteers of this new commercial domain may render the very idea of "free" reading obsolete. Polastron poses questions others are ignoring in a headlong rush to embrace what is still a very ambiguous future
- Language
-
- eng
- fre
- eng
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 182 pages)
- Contents
-
- Introduction: finding information or funding a national library?
- Bnf versus BNF
- For Wells is not the plural of Orwell
- Geneva : world capital
- Quick, quick
- Volutes
- A digital coronary
- When the book is too highly concentrated, the purpose it serves is easily forgotten
- The pixel coming to paper's aid
- Is this already the post-Google era?
- But why the devil do we need libraries?
- Concordant and discordant clues
- The big picture
- First trials
- Burning stakes
- Advent Eve
- Muta solitudo
- An all-horizons inventory
- The future at the portal
- Tomorrow's readers
- Last books! Last books! Closing time!
- Paper leaves by the door and comes back through the window
- Library, arise!
- Striped uniforms
- Shrouds
- Purse strings and police cordons
- Smocks
- Against the grain
- Label
- The great digitization : and the quest to know everything
- Title
- The great digitization
- Title remainder
- and the quest to know everything
- Statement of responsibility
- Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham
- Subject
-
- Open access publishing
- Libraries -- Forecasting
- Informationsgesellschaft
- Bibliotheksbestand
- Communication in learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations
- Books and reading
- Scholarly electronic publishing
- Bibliothek
- Communication in learning and scholarship | Technological innovations
- Books -- Digitization
- Digitalisierung
- Language
-
- eng
- fre
- eng
- Summary
- From the Publisher: TECHNOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY. The digitization of books is an immense blessing for the exchange and diffusion of knowledge, enabling access in even the most remote locations. Yet this new technology has awakened perils as dangerous as those that reduced libraries to ashes in ancient Alexandria and modern Nazi Germany. The very force that makes it possible for books to reach a global audience also has the power to hold them hostage and destroy their integrity in a manner that is unprecedented. Books on Fire author Lucien Polastron points out that the dematerialization of knowledge raises new legal challenges about the quality and authenticity of information. Attempts to create a virtual library are changing the very nature of reading, which has been marked by the act of physically holding and moving forward through an author's work rather than viewing a series of sound bite length snippets. The transfer of the traditional paper book into a searchable entity on the computer represents a revolution even more dramatic than the one triggered by Gutenberg's printing press. This revolution is akin to the replacement of the scroll by the codex, which likewise changed the way humans could receive information and structure their thoughts. Yet despite its broad easy access, the profiteers of this new commercial domain may render the very idea of "free" reading obsolete. Polastron poses questions others are ignoring in a headlong rush to embrace what is still a very ambiguous future
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Polastron, Lucien X
- Dewey number
- 028.7
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- Z1003
- LC item number
- .P7513 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Books and reading
- Books
- Libraries
- Communication in learning and scholarship
- Bibliotheksbestand
- Digitalisierung
- Bibliothek
- Informationsgesellschaft
- Label
- The great digitization : and the quest to know everything, Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-174) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: finding information or funding a national library? -- Bnf versus BNF -- For Wells is not the plural of Orwell -- Geneva : world capital -- Quick, quick -- Volutes -- A digital coronary -- When the book is too highly concentrated, the purpose it serves is easily forgotten -- The pixel coming to paper's aid -- Is this already the post-Google era? -- But why the devil do we need libraries? -- Concordant and discordant clues -- The big picture -- First trials -- Burning stakes -- Advent Eve -- Muta solitudo -- An all-horizons inventory -- The future at the portal -- Tomorrow's readers -- Last books! Last books! Closing time! -- Paper leaves by the door and comes back through the window -- Library, arise! -- Striped uniforms -- Shrouds -- Purse strings and police cordons -- Smocks -- Against the grain
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 182 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1040016425
- Label
- The great digitization : and the quest to know everything, Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-174) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: finding information or funding a national library? -- Bnf versus BNF -- For Wells is not the plural of Orwell -- Geneva : world capital -- Quick, quick -- Volutes -- A digital coronary -- When the book is too highly concentrated, the purpose it serves is easily forgotten -- The pixel coming to paper's aid -- Is this already the post-Google era? -- But why the devil do we need libraries? -- Concordant and discordant clues -- The big picture -- First trials -- Burning stakes -- Advent Eve -- Muta solitudo -- An all-horizons inventory -- The future at the portal -- Tomorrow's readers -- Last books! Last books! Closing time! -- Paper leaves by the door and comes back through the window -- Library, arise! -- Striped uniforms -- Shrouds -- Purse strings and police cordons -- Smocks -- Against the grain
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 182 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1040016425
Subject
- Bibliothek
- Bibliotheksbestand
- Books -- Digitization
- Books and reading
- Communication in learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations
- Communication in learning and scholarship | Technological innovations
- Digitalisierung
- Informationsgesellschaft
- Libraries -- Forecasting
- Open access publishing
- Scholarly electronic publishing
Member of
Library Links
Embed (Experimental)
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.archive.org/portal/The-great-digitization--and-the-quest-to-know/BTswh5PK34Q/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.archive.org/portal/The-great-digitization--and-the-quest-to-know/BTswh5PK34Q/">The great digitization : and the quest to know everything, Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.archive.org/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.archive.org/">Internet Archive - Open Library</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Item The great digitization : and the quest to know everything, Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.archive.org/portal/The-great-digitization--and-the-quest-to-know/BTswh5PK34Q/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.archive.org/portal/The-great-digitization--and-the-quest-to-know/BTswh5PK34Q/">The great digitization : and the quest to know everything, Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.archive.org/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.archive.org/">Internet Archive - Open Library</a></span></span></span></span></div>