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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Licensing Realms.- The End of the Freedom of Translation.- The Discovery of International Authorship around 1850.- Crises in the Control of Works in Classical Modernity.- Other Countries, or Books in Exile.- Two Literary Hemispheres in the Cold War.- The Economy of World Rights since 1989.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.-T he Internationalization of Textual Reference.- The Pluralization and Decentering of Space.-  The Staging of Mediation.-The Effects of Multilingualism.- Transnational Issues.- the Global Novel.

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Book SynopsisBooks printed in the fifteenth century have been the subject of much in-depth research. In contrast, the beginning of the sixteenth century has not attracted the same scholarly interest. This volume brings together studies that charter the development of printing and bookselling throughout Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It presents new research and analysis on the impact of the Reformation, on how texts were transmitted and on the complex relationships that affected the production and sale of books. The result is a wide-ranging reappraisal of a vital period in the history of the printed book. Contributors include Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik, Jürgen Beyer, Amy Nelson Burnett, Neil Harris, Brenda M. Hosington, Johannes Hund, Henning P. Jürgens, Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Hans-Jörg Künast, Urs Bernhard Leu, Matthew McLean, Andrew Pettegree, David Shaw, Christoph Volkmar, Hanno Wijsman and Alexander Wilkinson.Trade Review"The Book Triumphant is a valuable guide to the increasing importance of the printed book in sixteenth-century Europe." – Eric N. Lindquist, University of Maryland, in: Renaissance Quarterly 65/4 (Winter 2012), pp. 1281-1283Table of ContentsPreface Notes on contributors PART ONE THE BOOK IN NATIONAL CONTEXTS 1. Printing in the Low Countries in the Early Sixteenth Century Andrew Pettegree 2. The Italian Book: Catalogue, Censuses and Survival Neil Harris 3. How Complete Are the German National Bibliographies for the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (VD16 and VD17) ? Jürgen Beyer 4. The Printed Book on the Iberian Peninsula, 1500-1540 Alexander Wilkinson 5. The Vanishing Press: Printing in Provincial France in the Early Sixteenth Century Malcolm Walsby PART TWO PRINTING AND THE REFORMATION 6. Turning Luther’s Weapons against him. The Birth of Catholic Propaganda in Saxony in the 1520s Christoph Volkmar 7. Preaching and Printing in Germany on the Eve of the Thirty Years’ War Amy Nelson Burnett 8. Pamphlets in the Theological Debates of the Later Sixteenth Century: The Mainz Editorial Project “Controversia et Confessio” Johannes Hund and Henning P. Jürgens 9. Devices of Protestant Printers in the Sixteenth Century Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba PART THREE TRANSMISSION AND TRANSLATIONS 10. History in Transition: Enguerrand de Monstrelet’s Chroniques in Manuscript and Print (c.1450-c.1600) Hanno Wijsman 11. The ‘Renaissance Cultural Crossroads’ Catalogue: A Witness to the Importance of Translation in Early Modern Britain Brenda M. Hosington 12. Between Basel and Zürich: Humanist Rivalries and the Works of Sebastian Münster Matthew McLean PART FOUR NETWORKS AND THE BOOK TRADE 13. The Book- and Reading-Culture in Basle and Zurich During the Sixteenth Century Urs B. Leu 14. Augsburg’s Position in the System of the German Book Trade in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century Hans-Jörg Künast 15. Book Trade Practices in Early Sixteenth-Century Paris: Pierre Vidoue (1516–1543) David J. Shaw 16. The Coexistence of Manuscript and Print: Handwritten Newsletters in the Second Century of Print, 1540-1640 Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik Index

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Book SynopsisAfrican Studies in the Digital Age. DisConnects? seeks to understand the complex changes brought about by the digital revolution. The editors, Terry Barringer and Marion Wallace, have brought together librarians, archivists, researchers and academics from three continents to analyse the creation and use of digital research resources and archives in and about Africa. The volume reveals new opportunities for research, teaching and access, as well as potential problems and digital divides. Published under the aegis of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa), this new work is a major step forward in understanding the impact of the Internet Age for the study of Africa, in and beyond the continent. Contributors are: Terry Barringer, Hartmut Bergenthum, Natalie Bond, Mirjam de Bruijn, Ian Cooke, Jos Damen, Jonathan Harle, Diana Jeater, Rebecca Kahn, Peter Limb, Lucia Lovison-Golob, Walter Gam Nkwi, Jenni Orme, Daniel A. Reboussin, Ashley Rockenbach, Amidu Sanni, Simon Tanner, Edgar C. Taylor, Laurie N. Taylor, Marion Wallace, Massimo ZaccariaTrade Review'Published to mark the 50th anniversary of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa), and based on papers presented at its Golden Jubilee conference in Oxford in 2012, this collection of essays seeks to understand the complex changes brought about by the digital revolution, and the impact of the Internet age for the study of Africa, in and beyond the continent'. 'Many other insightful papers, by librarians, archivists, researchers and academics from three continents, analyse the creation and use of digital research resources and archives in and about Africa, exploring the new opportunities for research, issues of teaching and access, making online resources more equitably available, as well as drawing attention to the potential problems and digital divides'. 'An essential acquisition for all African studies collections'. Hans M. Zell, in The African Book Publishing Record, Volume 41, no. 3 (2015) 'This quietly subversive little volume of papers from a conference to report progress by African’s digital libraries is full of facts to explode stereotypes about Africa in the information age'. Martin Mulligan, Writer and Journalism Consultant, in: The Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, April 2015.Table of ContentsAbout the Contributors List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Terry Barringer, Jos Damen, Peter Limb and Marion Wallace Part 1 Access, Research and Researchers 1 African Studies in the Digital Age - Challenges for Research and National Libraries Ian Cooke and Marion Wallace 2 Dazzled by Digital? Research Environments in African Universities and Their Implications for the Use of Digital Resources Jonathan Harle 3 Data, Data Everywhere, But Not a Byte to Think The Pitfalls of Increased Access to Digital Resources in University History Departments in Zimbabwe Diana Jeater 4 Improving Digital Collection Access with Simple Search Engine Optimisation Strategies Daniel A. Reboussin and Laurie N. Taylor Part 2 Archives and Memory 5 Building Futures The Role of Digital Collections in Shaping National Identity in Africa Rebecca Kahn and Simon Tanner 6 The West African Manuscript Heritage - Challenges of the Digital Revolution in a Research Economy Amidu Sanni 7 Recovering the African Printed Past - Virtually Re-membering a Dispersed Collection in Eritrea Massimo Zaccaria 8 Archives and the Past - Cataloguing and Digitisation in Uganda’s Archives Edgar C. Taylor, Ashley Brooke Rockenbach and Natalie Bond 9 ‘Life is so Summarised’ - Society’s Memory in the Digital Age in Africa Mirjam de Bruijn and Walter Gam Nkwi Part 3 Building on Digital 10 African Newspapers in the Online World - Information Gains and Losses Hartmut Bergenthum 11 Viewing ‘Africa Through a Lens’ Using Digitisation and Online Tools at The National Archives (uk) to Widen Audience Reach Jenni Orme 12 The Integration of Historical Cartography into the Present Day - The Darfur Case Lucia Lovison-Golob Concluding Remarks Peter Limb Appendix: Programme of scolma’s 50th anniversary conference Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisIn Die Rifāʽīya spürt Boris Liebrenz der Buchkultur des Osmanischen Syrien (16. - 19. Jahrhundert) durch den Fokus der einzig überlebenden Privatbibliothek der Epoche nach. Er fragt nach der Produktion und Transmission von Wissen sowie dem sozialen Hintergrund der Leserschaft im Zeitalter der Handschrift. Studien der arabischen Bibliotheksgeschichte haben oft nur das Mittelalter in den Blick genommen und basierten fast ausschließlich auf literarischen Quellen. Dies ist die erste Monographie, die eine einzige Region während der Osmanischen Periode in den Fokus nimmt und deren auf uns gekommene Handschriften und Notizen ihrer Leser und Besitzer systematisch als dokumentarische Quelle benutzt. So erhellt sie die materiellen, rechtlichen und sozialen Voraussetzungen von Buchbesitz und Lesepraxis. In Die Rifāʽīya Boris Liebrenz explores the book culture of Ottoman Syria (16th to 19th century), using the only surviving Damascene private library of the time as a vantage point. He asks about the production and transmission of knowledge as well as the social background of the reading audience in a manuscript age. Scholarship on Arabic libraries has often focussed on the medieval period and relied nearly exclusively on literary accounts. This is the first book-length study that focuses on a single region in the Ottoman period and systematically uses the vast number of surviving manuscripts as a documentary source by means of the notes left by their readers and possessors. Thus, it sheds light on the material, juridical, and social basis of book-ownership and reading.Trade ReviewWinner of the Forschungspreis der Annemarie Schimmel-Stiftung für Islamkunde 2017 'Das Werk von Liebrenz ist ein hervorragendes Beispiel für die Bedeutung von Handschriften für die Kultur- und Mediengeschichte des arabisch-osmanischen Raumes und die daraus zu gewinnenden Erkenntnisse für die Kulturgeschichte dieses Raumes. Nicht nur wegen der vergnüglichen Lektüre wird die Studie ihre fortdauernde Bedeutung haben. Sie bedeutet einen großen Wissensgewinn für die Übergangszeit zum Buchdruck'. Rüdiger Lohlker, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vol. 107 (2017), pp. 523Table of ContentsVorwort Abbildungsverzeichnis Einleitung Bibliotheken Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte in der orientwissenschaftlichen Forschung Neue Wege der Forschung Quellen Sekundäreinträge Literarische Quellen: Chroniken und biographische Sammlungen Aufbau der Arbeit 1 Die Bibliothek 43 Ihre Geschichte und Inhalte 1.1 Die Erwerbung der Rifāʿīya 1.1.1 Der Käufer: Johann Gottfried Wetzstein 1.1.2 Der Konkurrent: Anṭūn Būlād, Priester und Geschäftsmann 1.1.3 Chronologie der Erwerbung 1.2 Der Verkäufer: Wer war Omar Efendi Elhamawy? 1.3 Der Wert einer Bibliothek – Der Wert von Büchern 1.4 Zwischen universal und regional: Inhaltliche Dimensionen der Rifāʿīya 1.4.1 Zeitliche und räumliche Dimensionen der rezipierten Autoren und Werke 1.5 Bestandsgeschichte: Ansätze einer Bibliotheksarchäologie 1.5.1 ʿUmar ar-Rifāʿī als Sammler: Inhalte und Quellen der Rifāʿīya 1.6 Fazit: Was für eine Bibliothek war die Rifāʿīya? 2 Die Umwelt der Rifāʿīya Der Kontext arabischer Bibliotheken und Buchproduktion in der osmanischen Periode 2.1 Umwege zur Geschichte der Rifāʿīya 2.2 Das gestiftete Buch 2.2.1 Theoretische Grundlagen: Bücherstiftungen im islamischen Recht 2.2.2 Der Stiftungsakt: Praxis und Dokumentation 2.2.3 „Öffentliche“ Stiftungsbibliotheken 2.3 Beispiele „öffentlicher“ Stiftungsbibliotheken aus der Zeit der Rifāʿīya 2.3.1 Die Stiftung eines Rechtsgelehrten: Die Aḥmadīya von Aleppo 2.3.2 Militärs und Politiker 2.3.3 Die Bibliothekslandschaft von Damaskus 2.3.4 Bibliothekarische Parallelwelten: Kirchen und Klöster 2.4 Öffentlichkeit, Verwaltung und Ausleihe der Bestände von Stiftungsbibliotheken 2.5 Wer hat gestiftet? 2.6 Fazit: „öffentliche“ Stiftungsbibliotheken 2.7 Private Stiftungsbibliotheken / Gestiftete Familienbibliotheken 2.8 Kommerzielle Leihbibliotheken – Neue Wege der Literaturrezeption? 2.9 „Familienbibliotheken“ oder „Familien und Bibliotheken“? 2.10 Bibliotheksorte und Bücherräume 2.11 Bucherweb – Die Quellen einer Bibliothek 2.11.1 Die Kopie 2.11.2 Der Buchmarkt von Damaskus 2.11.3 Erbe 2.12 Handschriften im Zeitalter des Buchdrucks: Die Rifāʿīya als Abbild einer untergehenden Buchkultur 3 Die Leser 3.1 Lesen – (K)ein Privileg der ʿulamāʾ? 3.1.1 Neue Leser? Von Händlern, Barbieren und Handwerkern 3.1.2 Bemerkungen zu Konfession und Alter der Leser 3.2 Militär und Administration 3.3 Ärzte 3.4 Leserschaft über konfessionelle Grenzen: Religiöse Minderheiten 3.5 Frauen 3.6 Private Ausleihe 4 Schluss Quellen und Literatur Archivalische und handschriftliche Quellen Gedruckte Quellen Sekundärliteratur Personenindex Sachindex Ortsindex

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2018 Josef IJsewijn Prize for Best Book on a Neo-Latin Topic Although many humanists, from Petrarch to Fulvio Orsini, had written briefly about library history, the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first self-contained monograph on the topic. The De bibliothecis proved to be a seminal achievement, both in redefining the scope of library history and in articulating a vision of a public, secular, research institution for the humanities. It was repeatedly reprinted and translated, plagiarized and epitomized. Through the end of the nineteenth century, scholars turned to it as the ultimate foundation for any discussion of library history. In Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism, Hendrickson presents a critical edition of Lipsius’s work with introductory studies, a Latin text, English translation, and a substantial historical commentary.Trade Review“This is a supremely useful book.” - Earle Havens, Johns Hopkins University, in: Renaissance Quarterly, 72:1 (Spring 2019), pp. 253-255 “The translation is lively, faithful to Lipsius’s much discussed, and difficult to characterize, style.” - Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, 5:4 (November 2018), pp. 699-701 “The most important and innovative part of this volume is the generous commentary, which not only provides the reader with abundant material on the ancient libraries discussed by Lipsius, but also on ancient and modern authors who have contributed to the subject.” - in: Neo-Latin News 2017, pp 139-141 “This edition, with a detailed introduction, translation on facing pages, and commentary, is very welcome. The notes are full and well informed. The standard of production is high and the book is well illustrated” - Nigel Wilson, Lincoln College, Oxford, in: Library & Information History, 33:3 (2017), pp. 220-221 “Hendrickson’s translation of De Bibliothecis is judicious and eloquent; his analysis of its sources, Lipsius’s writing style, and the context of its production are excellent. This books offers a perfect model for the reissuing of Renaissance texts and making them available to a wider audience.” - Arthur der Weduwen, University of St Andrews, in: Sixteenth Century Journal, 49:4 (Winter 2018), pp. 1168-1170 “Thomas Hendrickson’s critical and annotated edition of Lipsius’s De bibliothecis syntagma is a work of great erudition and shows the editor’s affinity with both classical and more recent Latin on the one hand, and his familiarity with the history of the book on the other.” - Jeanine De Landtsheer, Leuven University, in: Quaerendo, 49:1 (March 2019), pp. 79-82 “a handsome volume, which provides us with the text in Latin and an English translation of the Renaissance work on libraries of the scholar Justus Lipsius that should be of considerable interest to scholars working in earlier book cultures [...]. Overall, Hendrickson has provided a great service to scholars interested in (ancient) libraries. This is a work that may, and probably will, prompt further study of the ancient materials about book collections and also of the Renaissance context in which book collections were subsequently found. Hendrickson’s volume thus rightly deserves a place in the scholar’s library!” - Yun Lee Too, Cambridge University, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.10.25Table of ContentsIntroduction List of Images Abbreviations 1 The De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius 1.1 The significance of the De bibliothecis 1.2 The Need for a New Edition of Lipsius’s De bibliothecis 2 Lipsius Proteus: The Career of a Scholar in an Age of Strife 3 Library Historiography before Lipsius 3.1 Manuals and Legends: Library Historiography in the Ancient World 3.2 Isidore of Seville: Literary Materiality and Literary Tradition in the Monastic World 3.3 Library Historiography and the Humanists 3.3.1 Francesco Petrarch 3.3.2 Michael Neander 3.3.3 Fulvio Orsini and Melchior Guilandinus 3.3.4 Library Historiography and Religious Authority 3.4 Library Historiography and Vatican Frescoes: Rocca and Lipsius 4 The De bibliothecis: Title, Structure, and Purpose 4.1 A Note on the Title of the De bibliothecis 4.2 Structure and Purpose of the De bibliothecis Table 4.2: Chapter Outline of the De bibliothecis 5 Lipsius and his Sources 5.1 Ancient Sources Table 5.1: Ancient Sources 5.2 Contemporary Sources 6 Print History 6.1 Latin Editions of the De bibliothecis Table 6.1: List of Latin Editions of the De bibliothecis 6.2 Translations of the De bibliothecis Table 6.2: List of Translations of the De bibliothecis 7 Editorial Principles 7.1 The Text 7.2 Orthography 7.3 Accents and Punctuation in Lipsius’s Latin 8 A Note on the Commentary De bibliothecis: Text and Translation De bibliothecis: Commentary Works Cited by Author and Date Index List of Images Figure 1: Title Page of the (1602) First Edition of the DB (digitized by Google Books) Figure 2: Relationships between the DB editions Figure 3: Ozymandias Fresco from the Vatican Library (photo: author) Figure 4: The Serapeum in the Roman Period (McKenzie 2007, figure 350; courtesy of Judith McKenzie) Figure 5: Hadrian’s Library in Athens (Sisson 1929, plate 21) Figure 6: Rooms Traditionally Identified as Pergamene Royal Library (Bohn 1885, table 3) Figure 7: Octavia’s Portico (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plan_portique_octavie.png (last access 30.7.16)) Figure 8: The Library of Palatine Apollo in the Augustan Era (Iacopi and Tedone 2005/6, table 8; courtesy of the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma) Figure 9: Twin Halls of the Post-Domitianic Palatine Apollo Library (De Gregori 1937, figure 5) Figure 10: Inscription of Antiochus, a bibliotheca latina Apollinis, from Orsini’s Imagines (digitized by Google Books) Figure 11: Inscription of Julius Falyx, a bibliotheca graeca palat., from Orsini’s Imagines (digitized by Google Books) Figure 12: Map of Libraries in Ancient Rome (adapted from Wikimedia Commons) Figure 13: Temple of Peace (Meneghini and Valenzani 2007, figure 65; courtesy of Roberto Meneghini) Figure 14: Trajan’s Forum (Meneghini 2002, figure 151; courtesy of Roberto Meneghini) Figure 15: The Sanctuary of Hercules Victor at Tivoli (Giuliani 2004, table 14; courtesy of Cairoli Fulvio Giuliani) Figure 16: Pluteus from the Biblioteca Laurenziana (Clark 1901, figure 102)

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Book SynopsisThe Society of Jesus began a tradition of collecting books and curating those collections at its foundation. These libraries were important to both their European sites and their missions; they helped build a global culture as part of early modern European evangelization. When the Society was suppressed, the Jesuits’ possessions were seized and redistributed, by transfer to other religious orders, confiscation by governments, or sale to individuals. These possessions were rarely returned, and when, in 1814, the Society was restored, the Jesuits had to begin to build new libraries from scratch. Their practices of librarianship, though not their original libraries, left an intellectual legacy which still informs library science today. While there are few European Jesuit universities left, institutions of higher learning administered by the Society of Jesus remain important to the intellectual development of students and communities around the world, supported by large, rich library collections.

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Book SynopsisDuring the past 50 years, theological libraries have confronted secularisation and religious pluralism, along with revolutionary technological developments that brought not only significant challenges but also unexpected opportunities to adopt new instruments for the transfer of knowledge through the automation and computerisation of libraries. This book shows how European theological libraries tackled these challenges; how they survived by redefining their task, by participating in the renewal of scholarly librarianship, and by networking internationally. Since 1972, BETH, the Association of European Theological Libraries, has stimulated this process by enabling contacts among a growing number of national library associations all over Europe.Table of ContentsIntroduction Introduction Einführung Contributors Part 1: Theological and Religious Libraries, Past and Present 1 Tolerating Theology Libraries in England: The Libraries of Anglicans and ‘Others’ since the English Reformation  Anna James 2 Theological Libraries in Oxford  Hannie Riley 3 World Mission to World Christianity: The Changing Identity of a Mission Library through a Century of Historical Change in Church and Society  Ruth MacLean 4 Historic Church-Libraries in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Thuringia  Hagen Jäger and Johannes Röder 5 The Sub-Library of Theology of the University Library of Würzburg Difficulties and Challenges in the Past and Future  Oliver Weinreich 6 Just Stewardship – A Self-Affirmative Inquiry into the Legacy of the Hungarian Ecclesiastical Libraries  Ágnes Bálint 7 The History of Development and the Challenges of the Present in the Theological Collection of the Ukrainian Catholic University Library  Ivanna Papa and Oleksandra Hladysh 8 Elements for a Sketch of the Italian Ecclesiastical Libraries  Stefano Maria Malaspina 9 Heritage Management in Monastery and Seminary Libraries in the Netherlands  Otto S. Lankhorst 10 The Theology Library of UCLouvain: From Leuven to Louvain-la-Neuve (1970–2020)  Geneviève Bricoult and Luc Courtois 11 The Maurits Sabbe Library in a Digital Environment: Collection Management Challenges of an Academic Theological Library in the 21st Century  Ward De Pril Part 2: Networks, Instruments, Media, Resources … 12 ‘Informatique & Bible’ (Maredsous Abbey) and the Beginnings of Computerisation in the Religious Libraries  R.-Ferdinand Poswick, OSB 13 From Individual Card Catalogues to the National Union Catalogue: A Story of the Computerisation of Polish Church Libraries  Jerzy Witczak 14 The BeWeB Portal: a Virtual Service for Italian Ecclesiastical Libraries  Adriano Belfiore, Francesca Maria D’Agnelli, Valerio Pennasso, and Silvia Tichetti 15 Negotiating a Future for Convent Libraries: KADOC-KU Leuven and Heritage Partnerships in Flanders (Belgium)  Katrien Weyns and Kristien Suenens 16 Disclosing Thematic Collections in a Rapidly Digitalizing World: Jesuitica at the Maurits Sabbe Library  Yannick Van Loon 17 Historical and Media-Theoretical Implications of a Modern International Bibliography: Origin, Development and Future of the Index Theologicus in the Context of Other Specialised Bibliographies  Martin Faßnacht 18 Building the Corpus Christianorum: A Short History of the First 75 Years  Bart Janssens, Mathijs Lamberigts, and Johan Leemans 19 BETH, Springboard for the Opening of the IFLA RELINDIAL Group ‘Religions: Libraries and Dialogue’  Odile Dupont and Donatus Düsterhaus Part 3: BETH: The Association and Its Members  Edited by Matina Ćurić Bibliothèques Européennes de Théologie BETH Appendix: BETH 1972–2022: Names and Dates Index

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Book SynopsisMelissa Adler is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Chair for Media Studies and Library & Information Science at Western University, Canada.

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Book SynopsisGiven the increasing attention to managing, publishing, and preserving research datasets as scholarly assets, what competencies in working with research data will graduate students in STEM disciplines need to be successful in their fields? And what role can librarians play in helping students attain these competencies? In addressing these questions, this book articulates a new area of opportunity for librarians and other information professionals, developing educational programmes that introduce graduate students to the knowledge and skills needed to work with research data. The term “data information literacy” has been adopted with the deliberate intent of tying two emerging roles for librarians together. By viewing information literacy and data services as complementary rather than separate activities, the contributors seek to leverage the progress made and the lessons learned in each service area.The intent of the publication is to help librarians cultivate strategies and approaches for developing data information literacy programmes of their own using the work done in the multiyear, IMLS-supported Data Information Literacy (DIL) project as real-world case studies. The initial chapters introduce the concepts and ideas behind data information literacy, such as the twelve data competencies. The middle chapters describe five case studies in data information literacy conducted at different institutions (Cornell, Purdue, Minnesota, Oregon), each focused on a different disciplinary area in science and engineering. They detail the approaches taken, how the programmes were implemented, and the assessment metrics used to evaluate their impact. The later chapters include the “DIL Toolkit,” a distillation of the lessons learned, which is presented as a handbook for librarians interested in developing their own DIL programmes. The book concludes with recommendations for future directions and growth of data information literacy.

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Book SynopsisPrint Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period illuminates the diverse ways that people in the British regional print trades exerted their agency through interventions in regional and national politics as well as their civic, commercial, and cultural contributions. Works printed in regional communities were a crucial part of developing narratives of local industrial, technological, and ideological progression. By moving away from understanding of print cultures outside of London as ‘provincial’, however, this book argues for a new understanding of ‘region’ as part of a network of places, emphasising opportunities for collaboration and creation that demonstrate the key role of regions within larger communities extending from the nation to the emerging sense of globality in this period. Through investigations of the men and women of the print trades outside of London, this collection casts new light on the strategies of self-representation evident in the work of regional print cultures, as well as their contributions to individual regional identities and national narratives.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Print Culture, Agency, Regionality.- Part I: Yorkshire.- 2. Printed by Alice Broade: The Career of York’s First Female Printer, 1661–1680.- 3. Historiography, Regionality, and Print Trade Life Writing: The Case of Mr Thomas Gent, Printer, of York.- 4. The Newspaper, the Bookshop, and the Radical Society: Joseph Gales’ Hartshead Press and the ‘Reading and Thinking People of Sheffield’.- Part II: Circulation and Networks.- 5. Printing, Publishing, and Pocket Book Compiling: Ann Fisher’s Hidden Labour in the Newcastle Book Trade.- 6. Elizabeth Davison and the Circulation of Chapbooks in Early Nineteenth-Century Northumberland.- Part III: Regions and Nations.- 7. ‘The Privilege Granted to the Printer’: The Role of James VI in the Scottish Print Trade 1567–1603.- 8. Print Agency and Civic Press Identity Across the Border: Commerce and Regional Improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, Liverpool General Advertiser, and the Urban Directories of Liverpool and Glasgow, 1765–1795.- Part IV: Technology.- 9. For Lack of Letters: Early Typographical Shibboleths of English and Other Foreign Languages.- 10. A New Type: Sans Serif Typography and Midlands Regional Identity.- 11. Afterword.

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Book SynopsisThis book showcases recent work about reading and books in sociology and the humanities across the globe. From different standpoints and within the broad perspectives within the cultural sociology of reading, the eighteen chapters examine a range of reading practices, genres, types of texts, and reading spaces. They cover the Anglophone area of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia; the transnational, multilingual space constituted by the readership of the Colombian novel One Hundred Years of Solitude; nineteenth-century Chile; twentieth-century Czech Republic; twentieth century Swahili readings in East Africa; contemporary Iran; and China during the cultural revolution and the post-Mao period. The chapters contribute to current debates about the valuation of literature and the role of cultural intermediaries; the iconic properties of textual objects and of the practice of reading itself; how reading supports personal, social and political reflection; bookstores as spaces for sociability and the interplay of high and commercial cultures; the political uses of reading for nation-building and propaganda, and the dangers and gratifications of reading under repression. In line with the cultural sociology of reading’s focus on meaning, materiality and emotion, this book explores the existential, ethical and political consequences of reading in specific locations and historical moments. Table of ContentsIntroduction María Angélica Thumala Olave.- Part I. The project of a cultural sociology of reading.- Chapter 1. “Reading matters. A cultural sociology of reading” María Angélica Thumala Olave.- Part II. Reading, books and texts as iconic experience.- Chapter 2. “The Felt Value of Reading Zines” Ash Watson and Andy Bennett.- Chapter 3. “Between self and other: Anäis Nin’s transformative erotics” Jessica Widner.- Chapter 4. “Knowing through Feeling: The Aesthetic Structure of a Novel and the Iconic Experience of Reading” Jan Vâna.- Chapter 5. “Book love. A cultural sociological interpretation of the attachment to books” María Angélica Thumala Olave.- Part III. Literary value, evaluation and cultural intermediaries.- Chapter 6. “Spatial Reading: Evaluative Frameworks and the Making of Literary Authority” Günther Leypoldt.- Chapter 7. “Readers and Reviewers: A Symbiotic Knot” Phillipa Chong.- Chapter 8. “The Courage to Continue: Reading and Motivating Intellectual Labors at University Presses” Joshua Silver.- Chapter 9. “Reviewing Strategies and the Normalization of Uncertain Texts” Álvaro Santana Acuña.- Chapter 10. “Customer reviews of 'highbrow' literature: a comparative reception study of The Inheritance of Loss and The White Tiger” Daniel Allington.- Part IV. Bookshops, sociability and the interplay of “high” and “consumer” culture.- Chapter 11. “On the sociability of books for an ethics of modern individuality: Taking Georg Simmel to a provincial English independent bookshop” Daniel R. Smith.- Chapter 12. “The Cultural Biography of the ‘Avant-Garde’: An Intellectual Bookstore and Post-Mao China’s High Culture Legacy” Eve Y. Lin.- Part V. Reading the social and the aesthetic public sphere.- Chapter 13. “The Politics of Happily-Ever-After: Romance Genre Fiction as Aesthetic Public Sphere” Anna Michelson.- Chapter 14. “Reading Literature, Reading People, and Reading Risk during the Chinese Cultural Revolution” Eddy U.- Chapter 15. “Living the Global Color Line: Book Interpretations in Kabul as Insights into Transnational Social Structures” Syeda Masood.- Chapter 16. “From normative reading to interfaces of reading: The functions of reading in Chinese literature and society” Lena Henningsen.

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Book SynopsisScientometrics have become an essential element in the practice and evaluation of science and research, including both the evaluation of individuals and national assessment exercises. Yet, researchers and practitioners in this field have lacked clear theories to guide their work. As early as 1981, then doctoral student Blaise Cronin published "The need for a theory of citing" —a call to arms for the fledgling scientometric community to produce foundational theories upon which the work of the field could be based. More than three decades later, the time has come to reach out the field again and ask how they have responded to this call. This book compiles the foundational theories that guide informetrics and scholarly communication research. It is a much needed compilation by leading scholars in the field that gathers together the theories that guide our understanding of authorship, citing, and impact.

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Book SynopsisThe Bavarian State Library is one of Europe’s largest and most important universal libraries, with unique stocks and collections. In this publication celebrating the library’s 450th anniversary, the authors present a view behind the scenes of this ”Treasury of Knovwledge“. Besides historical topics and descriptions of the most important collections, the articles describe current issues and future challenges – for example the whole issue of mass digitalisation, the roles of net-based user services or library marketing. There is also a detailed account of the Library’s role as the central archive and state library of the Free State of Bavaria. As one of the most important collections of source materials in the world, the Bavarian State Library is guardian of a centuries-old cultural heritage and at the same time positions itself as a modern, innovative service centre for the knowledge society. A selected bibliography completes this anniversary volume.

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Book SynopsisThe aim of each volume of this series Guides to Information Sources is to reduce the time which needs to be spent on patient searching and to recommend the best starting point and sources most likely to yield the desired information.The criteria for selection provide a way into a subject to those new to the field and assists in identifying major new or possibly unexplored sources to those who already have some acquaintance with it. The series attempts to achieve evaluation through a careful selection of sources and through the comments provided on those sources.Trade Review"Der Wert des Sammelbandes ergibt sich fur hiesige ExpertInnen schon allein daraus, dass kaum vergleichbare Publikationen existieren. Sie finden den neuesten Forschungsstand und aktuelle internationale Erfahrungen nicht nur in den einzelnen Texten des Sammelbandes, sondern auch einen Literaturuberblick sowie wertvolle Internetlinks und andere Adressen." BuB, Bad Honnef, Nr. 1, Januar 2003

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Book SynopsisThe current, thoroughly revised and updated edition of this approved title, evaluates information sources in the field of technology. It provides the reader not only with information of primary and secondary sources, but also analyses the details of information from all the important technical fields, including environmental technology, biotechnology, aviation and defence, nanotechnology, industrial design, material science, security and health care in the workplace, as well as aspects of the fields of chemistry, electro technology and mechanical engineering. The sources of information presented also contain publications available in printed and electronic form, such as books, journals, electronic magazines, technical reports, dissertations, scientific reports, articles from conferences, meetings and symposiums, patents and patent information, technical standards, products, electronic full text services, abstract and indexing services, bibliographies, reviews, internet sources, reference works and publications of professional associations. Information Sources in Engineering is aimed at librarians and information scientists in technical fields as well as non-professional information specialists, who have to provide information about technical issues. Furthermore, this title is of great value to students and people with technical professions.Trade Review"...it is a testament to its continued popularity and success that it has recently been published in its fourth edition." (AERADE Newsletter, Cromfield, March 2005) "...eine Grundlage fur Bibliothekare im Hinblick auf Erwerbung und Katalogisierung technischer Literatur" (B.I.T.online, Wiesbaden, Nr. 3, 2005)

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Book SynopsisA framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates the concepts and methods of information organization and information retrieval.Organizing is such a common activity that we often do it without thinking much about it. In our daily lives we organize physical things—books on shelves, cutlery in kitchen drawers—and digital things—Web pages, MP3 files, scientific datasets. Millions of people create and browse Web sites, blog, tag, tweet, and upload and download content of all media types without thinking “I''m organizing now” or “I''m retrieving now.”This book offers a framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates information organization (IO) and information retrieval (IR), bridging the disciplinary chasms between Library and Information Science and Computer Science, each of which views and teaches IO and IR as separate topics and in substantially different ways. It introduces the unifying

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Book SynopsisThrills and chills, witches, ghosts, and goblins—these terrifying teaching tools don't need to be controversial to inspire reluctant readers in grades K-6. Cross-curricular lesson plans are linked to language arts, social studies, math, art and technology.

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Book SynopsisRethinking Heritage for Sustainable Development explores whether and how heritage has contributed to three key dimensions of sustainable development, namely poverty reduction, gender equality and environmental sustainability.

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Book SynopsisEvelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book demonstrates how the novel’s material embodiment in the form of the printed book has been reshaped by its publishers, recasting its content for new generations of readers. Four main chapters vividly describe how during 240 years, Evelina, a popular novel of manners, metamorphosed without any significant alterations to its text into a Regency “rambling” text, a romantic novel for “lecteurs délicats,” a cheap imprint for circulating libraries, a yellow-back, a book with a certain aesthetic cachet, a Christmas gift-book, finally becoming an integral part of the established literary canon in annotated scholarly editions. This book also focuses on the remodelling and transformation of the paratext in this novel, written by a woman author, by the heavily male-dominated publishing industry. Shorter Entr’acte sections discuss and describe alterations in the forms of Burney’s name and the title of her work, the omission and renaming of her authorial prefaces, and the redeployment of the publisher’s prefatorial apparatus to support particular editions throughout almost two-and-a-half centuries of the novel’s existence. Illustrated with reproductions of covers, frontispieces, and title pages, the book also provides an illuminating insight into the role of Evelina’s visual representation in its history as a marketable commodity, highlighting the existence of editions targeting various segments of the book market: from the upper-middle-class to mass-readership. The first comprehensive and fully updated bibliography of English and translated editions, adaptations, and reprints of Evelina published in 13 languages and scripts appears in an appendix.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Beginnings: Published Wide and Often.- Chapter 2: Books for All Tastes and Wallets.- Chapter 3: Entering the Literary Canon.- Chapter 4: Evelina: The Life in Print.- Chapter 5: Conclusion.- Coda: Digital Afterlife.

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Book SynopsisMedieval England was full of books, many times the number that have survived. The great moment of loss was when the country’s religious houses were suppressed by King Henry VIII and their libraries scattered and destroyed. Twentieth-century scholarship has been enterprising in establishing what survives and in discovering what libraries once held. To understand that evidence, and to be able to reconstruct the transmission of culture in the Middle Ages, we need to employ with care the evidence of the surviving books and what medieval library catalogues can tell us about these lost collections. Libraries and Books in Medieval England paints a new picture of the circulation of books, from the totality of the available evidence. It seeks to move away from the modern conceptualization of the monastic library as the only venue for medieval book provision, and to broaden awareness of the wider book economy, including private ownership and the birth of the book trade. The result, by one of the country’s leading experts and based on his Lyell Lectures in the University of Oxford, is an unparalleled work offering a new view of the field.Table of ContentsForeword by Richard Ovenden vii Preface by James Willoughby x List of Illustrations xviii Abbreviations xix 1 Medieval Libraries of Great Britain 1 2 English Medieval Library Catalogues 25 3 Library Books and Personal Books 59 4 Turnover in Libraries 78 5 Growth, Competition, Stability, Loss, Renewal 96 6 Decay and Closure of Libraries 115 Notes 133 Select Bibliography 155 Index of Manuscripts 166 General Index 167

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