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The politics of mass digitization
\"Today, anyone with an internet connection can access hundreds of millions of digitized cultural artifacts from the comfort of their desk. And every day cultural institutions and private bodies add thousands of new cultural works to the digital sphere. Mass digitization is forming new central nexuses of knowledge and new ways of engaging with that knowledge. What at first glance appears to be a simple act of digitization (a transformation of singular books from boundary objects to open sets of data), at closer examination reveals a complex process teeming with diverse political, legal, and cultural investments. This book argues that mass digitization has become a global cultural political project. It offers an in-depth examination of mass digitization of cultural memory in the West and beyond. It suggests a new approach to the study of digital cultural memory archives, proposing to understand mass digitization not as neutral technical processes, but rather as distinct subpolitical processes that build new kinds of archives and new ways of interacting with these archives. And it seeks to develop a critical theoretical framework for understanding the new archival apparatuses and the politics and memory dynamics they give rise to\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Disaster Planning Handbook for Libraries
Libraries are in a unique position to aid communities during times of adversity, and this comprehensive handbook's practical tools and expert guidance will help ensure that your library is thoroughly prepared for emergency response and recovery.
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Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library
Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library collects best practices for the acquisition, preservation, storage, and cataloging of comics, particularly single-issue (or floppy) comics, within the special collections units of academic library collections.
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Disaster response and planning for libraries
Fire, water, mold, construction problems, power-outages mishaps like these can not only bring library services to a grinding halt, but can also destroy collections and even endanger employees. Preparing for the unexpected is the foundation of a library s best response. Expert Kahn comes to the rescue with this timely update of the best step-by-step, how-to guide for preparing and responding to all types of library disasters. This completely revised third edition offers * Quick and efficient guidance for creating protocols and response plans tailored to your own institution * Pointers for handling all kinds of library materials when damaged * The last information on preparing for technology recovery * Up-to-date information on prevention equipment and materials * Dozens of reproducible checklists and forms, and a comprehensive list of resources Kahn s guide gives libraries the tools they need to face any emergency, no matter the size or scope.
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Theorizing digital cultural heritage : a critical discourse
In Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage, experts offer a critical and theoretical appraisal of the uses of digital media by cultural heritage institutions. Previous discussions of cultural heritage and digital technology have left the subject largely unmapped in terms of critical theory; the essays in this volume offer this long-missing perspective on the challenges of using digital media in the research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage. The contributors -- scholars and practitioners from a range of relevant disciplines -- ground theory in practice, considering how digital technology might be used to transform institutional cultures, methods, and relationships with audiences. The contributors examine the relationship between material and digital objects in collections of art and indigenous artifacts; the implications of digital technology for knowledge creation, documentation, and the concept of authority; and the possibilities for \"virtual cultural heritage\" -- the preservation and interpretation of cultural and natural heritage through real-time, immersive, and interactive techniques. The essays in Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage will serve as a resource for professionals, academics, and students in all fields of cultural heritage, including museums, libraries, galleries, archives, and archaeology, as well as those in education and information technology. The range of issues considered and the diverse disciplines and viewpoints represented point to new directions for an emerging field. - Publisher.
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The construction of fine management system of library library materials under the background of informationization
The growth in the number of books leads to the increasing inefficiency and cost of traditional library data management methods for book verification and classification. To solve the problems of book classification, this paper proposes an automatic classification model, ERBERT-HMATT, for book data features. Firstly, the pre-training of BERT is improved by adding masking at the word and entity level. Then, the network structure of the model is designed based on HMCN. Finally, a multi-label attention mechanism is introduced in the initial feature extraction module, which gives different weights to the words of the input text to increase the attention to the text features, and the model is subjected to recurrent learning, which enhances the robustness of the model by adding fine-grained knowledge. Finally, the classification performance of the three algorithms, KNN, SVM, and ERBERT-HMATT, is tested on the same dataset. The accuracy of the ERBERT-HMATT classification algorithm is 0.1% higher than that of the KNN according to the results. Classifying 300 book information takes less than 100ms, which is significantly less than the processing time for SVM and KNN. This paper also found that the subject word field in the book information has a large positive effect on the model classification, which can improve the classification accuracy by 0.09 compared with the model with only the title field. The test results indicate that the method enhances the classification of book data to a certain extent.
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The case for books : past, present, and future
\"The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Is the printed book resilient enough to survive the digital revolution, or will it become obsolete? In this lasting collection of essays, Robert Darnton--an intellectual pioneer in the field of this history of the book--lends unique authority to the life, role, and legacy of the book in society.\"--P. 4 of cover.
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The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites
Containing first-hand accounts from leading thinkers, curators, exhibition designers, historians, heritage practitioners, technologists and interaction designers, this book presents a fascinating picture of how today's cultural institutions are undergoing a transformation through innovative applications of digital technology.
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