Bookshelf
"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. You might think that its name says it all. A bookshelf is just that - a shelf for books. It's the stuff of libraries, offices, and the bane of movers' existence. But every shelf...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic
2016, ©2016.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Object lessons. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3928623x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction. Whatâ#x80;#x99;s in a name?; A room without books; The lives of bookshelves; Cicero â#x80;#x99; s shelves; Chapter 1 From medieval to modern: Bookshelves in chains; The oldest still-chained shelves in the world; So what are chained libraries?; A thousand years of chains: Hereford Cathedral; Digital books & digital chains: The medieval legacy; What are chains about?; Chapter 2 The things that go on a bookshelf; The small library: Putting books on children â#x80;#x99; s bookshelves; Putting books on a bookshelf; Display & storage: Books & not-books.
- How to read a bookshelfChapter 3 Bookshelves that move; The thousands of books shelved in ships; What does it mean for a shelf to move? Movable vs. fixed shelves; Moving the bookshelves; Making more bookshelves move: Other kinds of mobility; Still, they move; Chapter 4 Bookshelves as signs and symbols; The bookshelf as a scene & a symbol; Secret shelves in secret rooms; From power and privilege to Marvel and Marengi; The unwritten future of bookshelves; Chapter 5 The life cycle of a bookshelf; In which, bookshelves are installed at the New York Public Library.
- Bookshelves brim with biological metaphorMeet the megafauna: Twentieth-century libraries; Bookshelves with a bauplan; The death and resurrection of bookshelves; Conclusion. The plural futures of bookshelves; Books without shelves & bookless libraries; The many lives of bookshelves; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
