Conserving for the Future by Archiving Our Past; A Story about Technology and Digitization Informed by a Vintage Paperback Book Collection

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Autore principale: Werts, Cybele
Natura: Recurso educativo Open Access
Lingua:en
Pubblicazione: 2010
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contents Conserving for the Future by Archiving Our Past; A Story about Technology and Digitization Informed by a Vintage Paperback Book Collection Werts, Cybele Books Media Adaptation Electronic Publishing Technology Internet Librarians Web Sites Computers Computer Peripherals Periodicals Preservation The books, photographs, letters and other ephemera of our past are for the first time becoming completely transformed into the digital bits and bytes of our computer-generated present. What happens to these products as they shift from the corporeal to the technological world? What essence might be lost when a book is scanned into a computer or is part of the Google Book Library Project, and what might be gained? Or is it all energy simply transferred to another medium like when wood is burned in a fireplace turns into to heat energy? This extended article explores these questions using a collection of vintage magazines and paperback books, which provide a lighthearted timbre to a somewhat esoteric subject. (Contains 7 endnotes.)
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spellingShingle Conserving for the Future by Archiving Our Past; A Story about Technology and Digitization Informed by a Vintage Paperback Book Collection
Werts, Cybele
Books
Media Adaptation
Electronic Publishing
Technology
Internet
Librarians
Web Sites
Computers
Computer Peripherals
Periodicals
Preservation
Conserving for the Future by Archiving Our Past; A Story about Technology and Digitization Informed by a Vintage Paperback Book Collection Werts, Cybele Books Media Adaptation Electronic Publishing Technology Internet Librarians Web Sites Computers Computer Peripherals Periodicals Preservation The books, photographs, letters and other ephemera of our past are for the first time becoming completely transformed into the digital bits and bytes of our computer-generated present. What happens to these products as they shift from the corporeal to the technological world? What essence might be lost when a book is scanned into a computer or is part of the Google Book Library Project, and what might be gained? Or is it all energy simply transferred to another medium like when wood is burned in a fireplace turns into to heat energy? This extended article explores these questions using a collection of vintage magazines and paperback books, which provide a lighthearted timbre to a somewhat esoteric subject. (Contains 7 endnotes.)
title Conserving for the Future by Archiving Our Past; A Story about Technology and Digitization Informed by a Vintage Paperback Book Collection
topic Books
Media Adaptation
Electronic Publishing
Technology
Internet
Librarians
Web Sites
Computers
Computer Peripherals
Periodicals
Preservation
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ913573