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Library of Walls : The Library of Congress and the Contradictions of Information Society by Samuel Gerald Collins; ProQuest (Firm) is a computer science book available to read on EtoBox.
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In Library of Walls, Samuel Collins engages the heterogeneities of information society at the Library of Congress through ethnographic fieldwork, suggesting that "information society" is best understood at the locus of conflicting modalities imbricating text, space, work and life. During the 1990's, the Library of Congress was beset with challenges to its traditional roles in cataloging and scholarship while at the same time re-inventing itself as a library "without walls." The "order of books"
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- Author
- Samuel Gerald Collins; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Litwin Books, LLC; Litwin Books
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781936117376
- Category
- computer science
- Subjects
- Management, Computer Science, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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