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Constructing the Universal Library.

Jones, Elisabeth A.

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Constructing the Universal Library.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Constructing the Universal Library./
Author:	Jones, Elisabeth A.
Description:	455 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-12A(E).
Subject:	Information Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3631849
ISBN:	9781321108903

Constructing the Universal Library.
Jones, Elisabeth A.

Constructing the Universal Library. - 455 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2014.

The expanded access to millions of books provided by large-scale digitization initiatives (LSDIs) like Google Books and the Open Content Alliance (OCA) has the potential to reshape myriad social structures; yet, despite this potential, they remain underassessed as social phenomena. This dissertation seeks to provide a foundation for such assessment by situating LSDIs in historical context. Specifically, it argues that LSDIs derive from the same basic urge to provide free, widespread public information access that spurred the creation of the public library movement in nineteenth century America, and that through parallel examination of these phenomena, the older can help to illuminate the newer.

ISBN: 9781321108903Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017528
Information Science.

Constructing the Universal Library.
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