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• Introduction
• Function and Structure
• Cultural Contexts and Political Choices
• The California County Library System
• Libraries in Diplomacy
• Libraries in Japan and the Allied Occupation
• CIE Information centers
• The Education Mission, 1946
• Philip Keeney and his Plan
• National Diet Library
• The Library Law of 1950
• Don Brown's Initiative
• Gitler, Kiyooka and Keio
• The Japan Library School
• Afterwards
• Summary and Retrospect.

"This book examines US-influenced initiatives to improve library services during the Allied Occupation of post-surrender Japan and looks at history of funding libraries abroad as a tool of cultural diplomacy, the development of free public libraries as a progressive political agenda in California, and an explanation of why in Japan library services were relatively backward despite exceptionally high literacy and very well-developed publishing industry and retail book trade"-- Provided by publisher.

"This indispensable resource provides day-to-day guidance on maintaining free and equal access to information for all people"-- Provided by publisher.

• Part 1: Foundations: Open Access
• Open Access: Beginnings and Developments
• Open Access: Components and Relationships
• Part 2: Foundations: Theory and Practice
• Theory: Definitions and Disciplines
• Theory and Practice: Relationships and Gaps
• Part 3: Perspectives: Theory in Research
• Theory in Open Access Studies: Scoping and Analysing
• Theory in Open Access Studies: Using and Generating
• Part 4: Perspectives: Theory in Action
• Theory in Open Access Practice: Theorising and Acting
• Theory in Open Access Practice: Engaging and Evading
• Part 5: Integrations: Theory, Practice, and Open Access
• Theory and Practice: Barriers and Bridges
• Open Access: Debates and Priorities
• Conclusion: Open Access in Theory and Practice.

"Open Access in Theory and Practice investigates the theory-practice relationship in the domain of open access publication and dissemination of research outputs. Drawing on detailed analysis of the literature and current practice in OA, as well as data collected in detailed interviews with practitioners, policymakers and researchers, the book discusses what constitutes 'theory', and how the role of theory is perceived by both theorists and practitioners. Exploring the ways theory and practice have interacted in the development of OA, the authors discuss what this reveals about the nature of the OA phenomenon itself and the theory-practice relationship. Open Access in Theory and Practice contributes to a better understanding of OA and as such, should be of great interest to academics, researchers and students working in the fields of information science, publishing studies, science communication, higher education policy, business and economics. The book also makes an important contribution to the debate of the relationship between theory and practice in information science, and more widely across different fields of the social sciences and humanities"-- Provided by publisher.

• Section 1
• 1. Introduction
• Section II: Technology and Change Management in Higher Education and Academic Libraries
• 2. Technology and Change Management in Academic Libraries
• 3. The People Side of Change: Applying Change Management Principles in Academic Libraries
• Section III: Case Studies
• 4. Developing Massive Open Online Courses
• 5. Implementation of a Leganto Reading List Service at Curtin University Library
• 6. Transforming Information Advisory Services in University Libraries: A Case Study at the University of Sheffield, UK
• 7. Accelerating Student Learning in Communication and Research Skills: The Adoption of Adaptive Learning Technologies for Scenario-Based Modules
• 8. Developing an Online Book Finding Tool for a University Library
• 9. The White Rose University Press: An Academic-Led Open Access Publisher
• 10. Mutual Benefit from Library Collaboration with Computational Biologists: The cropPAL Project at the University of Western Australia
• 11. Brave New World?: Cardiff Metropolitan University Library Service's Implementation of a Next Generation Library Management System
• 12. Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL): The E-Book Journey
• 13. Engaging Tertiary Students with University Archival Collections and Digitisation Processes
• 14. Planning and Implementing an Automated Storage and Retrieval System at the University of Limerick
• 15. Making Researchers' Lives Easier and Managing Risk at the University of Adelaide
• 16. E-Books and Changes in Collection Management at Leeds University Library
• 17. Universities, Jisc and the Journey to Open
• Section IV: Reflections
• 18. Reflections on Technology, Change and Academic Libraries.
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Massive technological change has been impacting universities and university libraries in recent years. Such change has manifested in technological developments impacting all areas of academic library activity, including systems, services, collections, the physical library environment, marketing, and support for university teaching, learning, research, and administration. Many books and papers have examined these changes from a technical perspective. However, there is little substantive reflection on what technological change means, and how best to get out in front of it, for the academic library. Technology, Change and the Academic Library systematically reflects on technological innovation, the successes, failures and lessons learned, the nature, process and culture of change, and key aspects including impacts on library staff and users, roles and responsibilities, and skills and capabilities. The book takes an international perspective on the massive change currently affecting academic libraries. The title gives an overview and literature review, considers technological innovation and change management, future technologies and future change, and provides information on further reading. Case studies describe the rationale, aims, and objectives for particular technological innovations, and consider methods, outcomes, and recommendations for the future. Finally, the book reflects back on how technological change can best be wrought in academic libraries.
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"In the nineteenth century, no assumption about female reading generated more ambivalence than the supposedly feminine facility for identifying with fictional characters. The belief that women were more impressionable than men inspired a continuous stream of anxious rhetoric about "female quixotes": women who would imitate inappropriate characters or apply incongruous frames of reference from literature to their own lives. While the overt cultural discourse portrayed female literary identification as passive and delusional, Palacios Knox reveals increasing accounts of Victorian women wielding literary identification as a deliberate strategy. Wayward women readers challenged dominant assumptions about "feminine reading" and, by extension, femininity itself. Victorian Women and Wayward Reading contextualizes crises about female identification as reactions to decisive changes in the legal, political, educational, and professional status of women over the course of the nineteenth century: changes that wayward reading helped women first to imagine and then to enact"-- Provided by publisher.

• The value of an academic law library in the 21st century / Anne Klinefelter
• The academic law library budget / George Pike
• Selecting the best staffing level for modern law libraries / Catherine M. Dunn
• Hiring the "right stuff" for institutional success / Joan S. Howland
• The status of the academic law library director / Scott B. Pagel
• Contributions to the intellectual life of the institution and the profession / Janet Sinder
• Other roles for the library or library director / Darcy Kirk
• Collection development / Casey D. Duncan
• How is continually evolving technology impacting the law library? / Darin K. Fox
• How much and what type of space does a law library need? / Michelle M. Wu
• How should the law library interact with the law school or university? / Carol A. Watson
• Centralization of the academic law library: is it right for your institution? / Elizabeth G. Adelman
• Emerging trends / Michelle M. Wu

"In a world where technology advances appear daily, deans and provosts often have questions about law libraries, their purposes, and whether technological innovations should lead to changes in library spaces, collections, and/or services. This book seeks to answer those questions, examining the factors involved in an analysis of what a community needs from their library, and demonstrating why the answer to these questions might vary from library to library. Featuring commentaries by multiple directors, this valuable title will help newer and experienced law library directors, law school deans, and university provosts (where the university has a law school) by highlighting different approaches in analysis as well as changing cultures in law libraries"--Back cover

• Part I. Coteries, Communities, Collaborations: Manuscript Publication
• "Pray for the Unworthy Scribbler": The Textual Cultures of Early Methodist Women / Andrew O. Winckles
• Collecting John Abbot's Natural History Notes and Drawings / Beth Fowkes Tobin
• A "Female Accomplishment"?: Femininity, Privacy, and Eighteenth-Century Letter-Writing Norms / Rachael Scarborough King
• Bookmaking and Archiving in Dorothy Wordsworth's Notebooks / Michelle Levy
• Part II. The Manuscript-Print Interface
• Paratextual Readers: Manuscript Verse in Printed Books of the Long Eighteenth Century / Philip S. Palmer
• Mediating the "Sudden & Surprising Revolution": Official Manuscript Newsletters and the Revolution of 1688 / Leith Davis
• Manuscript, Print, and the Affective Turn: The Case of Frances Brooke's Old Maid / Kathryn R. King
• Becoming Dr. Franklin: Benjamin Franklin's Science, Manuscript Circulation, and "Anti-Authorship" in Print / Colin T. Ramsey
• Part III. New Methods for Manuscript Studies
• Amateur Manuscript Fiction in the Archives: An Introduction / Emily C. Friedman
• The Language of Notation and the Space of Manuscript Notebooks / Collin Jennings
• The Circulation of John Keats's Letters on Land, on Sea, Online / Brian Rejack
• Cooking Hannah Woolley's Printed Recipes from a Manuscript Recipe Book: UPenn Ms. Codex 785 / Marissa Nicosia

The eighteenth century has generally been understood as the Age of Print, when the new medium revolutionized the literary world and rendered manuscript culture obsolete. After Print, however, reveals that the story isn't so simple. Manuscript remained a vital, effective, and even preferred forum for professional and amateur authors working across fields such as literature, science, politics, religion, and business through the Romantic period. The contributors to this book offer a survey of the manuscript culture of the time, discussing handwritten culinary recipes, the poetry of John Keats, Benjamin Franklin's letters about his electrical experiments, and more. Collectively, the essays demonstrate that what has often been seen as the amateur, feminine, and aristocratic world of handwritten exchange thrived despite the spread of the printed word. In so doing, they undermine the standard print-manuscript binary and advocate for a critical stance that better understands the important relationship between the media. Bringing together work from literary scholars, librarians, and digital humanists, the diverse essays in After Print offer a new model for archival research, pulling from an exciting variety of fields to demonstrate that manuscript culture did not die out but, rather, may have been revitalized by the advent of printing. Contributors: Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University * Margaret J. M. Ezell, Texas A&M University * Emily C. Friedman, Auburn University * Kathryn R. King, University of Montevallo * Michelle Levy, Simon Fraser University * Marissa Nicosia, Penn State Abington * Philip S. Palmer, Morgan Library and Museum * Colin T. Ramsey, Appalachian State University * Brian Rejak, Illinois State University * Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia * Andrew O. Winckles, Adrian College.
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Die Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek in Überlingen bewahrt in ihrem Bestand 143 alchemische Handschriften, deren Existenz eng mit den Namen Johann Baptist Sebastian von Sonnenthal (1759?1834) und Franz Sales Wocheler (1778?1848) verbunden ist. Welche Texte überliefern diese Manuskripte? Wer war am Entstehungsprozess der Sammlung beteiligt? Warum wurden die Schriften vom Stadtpfarrer Wocheler für die Bibliothek erworben? Und wie stand es im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert um das Interesse an Alchemie?0Diesen und weiteren Fragen geht Franziska Schaudeck in ihrer Studie nach, indem sie die Manuskripte erstmals in einem ausführlichen Handschriftenkatalog erfasst und das Gesamtensemble kulturell und historisch positioniert. Die Einordnung des Bestands in geheimgesellschaftliche Kontexte fußt auf den Ergebnissen einer kodikologischen Erschließungsarbeit, die Schaudeck mit dem kulturgeschichtlichen Hintergrund des Phänomens ?Alchemie? und mit anderen Alchemica-Sammlungen in Verbindung setzt. Quellenstudien zu Sonnenthal und Wocheler sowie zu deren soziokulturellem Umfeld dokumentieren weiter, dass Alchemie und Geheimgesellschaften auch im deutschen Südwesten der Sattelzeit faszinieren konnten. Die Überlinger Alchemica sind ein eindrucksvolles Zeugnis dieser Periode

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Manuscript World, Print World, Digital World
• Three Worlds
• Surfaces of Emergence
• Authorities of Delimitation
• Grids of Specification
• ABC for Book Collectors versus A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology
• Manuscript Practices in a Print World
• Fear of Voiding or Fear of the Void
• Moldy Manuscript or Pristine Print
• A World Without Whom versus Do I Make Myself Clear?
• Word of the Year : 2015 or 2016?
• Thinking to Type or Typing to Think? Typewriter versus Text Messages
• The Written, Printed, and Digital Koran
• From Manuscript to Print
• From Print to Digital
• From Digital to Manuscript
• Consequences for Digitized Manuscripts
• The Digital Materiality of Digitized Manuscripts
• Stepping into the Digital World
• Larger Than Life Digitized Manuscripts
• The Intangible Aura of Material Manuscripts
• What Are Digitized Manuscripts?
• New Habits for Philologists in a Digital World
• Digitized Manuscripts and Their Repositories, an Ethnography
• Old Collections in Europe
• Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
• Qatar Digital Library
• Leiden Universiteitsbibliotheek
• Bibliothèque nationale de France
• Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
• New Collections in North America
• Caro Minasian Collection at the University of California, Los Angeles Library
• Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
• Princeton University Library
• University of Michigan Library
• Islamic Studies Library, McGill University
• Major Collections in the mena Region
• Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi
• Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi
• Ketābkhāna va mūza-ye melli-ye Malek
• Al-Maktaba al-waṭaniyya li-l-mamlaka al-maghribiyya
• Jāmiʻa Malik Saʻūd
• Notable Collections in Africa, the Levant, and Asia
• Jāmiʻa al-najāḥ al-waṭaniyya
• Jafet Library
• Aboubacar Bin Said Library and Mamma Haidara Library on vHMML
• MyManuskrip Malaya University
• Daiber Collection Database at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo
• A Grand Comparison of the Quality of Digital Surrogates
• Size of Collection
• Online
• Downloadable
• Portal
• Viewer
• Page Numbers
• Resolution
• Color Balance
• Lighting
• Cut
• A Final Rating
• A Visual Comparison
• Difference between Professional and Amateur Photos
• The Future of Digital Manuscript Repositories
• Paleography : Between Erudition and Computation
• The Variety of Digital Paleographic Experience
• From Paper to Digital
• Born Digital, with A Hint of Print
• Traditional Work Done Better
• Towards Handwriting Recognition
• Rise and Fall of Team Projects Funded by Grants
• Archetypes across the DH Spectrum
• Drawing Ancient Symbols on a Tablet
• Philology : Standards for Digital Editing
• File Formats
• Encoding of Text
• Markup of Text
• Intermezzo : Using the Right Editing Tool
• You Need to Create a Small Critical Edition Solely for Print Purposes
• You Are Working with a Very Large Text from Which You Will Mine Specific Bits of Information
• You Have a Large Set of Separate Writings
• You Will Work Intensively with a Stable Text
• You Wish to Critically Edit a Text with Unusual Features or Multiple Manuscript Witnesses
• Concluding Thoughts
• Handling Images
• Archiving and Publishing
• Cataloging : From a Dusty Backroom to the World Wide Web
• Field Research Workflow : From a Dusty Backroom to My Computer
• Web Development : From My Computer to the World Wide Web
• Structure : html
• Content : json
• Style : css
• Interactivity : JavaScript
• Productivity : Code Editor and Code Repository
• Quantitative Analysis of the Collection
• Codicology : Automated Analysis Using Python and OpenCV
• Why Code?
• Description of Case Study
• Introduction to Python
• Introduction to OpenCV
• Extraction of Images
• Analysis of an Image
• The Function Check_image_readable
• The Function Analyze_image
• The Function Display_image
• The Function Find_angle
• The Mathematics behind Finding the Angle
• Running the Script over Large Numbers
• Results
• A Digital Orientalist
• Postscript : Among Digitized Manuscripts
• Bibliography
• Index of Persons
• Index of Subjects

Working with manuscripts has become a digital affair. But, are there downsides to digital photos? And how can you take advantage of the incredible computing power you have literally at your fingertips? Cornelis van Lit explains in detail what happens when manuscript studies meets digital humanities. In Among Digitized Manuscripts you will learn why it is important to include a note on the photo quality in your codicological description, how to draw, collect, and publish glyphs of paleographic interest, what standards (such as TEI and IIIF) to abide by when transcribing a text, how to write custom software for image recognition, and much more. The leading principle is that learning a little about computers will already be of great benefit.
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• Foreword and acknowledgements = Avant-propos et remerciements / Alice Motard
• Introduction: exhibiting books, reading the exhibition = Introduction: exposer le livre, lire l'exposition / Alice Motard
• Exhibition views = Vues de l'exposition
• Catalogue dé-raisonné of Beau Geste Press, 1971-76 = Catalogue dé-raisonné de Beau Geste Press, 1971-1976
• Ephemera = Éphémères
• Essays = Essais
• Mapping the city: Felipe Ehrenberg in London, 1968-71 = Cartographier la ville: Felipe Ehrenberg à Londres, 1968-1971 / Carmen Juliá
• Beau Geste Pressers and the Beau Geste Pressed = Beau Geste Press: imprimeurs et imprimés / Polly Gregson
• Visual territory: Parts of a Body House Book by Carolee Schneemann = Territoire visuel: Parts of a Body House Book de Carolee Schneemann / Karen Di Franco
• A live aesthetic: material networks of collaboration at the Beau Geste Press = Une esthétique du vivant: matérialité des réseaux de collaboration à Beau Geste Press / Zanna Gilbert
• Publishing reshuffle: frabrication and dissemination at Beau Geste Press = L'édition sens dessus dessous: fabrication et diffusion à Beau Geste Press / Mila Waldeck
• Appendix = Annexes
• Index
• Biographies
• Colophon
• Captions and image credits = Légendes et crédits des images

• Laying the theoretical groundwork
• Fighting stigma, building power
• The library as organization
• Coming out: Giving voice to our vulnerability and exercising our strength
• Accommodations, advocacy and doing what works
• Getting help and transgressing borders
• Building a caring workplace
• Working well with a metabolic disorder
• Working well with a movement disorder: I found meaning when our interdependency increased.

"Examines issues faced by disabled library workers, through the lens of critical disability theory"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction / Nathalie Brémand
• Livres
• "Papier, dorure, images, caractère" : les livres d'images dans l'ouvre de Charles Fourier
• Prophète ou fonctionnaire ? Le statut incertain de l'écrivain chez les premiers socialistes
• Lire pour écrire : quelques observations sur les bibliothèques de Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• "Le fouilleur infatigable" : écrits, livres, collections et bibliothèques chez le socialiste owéniste Jules Gay
• Lectures
• Lire les socialistes et les radicaux dans l'atelier : esquisses sur les pratiques ouvrières de lecture collective (France et Grande-Bretagne, 1780-1860)
• Émanciper les ouvriers par la lecture ? Flora Tristan et l'éducation par le livre
• Les communistes (babouvistes) déballent leur bibliothèque
• Faire lire pour convertir : les idées d'Étienne Cabet sur la lecture et leur mise en application dans la communauté icarienne de Nauvoo (1849-1856)
• Bibliothèques
• "Le savoir vaut vertu" : la bibliothèque comme enjeu politique dans l'Encyclopédie nouvelle de Pierre Leroux et Jean Reynaud
• "Revolution in the mind" : lecture et bibliothèques chez Robert Owen
• La bibliothèque du Familistère de Guise au XIXe siècle
• Militantisme et bibliothèques populaires : l'action des fouriéristes des années 1860 aux années 1880
• Les crispations de l'opinion autour de la présence d'ouvrages socialistes dans les premières bibliothèques populaires.