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The Changing Book
Transitions in Design, Production, and Preservation
Nancy Kraft,Holly Huffman
- 270 páginas
- English
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The Changing Book
Transitions in Design, Production, and Preservation
Nancy Kraft,Holly Huffman
Información del libro
Discover the changes in books in this digital age Evolving digital formats have forced libraries' approaches to paper book collections to change in ways unforeseen even a few years ago. The Changing Book: Transition in Design, Production, and Preservation takes an insightful look at the evolution of books from its historical origins to completely digital. This visionary source examines the continuing role of the paper book, trends in print book production, and the future of the physical book. Electronic book technologies, on demand printing, book conservation, and traditions in bookmaking are discussed in detail. These superb selections of proceedings from The Changing Book Conference held in 2005 focus on the creativity and innovative ideas important to any library professional managing library collections. This resource provides numerous photographs and illustrations, and is extensively referenced. Topics in The Changing Book: Transition in Design, Production, and Preservation include:
- craft bookbinding
- historical background of book conservation
- the binding, repair, and conservation problems of the hundreds of years old Kennicott Bible from Spain
- the shift from print to digital collections
- the future of print collections
- electronic preservation and standardization
- the difficulties of book conservation in foreign lands
- traditions of Himalayan bookmaking
- graphic and book design
- alkaline paper use
- book preservation programs
- new technologies in on demand book production
- and more!
The Changing Book: Transition in Design, Production, and Preservation is an enlightening resource for library professionals of all types, administrators, educators, and students.
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Índice
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Craft Bookbinding in Chicago and Iowa: Ellen Gates Starr and the Hull House Bindery, the Hertzberg Bindery, and Bill Anthony
- Historical Background of Book Conservation: The Past Forty Years
- The Kennicott Bible: Its Illumination, Binding, Conservation Problems and Repair
- e-Miles to Go and Promises to Keep
- Who Wants Yesterday's Papers? The Faculty Answer
- The Future of Literature: Complex Surfaces of Electronic Texts and Print Books
- End of Paper: Electronic Book Technologies
- Bookcraft Education: A Panel Presentation
- Bill Anthony's Influence on Apprentices: A Panel Discussion
- World View of Book Conservation
- From Pothi to Pixels and Back Again: The Book in Tibet
- The Role of Book Design in the Changing Book
- Conservation and Book Arts
- Signal to Noise
- Alkaline Paper versus Acidic Paper in Current Publishing: A Preliminary Analysis
- Book Conservation within Library Preservation
- Historical Background of Print/Bind on Demand
- On Demand Book Production with New Technologies
- Index