Given modern society's need to control its ever-increasing body of information, digital libraries may be among the most important and influential institutions of this century. This book offers the knowledge and tools needed to construct and maintain a digital library.

A practical guide to the world of cataloging and classification. It incorporates the 2002 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2), MARC 21, the 22nd edition of Dewey Decimal Classification , schedules of the LC Classifications, the Library of Congress Subject Headings, and the 18th edition of Sears List of Subject Headings .

This study analyzes both the technical and social forces which shaped the epochal transition from manuscript to printed page. It traces the development of the book in a period of unprecedented social change in Europe.

Here, Murray shows how the computer is reshaping the stories we live by and discusses the properties and pleasures of digital environments and connects them with the traditional satisfactions of narrative.

This magisterial study re-examines the relationship between manuscript and print in the early modern period.

This analysis of print culture and its many arenas - commercial, intellectual, political and individual - looks at how authors, printers, booksellers and readers competed for power over the printed page.