MIT Libraries Publications and Presentations: Recent submissions
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Kicked a heading lately? The challenge of establishing headings for buildings and other structures
(Art Libraries Society of North America, 2006)Providing access points for building names is a tremendous challenge for library catalogers. Using Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum as an example of the complexities involved in assigning these types of headings, ... -
The Materiality of Digital Collections:Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006-07)Digital and textual objects are coming under a new kind of scrutiny as scholars are becoming more interested in physical artifacts and their relation to their social and cultural environment. This study of material culture ... -
The Symbolic Value of Libraries in a Digital Age
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001-10)As an increasingly virtual society anticipates the decline of print, it looks to the keepers of the written record to maintain continuity with its past. Libraries cannot formulate intelligent collection and preservation ...
