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This book offers readers a well-rounded and accurate account of the amazing and unpredictable sequence of inter-related events experienced by the field of scholarly publishing in the 20th century. Examining the related worlds of book, journal, and electronic publishing; information technology; and library advances, this is the first work to record the trends of the modern history of the information/knowledge transfer process. Using an analysis of the past 100 years, it also makes predications regarding future trends and the roles of the publishing and library communities in tomorrow's information marketplace
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This special issue of Against the Grain contains 15 essays that summarize the strange sequence of interrelated events through which the information/knowledge transfer process passed in the course of the 1900s, with a focus on the century's latter half. The editors write that for their history of publishing practices they sought out "the foremost living players" in the worlds of books, journals, electronic media, and libraries, and indeed the list of contributors reads like an all-star library and information-science roster. In addition to journals and trade book publishing, the authors cover the evolution of textbooks and university press publishing, public and scientific libraries, the economic crisis in libraries, and the growth of computer technology in libraries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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