What is the future of libraries? This question is frequently posed, with widespread research into the social and economic impact of libraries. Newspapers play an important role in forming public perceptions, but how do newspapers present libraries, their past, present and future? Nobody has yet taken the press to task on the quantity and quality of articles on libraries, however Libraries and Public Perception does just this, through comparative textual analysis of newspapers in Europe. After a comprehensive and useful introductory chapter, the book consists of the following five chapters: Wondering about the future of libraries; Measuring the value of libraries; Libraries in the newspapers; Contemporary challenges and public perception; Which library model from the newspapers: a synthesis. - Provides an alternative means to evaluate the impact of libraries - Compares different countries and societies regarding their representation of libraries - Pursues its subject through active research, rather than self reflection
The annals of the XXVI Congress of the Société de Linguistique Romane bring together some 500 lectures on 16 subjects: phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, semantics, lexicology/phraseology, morphology, onomastics, sociolinguistics, language geography, pragmatics, communication analysis, textual linguistics of earlier language stages, electronic media, translation studies, creole languages, Vulgar Latin, and linguistic history. Also included are ten plenary lectures and five round table discussions. The papers, written solely in the Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian), offer a current panorama of Romance linguistics, its present-day fields of research, as well as the latest bibliographic information.
Comprenant de nombreux outils utiles à la préparation du DELE niveau A1, cet ouvrage permet d’une part, d’aborder, de façon ludique, en accord avec le style de l’examen, les points de grammaire et le vocabulaire attendus pour le niveau A1 et, d’autre part, de les manipuler grâce à de nombreux exercices corrigés. Au programme : 20 chapitres de vocabulaire thématique proposant une liste de vocabulaire et des exercices afin de se familiariser avec les différents mots à retenir.20 chapitres de grammaire présentant les points de grammaire qu’il faut maîtriser pour le DELE A1, suivis d’exercices d’approfondissement.
This volume consists of presentations at recent events of the IFLA Newspapers Section in Oslo 2005, Canberra 2005, Buenos Aires 2004, Shanghai 2004, Berlin 2003 and Cape Town 2003. It covers the variety and intensity of newspaper activities worldwide, emphasising both regional activities and current work in the fields of the preservation and digitisation of newspapers, and including reports on the ongoing US and UK projects. Another essential subject covered in this volume is the very complex issue of newspapers and copyright. This publication presents the current state of newspaper librarianship on all five continents. It reflects not only the remarkable progress made during recent years, but also the major challenges for the future.
"Republics of Knowledge tells the story of how the circulation of knowledge shaped the formation of nation-states in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina, Peru and Chile, during the century after Iberian rule was defeated in the 1820s. Most immediately, the author has sought to provide a cross-disciplinary approach to the history of knowledge, combining the methods of global intellectual history with a new way of thinking about nations as experienced and enacted as well as how they are imagined, and in so doing offer a new interpretation of the history of independent Latin America to illustrate its wider significance in the making of the modern world. By bringing these lines of inquiry together within a transnational framework, Nicola Miller shows how evidence from the pioneering nations of Latin America can invite historians to rethink many of their general theories about how knowledge travels and how a sense of nationhood is created. The book is designed to stimulate debate about the significance of knowledge not only in Latin America but in all modern societies. As Miller explains, Latin America is usually regarded as an exception to general theories, notably of...
This volume aims to contribute to the contemporary debate on the history of monarchy. The images of the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese crowns in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are interpreted in accordance with classic historiographical interpretations and new methodological frontiers: roles, gender, interpretation; place, heritage and representation.
The present edition graphically documents the design, construction and installationof the mega main public library Biblioteca de México "José Vasconcelos" locatedin Mexico City. In 2001 a transformation project of the Biblioteca de México proposal had three main actions: the restoration of the La Ciudadela building, the construction of a more modern and larger building and the establishment of an interchange network between the public libraries in México, where the new library was to be the central node of a national network. The new library that includes surrounding botanical garden was a project by architect Alberto Kalach and was constructed adjacent to the Buenavista train station in the historical downtown area. A final section follows the artistic and technical process of artist Gabriel Orozco and his work team for the construction of the project Mátrix Móvil (Mobile Matrix), a suspended installation of graphite painting on a salvaged whale skeleton done in 2006 that hangs in the central area of the library.
Una increíble historia en la que una bibliotecaria inusual, busca convencer a los famosos personajes de los cuentos clásicos, de que no abandonen sus libros, a pesar de que ellos creen que ya no vale la pena estar allí, pues los niños no los leen. Su misión será motivar a los personajes para que sigan viviendo en los cuentos clásicos.