Bookspace: Collected Essays on Libraries
Inland Editions
English
Edited by Maria Inês Cruz and Lozana Rossenova.
Softcover
150 pages
210 x 130 mm
2015
ISBN Not Available
Bookspace: Collected Essays on Libraries focuses on the current development of library spaces as public institutions through the perspective of architects, writers, librarians, and readers. The book addresses the architecture of modern public spaces, and the development of library collections in the age of digital information, in order to discuss the larger social context of library institutions. It provides an insight into their management and how their functions are changing.
A comprehensive look at the social role of libraries is a key part of the book. In the Western World, constant funding cuts – justified with austerity measures in the current economic climate – affect the functioning and closing of libraries. While in the Middle East and Northern Africa, the challenges arise from socio-political conditions and military regimes, thus, threatening the preservation and sharing of knowledge, and overshadowing those libraries’ historical roots and social roles. Recognising how patterns of information distribution and consumption are changing driven by both technical and social developments, it aims to suggest how they might evolve in the future.
Writers included in this book are Tom Vandeputte, João Torres, Jorge Reis, Julius Motal, Marie Lécrivain and Heba El-Sherif.
(source: https://lestroischaises.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/bookspace-collected-essays-on-libraries/)
About the Editors
Lozana Rossenova is a digital humanities researcher and designer based in Berlin. She is currently an Associate Researcher at the Open Science Lab in TIB Hannover, working on the NFDI4Cultureproject for a national research infrastructure of cultural heritage data. She is particularly interested in working with open-source and community-driven approaches to digital infrastructures, which organise, store and make knowledge, and different ways of knowing, accessible.
lozanarossenova.com
(source: https://lozanarossenova.com/)
About the Publisher
Inland Editions is a small independent publishing company based in London, UK and Lisbon, Portugal. Their publishing activities are currently on hold, but in the past they’ve published texts on social issues, art and culture, working in collaboration with an international group of authors and artists.
(source: https://conifer.rhizome.org/lozana_r/inland-archive/20180817123957/https://www.inland-editions.com/)
