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In his theoretical writings Calvino puts forward a suggestive idea, inspired by Borges, of the library not only as a collection of works, but as a crossed system of combinations. Under this light, literature itself would be a library, continuously subject to changes and aimed at undermining the canonical authors in order to bring out the apocrypha. In fact, if it is true that literature is born from desire and feeds on it, it cannot be satisfied with the data, but strives to project itself in the realm of the hidden, invisible and far away reality. Libraries, then, are not only infinite, but they change the sense of a book according to the section in which it is placed, to its location, to the methods of consultation and use, to the way the book plays with spaces and light, to its coming to the light or its being in search for the shadows (books in skyscrapers or undergrounds). The library is a place where books and readers interact in mythical spaces. Libraries are collections of narratives and not only of the books that survived the catastrophes of history, but also of the burned books, of the books which have been lost or invented. Libraries treasure all books which, by the mere fact of having been at least once written or thought, have left their mark in the world. This charming and precious book, conceived and edited by Anna Dolfi, offers examples from the major modern literature, inviting the readers to reflect on the relationship between paper and celluloid shadows, between inconturnables and marginalia, looking for books inside libraries and libraries inside books. In the background the reader will enjoy the music, the brilliant acting of Carmelo Bene, the strips of the graphics, the architectural projects, the computer screens, and the pages of an unfinished novel by Giuseppe Dessí that speaks of a walled up library and of a cascade of books at the origin of a fiction novel.

Libraries. --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians

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To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

Museums. --- Public institutions --- Cabinets of curiosities

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Libraries --- Automation --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- Automation. --- Slovakia.

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Associations, institutions, etc --- Comparative government --- Political science --- Public institutions

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Questo volume si inserisce in una linea di riflessione che, nella sua fisionomia generale, va ricondotta all’ampio dibattito, nazionale ed internazionale, sui temi connessi alle trasformazioni dell’identità della biblioteca e della biblioteca pubblica in particolare, secondo una prospettiva che è anche quella della “lunga durata”, prendendo in esame questioni che hanno a che fare con la dimensione spaziale di questa problematica identità, o che comunque dal concetto di spazio, nella sua indefinita dimensione teorica, estetica, metaforica, traggono origine. A questo asse centrale del libro si collegano ulteriori temi, dalla discussione della evoluzione in senso ‘sociale’ della biblioteconomia alla riflessione storico-architettonica sul concetto di ‘canone’, dalla ipotesi di “arricchire” lo spazio percettivo della biblioteca fino al tema, di grande interesse, della selezione, raccolta ed analisi dei dati digitali. Dati che, in quanto tracce, rendono disponibili informazioni sulle azioni e sulle attività riferibili al modo con cui le persone “leggono” la forma dell’ambiente bibliotecario e del suo complesso ecosistema informativo.

Libraries. --- Library science. --- Librarianship --- Library economy --- Bibliography --- Documentation --- Information science --- Public institutions --- Librarians