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Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780141183022
Category : Argentine literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560

Book Description
Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In THE TOTAL LIBRARY, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations. More than a hundred of the pieces have never previously been published in English. THE TOTAL LIBRARY presents Borges at once as a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and as the inventor of a universe that is an indispensible guide to Borges

The Library of Babel

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: Pocket Paragon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
"Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. But the detailed, evocative etchings by Erik Desmazieres provide a perfect counterpoint to the visionary prose. Like Borges, Desmazieres has created his own universe, his own definition of the meaning, topography and geography of the Library of Babel. Printed together, with the etchings reproduced in fine-line duotone, text and art unite to present an artist's book that belongs in the circle of Borges's sacrosanct Crimson Hexagon - "books smaller than natural books, books omnipotent, illustrated, and magical.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Tar for Mortar

Author: Jonathan Basile
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1947447505
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
TAR FOR MORTAR offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature's greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story "The Library of Babel" is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the irony of Borges's narration, which undermines at every turn its narrator's claims of the library's universality, including the very possibility of exhausting meaning through combinatory processing. Borges directed readers to his non-fiction to discover the true author of the idea of the universal library. But his supposedly historical essays are notoriously riddled with false references and self-contradictions. Whether in truth or in fiction, Borges never reaches a stable conclusion about the atomic premises of the universal library - is it possible to find a character set capable of expressing all possible meaning, or do these letters, like his stories and essays, divide from themselves in a restless incompletion? While many readers of Borges see him as presaging our digital technologies, they often give too much credit to our inventions in doing so. Those who elide the necessary incompletion of the Library of Babel compare it to the Internet on the assumption that both are total archives of all possible thought and expression. Though Borges's imaginings lend themselves to digital creativity (libraryofbabel.info is certainly evidence of this), they do so by showing the necessary incompleteness of every totalizing project, no matter how technologically refined. Ultimately, Basile nudges readers toward the idea that a fictional/imaginary exposition can hold a certain power over technology.

Borges, a Reader

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: New York : Dutton
ISBN:
Category : Argentine essays
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
This book includes 118 earlier pieces never before translated, and moves through his more fantastic work to a later realism

Cy-Borges

Author: Stefan Herbrechter
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838757154
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
"Cy-Borges provides radically new, "posthumanist" readings of such established Borgesian fictions as "The Aleph," "The Library of Babel," "Funes the Memorious," "The Garden of Forking Paths," and "The Circular Ruins." They will be equally illuminating to readers of Hispanic and world literature, as to students of critical and cultural theory, and anybody who is fascinated with the idea of the "posthuman" and "posthumanism.""--BOOK JACKET.

The TOTAL LIBRARY SYSTEM (TLS). Volume 1. What It Can Do For You

Author: W. Richard Schneider
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
This report is the first of a series describing the use of the Boeing EKS1 system in library automation at the library of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. North Central Division in Chicago, Illinois. This volume describes the beginnings of computers in libraries, why and how the TOTAL LIBRARY System was originated, the philosophy of file organization, changes in the library, and the advantages of using the TOTAL LIBRARY SYSTEM. (Author).

Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Library Science, Information Management, and Scholarly Inquiry

Author: Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522576606
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 684

Book Description
As the academic and scholarly landscape are continuously enhanced by the advent of new technology, librarians must be aware and informed to develop and implement best practices. Effective administration of libraries is a crucial part of delivering library services to patrons and ensuring that information resources are disseminated efficiently. Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Library Science, Information Management, and Scholarly Inquiry provides emerging information on modern knowledge management and effective means of sharing research through libraries. While highlighting the importance of digital literacy and information resources, readers will also learn new methods in information retrieval and research methods in quality scholarly inquiry. This book is an important resource for librarians, administrators, information science professionals, information technology specialists, students, and researchers seeking current information on the importance of effective library science technology.

Oversight Hearings on Library Services and Construction Act

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description

Wisconsin Library Bulletin

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 554

Book Description

Libraries and Learning Resource Centres

Author: Biddy Fisher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136387714
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
This comprehensive reference examines the changing role and design of library buildings, using a critical examination of recent examples from around the world. The authors, who represent the views of the architect and the client, outline the history and changing typology of the library. They examine the new national, public, academic and specialist libraries using numerous international examples including Sri Lanka, Vancouver, Johannesburg, Paris and London. New design advice and technical data is presented to illustrate the many approaches that designers have taken in creating a building with many diverse functions. The book concludes with speculations about the future of the library as a place for storing, reflecting upon and exchanging knowledge. Libraries are undergoing fundamental change as new technology liberates the library from its dependence upon the written word. Increasingly libraries are seen as learning resource centres with a smooth interface between computer-based access and traditional book and journal material.