University Libraries and Space in the Digital World
University Libraries and Space in the Digital World

Author: Dr Graham Walton

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-02-28

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1409472000

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This timely book addresses physical space in university libraries in the digital age. It considers the history of the use of space, integrates case studies from around the world with theoretical perspectives, explores recent developments including new build and refurbishment. With users at the forefront, chapters cover different aspects of learning and research support provision, shared services, and evaluation of space initiatives. Library staff requirements and green issues are outlined. The book also looks to the future, identifying the key strategic issues and trends that will influence and shape future library spaces. The authors are international, senior university library managers and academics who provide a range of views and approaches and experience of individual projects and initiatives.

The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755
The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604–1755

Author: De Witt T. Starnes

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1991-07-26

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 9027277729

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study of dictionary-making and the role played by dictionaries in the transmission and preservation of knowledge and learning. It is therefore essential to have this classic work available again to all students of linguistic history. In its new edition the book has been vastly enhanced by a lengthy and invaluable introduction by Gabriele Stein, Professor of English Linguistics in Heidelberg and author of The English Dictionary before Cawdrey (1985). In her introduction to the present volume she sets out in scholarly detail the work that has emerged since 1946, which makes this study of the English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson as complete as the original authors themselves would have wished.

Bound to Read
Bound to Read

Author: Jeffrey Todd Knight

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2013-05-29

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0812245075

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates the culture of book collecting and compiling in early modern England, examining how the pervasive practice of mixing texts, authors, and genres into single bindings defined Renaissance ways of thinking and writing.

The Maxwellians
The Maxwellians

Author: Bruce J. Hunt

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780801482342

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

James Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic field was neither well understood nor widely accepted. By the mid-1890s, however, it was regarded as one of the most fundamental and fruitful of all physical theories. Bruce J. Hunt examines the joint work of a group of young British physicists--G. F. FitzGerald, Oliver Heaviside, and Oliver Lodge--along with a key German contributor, Heinrich Hertz. It was these "Maxwellians" who transformed the fertile but half-finished ideas presented in the Treatise into the concise and powerful system now known as "Maxwell's theory."