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Author Smith Rumsey, Abby, author.

Title When we are no more : how digital memory is shaping our future / Abby Smith Rumsey.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  302.231 SMI    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  025 RUMSEY    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  025 SMI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  025 SM51    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  025 SMITH RUMSEY    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  025 SMI    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  025 SMITH RUMSEY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  025 SMITH RUMSEY    Check Shelf
Description 229 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.
Summary Examines how humanity records and passes on its culture to future generations, from the libraries of antiquity to the excess of information available in the digital age, and how ephemeral digital storage methods present a challenge for passing on current cultural memory to the future.
Contents Where we come from -- Memory on display -- How curiosity created culture -- What the Greeks thought : from accounting to aesthetics -- Where dead people talk -- The dream of the universal library -- Where we are -- Materialism : the world is very old and knows everything -- The science of memory and the art of forgetting -- Imagination : memory in the future tense -- Mastering memory in the digital age -- Where are we going -- By memory of ourselves.
Subject Documentation.
Documentation -- History.
Information science.
Information science -- History.
Collective memory.
Information retrieval.
Information retrieval -- History.
ISBN 9781620408025 (hardcover)
1620408023 (hardcover)
9781620408032 (eBook)
1620408031 (eBook)
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