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Libr@ries: Changing Information Space and Practice.(Book review)

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Libr@ries: Changing Information Space and Practice Cushla Kapitzke and Bertram C Bruce (eds) Mahwah NJ Lawrence Erlbaum 2006 308p ISSN 0805854819 US$120

This collection brings together a stimulating and spirited set of essays that reflect in various ways on the transformations wrought on libraries (libr@ries) by the multiple effects of digitisation. For the editors the presence of the @ in their somewhat clumsy neologism is crucial, signifying as it does the notion of the arobase, which they describe as 'the recursive practices by which digital technologies are assimilating into existing material conditions and social relations through space, knowledge, and capital'…

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