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Proceedings of the International Symposium, Science & Engineering Libraries for the 21st Century, Leuven, October 2-4, 2002, Arenbergkasteel, Leuven (Heverlee)
The digital revolution of the last decades of the 20th century had a vast impact on scientific, and other libraries worldwide. Modern technology has made the access to information so much easier and faster, and the Internet sometimes gives its users the false impression that all information can be obtained without any human intervention. If this were true, libraries would be reduced from intellectual laboratories to museums, where visitors only come to look at those strange paper format precursors of the digital information carriers. Even if such an extreme futuristic view cannot be completely excluded, it is still very far away. In the meantime, libraries and librarians continue to play an ...
Theological Libraries and Library Associations in Europe
During the past 50 years, theological libraries have confronted secularisation and religious pluralism, along with revolutionary technological developments that brought not only significant challenges but also unexpected opportunities to adopt new instruments for the transfer of knowledge through the automation and computerisation of libraries. This book shows how European theological libraries tackled these challenges; how they survived by redefining their task, by participating in the renewal of scholarly librarianship, and by networking internationally. Since 1972, BETH, the Association of European Theological Libraries, has stimulated this process by enabling contacts among a growing number of national library associations all over Europe.
Welfare for Markets
"A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting From Thomas More to Thomas Paine, Milton Friedman to Mark Zuckerberg, centuries of public figures have hailed the power of government payments as a tool for advancing social justice. For some advocates, basic income is a moral imperative, a policy with potential to upend structural inequalities; for others, it's a market-friendly version of the welfare state that doesn't constrain capitalism. By appealing differently to different political sensibilities, basic income has persisted in the political imagination for centuries. In this deeply erudite and original work, Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora offer the first histori...
Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain
With more than 3,000 titles in almost 14,000 volumes, the 1920s Japanese book donation to the University of Leuven/Louvain constitutes an invaluable time capsule of Japan’s pre-modern culture in all its diversity and richness. A century on, the time is right to take a new look at its contents, as well as its history and the political, social and cultural context surrounding the donation. To commemorate its centenary, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) and the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) have joined forces to set up a special exhibition under the title “Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain. Japanese Cultural Identity and Modernity in the 1920s...
Chemins d'Utopie
La peine de mort, l'exode rural, la propriété privée, l'éducation citoyenne, la tentation totalitaire, l'esprit des lois, le dialogue interreligieux, l’urbanisme, l’égalité sont quelques-uns des thèmes abordés par More, il y a cinq cents ans, et qui ne cessent de passionner les chercheurs dans la société d’aujourd’hui... et de demain.
E Codicibus Impressisque
Aan de wetenschappelijke studie van het boek zal de naam van mevrouw Elly Cockx-Indestege, recentelijk ere-conservator van de afdeling Kostbare Werken in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Belgie te Brussel, voor altijd verbonden blijven. Als blijk van hun hoge waardering voor haar persoon en werk in wijde kring hebben tachtig auteurs - onder wie vele gerenommeerde onderzoekers op het gebied van de boekwetenschap - uit West- en Centraal-Europa, alsook uit de Verenigde Staten, met hun bijdragen de feestbundel E Codicibus Impressisque samengesteld. Deze bestaat uit drie overvloedig geillustreerde volumineuze delen. Het eerste deel bevat artikelen over handschriften, incunabelen en kalligrafie. Het tweede deel handelt over drukken van de zestiende tot de twintigste eeuw. In het derde deel verschijnen studies over band en papier, verzamelaars en verzamelingen.
Rethinking Decentralization
Federal countries face innumerable challenges including public health crises, economic uncertainty, and widespread public distrust in governing institutions. They are also home to 40 per cent of the world’s population. Rethinking Decentralization explores the question of what makes a successful federal government by examining the unique role of public attitudes in maintaining the fragile institutions of federalism. Conventional wisdom is that successful federal governance is predicated on the degree to which authority is devolved to lower levels of government and the extent to which citizens display a “federal spirit” – a term often referenced but rarely defined. Jacob Deem puts thes...
