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Sibelius
One of the twentieth century’s greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last thirty years of his life. Recasting his mysterious musical silence and his undeniably influential life against the backdrop of Finland’s national awakening, Sibelius will be the definitive biography of this creative legend for many years to come. Glenda Dawn Goss begins her sweeping narrative in the Finland of Sibelius’s youth, which remained under Russian control for the first five decades of his life. Focusing on previously unexamined events, Goss explores the composer’s formative experiences as a Russian subject and a member of the Swedish-speaking Finnish...
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Information, Knowledge, Evolution
The rapid advance of information technology has enabled vast quantities of data to be processed and transmitted over large distances at amazingly high speed and low cost. However, the process of absorbing information, particularly technological information, is less well understood. The International Federation for Information and Documentation - the international organization which will be 100 years old in 1995 - spanning the specialized, and, too often in the past, solitary disciplines of librarianship, documentation and information science, classification, data processing, communications, and technology transfer - is well suited to bring together these topics for discussion. This volume contains a selection of papers from those presented at the 44th FID Conference and Congress in Finland. Due to the large number of papers presented at the conference not all of them could be included in this volume, so the choice fell upon those contributions which highlighted new ideas, research or developments in areas of current interest and importance to the future of information work and the profession.
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