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  1. Cathedrals of Culture (2014)

    Director
    Wim Wenders; Michael Glawogger; Karim Ainouz; Michael Madsen; Robert Redford
    Subject
    Architecture; Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 165 minutes), £11.34

    Six acclaimed filmmakers, including Robert Redford, Michael Glawogger and Michael Madsen, each explore the architecture and history of six iconic buildings; the Berlin Philharmonic, the National Library of...

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  2. Internet Archive, The: Saving a Copy of the World Wide Web (2013)

    Subject
    Information technology; Librarianship

    The Internet Archive project has set out to click on every online link on the internet and then saves a copy of what it finds. Since 1996, a representative portion of all of the pages on the internet have...

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  3. Out of Print (2013)

    Director
    Vivienne Roumani
    Subject
    Information technology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 55 minutes), £179.46

    The digital revolution is changing the way in which the written word is being written, published, sold and read. Former director at the Library of Congress and the UC Berkeley Library, filmmaker Vivienne...

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  4. Google and the World Brain: The Audacious Attempt to Control Human Knowledge (2013)

    Director
    Ben Lewis
    Producer
    Bettina Walter
    Subject
    Information technology; Law; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 93 minutes), $350.00 (College and University)

    In 1937, the science fiction writer H. G. Wells imagined a "World Brain" containing all of the world’s knowledge, accessible to all people, that would be "so compact in its material form and so gigantic in...

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  5. The Digital Public Library of America: Current Plans and Future Prospects (2012)

    Subject
    Information technology; Librarianship

    Video recording of a lecture by Professor Robert Darnton, University Librarian at Harvard University, on the development of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and how the US experience can inform...

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  6. Hollywood Librarian, The: a Look at Librarians Through Film (2009)

    Director
    Ann Seidl
    Producer
    Ann Seidl
    Subject
    Film studies; Librarianship
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 96 minutes), $275.00

    A blend of factual documentary, feature film, and storytelling, the film reveals the history and realities of librarianship as depicted in American movies. Interviews with actual librarians, intercut with...

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  7. With Reference to ... (2005)

    Subject
    Librarianship

    A series of five 15-minute Radio 4 programmes each recorded on location at a unique or definitive collection of some sort (eg teeth, plants, ice, recordings of English dialects). With the help of the...

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  8. Shooting the Past (1999)

    Director
    Stephen Poliakoff
    Producer
    John Chapman
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 183 minutes), £15.99

    Television drama in which a well-known photo library is taken over by a large American company but the librarians intend to save it and feel that the key may lie in the pictures it contains. Through...

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  9. Colin St John Wilson: A Retrospective (1997 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, 131 slides. col., 1998 sale: £125.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Slides of a recent major exhibition of the work of Colin St John Wilson, the architect of the new British Library, featuring a chronological and thematic tour through his 50-year architectural career. Shows...

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  10. Libraries of the Future (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Education; Librarianship
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £24.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Video element of a staff development pack looking at educational libraries of the future and focusing on three areas of development: learners’ skills, resource management, and staffing issues. The video...

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