Gateways to knowledge
Subtitle: the role of academic libraries in teaching, learning, and research
By: edited by Lawrence Dowler
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Academic libraries; Aims and objectives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Electronic data. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 1999.

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Table of contents: title: Universities in transition : implications for libraries / Billy E. Frye; title: History in the era of theory, methodology, and multiculturalism : new configurations for the discipline / Patrick Manning; title: Realizing the virtual library / Anthony Appiah; title: First steps toward electronic research communication / Paul Ginsparg; title: Using electronic social science data in the age of the Internet / Richard C. Rockwell; title: Some effects of advanced technology on research in the humanities / John Unsworth; title: Gateways to knowledge : a new direction for the Harvard College Library / Lawrence Dowler; title: The concept of the gateway library : a view from the periphery / Richard C. Rockwell; title: The gateway : point of entry to the electronic library / Jan Olsen; title: The gateway library : teaching and research in the global reference room / Peter Lyman; title: A computer-based Harvard Red Book : general education in the digital age / Richard A. Lanham; title: Information processing and the making of meaning / Karen Price; title: Homesteading on the electronic frontier : technology, libraries, and learning / James Wilkinson; title: Gateways to the classroom / Anita Lowry; title: Historians and hypertext : is it more than hype? / Roy Rosenzweig and Steve Brier.