British Library microform publications and their bibliographic control

Warner, Julian

doi:10.1177/096100068802000301

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“…4 As one microforms advocate writes, "A good microform collection can play a central role in providing students and faculty with research materials, but its value depends as much upon its accessibility as it does upon choice of materials. In turn, accessibility depends upon comprehensive bibliographic control of the collection."…”

Section: Marc Records For Research Collectionsmentioning

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Microforms in a Linked World: Using OPACs and Other Web Applications to Improve Access to Content in Microform

Knowlton¹,

Diaz²,

Jashari³

et al. 2007

Microform &Amp; Imaging Review

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Section: Marc Records For Research Collectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microforms in a Linked World: Using OPACs and Other Web Applications to Improve Access to Content in Microform

Knowlton¹,

Diaz²,

Jashari³

et al. 2007

Microform &Amp; Imaging Review

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“…Most crucially, no consistent method for definition of non-book materials has been established and research has consequently not been fully cumulative. Research projects have tended to itemize forms to be covered, with inconsistencies in definition between succeeding studies, rather than establish a principle for definition which would allow for technological developments over time [31]. Even when the itemization is relatively comprehensive, the approach is still essentially enumerative.…”

Section: Documentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The activities supported by the British Library with regard to non-book materials then imply that, in two respects, it is more at ease when dealing with documents for legal deposit than with artefacts in which copyright can subsist. First, although initiatives in the collection and control of non-book media have been supported, this has not been a key area for research [31]. Secondly, even when attention has been given to non-book materials, these have, like the list of forms included in a book for deposit, been enumerated rather than linked by the unifying principle offered by the development of copyright in the sense of intellectual property, that all forms representing the reproducible product of intellectual labour should be considered.…”

Section: Documentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing, literary work and document in United Kingdom copyright

Warner

1990

Journal of Information Science

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Copyright would seem to be an appropriate subject for study by the discipline of social epistemology envisaged by Shera. Social epistemology was to be concerned with the intellectual processes of society as a whole, rather than primarily of the individual. This paper traces the development of significant terms in United Kingdom copyright: of writing, of a literary work representing intellectual skill or labour in which intellectual property can inhere, and of a document for legal deposit. The analysis is undertaken with a tnple intention: first, to support the thesis that wnting and the faculty for intellectual labour are unifying principles for documents and computers; secondly, to place the Copyright. Designs and Patents Act 1988 in its historical context; and, thirdly, to develop the divergence between a work in which copyright can subsist and a document for deposit into a measure for the diminishing proportion of published information captured by legal deposit.

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“…The issue can be addressed by theoretically informed empirical studies of the autonomy of information. One study of a carefully delimited domain, of information sources on the information producing activities of an information organization, concluded that only a limited autonomy could be ascribed to information, in that context (Warner, 1988). Empirical studies of information in broader social contexts can be complicated by the difficulty of isolating the information components of complex social activities and of establishing relations of causality between information and economic or social developments.…”

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Information society or cash nexus? A study of the United States as a copyright haven

Warner

1999

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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This article looks at a particular context in which information developments can be isolated and studied in relation to economic and social factors: the history of the United States as a copyright haven from 1790 to the Chace Act of 1891. The study is undertaken with a triple intention. First, it has an empirical focus upon the history of the United States as a copyright haven. Secondly, it indicates analogies between the United States' historical practice and the exploitation of United States' intellectual property, without observing copyright, to late 20th century China. Thirdly, the study of the United States as a copyright haven is used to examine the contrast between the idea of a transition to an information society and economic determinism. In the concept of a post-industrial or information society, there has been a stress on the autonomy of information and on the role of theoretical knowledge as a director of social change. In contrast, economic determinism would emphasize the economic basis of social activity. From an information society perspective, copyright practices would be expected to develop autonomously; for economic determinism, copyright should reflect changes in the economic base. In conclusion, it is suggested that legislation governing intellectual property is strongly constrained by the possibilities offered by its historical context; that the empirical evidence examined indicates that economic factors are more primary motivating forces than information; and that information policies and activities tend to be determined rather than autonomous or primary variables. A central claim associated with the information society concept has, then, to be rejected but the concept itself need not be discarded. The idea of the informatization of life is proposed as a productive adaptation.

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British Library microform publications and their bibliographic control

Cited by 5 publications

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Microforms in a Linked World: Using OPACs and Other Web Applications to Improve Access to Content in Microform

Microforms in a Linked World: Using OPACs and Other Web Applications to Improve Access to Content in Microform

Writing, literary work and document in United Kingdom copyright

Information society or cash nexus? A study of the United States as a copyright haven

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