Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: If order-making in the large is part of the institutional mission of libraries, then order-making in the small—i.e., the informal work of annotating and organizing materials collected in the service of particular dayto-day work or pleasure—is part of the business of library patrons. This discussion focuses on just such activities; activities that stem from readers' engagements with texts, and possibly with each other, against a backdrop of real-world settings and practices. I hesitate to call digital library patrons users, since that is the word computer scientists tend to use to hide the characteristics of what we hope is a diverse population.' In Robert McCrum's (1994) account of the annotations Graham Greene's biographers found as they looked through the books in his personal library, he writes: "Many writers have left much larger collections, but what is different about Greene's library is the wealth of personal annotation, reflecting a long and crowded life of writing, politics, travel, and friendship. Scattered along the margins and jotted on the flyleaves and
Author: Catherine Marshall
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1591042079