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Complete, Accessible, Now (and Then)
I just saw the special issue on “Entangled Temporalities” from the Journal of the History of Knowledge (open access: check it out here!) and was particularly taken by Hansun Hsiung’s “Complete, Accessible, Now: What is Living and What is Dead in the Research Library” which deals with the history of academic library collections in the… Continue reading
About THIS SITE
This site is intended to provide additional information related to my book Keywords In and Out of Context, published in Springer’s Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services series.
I am Betsy Van der Veer Martens, professor emerita at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Library & Information Studies, and my most recent article, “Libraries as Immortalities: Cultural Constructions and Collections,” will appear in Information & Culture in 2027.
