Evaluating Multimedia Library Materials: Clues from Hand-Printed Books and Art History

Apart from archival print collections, digital multimedia materials will be the primary form of library resources in the future. Argues that all published materials, print or electronic, are subject to analytical and critical examination. Describes art historian Erwin Panofsky's "Circulus...

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Published inComputers in libraries Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 28 - 31
Main Authors Nicholls, Paul, Ridley, Jacquline
Format Magazine Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Medford, NJ Information Today 01.04.1997
Information Today, Inc
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Subjects
Acquisitions (Libraries)
Archives
Art History
Audiovisual Aids
Cataloging rules
CD-ROM
Change
Check Lists
Collection development
Collection development (Libraries)
Criticism
Critics
Digital Imagery
Electronic Equipment
Evaluation
Evaluation Methods
Exact sciences and technology
Historians
Iconic Comparison
Identification
Information and communication sciences
Information professionals
Information publishing, dissemination and reproduction
Information science. Documentation
Librarians
Library acquisitions
Library and information science
Library Materials
Library Personnel
Library science
Library Services
Methods
Multimedia
Multimedia computer applications
Multimedia Materials
Multimedia software
Online Systems
Other dissemination media. Multimedia
Panofsky, Erwin (1892-1968)
Presentation graphics software
Presentation software
Program Evaluation
Reading Materials
Reference Materials
Sciences and techniques of general use
Technological Advancement
Performance evaluation
Multimedia
Methodology
Special library
Art history
Collection development
CDROM
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Summary:Apart from archival print collections, digital multimedia materials will be the primary form of library resources in the future. Argues that all published materials, print or electronic, are subject to analytical and critical examination. Describes art historian Erwin Panofsky's "Circulus Methodicus," a method of iconological analysis, that could be used to evaluate digital multimedia. (PEN)
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ISSN:1041-7915