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Extending the Technological, Discursive, and Rhetorical Horizons of Academic Research Libraries' Information Architectures : = An Analysis of North Carolina State University's James B. Hunt Jr. Library.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Extending the Technological, Discursive, and Rhetorical Horizons of Academic Research Libraries' Information Architectures :/
Reminder of title:	An Analysis of North Carolina State University's James B. Hunt Jr. Library.
Author:	Carr, Patrick L.
Description:	1 online resource (175 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01A(E).
Subject:	Library science. -
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ISBN:	9780355200041

Extending the Technological, Discursive, and Rhetorical Horizons of Academic Research Libraries' Information Architectures : = An Analysis of North Carolina State University's James B. Hunt Jr. Library.
Carr, Patrick L.

Extending the Technological, Discursive, and Rhetorical Horizons of Academic Research Libraries' Information Architectures :An Analysis of North Carolina State University's James B. Hunt Jr. Library. - 1 online resource (175 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation analyzes how North Carolina State University's (NCSU) James B. Hunt Jr. Library extends the ways in which the information architectures of academic research libraries can function as a technology, as discourse, and as rhetoric. The starting point for the analysis is the libraries of antiquity, which functioned technologically as a means through which rhetors extended their recollective powers from the memories in their individual minds to the aggregate contents of library collections. As libraries evolved over many centuries, this technological functionality was joined by another such functionality: the capacity to extend users' powers of invention by providing information architectures for reading, reflection, and browsing. Through their capacities to extend users' recollective and inventive powers, libraries have become recognized as symbols of knowledge, and this discursive power has been leveraged by libraries and their controlling organizations for the purposes of rhetoric; in other words, the symbolic import of libraries has been drawn on by rhetors as an available means of persuasion.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355200041Subjects--Topical Terms:

561163
Library science.
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