Dr. Jacob Soll - The Library and the Information Age

Dr. Jacob Soll recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a book titled The Enlightenment Library and The Quest for Universal Knowledge. He discusses some of the research he is doing for that upcoming publication.

Jacob Soll received a BA from the University of Iowa, a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 1995, and a Ph.D. from Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK. He has taught at Princeton, and Rutgers University, Camden, where he is an associate professor. He has been a Luso-American Fellow at the National Library in Portugal and a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has received the Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas; an NEH Fellowship; and the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society. His work has appeared in French, German, Italian, and Japanese.

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[tahmurdahhh]

I would like to see a research proposition of your mindset while choosing those glasses.

[fabiosilveira27]

Here I am ... a person in a information bank ... I do not agree that people are not in the internet. The internet is not just information, it's information been worked by people, acessible to all the world at all time.

The libraries are a important part of our path to knowlodge, but still only part of that path.

[mbkcons]

This video really shows the development of libraries and information systems. Perfect for understanding the history of libraries.