Contents: A Note to Readers – The Library: The Physical Extension of Man’s Memory – (Mother of the Muses) – A Study of Media – Alphabet, Mother of Invention – The Library: A Figure in Many Different – Understanding the New Ground of the Library – Laws of the Media (Lom) and the Library – The Impact of Electricity and Modern Technology on the Library – Laws of the Media for Post-McLuhan Digital Media – The Impact of Digital Technology on the Library – Book Glut, Information Overload, and Pattern Recognition – The Compact Library and Human Scale – The Public Library: Past, Present, and Future Trends – The Library and Education – Future of the Book – Library Futures: Summing Up.
Robert K. Logan (PhD., MIT, 1965) is Professor Emeritus of Physics
and St. Michael’s College Fellow at the University of Toronto. He
is the Chief Scientist of sLab at OCAD University. He is the author
of many books and articles including Understanding New Media:
Extending Marshall McLuhan (Peter Lang, 2010). The book follows on
from their joint authorship of Alphabet, mother of invention
(1977).
Marshall McLuhan (PhD Cambridge, 1943) was a Professor of English
at St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto from 1946 to
his passing in 1980. He was the founder of the field of media
ecology and author of many revolutionary books and articles
including The Gutenberg Galaxy, Understanding Media and The Medium
is the Massage. He is the originator of such iconic phrases as «the
global village» and «the medium is the message.»
«People everywhere will benefit from reading this updated classic
by McLuhan and Logan.»
(Gail Spangenberg, International Revue of Education 63/4 2017)
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