The Dynamic Library
Organizing Knowledge at the Sitterwerk - Precedents and Possibilities
ed. by Ariane Roth and Marina Schütz

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Editor(s)

Ariane Roth, Marina Schütz

Publication

Chicago : Soberscove Press, 2015

Scope

120 Pages, illustrated, 23.5 cm.

ISBN

9781940190099

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The Dynamic Library presents essays in translation from an interdisciplinary symposium on the classification and organization of knowledge held at Sitterwerk, St.Gallen in Switzerland. Home to over 25,000 volumes on art, architecture, design, and photography, the Sitterwerk’s Kunstbibliothek (art library) began with the bequest of book collector and connoisseur Daniel Rohner (1948–2007). The question of how to systematically organize this idiosyncratic collection into a publicly accessible library was a fundamental concern, and a solution was found in a dynamic system of organization powered by RFID technology, which relies on digital tracking.

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Keywords

libraries

Location

Cabinet 11 - 1: Bibliotheken

Remarks

Incl. Biographies and Bibliographical References