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FYI France: new books, Internet & libraries in France
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Kessler)
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FYI France: new books, Internet & libraries in France
Interesting new books, on the Internet and libraries in France:
* Auteur(s) : Levard, Olivier ; Soulas, Delphine
Titre(s) : Facebook, mes amis, mes amours, des emmerdes ! : la=20
v=E9rit=E9 sur les r=E9seaux sociaux / Olivier Levard, Delphine Soulas
Publication : Paris : Michalon =E9d., impr. 2010
Description mat=E9rielle : 1 vol. (190 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 21 cm
Sujet(s) : Facebook (site web)
Indice(s) Dewey : 302.231 (22e =E9d.)
ISBN 978-2-84186-517-8 (br.) : 16 EUR
-- I thought this one, above, might interest some researcher,=20
someone perhaps located somewhere more strait-laced than France,=20
who is investigating how women and men use "social networking"=20
with others of the same and different sexes, in our modern=20
digital & Internetworked world. As anyone can attest who has=20
frequented college campuses recently, and heard or viewed there=20
the "metrosexual" ideas now-rampant, or walked into a college=20
"unisex" dormitory bathroom, or sampled a few scenes and=20
story-lines in the culturally-reflective & significant=20
"Battlestar Galactica" series, these trends are generational...=20
And for those shocked, shocked thereby, and in need of something=20
to balance the somber sociology nowadays found too often on such=20
subjects: this wonderfully if untranslatably-entitled opus may=20
provide cross-cultural explanation, solace, an antidote perhaps.
* Auteur(s) : Torregano, Emmanuel (1971-....)
Titre(s) : Vive la crise du disque ! : rencontre avec Bernard=20
Miyet, SACEM, Patrick Zelnik, Na=EFve, Stephan Bourdoiseau, Wagram,=20
Thierry Chassagne, Warner, Pascal N=E8gre, Universal / Emmanuel Torregano
Publication : Paris : =C9d. les Carnets de l'info, DL 2010
Description mat=E9rielle : 1 vol. (172 p.) : graph., couv. ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr., 1 p. Webliogr., 1 p.
Sujet(s) :
Industrie musicale -- France -- 1990-....
Musique sur Internet -- France -- 1990-....
Indice(s) Dewey : 780.944 090511 (22e =E9d.) ; 338.477 8 (22e =E9d.)
ISBN 978-2-916628-37-0 (br.) : 21 EUR
-- Music? On the Internet? Well, yes... as any podcast-plugged=20
teenager will inform you nowadays, sullenly no doubt... And not=20
just teens: Hilary Hahn recently released one of the most=20
beautiful diskfulls of JSBach's music I've ever heard, yet one=20
treating those famously-unified musical integrities as consisting=20
of individual "tracks" which now might stand on their own, a=20
"song" -- the Ruft Uns Die Stimme chorale without the Wachet Auf=20
-- to the horror of some JSBach musicological purists -- Bach=20
meets Aerosmith, in the sound-byte culture -- the French "take"=20
on this new "Musique sur Internet" is, as always, different.
* Auteur(s) : Precepta
Titre(s) : M=E9dias en ligne : cr=E9er de la valeur, l'imp=E9ratif de=20
renouvellement des mod=E8les d'affaires face =E0 la crise du mod=E8le=20
publicit=E9/audience / Precepta ; =E9tude r=E9alis=E9e sous la direction=20
de David Targy ; avec la collaboration de Catherine Somon
Publication : Paris : Xerfi : Precepta, 2010
Description mat=E9rielle : 2 vol. (265, 219 p.) ; 30 cm
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Targy, David . Directeur de publication=20
Somon, Catherine . Collaborateur
Sujet(s) :
P=E9riodiques =E9lectroniques -- Aspect =E9conomique -- France
Publicit=E9 sur Internet
M=E9dias num=E9riques -- Aspect =E9conomique -- France
Sites Web -- Aspect =E9conomique -- France
Portails Internet -- Aspect =E9conomique -- France
Indice(s) Dewey : 659.14 (22e =E9d.)
ISBN 978-2-35193-119-6 (classeur)
-- Online Media, as-viewed from the place which invented much of=20
modern media, beginning with some of the earliest printed "books"=20
-- a "business strategy" look at the industries involved, again=20
though from a French point of view, one very different from the=20
points of view found in Silicon Valley, New York, London -- or=20
found, and perhaps sadly for the French, generally online now out=20
in Cyberespace.
* Auteur(s) : Gr=E9goire, Gilles
Titre(s) : Le r=E9f=E9rencement sur Google / [Gilles Gr=E9goire]
Publication : Paris : Micro application, impr. 2010
Description mat=E9rielle : 1 vol. (367 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm
Collection : Le guide complet, ISSN 1950-0289
Lien =E0 la collection : Le Guide complet
Note(s) : La couv. porte en plus : "r=E9ussissez le positionnement=20
de votre site sur le moteur de recherche Google". - Index
Sujet(s) :
Sites Web -- R=E9f=E9rencement
Google
Indice(s) Dewey : 004.678 (22e =E9d.)
ISBN 978-2-300-02744-4 (br.) : 15 EUR
* Auteur(s) : Aumard, C=E9line
Titre(s) : Google / C=E9line Aumard
Publication : Paris : Micro application, 2010
Description mat=E9rielle : 1 vol. (159 p.) : ill. en coul.,=20
couv. ill. ; 19 cm
Collection : Le mode d'emploi complet, ISSN 2103-5717 ; n. 16
Lien =E0 la collection : Le Mode d'emploi complet
Note(s) : Index
Sujet(s) : Google
Indice(s) Dewey : 025.04 (22e =E9d.)
ISBN 978-2-300-02679-9 (br.) : 10 EUR
-- re. the previous two entries: the current search & retrieval &=20
usage & linkage & ranking & "relevance" model, viewed from=20
afar... not analytical, perhaps, but practice-guides, which may=20
be more "relevant", as such models rarely perform as-intended or=20
even as-analyzed.
* Auteur(s) : Corniou, Jean-Pierre (1950-....)
Titre(s) : Le Web, 15 ans d=E9j=E0, et apr=E8s ? / Jean-Pierre=20
Corniou,... ; pr=E9face de Louis Schweitzer,...
Publication : Paris : Dunod, DL 2009
Description mat=E9rielle : 1 vol. (XIII-208 p.) : couv. ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 202-203. Webliogr. p. 201-202. Index
Sujet(s) :
Internet -- Histoire
Internet -- Aspect =E9conomique
Soci=E9t=E9 de l'information
Indice(s) Dewey : 004.678 09 (22e =E9d.)
ISBN 978-2-10-050411-4 (br.) : 19,90 EUR
-- Ouebbe history... One difference I have found, in comparing=20
French analyses of the history to American, is a significant=20
over-emphasis of the institutional, in the former -- but anyone=20
who was there will remember that the "institutions" which profess=20
to run it now were not, that At The Beginning things were very=20
un-structured -- also, American analyses now by contrast tend to=20
under-emphasize the need for institutional structure going=20
forward, while "overseas" in France and elsewhere it is all about=20
structure and authority and control.
* Auteur(s) : Jeanneney, Jean-No=EBl (1942-....)
Titre(s) : Quand Google d=E9fie l'Europe : plaidoyer pour un=20
sursaut / Jean-No=EBl Jeanneney
=C9dition : 3e =E9d. revue, augment=E9e et mise =E0 jour avec une=20
postface in=E9dite
Publication : [Paris] : Mille et une nuits, impr. 2010
Description mat=E9rielle : 1 vol. (219 p.) ; 20 cm
Collection : Essai
Lien =E0 la collection : Essai (Paris. 2001)
Note(s) : Index
Sujet(s) :
Google
Documentation de biblioth=E8que -- Num=E9risation -- Pays de l'Union=20
europ=E9enne -- Pr=E9vision
Indice(s) Dewey : 027.002 85 (22e =E9d.)
ISBN 978-2-75550-568-9 (br.) : 14,90 EUR
-- "must" reading for anyone wishing to understand French, and=20
other "foreign"-very-much-including-"Chinese", attitudes toward=20
what they consider to be the Google Phenomenon -- some, like=20
Jeanneney, considering it to be a Google Juggernaut, running out=20
of control and over people -- whether "they" are correct or=20
not... The original tirade du Internet, penned by this former BnF=20
chief, which launched the controversy in Europe, with updates...
* Titre(s) : Histoire en biblioth=E8que / sous la direction de=20
Val=E9rie Tesni=E8re ; avant-propos de Marc-Olivier Baruch ; postface=20
de Beno=EEt Yvert
Publication : Paris : =C9d. du Cercle de la librairie, DL 2009
Description mat=E9rielle : 1 vol. (254 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Biblioth=E8ques, ISSN 0184-0886
Lien =E0 la collection : Biblioth=E8ques (Paris. 1978).
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 315-319
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Tesni=E8re, Val=E9rie . Directeur de publication
Sujet(s) :
Histoire -- Fonds documentaires -- France
Histoire -- Recherche -- France
Histoire -- Ouvrages de r=E9f=E9rence -- Bibliographie
Indice(s) Dewey : 026.9 (22e =E9d.) ; 907.204 4 (22e =E9d.)
ISBN 978-2-7654-0970-0 (br.) : 40 EUR
-- the study of history, in French libraries, resources.
* Auteur(s) : Association des biblioth=E9caires fran=E7ais
Titre(s) : Le m=E9tier de biblioth=E9caire / Association des=20
biblioth=E9caires de France ; sous la direction d'Yves Alix
=C9dition : 12e =E9d.
Publication : [Paris] : =C9d. du Cercle de la librairie, DL 2010
Description mat=E9rielle : 1 vol. (565 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Le m=E9tier de
Lien =E0 la collection : Le M=E9tier de...
Note(s) : En appendice, choix de documents. - Bibliogr. p. 533-540.
Notes bibliogr. Webliogr. p. 541-544. Glossaire. Index
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Alix, Yves (1953-.... ). Directeur de publication
Sujet(s) : Biblioth=E9conomie -- France
Indice(s) Dewey : 020.944 (22e =E9d.)
ISBN 978-2-7654-0977-9 (br.) : 42 EUR
-- latest edition of a definitive work on what it means nowadays=20
to be a "librarian" in France.
A Note:
I've not read them all: tirades from anyone about any of them=20
will be welcome... But I know a few of the folks involved, and I=20
wish I knew the others. It is difficult keeping up with all of=20
this, nowadays: both because of information scarcity, with the=20
disappearance of Biblio-fr and sadly other fine resources, and=20
because of information overload, as the Internet grows and grows=20
and grows, outstripping the capacities of even Google and=20
Europeana and Baidu(!) and the rest -- increasingly we all note=20
that our search grabbed "35,700,000"-or-so "relevant resources",=20
and so in frustration or simply fear we ourselves just grab=20
whatever floated to the top of that retrieval heap, however it=20
got there, and then we run...
So, as with "diet", no two nutritionists ever having recommended=20
the same thing -- and as with "economics", per the old saying=20
that "if all the world's economists were laid end-to-end they=20
would reach no conclusion" -- just so with search & retrieval,=20
and the Internet, and things digital... A scatter-gun approach=20
perhaps is best, or at least it is all we can manage:=20
serendipitous reading, random access, "browsing" -- in the face=20
of monstrous, and monstrously-rapid, development and change in=20
the information industries, and in their global "reach" -- the=20
gamble that one's own variation in reading-matter is the best way=20
of staying current is perhaps the best, and even the only,=20
strategy for riding this particular wave.
The systematic approach doesn't work, anyway: from the ground up,=20
from the top down, charting it, graphing it, outlining -- for, as=20
any mathematically-minded engineer patiently will explain to you,=20
nowadays the universe is n-dimensional, and all of those old=20
methods for understanding it are not... and logic, which once=20
clarified matters, has grown fuzzy... and so information=20
overload, like all physical reality perhaps, is filled=20
unpredictably with "black holes"... harrumph, Cicero was right...
So we are back to randomness, now, and to randomizing=20
strategies... Oh well, if it really is just chaos out there -- or=20
if at least currently it looks like that to us -- then going back=20
to the undergraduate strategy of wandering through the wonderland=20
of great library collections, and picking out a dusty volume at=20
random, at least once in a while, perhaps is not so bad. Back to=20
browsing, then -- it worked before, and maybe it will work again=20
-- and it's fun, and it helps us to Think Different, just the way=20
Apple Inc. and Mr. Feynman said we should.
We know what doesn't work, so who knows but that a few views from=20
far away, on strange subjects such as "online family formation",=20
and "Google/Baidu fights", and "digital Bach", all in a "foreign"=20
French mold, might not spark some new answers?
Onward, then, and happy reading!
Jack Kessler, kessler@well.com
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