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To build, you need a language and a programme. Guido Beltramini introduces the Cinquecento Veneto literati as “directors” of the refashioning of their own houses - the people who provided the models and sources for the language and the strategies for the programme.
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Radical Collections: Re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions
Edited by Jordan Landes and Richard Espley
Do archivists ‘curate’ history? And to what extent are librarians gatekeepers of knowledge? The book poses critical questions within LIS - will libraries survive as victims of marketization, and how do we collect and document ‘white hate’ in the era of Trump?