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Fewer, Better Things
- The Hidden Wisdom of Objects
- By: Glenn Adamson
- Narrated by: Glenn Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York comes a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed object in the digital age. In this delightful exploration of craft in its many forms, curator and scholar Glenn Adamson explores how raw materials, tools, design and technique come together to produce objects of beauty and utility.
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Fewer, Better Things
- The Hidden Wisdom of Objects
- Narrated by: Glenn Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-11-24
- Language: English
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The End of Ownership
- Personal Property in the Digital Economy
- By: Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put it on the shelf, lend it to a friend, or sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the eBooks or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don't own those purchases, you merely license them. That means your eBook vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation - as Amazon deleted Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of surprised readers.
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Essential listening for IP geeks
- By SH on 09-01-22
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The End of Ownership
- Personal Property in the Digital Economy
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 11-11-16
- Language: English
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Frank O’Hara and MoMA
- New York Poet, Global Curator
- By: Matthew Holman
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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This is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and abroad. Upon his premature death, the New York Times obituary ran with the headline: 'Frank O'Hara, 40, Museum Curator / Exhibitions Aide at Modern Art Dies – Also a Poet'. However, in the half a century since, O'Hara's fascinating career as a curator has been eclipsed by the critical attention given over to his poetry.
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Frank O’Hara and MoMA
- New York Poet, Global Curator
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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Patch Work
- A Life Amongst Clothes
- By: Claire Wilcox
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes. From her mother's black wedding suit to the swirling patterns of her own silk kimono, her memoir unfolds in spare, luminous prose the spellbinding power of the things we wear.
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A gentle honest collection of acutely observed life moments and their intricate interweavings.
- By Howcroft on 16-12-23
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Patch Work
- A Life Amongst Clothes
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
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Big Data, Little Data, No Data
- Scholarship in the Networked World
- By: Christine L. Borgman
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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"Big Data" is on the covers of Science, Nature, The Economist, and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right data is usually better than having more data; little data can be just as valuable as big data. Borgman, an often-cited authority on scholarly communication, argues that data have no value or meaning in isolation; they exist within a knowledge infrastructure.
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Big Data, Little Data, No Data
- Scholarship in the Networked World
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 21-08-18
- Language: English
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What Are Museums For?
- What Is It For?
- By: Jon Sleigh
- Narrated by: Anand Jagatia
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
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The days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are over. Museums today are a cultural battleground. Who should decide what is put on display and how it is presented? Who gets to set the narrative? In this passionately argued book, Jon Sleigh maintains that museums must be for all people and inclusion must be at the heart of everything they do.
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What Are Museums For?
- What Is It For?
- Narrated by: Anand Jagatia
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 01-11-24
- Language: English
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Adventures in the Louvre
- How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum
- By: Elaine Sciolino
- Narrated by: Lynn Bradford
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space and helps us fall in love with what was once a forbidding fortress. Exploring galleries, basements, rooftops, and gardens, Sciolino demystifies the Louvre, introducing us to her favorite artworks, both legendary and overlooked, and to the people who are the museum's lifeblood.
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Makes you want to visit the Louvre again
- By Amazon Customer on 29-08-25
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Adventures in the Louvre
- How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum
- Narrated by: Lynn Bradford
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-04-25
- Language: English
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A Programme of Absolute Disorder
- Decolonizing the Museum
- By: Françoise Vergès
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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The Western museum is a battleground—a terrain of ideological, political, and economic contestation. Almost everyone today wants to rethink the museum, but how many have the audacity to question the idea of the universal museum itself? In A Programme of Absolute Disorder, Françoise Vergès puts the museum in its place. Exploring the Louvre's history, she uncovers the context in which the universal museum emerged: as a product of colonialism, and of Europe's self-appointed claim to be the guardian of global heritage.
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A Programme of Absolute Disorder
- Decolonizing the Museum
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 15-04-25
- Language: English
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The Art of Relevance
- By: Nina Simon
- Narrated by: Nina Simon
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people. You'll find inspiring examples, rags-to-relevance case studies, research-based frameworks, and practical advice on how your work can be more vital to your community. Whether you work in museums or libraries, parks or theaters, churches or afterschool programs, relevance can work for you. Break through shallow connection. Unlock meaning for yourself and others. Find true relevance and shine.
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Encouraging and entertaining
- By Anonymous on 19-07-20
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The Art of Relevance
- Narrated by: Nina Simon
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 20-07-17
- Language: English
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So You Want to Work in a Museum?
- American Alliance of Museums
- By: Tara Young
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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People who love art, are fascinated by archaeology, or are history buffs may have considered the idea of working in a museum. But experience as a museum visitor reveals only the public-facing side of the museum, and not its complex, dynamic internal structure. So You Want to Work in A Museum? helps to demystify museums as institutions and to prepare prospective museum staff to explore the field further.
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So You Want to Work in a Museum?
- American Alliance of Museums
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 22-09-23
- Language: English
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The Handover
- By: David M. Barnett
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe, Helen Keeley
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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An utterly charming and heart-warming love story and the perfect tonic for difficult times. Daisy is the night security guard at the Manchester Museum of Social History. She takes her job very seriously, protecting the museum from teenage troublemakers. Nate works the day shift, though he'd be...
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Great storytelling.
- By dglambeth on 08-06-22
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The Handover
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe, Helen Keeley
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 29-04-21
- Language: English
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Information Science
- The Basics
- By: Judith Pintar, David Hopping
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Inviting listeners to explore a modern field of study with deep historical foundations, the book begins by considering the complexities of the term "information" and the information life cycle from classification to preservation. Each chapter examines a different area within IS, surveying its history, technologies, and practices with a critical eye.
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Information Science
- The Basics
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 15-10-24
- Language: English
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The Devil in the Gallery
- How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World
- By: Noah Charney
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Scandal, shock, and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin. But these potentially disastrous "negatives" can and have spurred the world of fine art to new heights. A look at the history of art tells us that rivalries have, in fact, not only benefited the course of art, from ancient times to the present, but have also helped shape our narrative of art, lending it a sense of drama that it might otherwise lack.
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A captivating listen
- By Austra on 26-10-24
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The Devil in the Gallery
- How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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The Secret Story of the Musée d'Orsay
- By: Emmanuelle Iger
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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Sitting on the banks of the river Seine, in the very heart of Paris, the Musée d'Orsay is known worldwide for its exceptional collection of impressionist paintings. These works were absolutely scandalous at the time and for some, they still obviously are. Also, it provides a genuine feeling of time travel by recreating the context in which every single work of art has been produced. Its history is also full of twists and surprises. All of this contributes to making the Musée d'Orsay one of the most alive and striking museums ever.
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The Secret Story of the Musée d'Orsay
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 29-05-18
- Language: English
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Second Self
- By: Chloë Ashby
- Narrated by: Rose Robinson
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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When Cathy and Noah first got together neither saw children in their future. Eight years later, they're happily married - and Cathy isn't so sure. With Noah's tolerance for his wife's ambivalence waning, her widowed mother in a world of her own and her best friend yearning for a second baby, Cathy feels increasingly adrift. Escaping into her work in the conservation studios of the National Gallery, she chips away at the layers of overpaint on a canvas from the collection. Will the discovery of an unexpected truth help her find the clarity she craves?
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Second Self
- Narrated by: Rose Robinson
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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Chasing Beauty
- The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- By: Natalie Dykstra
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
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The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from...
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Chasing Beauty
- The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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Packing My Library
- An Elegy and Ten Digressions
- By: Alberto Manguel
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000 volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading.
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A great story not well read 😣
- By cgwx on 28-04-18
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Packing My Library
- An Elegy and Ten Digressions
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 20-03-18
- Language: English
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Reading with the Stars
- A Celebration of Books and Libraries
- By: Leonard Kniffel
- Narrated by: Marguerite Vine, Eric Pollins
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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American Libraries editor in chief Leonard Kniffel offers a compelling collection of interviews with prominent figures--all of whom have special connections to libraries. From President Barack Obama to actress Julie Andrews; from basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to former First Lady and librarian Laura Bush and many others, stars of literature, politics, entertainment, and the public arena speak with Kniffel about the ways libraries have been critical in their lives.
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Reading with the Stars
- A Celebration of Books and Libraries
- Narrated by: Marguerite Vine, Eric Pollins
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 14-02-14
- Language: English
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Metadata
- By: Jeffrey Pomerantz
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone calls - information about the caller, the recipient, the time, the duration, the location - and not recordings of the conversations themselves? Or does phone call metadata reveal more than it seems?
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Metadata
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 05-11-15
- Language: English
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
- Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
- By: Annie Spence
- Narrated by: Stephanie Spicer
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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Librarians spend their lives weeding - not weeds, but books - books that have reached the end of their shelf life both literally and figuratively. They remove books that patrons no longer check out, and they put back books they treasure. Annie Spence, who has a decade of experience as a Midwestern librarian, does this not only at her Michigan library but also at home, for her neighbors, at cocktail parties - everywhere. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, she addresses those books directly.
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
- Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
- Narrated by: Stephanie Spicer
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 26-09-17
- Language: English
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