PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the current state of digitisation
initiatives by cultural institutions in Malaysia. Evidently no research has been
conducted to investigate the state of digitisation initiatives by cultural
institutions in Malaysia.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts an
exploratory survey, to explore the state of cultural heritage digitisation. A
total of 60 ... hiện toàn bộ
In some ways the popularity of John Fowles is surprising. His two best‐sellers,
The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman, exemplify strengths and weaknesses
unusual in so widely‐read a writer. His virtues shade into his faults. His
uncompromising determination to write the kind of novel that interests him,
regardless of the expectations of his readership, has made each of his books
excitingly d... hiện toàn bộ
INCONSPICUOUSLY tucked away near the head of the Coombe, one of the poorer
sections of poor Dublin, is a treasure of the Western world—a centuries‐old
library that was once the haunt of Dean Swift and others of a bygone Anglo‐Irish
literary set; a library that was the proud boast of two nations but that today
knows only a few tourists and even fewer scholars. This is St. Sepulchre—known
more popul... hiện toàn bộ
The paths of research into historical biography are well‐trodden and familiar,
but the jungle of documentation leading to similar information about our
contemporaries is by comparison almost unmapped territory. For there are gaps in
the coverage of reference books relating to contemporary biography and
unco‐ordinated chapters sometimes lie in unexpected places. To make available
anything like comp... hiện toàn bộ
IT IS A HUNDRED YEARS AGO on November 12th since Elizabeth Gaskell died suddenly
at the age of fifty‐five. She had not begun to write seriously until she was
nearly forty, but during those fifteen years wrote seven major novels, a
biography and many short stories. Her premature death was a deprivation to
English literature and innumerable characters with whom her mind teemed were
never brought to ... hiện toàn bộ