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Over one hundred presentations from the 37th annual Charleston Library Conference (held November 6–10, 2017) are included in this annual proceedings volume. Major themes of the meeting included data visualization, analysis and assessment of collections and library users, demand-driven acquisition, the future of print collections, and open access publishing. While the Charleston meeting remains a core one for acquisitions librarians in dialog with publishers and vendors, the breadth of coverage of this volume reflects the fact that this conference continues to be one of the major venues for leaders in the publishing and library communities to shape strategy and prepare for the future. Almost 2,000 delegates attended the 2017 meeting, ranging from the staff of small public library systems to the CEOs of major corporations. This fully indexed, copyedited volume provides a rich source for the latest evidence-based research and lessons from practice in a range of information science fields. The contributors are leaders in the library, publishing, and vendor communities.

Книга посвящена российскому периоду жизни великого историка древности Элиаса (Ильи) Бикермана (1897–1981). В 2010 году A. Баумгартен опубликовал на английском языке его биографию. Однако важная часть жизни Бикермана в ней осталась в тени: Баумгартен не владеет русским языком и не имел доступа к российским архивам, в котором хранятся документы, проливающие свет на события в жизни Бикермана до эмиграции в 1922 году В данной работе на основании архивных документов заполняется эта лакуна, особенно досадная, поскольку российский период имел формообразующее значение для творчества Бикермана, именно годам юности и ученичества в Санкт-Петербурге он обязан основой своего обширного интеллектуального фундамента. Второй задачей книги является опровержение теории Баумгартена, согласно которой в знаменитой книге Бикермана «Бог Маккавеев» строгий научный анализ был подменен личными эмоциями и идеологическими соображениями, уходящими корнями в российское происхождение ученого. Завершается книга переводом одной из статей Бикермана и библиографией его работ. The book describes the Russian period of the life of Elias Bickerman (1897-1981) who was among the greatest historians of the ancient period of his generation. In 2010 A. Baumgarten published a biography of Bickerman. However, Baumgarten did not know the Russian language and had no access to documents in the Russian archives, therefore, he neglects an important part of Bickerman’s life – the period before he emigrated from Russia in 1922. This book, which draws on archival documents, aims to fill this lacuna. It is particularly valuable because the Russian period had an enormous importance for Bickerman’s scholarly work. It was his youth in St Petersburg and his study at Petrograd University that laid the foundation stone for his intellectual development and thus was crucial for his future scholarly achievements. The second aim of the book is to challenge Baumgarten’s theory that in Bickerman’s famous book “The God of Maccabees” personal emotions and ideological considerations, rooted in Bickerman’s Russian background, were substituted for rational historical analysis. The book includes the bibliography of Bickerman’s works and a translation of one of his articles.

A thousand years ago the strange and mysterious Cataclysm raced through our area of space, devastating the Solar System and nearly extinguishing all life on Earth. In a desperate attempt to survive extinction, an enormous colony-spawning ship made of ice was sent to the stars, while the rest of humanity either dug deep below the surface of the Earth or died in the Cataclysm.<br><br>Two hundred years after the disaster, humanity crawled out from underground and started rebuilding. A thousand years after the Cataclysm, a long-term expedition is launched to find the trail of the legendary Ice-ship and discover the fate of the human colonies it was tasked with founding.<br><br>Ice-ship expert Dr. Tasaya Belocq and the rest of the crew of the Jumpship Emissary voyage to the stars to discover the many faces of humanity and the many faces of nature.