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Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book The American Library of Useful Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Battles
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393078620
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Library: An Unquiet History written by Matthew Battles and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore Sun On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age. He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish—and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia. Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's Double Fold, Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, Manguel's A History of Reading, and Winchester's The Professor and the Madman.
Author : American Library Association
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Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book The Freedom to Read written by American Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert S. Freeman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786413591
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Libraries to the People written by Robert S. Freeman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-01-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With today’s technology, anyone anywhere can access public library materials without leaving home or office—one simply logs on to the library’s website to be exposed to a wealth of information. But one of the concerns that arises is the lack of access for groups isolated by socioeconomic, geographical, or cultural factors. This problem is not a new one. For almost two centuries, public libraries and other organizations have been trying to bring library services to isolated populations. This book is a collection of fourteen essays examining the contributions of librarians, educators, and organizations in the United States who have endeavored to bring library services to groups that previously did not have access. There are three sections: Benevolent and Commercial Organizations, Government Supported Programs, and Innovative Outreach Services. The essays discuss reading materials for two centuries of rural Louisianians, shipboard libraries for the American Navy and merchant Marine, library outreach to prisoners, the Indiana Township Library Program, tribal libraries in the lower forty-eight states, open-air libraries, electronic outreach, and the use of radio in promoting the Municipal Reference Library of the City of New York, to name just a few of the essay topics.
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Total Pages : 546 pages
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Download or read book The American Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book American Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jared Sparks
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Total Pages : 178 pages
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Download or read book The North American Review written by Jared Sparks and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
Author : Denise Gigante
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248482
Total Pages : 399 pages
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Download or read book Book Madness written by Denise Gigante and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library--a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends--caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America--booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen--Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country's major public, university, and society libraries. A human tale of loss, obsession, and spiritual survival, this book reveals the magical power books can have to bring people together and will be an absorbing read for anyone interested in what makes a book special.
Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793644608
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book John Lowell Jr. and His Institute written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life and legacy of John Lowell Jr (1799–1836) through the establishment of the Lowell Institute, still active in Boston, which offers free education.
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Total Pages : 66 pages
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Download or read book Booksellers' Advertiser written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Richard D. Brown
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807846636
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (466 download)
Download or read book The Strength of a People written by Richard D. Brown and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson's conviction that the health of the nation's democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry has been a cornerstone of our political culture since the inception of the American republic. Even today's debates over educatio
Author : William Russell
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Total Pages : 794 pages
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Download or read book American Annals of Education written by William Russell and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes songs with music.
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Total Pages : 620 pages
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Download or read book American annals of education and instruction written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 622 pages
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Download or read book American Annals of Education and Instruction, and Journal of Literary Institutions written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The American Library of Useful Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold D. Moser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313068674
Total Pages : 740 pages
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Download or read book Daniel Webster written by Harold D. Moser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Webster captured the hearts and imagination of the American people of the first half of the nineteenth century. This bibliography on Webster brings together for the first time a comprehensive guide to the vast amount of literature written by and about this extraordinary man who dwarfed most of his contemporaries. This bibliography also provides references to materials on slavery, the tariff, banking, Indian affairs, legal and constitutional development, international affairs, western expansion, and economic and political developments in general. This bibliography is divided into fifteen sections and covers every aspect of Webster's distinguished career. Sections I and II deal primarily with Webster's writings and with those of his contemporaries. Sections III through X cover the literature dealing with his family background; childhood and education, his long service in the United States House of Representatives and in the Senate, his two stints as secretary of state, and his career in law. Section X provides guidance in locating materials relating to his associates. Finally, Sections XI through XV provide coverage of his personal life, his death, historiographical materials, and iconography.
