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Author : Edward Edwards
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries, Including written by Edward Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Edwards
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Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries written by Edward Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476740194
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Library Book written by Susan Orlean and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. “A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.
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Total Pages : 906 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries Including a Handbook of Library Economy by Edward Edwards written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Avi Steinberg
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0767931319
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Running the Books written by Avi Steinberg and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to attend Harvard, he has nothing but a senior thesis on Bugs Bunny to show for himself. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, Steinberg remains stuck at a crossroads, his “romantic” existence as a freelance obituary writer no longer cutting it. Seeking direction (and dental insurance) Steinberg takes a job running the library counter at a Boston prison. He is quickly drawn into the community of outcasts that forms among his bookshelves—an assortment of quirky regulars, including con men, pimps, minor prophets, even ghosts—all searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world. Steinberg recounts their daily dramas with heartbreak and humor in this one-of-a-kind memoir—a piercing exploration of prison culture and an entertaining tale of one young man’s earnest attempt to find his place in the world.
Author : Edward Edwards
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries. Including a Handbook of Library-Economy ... Vol. 1-2 written by Edward Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Edwards (first librarian of the Free library, Manchester.)
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries, Including a Handbook of Library Economy, by Edward Edwards written by Edward Edwards (first librarian of the Free library, Manchester.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Edwards
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Total Pages : 1214 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries written by Edward Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allie Morgan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473581648
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Librarian written by Allie Morgan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The library saved her. Now she wants to save the library. I'm a librarian. Every day I encounter people. I serve the regulars, the crime enthusiastics, the bookworms, the homeless, the eccentrics, the jobless, the teenagers, the toddlers, the aged. I know my community well. And they know me. The library is a sanctuary for some, a place for warmth for others and, on many occassions, an internet cafe. It's not always the books that bring us together. That's why you might be surprised to hear that I've been a witness to an attempted murder, a target for a drugs gang and the last hope for people in desperate poverty. The quirks of library life. But what I didn't expect was for a simple part-time job to become a passionate battle for survivial, both for me and for the library. I'm sharing stories from my daily life to show you that being a librarian isn't what you think it is. Libraries are falling apart at the seams and we need to start caring before its too late. So this is my eye-opening account of the strange and wonderful library that saved me and why I'm on a mission to save yours.
Author : Edward Edwards
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365914983
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries, Vol. 1 written by Edward Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of Libraries, Vol. 1: Including a Handbook of Library Economy Whilst the book has been in preparation, many portions of its subject-matter have been in rapid growth. I have striven to keep pace, to the best of my ability, with new information; but, unavoidably, some sections are brought down to a later date than others. The endeavour has entailed on the Printer an additional amount of exertion, which has been so kindly and efficiently put forth as to merit my hearty acknowledgements. The Reader mav, perhaps, noticey preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Edward Edwards
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781343757622
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries written by Edward Edwards and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Edward Edwards
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ISBN 13 : 9781699081846
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries. Volume 2 written by Edward Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental work, first published in 1859, covers the history of libraries from classical times to the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, Europe and America. The author was influential in founding municipal libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and regarded access to good libraries as crucial to education and civilisation. Volume 1, divided by the author into five 'books', is reissued here in two parts. The first two books deal with classical and medieval libraries, examining English and European monastic libraries in depth. Book 3 describes the core collections of the British Museum and other major university, ecclesiastical and public libraries of Britain and Ireland. Book 4 discusses the principal libraries of America and Book 5 those of continental Europe, from France to Hungary and Russia. The final volume (in four 'books') sets out Edwards' views on all aspects of library management, from physical layout and classification to rules and regulations.
Author : Edward Edwards
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries Including a Handbook of Library Economy written by Edward Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Edwards
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260206305
Total Pages : 1170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries, Vol. 2 written by Edward Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of Libraries, Vol. 2: Including a Handbook of Library Economy Indication of some of the Causes of the inferior Provision braries in London as compared with other Cities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Edward Edwards
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ISBN 13 : 9781108010566
Total Pages : 2089 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries 3 Volume Set written by Edward Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 2089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental work, first published in 1859, covers the history of libraries from classical times to the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, Europe and America. The author was influential in founding municipal libraries in nineteenth-century Britain and regarded access to good libraries as crucial to education and civilisation. Volume 1, divided by the author into five 'books', is reissued here in two parts. The first two books deal with classical and medieval libraries, examining English and European monastic libraries in depth. Book 3 describes the core collections of the British Museum and other major university, ecclesiastical and public libraries of Britain and Ireland. Book 4 discusses the principal libraries of America and Book 5 those of continental Europe, from France to Hungary and Russia. The final volume (in four 'books') sets out Edwards' views on all aspects of library management, from physical layout and classification to rules and regulations.
Author : Richard Ovenden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674241207
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Burning the Books written by Richard Ovenden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.
Download or read book Memoirs of Libraries written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
