Great Libraries And Their Collections

Author : J. Raven
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230524257
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Libraries written by J. Raven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-01-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.

Author : George W. Houston
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469617803
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Roman Libraries written by George W. Houston and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity

Author : Jason König
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107244587
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Libraries written by Jason König and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.

Author : Charles P. Hobbs
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625852002
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles written by Charles P. Hobbs and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles transportation's epic scale--its iconic freeways, Union Station, Los Angeles International Airport and the giant ports of its shores--has obscured many offbeat transit stories of moxie and eccentricity. Triumphs such as the Vincent Thomas Bridge and Mac Barnes's Ground Link buspool have existed alongside such flops as the Santa Monica Freeway Diamond Lane and the Oxnard-Los Angeles Caltrain commuter rail. The City of Angels lacks a propeller-driven monorail and a freeway in the paved bed of the Los Angeles River, but not for a lack of public promoters. Horace Dobbins built the elevated California Cycleway in Pasadena, and Mike Kadletz deployed the Pink Buses for Orange County kids hitchhiking to the beach. Join Charles P. Hobbs as he recalls these and other lost episodes of LA-area transportation lore.

Author : William Vernon Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Libraries and Their Collections written by William Vernon Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Association of Research Libraries. University Library Management Studies Office
Publisher : Association of Research Libr
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collection Assessment written by Association of Research Libraries. University Library Management Studies Office and published by Association of Research Libr. This book was released on 1978 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous Libraries of the World: Their History, Collections and Administrations written by Margaret Burton and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebekah Modrak
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1953368123
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Humility written by Rebekah Modrak and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative essay collection explores the personal and civic function of humility from a range of popular and scholarly perspectives. What does humility mean and why does it matter in an age of golden escalators and billion

Author : Sara Arnold-Garza
Publisher : Assoc of College & Research Libraries
ISBN 13 : 9780838988671
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Students Lead the Library written by Sara Arnold-Garza and published by Assoc of College & Research Libraries. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 6. Students as library designers -- Just ask them! : designing services and spaces on the foundation of student feedback / Emily Daly, Joyce Chapman, and Thomas Crichlow -- Pizza for your thoughts : building a vibrant dialogue with students through informal focus groups / Kenneth J. Burhanna

Author : gestalten
Publisher : Gestalten
ISBN 13 : 9783967040241
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temples of Books written by gestalten and published by Gestalten. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2016, the world's oldest existing library reopened in Fes, Morocco. It opened for the first time in the 9th Century. These shrines to the written word date back even further, and continue to be built today. They're a place where some of the oldest written texts are preserved and some of the newest technology connects visitors with vast amounts of knowledge. Libraries are changing, but, as places that are fundamentally free and open to all, they're also staying the same. Libraries of the World explores the most stunning examples, but it also explores how varied the idea of a library can be. It can be a grand Baroque hall with leather-bound tomes or a mid-century masterpiece, but it can just as easily be a few shelves in a repurposed phone booth.