Author : John Young Cole
Publisher : Giles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911282136
A new visual history of the Library of Congress from its creation in 1800 to the present day.
Author : Matt Baker
Publisher : Thunder Bay Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781645174172
Chart the course of history through the ages with this collection of oversize foldout charts and timelines. Timeline of World History is a unique work of visual reference from the founders of the Useful Charts website that puts the world's kingdoms, empires, and civilizations in context with one another. A giant wall chart shows the timelines and key events for each region of the world, and four additional foldout charts display the history of the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and Africa and the Middle East. Packed with maps, diagrams, and images, this book captures the very essence of our shared history.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2001-01-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 0309171687
Digital information and networks challenge the core practices of libraries, archives, and all organizations with intensive information management needs in many respectsâ€"not only in terms of accommodating digital information and technology, but also through the need to develop new economic and organizational models for managing information. LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress discusses these challenges and provides recommendations for moving forward at the Library of Congress, the world's largest library. Topics covered in LC21 include digital collections, digital preservation, digital cataloging (metadata), strategic planning, human resources, and general management and budgetary issues. The book identifies and elaborates upon a clear theme for the Library of Congress that is applicable more generally: the digital age calls for much more collaboration and cooperation than in the past. LC21 demonstrates that information-intensive organizations will have to change in fundamental ways to survive and prosper in the digital age.
Author : SUSAN L. ROTH
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 2025-01-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781643790817
A nonfiction picture book about the history of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican parrot, which was brought back from the brink of extinction. Also available in Spanish.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Blind
ISBN :
Provision of library service to blind and physically handicapped individuals is an ever-developing art/science requiring a knowledge of individual needs, a mastery of information science processes and techniques, and an awareness of the plethora of available print and nonprint resources. This book is intended to bring together a composite overview of the needs of individials unable to use print resources and to describe current and historic practices designed to meet those needs. - Preface.
Author : Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0190248009
Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important function is providing commonplace reading materials and public space. Challenges a professional ethos about public libraries and their responsibilities to fight censorship and defend intellectual freedom. Demonstrates that the American public library has been (with some notable exceptions) a place that welcomed newcomers, accepted diversity, and constructed community since the end of the 19th century. Shows how stories that cultural authorities have traditionally disparaged- i.e. books that are not "serious"- have often been transformative for public library users.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
Presents a portait of America's social and cultural history between 1600 and 1900, told through letters, diaries, memoirs, tracts, and other articles and first-hand accounts found in the collections of the Library of Congress.
Author : Herbert Putnam
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 1905
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Young Cole
Publisher : Washington : Library of Congress
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth A. Breisch
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393731606
Although new technologies appear poised to alter it, the library remains a powerful site for discovery, and its form is still determined by the geometry of the book and the architectural spaces devised to store and display it. American Libraries provides a history and panorama of these much-loved structures, inside and out, encompassing the small personal collection, the vast university library, and everything in between. Through 500 photographs and plans selected from the encyclopedic collections of the Library of Congress, Kenneth Breisch traces the development of libraries in the United States, from roots in such iconic examples as the British Library and Paris's Bibliotheque-Ste.-Genevieve to institutions imbued with their own American mythology. Starting with the private collections of wealthy merchants and landowners during the eighteenth century, the book looks at the Library of Congress, large and small public libraries, and the Carnegie libraries, and it ends with a glimpse of modern masterworks.
